For the guy with the blocked sites at work

This athlete needs to work on his technique...

Windows Live Mail

Good work Microsoft, very impressed with Windows Live Mail. Not only is it an email interface for your hotmail accounts, but it can also do Gmail and other email websites including iiNet! How do I know this? I just added my iiNet email account into it and it works!

If you want to give it a try, you can download it from here:

Windows Live Mail download

100

Congratulations to us for over 100 page views! Although I think this has only increased because of our constant updating of the site recently. Either way, we have passed the 100 mark. It only took about 2 years or so.

There are only 3 stickers left on the back of my BB Curve

I'd take a photo of it with my BB but that's not physically possible.

Nokia E72 turns into a modem!

I recently bought a new Asus A42J laptop and thought to myself, 'How can I get internet if I took my laptop out and there were no wireless hot spots?" - then I looked at my Nokia E72 and the idea of using my mobile phone as a USB modem came to life. So here's how:

What you need:

• Laptop with spare USB slots
• Nokia E72
• Data plan enabled on your Nokia hand held
  
• Nokia PC Suite or Ovi Suite installed

For this instance, I have chosen to install Ovi Suite. Download and install Ovi Suite from here:

http://www.nokia.com.au/support/download-software/nokia-ovi-suite

After the installation completes, connect your Nokia E72 to your PC using the USB cable it came with. Open the Ovi Suite and select Tools and then Connect to Internet. An easy to follow wizard will pop up going through basic connection settings such as picking your phone provider. That's pretty much it. The Ovi application also shows you your connection duration information such as duration time and how much data you have downloaded - useful when you have a data limit towards your data plan.

Now you don't have to buy a Wireless USB dongle like this douche below - you owe me.

Do not install the Windows feature; 'Desktop Experience' on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. Kthanksbye!

After a pretty stressful week at work and clocking up 5 hours of overtime, I have learnt two things:

• Back-up before performing server configuration changes - no matter how simple it is.
• DO NOT INSTALL DESKTOP EXPERIENCE on Windows Server 2008.. it's a POS and it will fail and make your life miserable.

However, if you have tried and installed it and experiencing server reboots that result in the following error:

' Failure configuring windows features. Reverting changes' - followed by Windows automatically trying to re-install the service only for this to go on in an infinite loop;

This is how to fix it (well this worked for me):

NOTE: My server is a virtual server and the solution posted below is based on a virtual server environment.

1. Do not remote desktop into the server, log in directly via your VI (Virtual Infrastructure) client.
2. Login as the local administrator
3. If UAC (User Access Control) is turned on, turn it off. This will require a server restart. So at this stage, the Desktop Experience feature has installed and is asking for a restart, and turning UAC off is also prompting for a server restart.
4. Restart the server - watch Windows try and install Desktop Experience only for it to fail again. Windows will then revert the changes. At this point, do not do anything until you see the 'CTRL + ALT + DEL' prompt after Windows reverts the failed install.
5. Login as the local administrator

TADAAAHHHH! Server Manager will load and will not try to install Desktop Experience again. Now should I buy the WD TV Live?

Epic Finals Clash: Roosters 19 Tigers 15

Saturday night, at the SFS, 6:30pm kick off - Tigers home game. What? Tigers home game? A bit weird considering the SFS is well known to be the Roosters'. Didn't matter last night though, The Roosters was able to come from behind to win in a massive thriller that took the game to extra time.

Two key moments which got the Roosters through in my opinion:

• Anasta's field goal on the 80th minute which forced the game into extra time
• Shaun Kenny-Dowall's intercept try which ended the game after 100min.

Honorable mention to Todd Carney's brilliance who had a hand in the 2 second half tries from the Roosters.

I have dedicated our new blog layout to the gutsy win the Roosters produced last night.

Nokia E72 Calendar issue

If you own a Nokia E72 and having problems deleting calendar entries from once having your calendar sync from an Exchange server - boy do I have a solution for you!

Note: no Nokia forums, Nokia support pages or Nokia support 'email your issue' feature helped me solve this quite simple fix. All you have to do is:

1. Install Nokia PC Suite - my software version was 7.1.40.1
2. Connect your phone via USB.
   
3. Select the Calendar icon:
   
   
   
4. Then select an entry, hit Delete and select the entire series or all occurrences - something along those lines..

Now watch as all your unwanted calendar entries vanish! It did for me. For those who have not found this very helpful tip - have fun finding this blog page - I tried Googling this page and gave up after not being on the first page of results.

P.S. may I remind you that I did solve this crap on my own. Go me.