Author: sroot
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If it's quiet here – I'm busy!
If it seems rather quiet on these pages lately it’s simply because I’ve been busy doing other things. Things like getting electronic data from suppliers and working out the code to reformat their data into something my systems will read. Things like the boughton 10 run which not only have “Roots” agreed to sponsor, we…
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When business systems go bad…
It happens to the best of organisations, so please don’t think I’m being unfair by writing this. No matter how big or organised your business gets some thing will go wrong. This month (year?) it’s the turn of Dell. Our story begins back in July of last year. I took my new Dell laptop travelling…
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Strange download behaviour?
That’s strange, I just started downloading the Office XP service pack 3 from the microsoft website but was only getting 5kb/s. Being two version of the patch (full and a smaller one if you have the original CD handy) I thought I’d try the other and that also got just 5kb/s. So then, I logged…