HTC Desire breaks Microsoft Wireless keyboard
DaleOr, in other words, your keyboard will no longer work. This too close to this breaks these: The cause, which I only found out by chance, AFTER I changed the…
Nice toasty laptop skin.
I’ve written before about laptops and burns. In a case from 2008, a 24 year old male suffered a second-degree burn on his thigh. In this mornings news paper, there…
FedEx – I’m going to Kansas City
FedEx make some great TV commercials. Out of all their various commercials, these are my two favourites. “Beer, Hunter, Ninja” and “I’m going to Kansas City” If I had to…
How to tell what Microsoft Time Zone Update you have
Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 … Have a registry value you can check to see if a Time Zone update has been applied. Under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones registry…
No more dead tree computer books
It was Ed Bott tweeting about his new book Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out, which finally prompted me to proclaim: “No more dead tree computer books!” (Messrs Bott & Siechert…
Today’s security theater brought to you by Iron Mountain
We have some of those “secure document disposal” bins. The older version used a latch with a padlock. The good thing about that design, was that there was only one…
Logitech Marble Mouse
I’ve been using Logitech Marble Mouses (mice?) for years. There are two reasons why: The quality of the Logitech products is very high. Marble mouses are very easy to use,…
So does your HP 8000 Elite PC not burn DVDs?
In the “things I saw ten years ago and never thought I’d see again” category, we recently had the case of the HP 8000 Elite PC which refused to burn…
One charger to charge them all.
I love the Apple iPod charger. Apple call it the iPod charger, but this is the same charger you get with the iPhone. It supplies 5 volts @ 1 Amp. …
My Corporate DNS Server was lying to me, often.
I was trying to copy some files to a group to a computers. What I’d do is check if the computer is alive first, by doing a network ping. If…