My latest iTWire story is about a problem I faced on Monday. A Fujitsu laptop running Windows Vista Business just would not boot. Diagnostics showed a registry corruption but the recovery console was not installed, Windows auto-repair attempts failed, the Windows installer wouldn’t provide an ‘upgrade’ option when booted from DVD … but happily I could fix the problem using an Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD.

This story is doing brilliantly on Digg, hitting the front page last night.

Hi Coders,

The Newcastle Coders Group is back at the newly renovated Forsythes IT and Training rooms for the August meeting. Two great presenters, Eliminating no-repro bugs with MS VS Team Test 2010 and Flash/Flex and Silverlight from a management perspective. PLUS – a chance to win a full retail copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with 12 month MSDN Subscription courtesy of Enhance ALM and Microsoft. The full details are available here.

When: 6.00pm Wednesday 5th August 2009 (tonight!)
Where: Forsythes IT and Training Rooms – 9 Denison Street, Newcastle West
Cost: FREE!

For those of you who haven’t been before, the Newcastle Coders Group is a great place to learn about the latest technologies in software development. It’s also a great place to meet your peers in the local area. Everyone is welcome, so bring your friends and colleagues.

We order pizza and soft drink on the night for those who want to chip in $5. Pizza is purely optional. If you plan to come along, please RSVP so that we can plan for numbers and indicate if you want to chip in for the pizza (by 4pm today).