On bad (computer generated) advice.
DaleLemmings, a popular PC game released in 1991. It involved you (the player) guiding lemmings to safely over gorges, broken bridges & cliffs (see screen shot right). Lemmings were essentially…
Making your laptop battery run for longer
I'm not a Macbook Pro user, so I don't suffer from a hot lap. But if I did, I'd zoom right along to here and download smcFanControl, right now. It…
Advertising Windows Errors
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.…
Purpose: Install new data line set, and switch all 5 sites across.
... 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…
Canna hand a man a grander spanner – Copernic
Update 2013: I no longer use these two products, I am using Agent Ransack instead. I call it Copernic It works, and has indexed just over 40,000 documents / 1…
Eating Your Own Dog Food – Windows Vista Testing
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…
Hitting the Panic Button
"Bong! Bong! Bong!" goes Windows Messenger. "Ring! Ring! Ring!" goes the phone. Yes, my boss has hit the PANIC BUTTON. Seems we have a customer having some Windows XP SP1…
MS06-049 for Windows 2000 SP4 causes data lost.
From Slashbot: "It looks like there is a problem with the recently released MS06-049 / KB920958 patch. If you have compression activated on any folder, then the compressed data is…
Hover Bovver
My favorite computer game? Hover Bovver for the Commodore 64. Whenever I hear the "English Country Garden" tune, I think back to Hover Bovver. It was a silly game which…
Windows 95 – We still have customers running it.
A Windows 95 bootscreen. (A Windows 95B boot screen to be precise.) Now I rarely get to touch customer PCs these days, as I'm not in an ""operational"" support area.…