Author: dcouper
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Accessing Outlook address book
Today a collegue came into the office with the problem of being unable to access a contacts list once she was composing an email. The help for this in Microsoft Outlook is actually not too helpful, but the solution is actually simple. All you need to do in right hand click on the contact list…
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Fingerprint sensor on Thinkpad T60 says “Hardware not connected”
When I booted up my thinkpad T60 yesterday morning and tried to use the fingerprint login I got the error message that the hardware was not connected, with only 2 months left on my warranty – it was looking like I was going to have to send it back. Before I did that however I…
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Trouble Syncronising Blackberry and PC with Bluetooth
I recently got a new blackberry 8800 and have been trying to get it to syncronize the data with my Thinkpad T60 (running XP Pro) via bluetooth. Mainly so that I do not have to carry a cable around with me all the time as that really defeats the object of having bluetooth in the…
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Changing read /write properties using FTP
When editting a Content Management System (i.e. wordpress or drupal etc..) or any web file (php, asp, html, css etc) it is essential to have the correct permissions to access and change that file. The most common way to do this is using a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) interface such as smartftp or filezilla. First…
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Canon I350 does not print
I have been having problems with a Canon I350 on a sony vaio running XP Professional – it keeps disconnecting and saying the printer is offline – even when it is clearly online. After checking all the connections no problem was apparent. After further investigation it seems that the only solution is to delete the…
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Projector Problems
Tonight at 8:30 I got a call saying that the projector is not displaying the picture, it just continually searches for an input, going through Scart, VGA 1, VGA 2 and USB. There are several things that you need to check that could be causing the problem. Check that the cable is plugged into the…