Internet Explorer Compatibility Mode
Dale“When people inside the building visit our web site, IE Compatibility mode is being forced on. People on the internet don’t get compatibility mode. Please fix.” Internet Compatibility mode was…
Bypassing Internet Explorer Group Policy lockdowns.
We lock down Internet Explorer, to prevent our non IT-savvy staff from changing settings which will break their internet access. We apply those same settings to ourselves, which isn’t as…
Files to delete when imaging a system.
Such as when you use the GHOST disk imaging product. This is a revision of a post I wrote back in November 2009, and it’s about time to update it.…
“It takes an awful lot of work for the surgeon to kill you but
the anaesthetist can do it like that (snaps fingers)" When the sit hits the fan in anaesthesia, there’s usually an awful lot of shit and the fan is spinning very…
Lotus Notes 8.5.3, the spellchecker and the "Skip All" button.
A question came in from the customer, why can’t I use the “Skip All” button when I do a spell check. After some investigation the answer I discovered was that…
Cheap Daewoo Nubira Wagon – Paintwork could use some work.
(as seen in a Melbourne CBD carpark - Thursday)
No skid pans though.
Spent part of today having a car driving instructor telling me how was my driving was. It feel like I was doing a driving test all over again. The car…
“it is advantageous to have the "Write Cache Enable" bit turned ON”
However, in a CTOS (or MS-DOS, Windows/NT, etc.) environment, it is advantageous to have the "Write Cache Enable" bit turned ON, which allows the built-in cache on the disk to…
“Maybe one person can’t change the world ….
But one person can give it a nudge, and sometimes that’s enough.” (Cartoon courtesy of Adrian Raeside, of “The Other Coast”)
“My computer is slow!” – A case of slow add-ons.
End user computer performance is about perception. How fast does it “seem”? Recently I looked at a corporate laptop, the user complained it was slow. I checked the usual culprits…