iOS: Army of Darkness Defense on the iPad

This blog post provides a quick and easy solution for this game that will allow you to get through the 50 levels in a few hours with minimal risk.I really enjoyed this game, I guess it's an appreciation of the film as well as my general like of the Tower Defence - style games.One line summary; Use the Peasants!Level 50: Charge of the Peasants!Just pump out Peasants. Don't worry about anything bigger and "better". Just upgrade the smithy and keep...

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Opening Ports On Your Virgin Media Super-Hub

This blog post provides a simple walk-through that will allow you to open up ports on your Virgin Media Super-Hub. One reason why you might want to do this is to enable your iTunes/ AppleTV to talk to the internet time servers so you can play rented content.NOTE: If, after you have followed these steps, the port is still not accessible then you need to do a full reset of your Super-Hub and then try again. Very annoying but unfortunately this is what...

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Identifying The IP Address Of Your Router

Go to the Windows start menu and into the search box type "cmd.exe" - this will bring up Windows command-line interface;Windows 7 command-line interface (cmd.exe)Your view will be slightly different depending on whether or not you're running Windows 7. It doesn't really matter through as the functionality is only slightly different.Type in the following;ipconfigThere will be a large amount of text flashing past on the screen;Windows 7 ipconfig outputYou...

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SSRS: Migrating Reports from One SharePoint Server To Another

Sounds easy? Problem free? Think again ...This blog post is a step-by-step guide to copying a Report (consisting of a Report, one (or more) Shared Datasets, and a Data Source) from an existing Microsoft SharePoint 2007 document library into another document library on a different server (such as you might want to do when taking a production report into development for enhancement).You can probably thing of at least three ways to do it off the top...

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SSRS: Migrating Reports to SharePoint Integrated Mode

This blog post covers the process of migrating a report from Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2008R2 running in non-integrated (i.e. non-SharePoint) mode to a different server also running 2008R2 but running in SharePoint integrated mode.A Little BackgroundThis is important as it will affect the steps you need to take!In our environment we split the various parts of the report (Data Source, Data Set, and Report) into separate files. This allows...

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