Craig Harvey
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About 18 months ago I built a Windows 7 based home theatre PC to drive my big shiny new plasma TV. I haven’t look back and I love the functionality it provides. What is a home theatre PC? My definition is that it’s a computer with the ability to record and playback all types …
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Back in December 2011 comedian Louis CK released a 62 video special of a stand-up comedy performance titled Live at the Beacon Theater. Rather than release this through normal distribution channels as a physical DVD it was released as a digital download direct from his website for the princely sum of $5. Recently he has …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.craigharvey.me/index.php/2012/05/14/content-distribution-evolution/
I upgraded my phone to a Samsung Galaxy Nexus about 2 months ago and I’ve been loving it. I previously had a Samsung Galaxy S II which I thought was a brilliant phone, but the Galaxy Nexus just tops it in my opinion. Highlights Ice Cream Sandwich of course Enough said, it’s beautiful, it’s …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.craigharvey.me/index.php/2012/05/10/galaxy-nexus-review/
Time for some hate directed towards custom skins that manufacturers apply to Android. What is a custom skin? My definition of a custom skin is that it is the UI and behaviour customisations that manufacturers apply to Android handsets. HTC has Sense, Samsung has TouchWiz and Motorola has MOTOBLUR. Why do they do …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.craigharvey.me/index.php/2012/05/10/custom-android-skins-suck/
Last night (Wednesday 18th April 2012) Cold Chisel put on an excellent gig in Sydney’s Hordern Pavillion to an excited crowd of punters. This concert was to launch their new album No Plans, but what made it different was that it was beamed live into cinemas around the country. I was one of those punters …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.craigharvey.me/index.php/2012/04/19/cold-chisel-no-plans-concert-review/
I’m amazed that in the year 2012 we still have obvious and glaring bad practises relating to security of information, particularly personal information when it comes to websites and other online systems. No wonder identity theft is such a growing area of concern. A large Telco I signed up with just sent me my …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.craigharvey.me/index.php/2012/03/28/website-security-fails/
Got BizTalk 2010, SharePoint 2010 and HTTP 401.2 Unauthorized errors? On a recent project we were having problems configuring the Windows SharePoint Services Adapter onto a SharePoint 2010 farm. This is basically a BizTalk 2010 web service that gets deployed to your SharePoint farm. It allows BizTalk to deposit documents into SharePoint document libraries. The …
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 comes with out of the box integration with SharePoint 2010 which allows users to store documents associated with CRM records. This is implemented with the List Component for SharePoint. This is a sandboxed solution that is deployed to the target SharePoint site. When activated it allows CRM 2011 to create documents in …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.craigharvey.me/index.php/2012/01/05/crm-2011-list-component-for-sharepoint-activation-problems-solved/
Problems connecting to your newly installed SQL Server instance? Did you happen to create a named instance (e.g. <servername>\sql01)? Microsoft SQL Server named instances use dynamic TCP ports and rely on the SQL Browser service to provide the port number to the client in order to establish a connection. In a lot of cases I …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.craigharvey.me/index.php/2011/08/16/sql-server-cannot-connect-to-named-instance/
It’s been nearly 4 months since I bought my Acer Iconia A500 tablet and blogged about it here. Not much has changed, I still think it’s great. The only bugbears for me have been the WiFi dropping out in my house. The tablet seems to have the weakest radio of all the other WiFi devices …
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Permanent link to this article: http://blog.craigharvey.me/index.php/2011/08/15/still-loving-my-acer-iconia-a500-tablet/
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