Saturday 18 June 2011

NHS Trusts in the dark over CfH licence transfer

How very, very, true...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/17/nhs_trusts_/

Virgin Media - Faster upload speeds

Virgin Media are rolling out upload speeds of 10% of your broadband download speed.
Ipswich (including Felixstowe) are due to get it next month.

More info here:
http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/discover-broadband/broadband-speed/upload-speeds.html?buspart=DD_31

Looks like we're due to get 100Mb downloads in September :)
http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/dam/allyours/pdf/100Mb%20rollout%2003%2006%2011.pdf

Saturday 11 June 2011

Disk and File Recovery Tools

I've used R-Studio in the past (Commercial):
http://www.r-studio.com/

But recently, I've been using TestDisk (Open Source):

The best bootable USB\CD version I've found is SystemRescueCD (Open Source):

There are plenty of guides on how to use it on the site, but be careful, it can make changes to your disk that make the problems worse! If you're unsure, read the documentation and seek advice in the forums.

Friday 3 June 2011

Unable to send document as attachment from Office 2010

On a Windows 7 x64 machine with Office 2010 x64 installed, I had an issue with not being able to send documents via email.

After looking around for a while, I found this thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/outlook/thread/0aefa8d4-a5e5-4295-bea6-6bd48b6d80e6

The fix for me was to:
  • Click Start
  • Type Default Programs
  • Click Set Your Default Programs
  • Click Microsoft Outlook
  • Click Set this program as default
I can now Save&Send documents as atrtachments.