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  1. spherrod

    Blackberry 8100 Pearl reconciliation issues

    Any advice welcome here - have a variety of BB Pearl and 8700 devices setup on our BES which is running version 4.1 All are working fine with the exception of 1 Pearl user - within a few hours (sometimes a day) her device stops reconciling with her Outlook mailbox (we are running Exchange...
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    Sharing Outlook calendars across 2 domains?

    The company I work for has just acquired another company - although DNS has been set up so I can go to their premises and connect to our Exchange server there are still two domains running and each domain has it's own Exchange server. As usual with acquisitions, there are a lot of changes...
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    Symantec Live State Delivery

    Anyone familiar with this? Desktops and Laptops have been installing fine for several weeks now - but one laptop will not begin the installation. It is defined in the LSD software ok with the correct MAC address but when it boots from the Network I continually get the following message...
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    American Work Permit/Visa situation for UK Citizen

    Hi all, I need some advice and any experiences you may have about the situation for a UK citizen who wants to work in the US. I'll fill you in on a little background. My brother-in-law is currently doing a PHD and as part of his degree has taken part in an exchange program with ASU. He...
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    Life on Mars - US Version

    Be interesting to see how this turns out - am a huge fan of the UK version, and everything which Kudos touches seems great (Hustle, Spooks) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4853082.stm
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    Glad it's a new week! Beers for all!

    Well, last week was one of the most stressful i've experienced for a long time. Here's a few basic details so you know the context. Put an offer in on a 2 bed house last July, this fell through in September as they couldn't sell the property due to a legal dispute they were in. Found another...
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    Good Mexican cookware site?

    My brother in law is in the US for 6 months (Arizona mainly) and it's his birthday next week - he loves Mexican food and we'd like to get him some kind of tex-mex cookware set so he can cook at home while he's there. Does anyone know a good site in the US we can order one from? :beer...
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    Simpsons opening sequence

    Apologies if this is a repost, seacrhed but didn't find anything. Anyone seen these live titles for the new series of the Simpsons? Look pretty good! http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2004580002-2006100428,00.html EDIT: Guess this is a repost :D...
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    Windows Mobile 5 OS Question

    Apologies if this is in the wrong forum - it's a specific question regarding Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5 OS for Pocket PC and Smartphones. Mods - feel free to move this to Peripherals if you feel that's more appropriate. Now - the question. On a Mobile 5 device when installing a CAB file...
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    Ronnie Barker has died

    A very sad day http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4307216.stm He was a great comedian and character actor - will be sorely missed :(
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    Arizona

    My brother-in-law is flying to Arizona from the UK today for a 6 week placement at the University there - any recommendations on good places to eat and drink? Also - any suggestions for must-see places to visit? Thanks in advance for any suggestions :beer:
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    Power supply recommendations please!

    Well, the time has come. The fans on my original 400W Power Supply that came with my case have failed and I am getting occasional crashes more and more frequently. Can you lovely people recommend a good make/model of Power Supply around the 400/450W rating? Antec is the one make which I keep...
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    Unreal Tournament - PS2 Controller

    I have a colleague who mainly plays console games, and has a PS2 Controller/USB converter. Plugging this into an XP PC, and the PS2 Controller is recognised in Control Panel-->Game Controllers. The left analog stick on the PS2 Controller controls the X and Y Axis, and the right analog...
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    AGP 3.0 Compliant Card

    Will an AGP 3.0 card http://tw.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-N59X128D.htm work in an AGP 4x (2.0) slot? If so, I assume there will be a reduction in performance but does anyone know if the card will flat out refuse to work?
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    Typical Press overreaction

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004350626,00.html Slightly more measured article http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1271465,00.html Every few years this topic comes up again and again... the guy was obviously unhinged in the first place EDIT...
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    Erasing Servers

    Hi, I'll confess I've no idea if this can be done easily or not but I work for an IT department who have recently upgraded to VMWare IBM servers. Our old Compaq Proliant 1500 servers (and others) are now redundant and we wish to dispose of them. However, we need to be sure they are securely...
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    Terrorist Raids in my block of flats!

    BBC OK - so I get up yesterday morning at 7am and leave for work. There's a policeman outside my front door, who asks me for ID and where I'm going - he lets me go to work and as I leave I realise that the entire street has been sealed off, and there are 2 riot vans full of police combing the...
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    PC to Mac messages

    Hi, Hope this is the right general area for this one, anyone know how to send messages (a la Netsend) between PC and Mac? The Operating Systems are NT/XP and OS9 - we've not yet experienced the joys of OSX yet........... Any help gratefully received!
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    DSL Modem connection problem

    Hi Guys, I've been set up with ADSL from Pipex (UK) for the past 6 months, using a D-Link 300G+ ADSL modem connected to a Belkin Wireless Gateway/Router - forgotten the product code but here's the link...