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28 Oct 2013 . life .
About.me increasing popularity Comments

As soon as about.me launched I got a profile on the site, a shameful admission to some but to me is interesting to see how new sites work and how they can be utilised. For a long time though it has had little attraction never getting many views and not having much visability online. It seems that those days are over with increasing popularity over the last year. As any good site does about.me includes statistics.

 

About Me - Stuart James Statistics

 

I very much doubt over the last year I have suddenly become more applicable to the world wide web -- would imply I was irrelevant before Feb 2013. So personally I attribute this increase, however unstable to an increase in popularity of the site.

Interesting observation through the power of graphs! To Corrupt my future stats feel free to view my profile

About Me -- Stuart James

Yes a shameless plug.

 


Stuart James  


25 Oct 2013 . tech .
Surface (1) RT 8.1 Upgrade Tips Comments

This week I finally did the Windows 8.1 update on my Surface RT 1st generation, it went well took a while so be prepared for a couple of ours process to update your tablet but, it doesn't much user engagement to complete this.

Pre-Upgrade

  • Clear out well everything -- The only thing I hit before upgrading was space issues I had to clear out quite a lot of my own junk to provide enough space to do the download something I found a little annoying was the lack of definition of how much space

Post-Upgrade

  • Clean-Up -- I recommend after you have done the update make sure you go into clean-up tool in Administrator Tools the reason is simple

Disk Cleanup Windows 8.1

Thats 5.72 gb of recovered space!

  • Unlock Some more Start menu screen estate -- Charms Bar (Swipe from Right) -> Personalise -> Show More Tiles

More Tiles 8.1

  • Keep 3gb Free -- Skydrive wont sync if you have less than 3gb on your primary (C:\) drive.


Stuart James  


21 Oct 2013 . .
Office 365 P1 Plan Allows Additional SharePoint Storage! Comments

For a long time I have been thinking about migrating from Office 365 SMB to the enterprise plan, the only reason I see to do this is to be able to buy additional storage, but now you seem to be able to on the P1 Plan! I have long since been confused why this feature was not available on SMB plans since these are a group that you want to "lock-in" before the company grows and then has klout to choose where to go.

Office 365 P1 Additional Storage

 

A sneaky additiona that I didn't hear any announcements about has added this feature, that hopefully means greater exploring of the Sharepoint Document infrastructure and Skydrive Pro for me!


Stuart James  


27 Jun 2013 . .
Visual Studio 2013 breaks VirtualBox due to Hyper-V conflict Comments

After installing the preview with all its bells and whistles including Hyper-V for Windows Phone development(I think) I found that I got array of network errors and then the killer VT-x is not available

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This is due to the Hyper-V install in VS2013, since only one virtual controller can own the VT-x and Hyper-V is nested into Windows Hyper-V takes ownership and breaks VirtualBox.

So the solution, first you have to disable Hyper-V

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Now if you reboot you should be able to boot up VirtualMachine, now if you are thinking to yourself but what about if I want both, well simple you cant. You either go through this process of turning off and on, or you do what I suggest convert fully to Hyper-V.

This can be done through Disk2VHD so boot up your VirtualBox VM convert it to a VHD and send it on over to Hyper-V simple hey? Oh and if you are like me with fairly chunky VM’s then you will want to archive or delete the old one.


Stuart James  


27 Jun 2013 . .
My Stickmen look like a 5 year old (possibly younger) drew them Comments

If you have seen any of my research it heavily involves crazy little stick figures or badly hand drawn stick figures or horses. Sadly after 3 years of PhD my ability to draw via a computer or by hand has not improved as demonstrated by some quality stick figures that when are aged will go into my current project.

 

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Often it feels like maybe someone with some natural artistic ability should be working on the topic of Sketch based Retrieval. For now though I will have to do!


Stuart James