Australian Glove Standards.
DaleThere are a number of Australian work glove standards. Here is a list of the most common. AS/NZS 2161.3:1998 (EN388) – Protection against Mechanical Hazards The EN388 standard applies to…
Active Directory User account being locked repeatedly
(I don’t know the answer to this yet, so this is just an dump of what I know.) Customer reports that they’re Active Directory User account is being locked out…
Why Internet Explorer 8 crashes on Windows XP and …
not Vista or Windows 7. The customer reported that our version of Internet Explorer 8 would crash when we visited their website. We support IE8 on Windows XP. IE8 was…
“Use of laptop computers connected to internet through Wi-Fi decreases human sperm motility and increases sperm DNA fragmentation.”
so says an Jan 2012 article in the Fertility and Sterility Journal. I’ve written before about the risks of burns when using laptops. This is something new. The article basically…
So where IS the Printer Configuration output page on a Konica Minolta C452/C652/C656 printer?
Under Utility –> User Settings –> Printer Settings – Print Reports Not under the Admin option, as most people would expect. The complete list of reports in the Printer Settings…
How to recover a “WiFi” password from a Windows PC.
Or, “I’ve forgotten my Wireless password and don’t know how to retrieve it from my Windows 7 PC.” I didn’t either, until today. The background was that a customer was…
Protecting the world’s information–NOT!
Oh the hide of Symantec, saying that they are “Protecting the world’s information” In a PDF outlining the impact of its proprietary source code being stolen, Symantec recommends disabling pcAnywhere…
Running on empty
They say Harry Firth, that great Australian race team manager would calibrate fuel gauges in the race cars he managed. I know he did this with the A9X race car. …
Writing log files with VBscript.
With some of our recent software deployments, we’ve used VBscript to install the software package(s). We have a dedicated team which develops these installation scripts. And their VBscripts mostly works…
What to put in a script to check anti-virus program healthiness
The sort of checks you might want to put into a “PC Health Check” script, for anti-virus program healthiness is as follows CA eTrust vet.dat has a recent* modified/created date.…