Feb 2014 Update — If you are here looking for details on how to fix VPN failure after doing a Windows8.1 or Windows10 upgrade then use Windows Troubleshooter to Change the mode to Windows compatibility 1. Right click VPNUI in the Cisco install folder. (for example “C:\Program Files (x86)\Cisco\Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client\”) 2. Choose Troubleshoot compatibility. […]
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A mysterious energy has been unearthed by a team of scientists in Europe. The origin and purpose of this force is unknown, but some researchers believe it is influencing the way we think. We must control it or it will control us. This world around you is not what it seems. Our future is at stake, […]
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Peep show… peep show… bloody brilliant … nuff said Arguably my favorite laugh-out-loud sitcom of all time. Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb and it filmed from the unusual ‘through-their-eyes’ point of view. You can also hear the thoughts of the person who’s eyes you are looking through. Saying […]
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Wordle is an excellent website for a some serious lunchtime cyberloafing. It basically takes any string of text, parses it and creates a nice little word-cloud graphic with the most used words. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently […]
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Tinkering with one of my wordpress sites I noticed that Jetpack was unable to connect. The WordPress Jetpack Error says “Server unable to connect with my site http 404” which is nicely vague. Luckily, the excellent support guys over at ICDSOFT quickly gave me the solution: 1: Log into the control panel obviously your control […]
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Breaking news from a medieval insider at the IBM laboratory rochest’r, mn – in ‘rd’r to bett’r competeth with the growing competition from microsoft s’rv’rs, ibm plans to installeth a big r’d did reset button on the newly did announce pow’r systems and changeth all ibm i op’rating system ‘rr’r message text to readeth “gen’ral […]
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Discussing a data interchange process with a software vendor today (who shall remain nameless), they told me that their product could talk to an AS400 but had no experience of iSeries or IBM i…. *sigh* I am not telling you the company name because I don’t wan to to embarrass them in public… but if […]
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If you are reading this blog then chances are you are (a) an RPG Programmer and (b) using SEU to edit your code and (c) you are frustrated that SEU wont syntax check new RPG anymore! It’s time to leap into an RPG EDITOR or be pushed… RDi is bloody good but it’s also a very expensive code […]
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Modernizing RPG Programs – Learn the RPG History first I had email email from an old work colleague this morning. He was a windows programmer, with limited exposure to RPG, but works in a company that is driven by a huge, old, complex RPG3 application that has changed little over the last decade. He is […]
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PRINCE stands for PROjects IN Controlled Environments – The PRINCE2 PRIMER is a Masterclass teaching project managers how to grab PRINCE2 and shake it by it’s tail. Prince2 is a structured method for effective project management. It is a process-based approach for project management providing an easily tailored and scalable method the management of all […]
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