Only a few emails…
DaleHad an issue at work recently. The background is that BlackBerry emails are delayed when you have 10,000+ emails in your mail file. It takes time for the BlackBerry Server…
And there was a drunk man on there.
I was on an aeroplane in the East some years ago and the man sitting across the aisle from me, was the Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, John Belk. Some…
“They rang me up, and said …”
“I have an inappropriate password.” The user telling me this, was stunned that anyone would notice. An inappropriate password would be something like password qwerty 123456 But this particular Law…
SSL errors, and how to diagnose them.
Frankly, I don’t know, but here’s what I learnt. It started with a customer reporting a problem When we press the publish button on the website, we get a 403…
Why we ran the biggest ICL shop in the Southern Hemisphere.
State Bank Victoria (SBV) used to run IBM & ICL Mainframes. The IBM Mainframes were a 3084, 3090-600J, System 36 & 4341. The main processing was performed on the 3090. …
Daylight savings ends for another year …
… and I suspect today is going to be a busy day. Back in the day, when I was working with mainframes, we would have to “stop” the mainframe at…
“I hear Billy Graham is staying in this hotel.”
But some years ago, I was on an elevator in Philadelphia, coming down. I was to address a conference at a hotel. And on that elevator a man said "I…
You leave comments in your programming code for others, not for yourself.
Subtitles: The past is another country, they did things differently there. After a period of time, you become the “other” for in “comments for others”. I’ve just spent two days…
“And that’s how all internet communities should run.”
People have this bizarre desire of freedom of speech in (internet) communities. They mix freedom of speech with freedom of harassing, or freedom to disturb. And that’s really two different…