The Urban Myth of South Australian vs. Victorian Coke Cola taste
DaleOnce heard a story from a bloke which claimed that Victorian truck drivers would stock up on Victorian Coke Cola before they crossed the South Australian border. Now I don’t…
MaxPatchCacheSize and Windows 7
So I was building a Windows 7 virtual machine, so I could play “Gardens of Time” as GoT doesn’t work on my Windows 2008 R2 box …, and I went…
“So where was that Australian Coke Can, canned/bottled/produced?”
If you were going to do a “taste test”, this would be fairly important to know. Was that Coke Cola can purchased from a South Australian Petrol Station REALLY canned…
Finding a “Bag Bag” these days.
“Bag Bag” plastic bag holders were a 1990’s thing. Essentially a “Bag “Bag” was a cloth bag with openings at the top and the bottom. You put bags in the…
Legal but stupid
Update November 2015: VicRoads advice is that this practice is not legal ie. You are not allowed to lane filter between traffic and an adjacent kerb. Update January 2016: Further…
Group Policy and WMI filtering slowness.
Having spent time investigating slow network logons, I dislike using WMI for Group Policy filtering. It just adds a layer of slowness to logons. WMI filtering does has it’s place,…
Neem Oil Dog Soap
Since someone asked, this is the dog soap I use with Nikki occasionally. “This soap is especially formulated to disenchant fleas, ticks and other pests that may irritate your pets. …
WSUS DownloadFileInteral failed when trying to get wuredir.cab
On a newly imaged Windows XP client, I decided to activate “Automatic Updates” via a newly installed WSUS 3.0SP2 server. But I was seeing this error on my Windows XP…
Frozen peanut butter treats for dogs – 2nd batch
After the first batch of frozen treats, a friend made a suggestion of adding water to the peanut butter mix. Since I also wanted to try Vegemite frozen treats, I…