OneDive stops synchronising after Windows 10 upgrade I’ve recently allowed 2 of my Windows 7 computers to upgrade to Windows 10 After a few days, I realised that files I was creating and modifying in my OneDrive folder were not synchronising with any of my other Windows computers (a mixture of Windows 7 and Windows […]
mysqldump: unknown option ‘–no-beep’ Here’s a great gotcha! I’ve just upgraded my Windows test server to run MySQL Community edition 5.6.25 I have a script which runs daily to dump some of the database files from test website. The command used is MySQLDump and each dump is performed using a line of script something like […]
Leicester College Business & Computing Awards and Peter Jones Enterprise Academy Graduation A few days ago I had the honour and privilege of sponsoring and presenting the award for the Advanced Apprentice of the Year at the Leicester College BUCO Awards. The winner was Esta Rooney. Esta works for Her Majesty Courts and Tribunal Service […]
New Nominet .uk domains to launch 10th June Nominet – the organisation that manages all the .uk domain names – have announced that from 10 June 2014, shorter, simpler .uk domain names will be available for the first time. All existing domains including .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk will continue to run as normal. There will […]
Marketing Jedi mind tricks How many decisions do you make each day? 100? 1,000? Psychologists tell us that we make between 100,000 and 200,000 decisions each day – most of them without thinking about them. How do we manage to do this? We apply rules to our decision making process. Many of these rules are […]
Pre-pack administrations: How do firms use them and why the controversy? Interview with the Leicester Mercury A few weeks ago the Leicester Mercury asked some business owners about pre-pack administrations. My response was a little “strong” “This whole thing of pre-pack administration so annoys me that if any of my suppliers did this I’d never […]
Single points of failure In any IT setup there are a number of potential “single points of failure”. By a single point of failure I mean if that one thing fails or goes wrong, everything stops working. In this article I’m going to look at several single points of failure and what you can do […]