Jim Prince on July 27th, 2005

Just noticed that Microsoft have seen the light and increased the Mailbox storage limit in Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition from 16gb to 75gb. This is great news. The 16gb limit has been causing huge headaches at Talis. With more than 100 users several of which with mailboxes more than 400mb we were rapidly reaching [...]

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Jim Prince on July 27th, 2005

My car overheated on the way to work this morning. There was a blockage in the coolant system and the cylinder heads could be damaged. This has pissed me off, if the damage is serious this is going to cost a small fortune. I was looking for a new car anyway, looks like I might [...]

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Jim Prince on July 21st, 2005

I needed a way to convert several pipe delimited text files to an Excel spreadsheet and came across this novel solution using PEAR. As the name suggests Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer is a package to generate Excel spreadsheets using PHP code. Installation of PEAR is dead simple, assuming it’s not already installed and you’re running Linux simply type [...]

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Jim Prince on July 15th, 2005

My new headphones have finally arrived. I decided on the SR60 from Gradolabs. They do look a bit crappy (although the retro look is growing on me). But most importantly they sound great and are comfortable to wear. For once the good reviews in the hi-fi press are fully justified.

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Jim Prince on July 1st, 2005

I was aware that Tadpole Computer’s have been making SPARC based laptops for ages, but now Sun Microsystems have announced their first ever laptop. According to ZDNet “The laptops come in 15-inch and 17-inch versions running either a 550 MHz or 650 MHz UltraSPARC IIi processor or a 1.28 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor. The Ultra [...]

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