It’s fairly simple, a bug
Daleis 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…
“The Diary of a Microsoft Marketing Man”
Must remember not to have a mouthful of coffee while reading one of Phil Factor’s blog posts: The Diary of a Microsoft Marketing Man I woke up, in a…
The top 10 books borrowed by Microsoft UK staff
Originally saw this over at the Microsoft UK Schools Blog. The Top 5 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Have read this myself. Worked with a bloke who thought…
The WMI fix – which is better?
Back in April, I wrote two posts about fixing a broken WMI. There was some thought that deleting the WMI Repository WAS A BAD THING. Well maybe not… Across 600+…
“A referral was returned from the server”
As I finish up version 1 of InstallRunner, I went to set the UAC setting for “Require Administrator Privileges”. I did that, and got this error: Doing some research*, the…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – May 2010 (2)
Make Outlook assign you random To-Do items Sometimes, you have time to check something off your to-do list, but no one task is particularly pressing. Lifehacker Reader Ricardo shows us…
Today’s password is ‘4rfvgy7uj’
Never heard about the concept of password “snakes” until I visited a customer 2 years ago. Password snakes, simply put, are passwords which follow a path on the keyboard, as…