An easy way to do a PDF to Word conversion
DaleDon’t you just hate it when, after you’ve spent quite a few hours on doing something, some smarty pipes up a suggestion which meant you’ve just lost those hours. So…
Let’s take a break from that computer
I’ve been accused of sitting at a computer for far too long. “Get up and go for a walk”, I tell myself. I never do, as I get too wrapped…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – November 2009
Desi Dhaba Authentic Indian restaurant. One of the blokes at work recommends it. Will have to give it a try. 134 Flinders Street, Melbourne. I’ve tried it, curry was good,…
Leaving Geocities: “This website has won No Awards at all”
With Geocities shutting down, I had to move the CTOS Faq site. CTOS, my friends, was an kick-ass operating system which was released in 1979, and was supported for 20…
“Mouth more closed.”
Enterprise desktop support is a mindset. If you’ve never done it, it’s likely you’ll not understand the issues of how things scale. A solution for 5 PCs may not scale…
Jasc Image Robot
is a great little program I use for doing group conversions of graphics files. Things like, jpg –> png format conversion, image watermarking and image cropping. Image cropping is today’s…
It’s the ErgoDudes to the rescue!
ErgoMinder, from a support perspective, had it's problems. ErgoMinder described itself as: ErgoMinder is a program with three cartoon characters - called Ergo-Dudes - who remind you in a light-hearted…
eTrust AntiVirus, and directories / processes you should exclude from scanning.
Computer Associates used to recommend excluding particular processes and directories from eTrust anti-virus scanning. This, I found, was very important with Microsoft SQL Server, as it would cause a significant…
No games for you!
There is an line of thinking, which quite a few companies follow, that you can’t have games on a company PC because “employees may play games all day”.(1) I’m sure…
Nothing is ever HP Trim’s fault.
It’s always the other guy, when something goes wrong. Trim is a Electronic Document Repository Management program, beloved by large companies. Records Management types seem to love it, but from…