Category Archives: Utilities

Useful Utilities

Sports Administrator

Posted on April 9, 2017 by James Rudd

Sports Administrator: Open-sourced Sports Carnival management software. https://github.com/ruddj/SportsAdmin I have just released a free open-source Sports Carnival management database that may be useful to schools for running their Athletics and Swimming carnivals. It has many features with some of the … Continue reading →

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Papercut

Posted on August 16, 2010 by James Rudd

I have received a few questions asking about Papercut so here are some of the details about it and what we use it for. Papercut can run on a Windows Server (2003, 2008 or 2008 R2) using windows print queues … Continue reading →

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Using BackupPC with DiskShadow to backup open files

Posted on July 16, 2010 by James Rudd

This post is to assist in the setup of a BackupPC system able to backup in use files by using MS volume snapshots. It also has the benefit of only having the RSync daemon running during the backup which increases security. Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Mail

Posted on February 24, 2010 by James Rudd

I have just been setting up a new Windows Server 2008 R2 box up as a terminal server. As part of this I enabled the Desktop Experience feature, however this also enabled Windows Mail. Windows mail seems to generate large … Continue reading →

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