Steve's Blog

Cowboy Builder Steve Cornwell \ Cornwall R & M Builders If you found this name from Googling him and hes quoted you work in UK. DO NOT give him your contract. Ripped me of for around 8 grand and left my house unbelievable, lies after lies! This was a property in Watford WD25, worked in surrounding areas l.e. Berkhamsted but he may also be in the Dorset area.    

If the current mailbox store is corrupt (but mountable) and you cannot repair it.. Dismount mailbox store. Move pri1.x and logs to a backup folder. Create recovery group, put db on drive with enough space. Click recovery group and select Add db to recover. Select svr. In db tab change .edb and .stm files to match original names (pri1.x ?) Click ok. Goto that location (no files should be there), copy original .edb and.stm files in from backup folder. These match the names the we edited when we created recovery store. Mount recovery store (yes to warning msg). Refresh and you should see mailboxes. Mount original store. "Warning files are missing and will create blanks".. this is what we want.. click Yes Click mailboxes and refresh.. none should be there apart from system created ones. Go back to recovery store, mailboxes. Select a mailbox to move back and select exchange tasks. Select next to "Merge data", next to end. They are now in original store.

I have an Apple iPhone 4. I got the phone in DEC 2011. something like two weeks later i had to take it back to apple. pictures all came out really yellow... horrid! They swapped it out easy as pie.. the second one a few months later then started to reboot itself randomly!! Went back to apple, they swapped it again. thrid time lucky hay? 14/062012 my third phone died! wouldnt turn on. eventually it did and said connect to itunes. tried couldnt get it to restore. nothing, worked. friend apple geek tried too... Went back to Apple, waisted ages waiting as you do, they wouldn't swap it because it was out of its 1 year warranty. i explained how this was the thrid faulty iPhone and how dissatisfied i was. This went on for awhile, they only offered me a replacement for £120, I was sure they said upgrade to a 4s too. I didnt accept as i didnt believe apple should be asking for more money when their product quality control and reliability has been so shockingly poor. I ended up walking o...

Very helpful and i have used this myself a few times. Thought i would share the information. I would like to add, that you can use Multiple servers, not just one DC and Exchange. Migrate SBS 2003 To Windows 2008 & Exchange 2010

As you may have noticed in 2008, 2011 & Win7 the shared icon was removed by Microsoft. You can enable this again without hacks, but Microsoft have built in   a column. Right click a column and select “More”, Scroll down to “S” and you will see three new options. The two worth using are; “Sharing Status” = “Shared” OR “Not shared” “Shared with” = “Administrators, Domain Users” etc

I just got my BT infinity installed. We were told 28mb i actually ended up getting 25mb, not bad, and all for £20 per month, which includes free calls too. BT told us they could move the home hub to another room, they also confirmed it was cat5 cable which seemed right due to even BT moaning about copper and signal loss and how "the modem must be connected to the master socket". However today the BT enginner just chanegd the faceplate and attached another telephone cable to the back of it, up to the other room. They then just attached a socket with a modem port. no data\cat5 cable!! hmm... who knows if i lose some signal in this extension.. Still im happy with 25mb.. Seems they do do traffic shaping, torrents are limited to <80kbps, at 5pm dead it shot up and bounced around.. very disappoint, i did know it was possible i would notice however people i had asked said they have had no issues. Gamble i took and lost. Another little moan is, two boxes, a modem and hu...

I have an iPhone 4, with 4.3.3, its Jailbroken so i haven't upgrading since. Now IOS5 is out i want to upgrade the thing, the new features seem great even the simple feature of now being able to create photo albums!! That always annoyed me! I have held of so far upgrading as there is no untethered jailbreak out and i cant use the thing without certain apps. I hope the untethered version is out soon! I feel left behind!!

We all wonder now and again how much it costs in petrol to get from A to B, be it for money saving or just curiosity. Today I used Google Maps to look at a route back from work because of those blasted roadworks! I use this service quite a lot, finding routes or using Street View to see where I'm going before I get there. Well today i noticed on the left, under the directions to take it states " Est. fuel cost : £xx.xx". Great little feature, I even went as far as calculating my costs and believe it or not, the maps feature was actually pretty much spot on! Thought it would be worth a mention.

One of the clients of the IT company i work for was having backup issues. It was down to space, LTO2 drive which was trying to now backup 490ish GB of data. The last successful backup was 438GB. Where had that extra data come from? Client doesnt know..? Anyway, as they run MS Hyper-V i noticed the vhd was bigger than the space used inside. This meant i could compact the file and get that space back! So i deleted some old files from both the C and D vhds ready for compacting. Thought i would do a defrag too while i was at it. Windows showed c:\ as: 44GB Windows showed d:\ as: 239GB The VHD sizes before compact: C: 72GB  D: 316GB After: C: 41GB  D: 223GB Happy days :)

So this will be my first blog from my iPhone4. I will guess that this will just work flawlessly and won't cause any dodgy side affects! Well when this eventually decides to post. I was slightly wrong with the "flawless" comment. It won't publish!!

Well, that's the last time I'm using BLOG IT on Facebook, it posted the same post several times!! Useless! It would be nice to have my Blog viewable in an APP on Facebook, but i guess ill have to spend some time finding out how.

Well that didn't go too well, it re-blogged the same thing 4 o4 5 times!! Ill give it another shot, maybe it was a one off. Hopeful hay.

This is my first blog post from Facebook app "BLOG IT". Im assuming this will post to FB as well as Blogger. Lets find out...

So, Probably should have thought about this a long time ago, but, i didnt. So here it is, my first blog post. I'm not totally sure what i will be blogging about. Life and experiences at a guess. Gives me something to do when i have spare time anyway. So anyway, ill leave this "tester" there and blog again later.