Advertising Windows Errors October 30, 2006
Posted by Dale in : Humour, It's A Bug, WinXP, Windows , Comments
I tolerate Microsoft Windows. I would probably like it if I wasn’t involved in supporting it.
On occasion, systems running Windows do something REALLY stupid. (see left).
Yes, that’s right. It’s a “super sized” LED advertising billboard which runs Windows, it’s gotten an error and crashed the billboard subsystem.
Neither am I a great fan of Macintosh’s, it’s more a philosophical reason than anything else. I hate people who park in handicap spaces.
Linux? It’s device driver support sucks.
Purpose: Install new data line set, and switch all 5 sites across. October 23, 2006
Posted by Dale in : Last Job , Comments
… just another Sunday night …
1945hrs - Travel into work.
2030hrs - Some bastard parked across our company car park driveway.
2045hrs - Find and pay for another car park, attend work, sign in.
2050hrs - Make up A4-sized “You have parked across a driveway” sheet, and liberally glue to offending windscreen.
2105hrs - Advise project manager that I’m ready to test the network change.
2145hrs - “We have a problem”
2146hrs - “Ummm, it’s a cabling problem.”
2230hrs - “Ummm, we’ll need to do this again in a couple of weeks.”
1000hrs - (following day) Cause: insufficient patch cables on hand to perform change.
Translation: we forgot the frickin cables.
Canna hand a man a grander spanner - Copernic October 17, 2006
Posted by Dale in : Desktop Search, Last Job , Comments
I call it Copernic
It works, and has indexed just over 40,000 documents / 1 million keywords.
Why Copernic? Well the Nazi Spawn have not disabled it, and I like it.
I like Google Desktop Search too, but our IT Nazi’s have banned it.
Eating Your Own Dog Food - Windows Vista Testing October 16, 2006
Posted by Dale in : Beta Testing, Vista, Windows , Comments
Readers might remember that I was testing Windows Vista…
Well I’ve just finished, and I’m back with the trusty Windows XP.
So why did I change back? Too many niggling problems with Vista.
Minor things like I can’t run a plugin for Microsoft Outlook, as it crashes part of Vista. And there is no PDA synchronisation support. OH SURE, they CLAIM there is support, just as I might CLAIM to have a John Holmes sized tool. It ain’t necessary so.
Another disappointing thing about Beta testing Vista, was the number of bugs I reported in the pre-Beta 2 build, which were closed as being “Fixed”, but weren’t. And they’re still not. I’ve seen the release timetable for Vista, and I doubt they’ll be fixed before the November manufacturing release.
So, eating the dogfood which is Windows XP, have I noticed any differences?
Well yes, two.
- The screen clarity is nowhere as good. Vista is of so much easier to read.
- The new “Photo Editor” and it’s crop function is the other.
My advice to customers wanting to upgrade? Wait for Vista Service Pack 1.