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A couple of weeks after getting my new BlackBerry Curve, I have narrowed down a list of my favorite (and free!) BlackBerry software.  I posted My favorite free BlackBerry software yesterday.
If you are a Windows Mobile fan, I have written about my favorite Windows Mobile applications earlier. You can read about  it here: The best […]

The supposedly final installment of my Server Room migration series is now up. I say supposedly because I might just cook out one final piece pertaining to my experiences when my company went through a physical relocation in January.
Anyway, if you are planning a move yourself, do avoid changing equipment at the same time […]

I have just posted the second installation of my server room migration series that started off with the imaginatively titled (not!) piece, Lessons learned from a server room migration.
The new article, Dealing with vendors: Read before signing on the dotted line, talks exactly about - yes you guessed it, contract signing time.  I know it […]

I purchased a BlackBerry Curve 8320 last week. This was despite my having written many articles on Microsoft’s Direct Push and an initial preference for it.
After almost four years of using push mail from both RIM and Microsoft, I have come to the conclusion that the RIM BlackBerry is the most reliable and robust […]

Just wrote part one of a two-part series on my recent experiences with a server room migration exercise that took place when my company relocated.
On staying involved with aspects of the project that has the potential to become show-stoppers - even if they are external ones:
My mistake here was in assuming that since external infrastructure […]

Virus Attack

Was hit by a virus attack couple of days ago. Have just (more or less) got most of the software back in and my laptop back to a functional state.
Read on to hear my experience of it.

There’s a very annoying bug with UltraVNC on Windows in which shutting down a (local) Virtual Machine on VMware Server will cause it to immediately disconnect a VNC’ed client. Not only that, it will then enter into an endless loop that terminate any further attempts to connect.
Not such a big deal you might say; […]