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A service call came though, with an end-user rant, Obviously you’re changed something with your latest software update. I can’t use Office Live even though I have Internet Explorer 6. Our on-site support passed it along with “What gives, doesn’t work with Firefox either.” Now I have better things to do than intentionally [...] It’s a funny thing. Hunter’s probably one of the best writers that we’ll ever get, but I didn’t care about that. The Rolling Stones are probably the best best rock & roll singers left, but they’re total fucking jerks in my world. I met them at Altamont. I didn’t like them before they came [...] I devised a method to prevent Spyware (and Webshots) from loading, using the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit Shim Application Database (sdbinst.db) It worked well: most people didn’t ring IT Security. Why block Webshots? There were two reasons: it would cause Windows to crash and/or Blue Screen bandwidth. it gobbled bandwidth. 1. is [...] A good, and at times, very funny video on dog friendly dog training, by Ian Dunbar. The above video was from the TED Entertainment Gathering 2007 conference. [...] I’m careful with how I communicate with customers. Not for them, terms like ProcMon, least user privilege, DLL Hell and PEBKAC. Though for some of our support people, it’s an issue as well. [...] Before we ship a customised Microsoft Windows installation to our customers, we test. And test. And test some more. The picture, though a little old, shows a failed build test. It’s a Compaq Deskpro EN PC with the Windows NT4 Workstation Blue Screen Of Death. The cause of this particular build failure? Computer [...] Being cheap bastards conscious of the support costs of maintaining device-specific printer drivers, HP has come up with the HP Universal Print Driver (UPD). Works great on Microsoft Windows based print servers. Absolute rubbish with Novell iPrint. When you install a Windows based UPD, the UPD says to the printer What features do you [...] |
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