Author: sroot

  • 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…

  • Moving a whole network (bit by bit)

    It worked! I managed to move our whole office network within the day. Move where you ask? from one IP range to another IP range. OK, that’s only a software thing so I didn’t use a single screwdriver, but the significance of a move is quite huge from my perspective. Computers on a network each…

  • Computeried Diary for the whole office

    I thought I’d make a note here about a great bit of software we wouldn’t like to be without. It’s called share360 and it’s a server based diary that everyone in the office can use. Actually it’s a bit more than a diary, it’s a “groupware” program which can handle email, form processing (like holiday…