Ball juggling
DaleBack in October 2006, one of the CSC Australia sales reps rocks up to my desk "That price quote Wayne gave us for support 4 different versions of SheepBotherer, is…
The Microsoft Loopback Adapter, NT4 & Windows 7.
Reading a Microsoft blog post recently, I was reminded of a customer request from late 2002. The emailed request was something like this: Had to use the generic Win NT4…
Auslogics Disk Defrag – a 5 minute review.
Does not defragment removable drives, even though Windows built-in defragger does. No choice to do an Analyse first, it was straight into Defrag. No PC slowdown noticed. Does a through…
It’s Wednesday
Not sure where I first saw this: A plane enters Darwin air space and, without identifying itself, asks traffic control for the local time. Traffic control replies 'If you're an…
Staff problems
Note: this was a post from 2008, when I was working for CSC Australia. I'm having all the joys of, not only leading my band of Merry Men, but another…
Stop Digging
So good it’s worth quoting: … Within 1/2 an hour the “rocking” VSTS team had resolved the problem, leaving me stranded on a vertical cliff, wondering how I ever got…
Ah, a case of “The Mary’s” has occurred.
In comes the Service Call from Our Man In The Field. “… the <users> address book isn’t downloading to their BlackBerry.” My reply: “The issue was caused by someone incorrectly…
Post borrowed from The Old New Thing
With multiple screens on my work PC, sometimes a program window disappears off screen. Until now, I didn’t know how to fix it. And it wasn’t annoying enough for me…
“Quick, to the Government Bat Camry, Boy Wonder”
"… the Minister has just misled Parliament." Back in the day, senior public servants would have Parliamentary Broadcast boxes in their offices. You can tell someone’s importance by whether they…