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Access services on VirtualBox VM

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In my current job I use a lot of virtual machines due to the variety of applications we support and the demand for them to work on many versions of Windows. (Continue reading)

Minecraft Pocket Edition - Invisible mobs/monsters

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My son recently bought an Acer A3-A10 tablet with some money he had saved. (Continue reading)

Boot Booster (EFI) Partition on an Asus EeePC 1005P

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We have an Asus EeePC 1005P netbook which comes with the Intel Atom N450 CPU. The BIOS provides a "Boot Booster" option which caches POST information in a special partition on the hard drive to speed up the boot process. (Continue reading)

XPS 15 Update

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I've had the XPS 15 for a few weeks now (well, actually it's only a fortnight off 2 months!), and I'm still very impressed with it as a full package. (Continue reading)

Ribbon in .NET 4.5 using WPF and MVVM

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I've been spending some time recently to learn WPF a bit better including the MVVM pattern to encourage the separation of concerns between the view and the logic behind it. (Continue reading)

Dell XPS 15

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It's finally arrived! (Continue reading)

Dell's Informative Delivery Service

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OK, so I'm not alone here. I finally decided on an XPS 15 and ordered it 10 days ago now. (Continue reading)

Laptop Shopping

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... it's just never easy when you're picky like me. (Continue reading)