Monthly Archives: September 2009

Windows XP SP3 Activation Issues

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Kon

My father’s PC recently died and needed a new motherboard.  Taking the opportunity to upgrade, we put in new RAM, CPU, but left the old hard drive. Using the old hard-drive, the PC would go to boot and restart half … Continue reading →

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Why is it so hard to get anything done?

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Kon

My favourite subject, what the business wants VS what IT wants? The analogy of the expectations of a coffee barista and their ability to deliver their service is used as an analogy to that of the business has a service … Continue reading →

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Facilitation Patterns and Antipatterns

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Kon

I read with great interest, the blog by steven list about Facilitation patterns (its also about a whole lot of other things Agile related) It goes through a lot of different characters of facilitators in an engaging way – dare … Continue reading →

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Mounting a Loopback Device Image

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Kon

This is what I used to mount the Mandrake Pendrive Linux loopback device to retrieve my partners files when she moved back to a proper PC with a working hard drive  # Create the device as /dev/loop0 and point to … Continue reading →

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