“Ohne mich!” (Without Me) – Some resignation etiquette
DaleSubmitted my resignation yesterday, so now I'm at T minus 4 weeks and counting. Having only having resigned from one other job in 15 years, I needed to brush up…
“What’s with all those spam ping-bots?”, says Raymond
Last December, some people started to get annoyed by the pingback-bots, and others were confused by them. What's the deal with those pingback-bots? It's all about fooling the search engines…
“Windows Vista SP1 availability for technical customers” – with a bug or two FREE!
From the Vista Team Blog ... In my blog post on the subject, I noted that we were going to make SP1 available to customers in stages to make sure…
We also know there are known unknowns – Network troubleshooting
Such as WAN link utilisation. Users were complaining that network performance was slow across the 80M WAN link. How did they know? Citrix users mostly ... So I ask our…
‘Plan now to eliminate “power users”; from your domains’ – or face the consequences.
Saw this today over at Steve Riley's blog Plan now to eliminate "power users" from your domains ... That group had rights install software and drivers. And if you can…
Disk fragmenting
Imagine a car park. Now in your imaginary car park, just like real life, there are all makes, models and colours of cars parked next to each other. ie. there…
Latency effects everything we do … … no wait!
I've run into latency issues over the last 20 years, and in short, they've been X-Modem IBM SNA Citrix Windows Vista X-modem ... was created in August 1977 to allow…
Updating firmware on a Windows Mobile 6 PDA
I have a HTC TyTN II PDA phone, also known as a HTC Kaiser. Great little PDA, with a phone, Bluetooth and GPS built-in. But the speed of it was…