1 ream of paper = 6% of a tree
DalePlease think before you print: 1 ream of paper = 6% of a tree and 5.4 kg CO2 in the atmosphere, 3 sheets of A4 paper = 1 litre of…
Are You Lonely? Work On Your Own? Hate Having To Make Decisions?
Yes, I’ve been to a few meetings lately. I suggested to one serial meeting organiser, we should call the meeting room, the “The <insert Project Manager name> Memorial Meeting Room”.
“Congratulations Frank, it’s a PC!”
This rip-off of the Microsoft “Laptop Hunter: Lauren” ad, had me laughing out loud.
“It’s By Design”
… said Research In Motion, when I asked them about about a BlackBerry issue: Microsoft: and Unisys: It’s the weasel way out. You report a bug, the company realised that…
The Dismal Swamp of CTOS Generic Print System Programming.
"Printer Location, for example, Printer Room or Dismal Swamp, as displayed in the Print Manager" And I felt empathy with that documentation writer, as an print subsystem function I was…
So, where do I check for ATM card skimming & PIN capturing devices.
Three weeks ago, I wrote about ATM skimming devices, and shared some photos. A reader wrote in and asked “Where do I look on a ATM to try and spot…
“VBA? You wrote VBA code for that?”
exclaimed a colleague. “Is that like Visual Basic?” Well kind of, VBA is Visual Basic for Applications. Which is a scripting language for the Microsoft Office system. I’d had a…
Checking that the weblinks are working.
I use a small program called Xenu’s Link Sleuth. Which looks at all blog posts, grabs the links I’ve mentioned, and then check that they still exist. Or to put…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – April 2009
Deleting old keys on Smart Card (Dmitrii blog) Xyzzy is a pronounceable password generator ... What is this funny SID on my file? (Jeff Hamblin Core Security Blog) ”… That…
It’s a new …
… backup drive! The only people who are really concerned about backups are those people who have lost information. Everybody else doesn’t give it a moments thought. My backup plan…