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All goes in circles.

A wise, long serving public servant once told me:

Everything goes in a circle. First we de-centralised to give control to each of the government departments.

Some years later, we centralised to save money and streamline management.

I was reminded of this today when I received an email about the latest company initiative.

Or [...]

Not enough memory to complete this operation (adding a printer with Vista)

Trying to install my Lexmark X215 multi-function printer results in this error message under Vista:

I don’t know the actual cause, as I have 3GB of memory installed, but this workaround works:

Select “Add New Printer” Select “Local Printer” instead of “Add Network Printer” Select “Add New Port” For the port name, type [...]

Making a clone (aka photocopy) of your hard drive.

It’s still Symantec Ghost for me, but the next time around I’ll try free again.

Recently had to build a Linux system out of a Asus EEE Box PC. The first step was to clone the hard disk.

There must be an open source utility I can use! I thought …

So I tried [...]

“Stopping All Stations Except General Motors”

When I heard this announcement, I thought to myself, “Must get around to visiting General Motors Railway Station”. Time elapsed, and I moved interstate for a while.

And General Motors closed.

General Motors Railway Station was used by shift workers at the General Motors Holden Plant. The car plant closed in 1991, and [...]

Get the logged on user - code which works!

Some VBscript code which ACTUALLY works. I don’t understand some sites which share code. You go looking for VBscript code on the net to do something, and invariably IT DOES NOT WORK.

For one of two reasons:

it’s a code snippet, and you need to write code around it to get it to work [...]

Six Eight Nine Password Managers

PrimalScript uses streams

Yes, PrimalScript uses alternate data streams to remember where I’ve set breakpoints in my code.

(this prompt appears because I’m copying from NTFS volume to a FAT16 volume).

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Matchstick F1 Mercedes McLaren

No, I don’t know how many matchsticks are in it, but you can Google that for yourself. Yes, I do agree he should have gotten some "F1 Babes" to model.

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404 errors

I was tempted to blog about the history of 404 errors, but some sad git splendid fellows, brave heroes, risking life and limb for Blighty!*, has beaten me to it.

My two favourite 404 pictures follow:

* ironically, checking this link from work results in the error "The Websence [...]

“Server Error in Andrew Bolt application”

I’ve always suspected that Andrew Bolt is a BOT, and BlairBoltWatch/An Onymous Lefty might agree.

Saw this screen the other day when trying to view Andrew’s blog.

It explains why Andrew seems to post all hours of the day. [...]

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