From the monthly archives:

May 2007

BizTech: Announcing the Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBT UG)

May 24, 2007General Tech

I’d like to announce the new Sydney Business & Technology User Group, commencing next Wednesday 30 May 2007.
For those who want to cut to the chase, go the web site here: www.sbtug.com
Who is it for?
The new group is designed for senior developers, team leaders, software managers and software company owners. As such the talks are [...]

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VFP: Important announcement concerning the Sydney VFP User Group

May 24, 2007Visual FoxPro

This is a difficult one to announce, but I have to let everyone in the Fox community know that I’ve made a drastic change to the Sydney VFP User Group.
In this post I’ll outline the reasons why and the outcomes I am hoping for.
Firstly, I need to let people know that the Sydney VFP UG [...]

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VPC: Mouse issues running W2K3 under Virtual PC 2007

May 23, 2007Microsoft

Solution: Set Hardware Acceleration to Full

Problem: My mouse movement was really sluggish in a VPC running Windows 2003 R2 (but other OSes are fine)

Acknowledgement: Thanks to Paul Adare on the Microsoft Newsgroup for sorting this one out

Here's the steps:

Right click on Desktop, select Display Properties

Settings Tab

Advanced Button

Troubleshoot Tab

Slide the Hardware Acceleration tab to Full

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OUTLOOK: Error 0×80040154

May 15, 2007General Tech

Bottom line: you need to completely uninstall and reinstall office!
As part of my re-install recently I had to reinstall Office 2007. Not a drama. But when I first started Outlook I made the mistake of not setting up an email account right away (silly me!). Well it turns out that Outlook didn’t really like this, [...]

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BLOG: Please update to my FeedBurner feed

May 15, 2007General Tech

Just wondering if you could do me a favour…
I’m trying to get a better handle on my readership, so I was hoping you’d be kind enough to subscribe to my FeedBurner feed instead of directly point to the Blogger URL.
All you need to do is point your RSS reader to this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CraigBaileysThoughts
If you are just [...]

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PICASA: Restoring Albums from backup

May 15, 2007General Tech

I love Picasa as a photo (and video) organiser. And I especially love how easy it is to put your photos on the web as albums (with no advertising!). It only takes a few clicks and a whole Picasa album is then available for friends and family to see.
And although I had backed up all [...]

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PERSONAL: First the good news…

May 14, 2007General Tech

Well, it’s great to be back. The last few weeks of ‘increased productivity’ J have been due to my notebook’s premature death.
Not to worry, Magic Dave (Talman’s IT guru) got me all back up and running and in the process loaded Vista on my machine (the machine required a complete reformat and install).
And on the [...]

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