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How to delete a Windows volume mount point for an invalid drive

Wednesday 19th October, 2011 Leave a Comment

When I rebuilt my server earlier this year to run Windows 7 (rather than Windows Home Server), I decided to use Windows mount points to expand the storage rather than using separate drive letters or something like RAID to span disks. The structure I use is similar to this: C:\   – Backup   – … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Software, Technology

How to configure PEAR for Zend Server Community Edition on Windows 7

Wednesday 20th July, 2011 2 Comments

I decided to try running Zend Server CE (PHP v5.3) for my local development environment on my Windows 7 (64-bit) machine. After discovering that I needed to explicitly choose to install MySQL and phpMyAdmin (simply fixed by running the installer again and modifying the installation), I found that the PEAR libraries some of my existing … [Read More »]

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Profile privacy on meetup.com

Friday 18th March, 2011 1 Comment

My wife and I run a private meetup.com group and I was asked by someone about what information is displayed publicly on meetup.com and what information is private. While investigating, I discovered some things I didn’t know before – so I thought it would be a good idea to share them with everyone. There are two sets of … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Community, Online

How to convert scheduled tasks from Windows XP to Windows 7

Wednesday 15th December, 2010 5 Comments

When I decommissioned my Windows Home Server recently, I decided to replace it with Windows 7. However, I had over 20 scheduled tasks running on the WHS box to do things like back up my websites and backup files on the server and such. I wanted to recreate these scheduled tasks on the new Windows … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Technology

Loath vs Loathe

Wednesday 8th December, 2010 1 Comment

I learned something new today – I have been using the word “loathe” incorrectly! I have used the word “loathe” as an adjective: “I am loathe to try bungee jumping“, which is incorrect! The word should only be used as a verb  as in “I loathe bungee jumping“. It turns out that there are actually … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Words

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