How Animals Grieve
DaleCurrently reading "How Animals Grieve", mainly because it was recommended to me by a couple of people, and one of those people lent me a copy ... Which is the…
We needed a First-name & Initial list.
For a group attendance list. For Privacy reasons we can’t list of the attendees full-name, but their first name and last name initial was considered private enough. The Excel function…
Her love shines over my horizon, she’s a slice of heaven
I have missed Nikki every day since she passed in September 2012. Things got a lot better as time went on. There are still triggers which will bring a tear…
“Have you ever noticed that pictures that have been synced into an iPod, an iPhone or an iPad cannot be accessed nor copied back to a computer?”
Or if you delete files on your computer by mistake, and want to retrieve your backup copy from your iPhone/iPad, you find you can’t. A little program called DiskAid will…
My user account is trying to logon another system and I don’t know why!
A customer reported that while they were using their computer, their user account was trying to logon to another system (CRAGGYISLAND) and they wanted to know why. In technical speak,…
Victorian, Learner Drivers, Stages and getting 120 hours.
I was on a course recently learning about how to supervise Learner Drivers. Victorian Learner Drivers need 120 hours of supervised driving before they can graduate onto a Provisional Driver…
Internet Explorer Compatibility Mode
“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…