Tip for installing Windows 7 : update your BIOS first.
DaleWindows 7 uses your BIOS version to determine what hardware drivers should be downloaded to your PC. So updating my BIOS is one of the first things I do before…
Best Friend Holiday Retreat
We recently had a 2 day break at Tarra Valley, and stayed at the Best Friend Holiday Retreat. It was magic. Here are some of the things Nikki, Robyn and…
Microsoft commits to releasing Outlook PST format
This is big news, particularly if you’ve ever tried to convert an OST file to a PST file. … In order to facilitate interoperability and enable customers and vendors to…
So you can’t boot from your CD/DVD drive?
I was watching someone install Windows XP on a system with SATA drives the other day. The PC would power up, look briefly at the CD/DVD drive, and then carry…
Occupational Health & Safety
In Victoria, an injury in the workplace does include "health" includes psychological health Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, section 5 Definitions. I never knew that until recently. In a…
Get it wrong to get it right.
I wasn't entirely surprised to learn that some academic has learnt that people who make a mistake, learn their subject better. No surprise there. There are occupations where most of…
Geranium from the garden
Gardening Australia: Geranium
“Drift in cars.”
If you like this, you might like some of the other Motorcycling posts.
“Mouth more closed.”
Enterprise desktop support is a mindset. If you’ve never done it, it’s likely you’ll not understand the issues of how things scale. A solution for 5 PCs may not scale…
Children in chimneys
In a discussion about what is acceptable behaviour in the workplace: “In the past we used to send children up chimneys to clean them as well.”