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Simon Pollock
Simon Pollock
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Kevin Giles commented on Simon Pollock's photo
Installing BesX took a couple of hours and was quite easy, although the download email ended up in my spam - why can't you download straight off the page? I could also gladly live without having to configure the user accounts and directories…
Nov 3, 2010
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Daniel Mark Dressler commented on Simon Pollock's photo
I missed the joke at first. My first thought was, nice servers. Then I read the subtext and was confused thinking that the open dell there might have been what you got and the dells on the rack were what you wanted. Then I got the joke.
Jul 10, 2009
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Simon Pollock commented on Simon Pollock's photo
Neil, I'm afraid not - It's set at 8 (from a possible ten) to be in line with industry standard "IT Staff" as surveyed across England. We're working on another model that doesn't speak, just gets on with the reboot…
Jun 2, 2009
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Simon Pollock commented on Simon Pollock's photo
Place your orders folks! We've got the Angelina Jolie model coming into stock shortly.... Complete with MSCE and CCNA.... Errr... Yes, Coffee.... bye bye
Apr 16, 2009
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Michael Francis commented on Simon Pollock's photo
Fantastic - can you do a female super sexy version?
Apr 16, 2009
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Helpdesk goes robotic!

Rob and I were chatting about getting a new person in for our helpdesk position. Someone that wouldn't complain, someone that wouldn't take breaks all the time and someone dead sexy!... This was the result of those talks... iSimon the Helpdesk…
Photo posted by Simon Pollock Apr 9, 2009
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TWENEBOAH ABRAHAM commented on Simon Pollock's photo
that's good but ...........
Apr 8, 2009
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I'm alright jack!...

Our ISP decided that today would be a good day to play "lets BBQ your fibre connect!" leaving us with our first fail-over a 2mb adsl circuit and out second a synchronus 2mb microwave link... Well, Rob thought it would be nice (for him!) if he let…
Photo posted by Simon Pollock Apr 3, 2009
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Microsoft Virtualization Live Chat -- Edwin Yuen at Online

March 31, 2009 from 11am to 3pm
On Tuesday, March 31, Microsoft's Edwin Yuen will be hosting a live web chat 11am-3pm EST. Edwin is a Sr. Technical Product manager. Edwin came to Microsoft with the acquisition of Softricity (and the SoftGrid application virtualization technology). He now also covers Hyper-V and System Center VMM.Hosted by TechTarget.To sign up, go to http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/microsoft-virtualization-chat/See More
Simon Pollock is attending Elizabeth Ayer's event Mar 30, 2009
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Simon Pollock left a comment for Rob Atkinson
Well done mate... good show old boy :-0
Mar 24, 2009
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Systems Administrator
Tech Interests - e.g. Virtualisation? Cisco? Etc.
Sharepoint | Exchange | New Media
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http://www.gtvone.com

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Panic! Panic...

A runner that's been promoted to an assistant just came tearing up "you must make this print NOW" ....Sure, no problems, email it to me - I'll print it. *doesn't, tries to print it again herself* ....I ask again, Send it me, I'll sort it - no probs!... She doesn't, again, instead staring at the printer as it flashes "Load Letter in tray 1" .....*WHATS WRONG WITH IT*..... she booms... well, I say, you've tried to print in Letter to an A4 printer... She dosn't get it. After the fourth time of… Continue

Posted on March 3, 2009 at 12:43pm

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Why is it so hard!....

You've all heard it a million times, I'm sure... "I don't know how to do it, I don't know what format to use" We have a crew of people in Oxford that make vodcasts for people to download / subscribe to via iTunes etc... they've been making these for a year or more and STILL the files they make to be linked to do not work on an iPod... Err, OK, given that most of the world use iPods to listen to iTunes syndicated content, you'd suggest that this would be the top priority for them,… Continue

Posted on March 2, 2009 at 4:55pm

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At 1:49pm on March 2, 2009, Rob AtkinsonRob Atkinson said…
Welcome buddy! :0)

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