Some people often ask me how to send emails with html (and associated images) with outlook. There is a simple way to achieve this, but first requires that you have created a html page and uploaded it to a web server, with your images set with absolute paths. (more…)
Tags: bcc, html emails, outlook, rich text, word
10.Aug.09 
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I’ve been working with IIS and needed to change a website from v1 asp.net to v2, you can normally do this easily via the IIS console. Once when I tried to make this change for myself, I noticed that there was no asp.net tab, even though I was sure that it was there before, I couldn’t figure out what the problem was, but after a little investigation, I found that because I had VMWare installed on the machine that it conflicted with IIS a little, though it is fixable. (more…)
Tags: asp.net tab, iis, vmware
14.Jul.09 General, Sys Admin Submit a comment
Having developed a custom theme for a website I was working on recently, I got introduced to widgets (they’re great, see my other widgets posts). Only trouble was that when I tried to use code from another developer to make widget placement easier, it broke my website, making posts and pages invisible, both on the front and on the back end, even though I knew everything was fine. (more…)
Tags: not found, pages, posts, sidebar, widgets, wordpress
13.Jul.09 General, Web Development Submit a comment
Ever come across this message: “The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection”, it’s the source of much frustration for me, or it was until I found a solution to fix the problem, it only manifested itself on Firefox. I was sure that my wireless connection had something to do with, it turns out that a little FF tweaking is called for, though it may not work perfectly for you. (more…)
12.Jul.09 General, network Submit a comment
Zip folders are zip files that act like folders in windows explorer, often they show up in the windows explorer folder pane as folders. One side effect of this kind of functionality is that when you search for a file on your computer, or you open up a folder using windows explorer with the folders pane visible, your computer can become slow while the contents of the zip file are located. (more…)
Tags: 7zip, windows explorer, zip folders
02.Jul.09 General Submit a comment
Just recently I’ve come across a free piece of invoicing software, built on a solid sage foundation, I thought that this would be an easy way to get into the sage systems, I have to say it is quite easy to use (it’s been designed for normal users). I downloaded the software from the sage invoicing website, installed it, put some dummy data into it and then I hit a snag. (more…)
Tags: activation, inf, installation, instalsheild, invoicing, sage
26.Jun.09 General Submit a comment
The shutdown event tracker is used to store information about the nature of the shutdown in progress for analysis later, usually by a team enquiry. Rebooting servers in a production environment can be a costly exercise as they are (or at least should be) constantly in use by team members, when it is being rebooted, it is unavailable for a short period of time. Usually the reboot itself is quite quick, but often, depending on the number of services configured to start at boot time, the services required by network users may not be available. (more…)
Tags: 2003, event, shutdown, tracker, windows
23.Jun.09 General, Sys Admin Submit a comment
On some computers I manage, I’ve noticed that large gaps appear inside the Add/Remove Programs control panel, they all had their usual software installed, but in this particular office, they use AutoCAD quite a lot. It turns out that the large gaps are created by the AutoCAD software, the problem is that a registry setting has been given an invald value. (more…)
Tags: autocad, control panel, registry
17.May.09 General Submit a comment
I recently needed to find out how long a task took to complete, but because I was in ‘Safe Mode’, I couldn’t just use the network connection time, as there are no networks in safe mode. After a brief trawl on the Microsoft website, I did find a useful way of finding out how long the computer has been running, but again, wouldn’t work in safe mode, as the necessary service wasn’t running. (more…)
Tags: safe mode, services, uptime, windows
16.May.09 General Submit a comment
Ever looked at those Outlook PST files and wondered how come they’re so big? It’s because they’re actually databases containing all the email messages you’ve ever sent and received, even the deleted ones, including their attachments. Removing the deleted items from your PST files will make them smaller.
03.Apr.09 General, email Submit a comment