Using %homeshare% seemed like a good idea at the time.
DaleWe used to hard-code a user’s home directory in a logon script; just like this: net use H: \\NODDY22\%Username%$ Of course, it becomes a problem when you need to change…
Is the Apple iPad really 5 years better than a HP TC1100
Apple to much hype, released announced the iPad computing tablet. *yawn* You can’t buy the Apple iPad yet. And when you can, what will you use it for? Web surfing…
“No, you can’t upgrade Internet Explorer 6”
In a week when one of our customer’s senior management team said “No, we’re not upgrading Internet Explorer 6, we’re waiting for Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7” A user…
Today’s Myki failure? Try and recharge your Myki card.
But not at these two machines at Melbourne Central Railway Station. Nor at the next station on the line, Parliament Station. Both broken. The old Metcard machine you can see…
Trainee Myki programmer – “test the website for 100 or more logins”
So where did the Transport Ticketing Authority have the programming for the Mymyki.com.au done? In Australia, you might think, as we don’t want people’s financial details to be going offshore,…
So I borrowed an iPhone 3GS and thought
IT WAS CRAP. Ok, so that’s a tad harsh, but it is overpriced for what it is. The things that went well: it’s responsive. More responsive than any other PDA…
Those high speed Myki scanners
I was wondering what the government meant when they said “high speed scanners”. Well, I visited Jolimont station to have a look myself. No such thing as a high-speed scanner. …
And only 20 minutes of real content
(I’ve been busy working on SOE upgrades. Normal posting will resume shortly.) credit: Kevin Remde. It’s a screen shot from his Windows Media Centre
An easy way to do a PDF to Word conversion
Don’t you just hate it when, after you’ve spent quite a few hours on doing something, some smarty pipes up a suggestion which meant you’ve just lost those hours. So…
Windows Update website – Error 0x800C0002
Had this error while trying to update a Windows 2000 SP4 test box. As it’s a test box, it has the bare minimum installed. Microsoft’s solution? clean the Internet Explorer…