Archive for September, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-15

15 September, 2008 at 11:59 pm by · Filed under On-The-Fly

  • Crafting some new DisplayLink IT Policies and writing up an employee notification email. #
  • Just found a Splog allegedly reviewing DisplayLink kit. Reported to Google. See how:http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76313 #

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Outlook 2007 – how to disable the Hand cursor

12 September, 2008 at 4:44 pm by · Filed under General IT, Troubleshooting

How to disable or turn off the Panning Hand cursor in Outlook 2007

If you’re using Outlook 2007 and you have a mysterious “Panning hand” cursor that won’t let you select text in an email, and want to turn it off, but can’t find the option, here’s how:

 

  1. Click the Customize Quick Access Toolbar pull down:
     
  2. Choose “More Commands…”
  3. In the next window, click the drop down box and choose “Commands not in the Ribbon”
     
  4. Scroll down until you find “Panning Hand” and then click “Add >>”
  5. Click OK.
  6. The Hand will now appear in the toolbar.
     
  7. Click the Hand to disable Panning Hand
  8. You can now select/copy/highlight text :D

 

Did it work? Leave a comment! :)

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Updating BlackBerries to v4.5

10 September, 2008 at 2:22 pm by · Filed under Business, General IT

So far today I’ve upgraded 3 BlackBerries from v4.2 software to v4.5. One of the more usefulfeatures in 4.5 is the ability to view Free/Busy times on the handheld. It’s because of this feature that I’m rolling it out to key BB users. At the moment I’m doing it manually via USB/Desktop Manager, but I’ll investigate OTA/Automated updates later on :)

You can get the latest OS for your BB from the crackberry forums. Just click on your BlackBerry model range and within that forum, stickied at the top will be downloads for the various models. The forums include upgrade instructions – very handy for newbs like me! :) As an example, here’s a link for the latest BB OS for the Curve 8310.

As an aside, when testing the procedure, I set myself up on a BB. Bad move, and now I know why people call them CrackBerries – they’ve insanely addictive! I promptly deleted myself once testing was over to preserve my sanity :)

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Convert a drive to NTFS without losing data

5 September, 2008 at 2:00 pm by · Filed under General IT, IT Pro Tools

An oldie-but-goodie; Converting a drive to NTFS without losing data, provided you have enough free space, and an existing FAT32 partition. Probably works with FAT, too.

Run this from a command-line:

convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-03

3 September, 2008 at 11:59 pm by · Filed under On-The-Fly

  • Spent most of yesterday and this morning trying to do a “knife-edge” upgrade/migration of BlackBerry enterprise Server to a new machine… #
  • Weird errors all over the place. The damn thing can’t even upgrade its own DB :/ #
  • It’s ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVE :D #
  • Well, BES 4.1.4 is alive and synching. Next step is to Snapshot the Guest OS and then upgrade the 4.1.6 :) #
  • Yay, the upgrade to 4.1.6 worked too :D #

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