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Written by Sam McGeown
on 21/8/2008*** Unfortunately the Real Man Cycling challenge has been cancelled for this year due to planning issues - I’m disappointed but I hope to do it again next year ***
I’m doing the Real Man Cycling Challenge in London on the 14th September. It’s a 34km ride through london in aid of The Prostate Cancer Charity, which is a really worthwile cause. If you’d like to sponsor me, head on over to
Written by Sam McGeown
on 8/5/2008We were integrating a 3rd party product’s web parts with MOSS the other day and came accross an interesting problem. In site editing mode, all the drop down menus would appear for a flash and then go blank. The actual admin pages we were trying to get to would work if you entered them into the browser directly, but that isn’t an easy way to manage the site!
Written by Sam McGeown
on 14/3/2008When the Dell engineer said “they’ve asked if you can reinstall the OS” my heart sank. Not because I felt like he was weasling out of work - unusually they were very helpful. Not because installing XP is a hard task, I’ve done it over 100 times on all sorts of hardware.
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<font size="2"><strong>n:\></strong> <em>Aefdisk 1 /delall /formatfat /pri:1024:6 /ext:0:7</em></font>
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<font size="2">Woah woah woah! What’s all that?! The command runs “Aefdisk” on hard disk “1″ with the “/delall” flag, which deletes any exisiting partitions, “/formatfat” which formats the next partition FAT. “/PRI” is a primary partition, “:1024″ is the partition size, “:6″ is the hex partition type which in this case is FAT16 >32mb. “/ext” is an extended partition, “:0″ tells it to use all remaining space on the drive, “:7″ is the partition type which is NTFS.</font>
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Recently I found the need to retrieve the key from an existing Exchange Server for a reinstall - the software is legally licensed but the key was somehow lost. A trawl through my registry revealed that the key is stored in an obscure place:
Written by Sam McGeown
on 30/5/2007