The Western Digital “My Passport” External Drive
DaleUpdate: Thinking of buying one? Don't, they suck. The Western Digital “My Digital” External Hard Drive pictured right, is my latest IT purchase. The reason I went for a WD…
“Man invented fire here”
I’ve done a bit of programming over the years, and I’m currently working with a Visual Basic 6 (VB6) code base. I’ve found the following quotation so true: It is…
So Outlook 2003 and 2007 store the email account details there.
Which you need to know BEFORE you rebuild your PC. (So you can take a backup copy of it). Not that obvious until you need to know where to find…
When people ask what I do, I say
“Help people with computers”. It’s easier than trying to explain operating system deployment: I actually work in SOE development, support and deployment.
BlackBerry Email Reconciliation timers
We had a user asking about read/unread marks not updating on their BlackBerry device. The advice from Research In Motion: There are two separate timers in play which determine when…
Sitemaps generation
When I was setting up blog.wisefaq.com, I needed a way to generate a Sitemap. A Sitemap is an easy way for a website owner to tell a search engine, like…
“One of these things is not the same as the others.”
When I was growing up, that was a game on Sesame Street. It’s the same with Mobile/cell phone & PDA earpiece attachments: The sharp eyed amongst you will have noticed…
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…
“Forget this: Treat other people the way they’d like to be treated.”
There’s some sage advice in this BusinessWeek article by Peter Bregman Because the world is more global and organizations are more diverse, the likelihood we will interact with people very…