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I was just catching up on some of my RSS feeds, and noticed that one of the pages I was at didn't have a broken page icon, but wasn't working quite right (some broken javascript in the photos area, I'm guessing... I'll investigate that next). I wondered
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After what seems like a drought of epic proportions, the holiday releases are gradually going to thump their way out. Yay! What I'm looking forward to: Fallout 3 - once again, the Australian OFLC needs an R rating for interactive entertainment. I watched
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Analuze: verb 1. A pointless analysis, as in "I'll analuze those logs if you really want me to, but the problem's not visible at that level" 2. A very difficult analysis: "You really, really want me to analuze that?" 3. A typo when
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Yes Atwood, it was you that drove me to this . "This power savings is achieved by dropping the CPU multiplier..." Gish! So I did a little digging to see whether I was alone in having the (vast unkempt) tufts of hair on my (manly) back try to
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(This post brought to you by the number 3, and the letters WHY AM I NOT SLEEPING?) It's been a while - and suddenly: Pow! (and did I mention ooh?) A new Foldershare website ! Has the feel of SkyDrive to it. And a big, prominent beta logo. Wonder if that
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My Top Tips series* commences with the only not-really-computery tip I have to share: The Y-Wing. Are you sick of losing whiteboard markers ? I was! We all were ! In the turbulent, fast-paced environment that every-minute-counts problem solving creates,
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I read items like this with interest. After recently flattening, installing, rebuilding or migrating a bunch of machines, I started to develop my "minimum customized set" that makes my life on a Windows box more comfortable. Jeff blogged a while back
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WS08 Workstation, Anyone? Apart from those pesky Live applications that won't install (why would anyone ever blog from a Server OS, as I'm doing now? Beats me...), I've had a relatively good run with Windows Server 2008 (x64, naturally) as my desktop
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A new year, another new laptop, incorporating the lessons learned from last time . Interesting choice of nomenclature for the new Dell tablet range. <memory lane> My first PC (mostly-)compatible was an XT-class machine . I think we got it in 1988,
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Back in the day, software used to be quite cheap around here for employees. Then, due to a confluence of unfortunate factors, all involving complicated acronyms (like FBT), Aussie 'softies started paying what could be politely described as unspectacular
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Okay, so there's no interest here, but perhaps an anthology anyway. Yes I've been gone a while; another computer packed it in (this time without my own personal brand of assistance ), I've been off to India (usually 5.5 hrs difference from Sydney, but
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For years now: I have been opening the Plantronics headset boxes of people that have annoyingly loud phone voices. I have been surreptitiously turning the input volume up as far as it will go. As it seems nobody knows the input volume control is there
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Due to one of my hosters changing their hosting policy, and the other having unspecified ongoing difficulties with Sharepoint site provisioning, my Kerb troubleshooting Wiki is down for the count, for now. It's still cached in search engines, though.
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Yes, perhaps my friends are right. Or perhaps they're just not nice people. Oh, enough with the trying-to-suspend-the-tension thing, I'm of course talking about my desk phone (a venerable Meridian thingo) being replaced with a Catalina USB phone as part
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Fans of this blog - of whom there are at least six (see mum? 100% up on last year, despite the lack of official updates) - will know that I hold a special place in my heart for October, or as the cool kids like to call it, ROCKtober. Why does October
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