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Invoice - 30 day terms

• Hourly rate ............................... £90 p/hr

"Pay as you go"

• 200 minutes ............................... £250 (£75 p/hr)
• 500 minutes ............................... £500 (£60 p/hr)
• 1000 minutes .............................. £900 (£54 p/hr)

Pay-as-you-go procedure

1. To receive time, email accounts@runpcrun.com and request the block of time required.
   
2. A pro-forma invoice will be issued.
3. Pay the pro-forma invoice.
   
4. Once the pro-forma invoice is paid, the time is credited to your account.

Pay-as-you-go terms and conditions

1. Pay-as-you-go time and time usage is calculated from the start to the end of each calendar month.
2. Pay-as-you-go time does not expire. Refunds of unused time are permissible on request.
3. All engineer time is recorded by the minute in our online helpdesk and a monthly statement is printed or available as PDF.
4. Accounts with negative time balance at the end of a calendar month are charged on 30 day invoice terms on the remaining balance.
   
5. All prices are for on-site, phone and remote work. On-site work has a 2 hour minimum. All prices are excluding VAT.
6. Business hours only - 9am -> 6pm, Mon -> Fri. Prices for work outside these hours are available on application.
7. Clients with a server are advised to allocate a specified amount of pay-as-you-go time per month to reduce support costs and authorising pro-active server maintenance checks and work to be carried out.

The Internet Archive shows us that the PC of Dr. Thomas Pabst, creator of Toms Hardware Guide - in December 1997 was the following beast of a machine:-

• CPU: Intel Pentium II, 266 MHz, overclocked to 300 MHz
• Graphics: Matrox Millennium with 4 MB of RAM
• Hard disk: 1 Seagate Cheetah ST34501W (up to 18Gb and "Unsurpassed formatted data rates of 14.5 to 21.3 Mbytes per second"
• Modem: US Robotics I-Modem external (yup, a modem)
• CD-Rom Drive: Plextor 12Plex - a SCSI 12x CD-ROM



As we all know, in 10 years our 4Ghz quad-core CPU, 4Gb RAM, 1Tb HDD machines will look as ridiculous as this - which is a sobering thought. Happy computing!

The attached zip contains a very simple script that uses WinSCP , FI and 7-Zip to backup a website via FTP to the local machine.  It first downloads the entire site to the directory it was run from, 7-Zips it to the output directory, deletes the temporary copy and then checks the output directory for backups older than 30 days and deletes them.

To configure it for your own use you will need to edit the winscpscript.txt and change the following lines to your FTP details and the directory you want to back up if public_html isn't where your website is stored.

open ftp://username:password@ftp.sitename.com
get public_html/* website-backup\*'                 

The default output is C:\WebsiteBackup but if you need to change it you can edit the websitebackup.bat and change 'c:\WebsiteBackup' in the following lines:

7za a c:\WebsiteBackup\backup-%dtt%.7z website-backup
For /f "Tokens=*" %%f in ('fi /A-d /b /gw">"30 C:\WebsiteBackup\*.*') do del /q               

Adobe's annoying download manager bypassed.

After updates to the Exchange contacts, client reported not being able to see the updated version.  All contacts are shown correctly when accessing webmail but not from within Outlook.

Outlook 2003 was in this instance configured to use the Exchange mailbox in cached mode, the OAB had not replicated to the local machine after 24 hours, so I followed the instructions in the Microsoft KnowledgeBase Article: Administering the offline address book in Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007

To Force Outlook to update it's OAB (Global Address List)

• On the Tools menu, point to Send/Receive, and then click Download Address Book.
• Exit Outlook and then restart it. After Outlook starts, the offline address book download will start one to five minutes later.

Useful website that gives the ability to dump any type of text (or code) to transmit it as a URL (can be very useful in IM and IRC applications)
Has a post expiry time-limit that can be set.