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Hitting the Panic Button

Dale September 22, 2006 0 Comments

"Bong! Bong! Bong!" goes Windows Messenger. "Ring! Ring! Ring!" goes the phone. Yes, my boss has hit the PANIC BUTTON. Seems we have a customer having some Windows XP SP1…

It's A Bug Security Windows

MS06-049 for Windows 2000 SP4 causes data lost.

Dale September 17, 2006 0 Comments

From Slashbot: "It looks like there is a problem with the recently released MS06-049 / KB920958 patch. If you have compression activated on any folder, then the compressed data is…

Personal

Hover Bovver

Dale August 5, 2006 0 Comments

My favorite computer game? Hover Bovver for the Commodore 64. Whenever I hear the "English Country Garden" tune, I think back to Hover Bovver. It was a silly game which…

Last Job Psychic Troubleshooting Stories Win9x

Windows 95 – We still have customers running it.

Dale July 10, 2006 0 Comments

A Windows 95 bootscreen. (A Windows 95B boot screen to be precise.) Now I rarely get to touch customer PCs these days, as I'm not in an ""operational"" support area.…

Humour Project Management

Six Phases Of The Project.

Dale June 13, 2006 0 Comments

ENTHUSIASM DISILLUSIONMENT PANIC SEARCH for the GUILTY PUNISHMENT of the INNOCENT PRAISE and HONOURS for the NON-PARTICIPANTS ... as seen on a notice board many years ago. Things in Information…

Humour Last Job Resignation

Out of Office message: Employee 23279 has left the building

Dale May 21, 2006 0 Comments

Once received this from someone I emailed at another company. -~-~-~-~-~-~ I will be out of the office starting 23/12/2005 and will not return until 31/12/2099. Hi there, If you’ve…

Beta Testing Vista Windows

Better to have and not need… – on self reliance, and the lack of, these days

Dale April 2, 2006 0 Comments

Spent the last day looking at Windows Vista Beta 2. It's amazingly stable for a Beta program. Things I don't like: * Office update doesn't work * Some programs which…

How To Internet Filtering Security Utilities

Surfing the seedy side…

Dale February 13, 2006 2 Comments

So you're surfed the seedy side of the 'net and you want to remove the evidence. This means you would have done at least the following with Internet Explorer: Delete…

Utilities

What is RSS? (answer: something which will save you time)

Dale February 12, 2006 0 Comments

RSS is a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by news websites and weblogs. They are used to provide items containing short descriptions of web content together…

How To Security

Patching 10,000 PCs – How I used to do it.

Dale January 11, 2006 0 Comments

One of my job functions is IT Security, and patch deployment. Actually, I don't do much IT Security these days, for which I'm glad. Security patch deployment is something I…

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