Nice work if you can get it.
Dale(The Australian Newspaper, Online Edition, 30th June 2010)
How to select a good anti-virus product
Well, if you didn’t receive emails with viruii attached, or surf to “dubious” websites, you wouldn’t get infected. For the rest of us, we would be looking at either Microsoft…
WMI and WMIC example text for common queries
This is straight from the Microsoft Technet July 2005 CD set. I’ve not seen it elsewhere, and since I’ve found it so useful, I’m going to repost it here. WMIC…
“How do I extract Microsoft CAB files?”
asked our newest SOE Developer. The best tool I’ve found for this is CABPACK v1.4, which was last updated in 1999. The age of the program might give you some…
More keyboard & dishwasher fun
Was my first attempt at successfully cleaning a keyboard in a dishwasher a fluke? Well no, as it turns out. Today’s candidate? A 2 year old HP branded keyboard. As…
Laptops and burns – the problem
If you’ve been using laptops for a while, you might have heard about the dangers of laptops burning your thighs. If you have, you’ve probably also heard about the Swedish…
It’s fairly simple, a bug
is a fault in software, or hardware for that matter, which breaks something. For example, if you make software which links my Microsoft Calendar to my Google Calendar, and your…
“It is better to have and not need, than need and not have.”
As I said to the boss the other day when he asked if we wanted a final backup of the Windows 2000 Server we were decommissioning. Now where I first…
So is the Western Digital drive really “a permanent USB interface”?
Yes, Pierre Jolicoeur, it really is a permanent USB interface: as this photo shows. I was so disappointed in Western Digital when I saw this. That means I’ll be buying…
“… They are both oaks,
even if they were planted in different forests. But then, m’lord, we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.” - from A Prisoner of Birth, by…