Operating ROBBAS
DaleROBBAS was the Retail Online Branch Banking Alarm System which State Bank Victoria used. It supported approx. 550 bank branches in Victoria. It ran on an old Perkin-Elmer system. The…
SymmTime – World Time Clock software
SymmTime is a free multi-time zone clock I use to keep track of the different time zones of people I work with. It sits on my computer desktop. Update December…
Some shared IT items.
The Athens Affair By Vassilis Prevelakis and Diomidis Spinellis How some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever Social Engineering, the USB Way Those thumb drives…
Surfing the seedy side – Part 2
Back in February 2006 I wrote about Internet Explorer and the index.dat file. Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has a "Delete Browsing History" option which leads to the screen on the…
Over one million items! The Unclaimed Baggage Centre
Something you can say about the USA is that things are so much bigger. Ever wondered where unclaimed baggage goes to? In the USA, it can end up in the…
Life is not fair … get used to it.
1. Life is not fair. Get used to it. 7. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure, so he tends…
And we sold it – Telecom Australia
Telstra doesn't do research anymore, they closed the Telecom Research Labs in January 2006. That's the sort of thing which happens when you privatise public assets. "It's your was your…
Some software I use – call blocking and world timezone clock
World Clock software Qlock is the best software I've found so far, for keeping tracking of different timezones. And judging by our work software tracking system, so do 100+ of…
Hey, at least it’s not us!
I was on the 55 tram heading to Parkville, stuck at the Elizabeth Street/Royal Parade. It's not as bad as the Magic Roundabout, but it has it's moments. "What the…
Beardy types, in a training course.
I was at a Microsoft training course today, and all the beardy types were there too. You know, the "we want everything for free" types. They can be found working…