BinaryJam

This is what I woke up to this morning, ducks having a kip in the puddle outside my house.

this is a posting from my vario using pocketmt.

For those who havent tried sql reporting services yet, do it now, even if you havent got a server to deploy it to just load the developers bits for visual studio.  Even without the server option Its been so usful for me to write my adhoc data queries and data cleansing test routines  in this as it gets created as a standard project in VisStud and can be source coded, instead of snippets of sql all over the place.

But as a reporting tool its just fantastic and I havent even scratched the surface.

Databinder Warning:Actual SQL skills are required to use this tool.

Step away from the dataset.

I recently have had the pleasure of trying to rebuild a packard bell laptop.  This had been a thoroughly awful process.   First if you have one of these, handy hint, DO NOT FDISK THEM, or delete the partitions. 

For one, there is a special partition on them if you hit F11 at boot will allow you to rebuild it.

For Two, if you have fdsisked them then the special code that is on that hard drive that allows you to rebuild them from a master dvd is now wiped and a telephone call to tech support at 75p a minute is required (took me 15 minutes).

For Three the price of the master dvd’s is £42 pounds (when i purchased them). 

Then I suffered possibly the worst rebuild routine I’ve ever seen, its a good job normal users don’t witness this.

So Packard Bell you suck.

However my Sony laptop came with rebuild media, and the process to restore is so quick and simple and elegant.

I suppose the moral is, “get what you pay for”.  I wonder what Dell’s rebuild is like ?