Disk fragmenting
DaleImagine a car park. Now in your imaginary car park, just like real life, there are all makes, models and colours of cars parked next to each other. ie. there…
Latency effects everything we do … … no wait!
I've run into latency issues over the last 20 years, and in short, they've been X-Modem IBM SNA Citrix Windows Vista X-modem ... was created in August 1977 to allow…
Updating firmware on a Windows Mobile 6 PDA
I have a HTC TyTN II PDA phone, also known as a HTC Kaiser. Great little PDA, with a phone, Bluetooth and GPS built-in. But the speed of it was…
Operating ROBBAS
ROBBAS was the Retail Online Branch Banking Alarm System which State Bank Victoria used. It supported approx. 550 bank branches in Victoria. It ran on an old Perkin-Elmer system. The…
SymmTime – World Time Clock software
SymmTime is a free multi-time zone clock I use to keep track of the different time zones of people I work with. It sits on my computer desktop. Update December…
Some shared IT items.
The Athens Affair By Vassilis Prevelakis and Diomidis Spinellis How some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever Social Engineering, the USB Way Those thumb drives…
Surfing the seedy side – Part 2
Back in February 2006 I wrote about Internet Explorer and the index.dat file. Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has a "Delete Browsing History" option which leads to the screen on the…
Over one million items! The Unclaimed Baggage Centre
Something you can say about the USA is that things are so much bigger. Ever wondered where unclaimed baggage goes to? In the USA, it can end up in the…
Life is not fair … get used to it.
1. Life is not fair. Get used to it. 7. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure, so he tends…
And we sold it – Telecom Australia
Telstra doesn't do research anymore, they closed the Telecom Research Labs in January 2006. That's the sort of thing which happens when you privatise public assets. "It's your was your…