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Just a quick post about an issue i’ve been having for a while that i’ve just managed to solve. A while ago I re-built my home nas, using Ubuntu Server instead of Freenas. I installed Transmission for downloading torrents, but could never get the watch folder functionality working correctly. I would setup the folder, tell the transmission config about it but everytime i dropped a file in the folder, it would just get ignored. Well, tonight I have just managed to get it working. It turned out... Read Full Story

This week i have been writing a web service in C# that i wanted to use to send data back to a jqrid, and as its been a bit of an uphill battle i thought i’d share what i had found out. What you Need First head over to the jqgid page , and download the package.Include all of the base options, and the UI addons to take advantage of the UI theme roller. I would also advise installing the Firebug extension into Firefox, as this can really help you see the interaction between the grid and the... Read Full Story

Over at we3soft.com we have recently released some new software, called SpringClean. It’s a file housekeeping application, with many ways to archive/delete your old files, and advanced features such as searching using a regular expression search, and the ability to update a database with the results of the job Head over to we3soft.com/springclean now to take a look at it. Its only £5 sterling to register its full functionality. Read Full Story

I’ve had an issue this week with some SQL reporting services subscriptions. A user contacted me saying her subscription reports were all failing. At first I assumed there was a problem with the user the report was running as, but it turned out to be something else. When I tried to change and save the settings on one of the reports, I was presented with this error: The user or group name ‘Dom\User.Name’ is not recognized. (rsUnknownUserName) Now, it turned out that the user that had... Read Full Story

I have recently done some work with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit , the successor to RIS and kind of extension to WDS . I used RIS quite extensively in the past, and while i did have it working quite well, it was a nightmare to actually setup (half the time it was easer to build 70 machines than to get RIS working!).  WDS and the MDT change all that. It is now easy to build, and customise all parts of your OS deployment using these technology’s, but as I started using it there was one... Read Full Story

Just a quick post to point you in the direction of my latest (ok second ever!) plugin for wordpress. Its called folder2page, you can check out more info at beakersoft.co.uk/folder2page Its a simple plugin that will allow you to use a directory of images you have on your web space as a simple gallery on page in your blog. There seemed to be a lot of plugins out there for getting images from flickr and other image hosting services, but not much if you wanted to get at the images your self... Read Full Story

My post I did some time ago on Spiceworks has recently got quite a bit of attention, so i have decided to check out the latest version (4.5). I haven’t used Spiceworks since version 2, I was quite impressed with it back then and I know the product has developed quite a lot in that time, so I was hoping it has improved even more. As in the previous post i have done a few timings, and noted what the scanning of the network has managed to find. This test was completed in a completely... Read Full Story

The good people over at packt publishing recently sent me a copy of Learning SQL Server Reporting Server 2008 Reporting Services by Jayaram Krishnaswamy. So here is my first ever book review. Hope you find it interesting - SQL reporting services has been part of the SQL Server suite for a few years now, and this book covers the latest version 2008. As stated by the back cover of the book, it is aimed at beginners, but also has plenty of useful information for old hands, with all of the... Read Full Story

Recently quite a few of our users have been asking if they can show all of the report details at runtime, instead of having to drill down all the groups, opening and closing as they see fit. Well, the answer is yes, and its very easy to implement. Parameters are you friend The first thing to do is create yourself a new parameter in the report, and call it something like par_expand_groups . Give it the following options: Now, you need to make this parameter control weather or not the... Read Full Story

Recently quite a few of our users have been asking if they can show all of the report details at runtime, instead of having to drill down all the groups, opening and closing as they see fit. Well, the answer is yes, and its very easy to implement. Parameters are you friend The first thing to do is create yourself a new parameter in the report, and call it something like par_expand_groups . Give it the following options: Now, you need to make this parameter control weather or not the... Read Full Story