Children in chimneys
DaleIn a discussion about what is acceptable behaviour in the workplace: “In the past we used to send children up chimneys to clean them as well.”
When it becomes an addiction
“It’s dangerous for me not to have a BlackBerry”, started the fault report. Followed by, “I’ve got a broken BlackBerry” So I called the user, ‘Dangerous as in life threatening?’…
“My screen has waves on it.”
Back in 2001, the users were complaining that their computer screens had waves on them. The cause of these “waves” were the HUGE electromagnetic fields being generated by the power…
“Please do not abuse the machine”
(as seen at Richmond Railway Station, September 2009)
Semi-regular web-link clearance – October 2009
Internet Explorer Cannot Download https://something (Eric Law's IE Internals) Earlier today, I was asked to troubleshoot a secure site where file downloads were always failing. Having seen this problem many…
The seven versions of Windows PDA operating systems.
Windows PDAs certainly have changed since the days of Pocket PC 2000 (first saw this over at 1800PocketPC.Com) Those versions are: Pocket PC 2000 Pocket PC 2002 Windows Mobile 2003…
Jasc Image Robot
is a great little program I use for doing group conversions of graphics files. Things like, jpg –> png format conversion, image watermarking and image cropping. Image cropping is today’s…
The InstallShield “Temp” Directory trick.
But you can use it with other installers as well. When you click on an Installshield created setup.exe, it will extract it’s contents to your TEMP directory. These contents include…
Measuring your car’s speed.
I’ve not had a speeding ticket since returning to Melbourne. My partner puts this down to luck. I put it down to using GPS software. It’s a fact that your…
The mighty IBM 3800
Laser printers use two types of fusion to fuse toner to paper, hot fusion, and cold fusion. I’ve only seen cold fusion used once. StorageTek used to make mainframe printers…