Hitting the Panic Button
"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…
"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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…