So you’re missing the MSI source package
DaleIt is one of the great annoyances with Roaming Profiles and MSI-based installs, that if you reformat your PC, you can lose the link to your MSI package. Here’s today’s…
And I thought screen protectors were a waste of time and money
A gimmick just to try and extract more money out of uninformed consumers. But I was wrong. The picture on the left shows the assorted scratches (circled) my PDA has…
How to uninstall all versions of a particular piece of software.
We’re in the mist of doing an Adobe Acrobat Reader upgrade, and one of my co-workers found this place of code on the net. The vbscript loops though WMI’s Win32_Product,…
One way to anonymise live data for test use
Take your table/spreadsheet with your live data and sort ONLY the field holding the surname into A –> Z order sort ONLY the field holding the first name into Z…
“I’m no longer cynical about male attention”
I never realised, until now, that large breasts made women cynical about male attention. Nor, did I realise that British bra cup sizes were different to Australian bra cup sizes. …
From Windows Vista, Microsoft changed the versioning of system files.
And that’s a good thing. A colleague at work today said You can tell whether a system file is a Service Pack 1 file based on the version number… Huh?…
Best burgers in Melbourne – Danny’s Burgers
A friend introduced me to Danny’s Burgers. And I’ll be forever grateful, Danny’s truly have the best burgers in Melbourne. I mean, if you had a choice of McDonald’s, Hungry…
“We’re dead in the water …”
With large companies, you will often have multiple divisions all running their own IT operations, in addition to the Central IT Department. What invariably happens is that some bright spark…
Converting a Wav file to MP3 or other format…
This time last year, I had a user ask if I knew of a simple & free Wav file to MP3 convertor. Over at The Code Project, I found this…
Ikea Kitchen Timers
(courtesy of some friends who thought I’d like them for my collection)