IT Werkz SometimesIT Werkz SometimesThe joys of booting software around the park before letting the hapless user have a look at it Articles
Slimy agent, what industry was he in last week & listening to Internet radi
2007-07-13 10:42:00 An agent contacted me the other day about some contracts and he really did know what he was talking about, refreshing. He was obviously involved in development once as we had a yak about UNIX and other stuff. I spoke to another agent earlier in the week and he was positively slimy. He had a requirement ... More About: Internet , Agent , Industry , Week , Intern
Setting up Internet radio, hope I haven?t got a usage limit
2007-07-11 20:58:00 Got an Internet radio today - Logik IR 100 - and setting that up was predictably fun. It was only £42 ($84) which was half price. I don’t think Internet radio has taken off too well, hence cheap. I’m not sure many people even know what it is. This is a great alternative to a DAB ... More About: Radio , Hope , Usage
XP rebuild due soon & relying on Vista
2007-07-11 11:52:00 I’ve managed to get my Outlook email and the address book onto the Vista machine via the .pst file so sooner or later will be able to rebuild the XP machine with the recovery DVD. I have to assume, rather negatively, that the rebuild may go wrong so I need to feel good about the state of the ...
Forums, more daft questions please
2007-07-10 16:34:00 Visited the SQA Forums yesterday and stuck up half a dozen entries of which half were removed by el modo. This has happened several times in the past and no doubt will happen again in the future. I’m sure I’m not the only person who has their entries removed by the fearsome moderators. I think some of ... More About: Questions , Daft , Lease , Ease
iTunes 7.3 can?t save own library, gets annoyed and deletes own files inste
2007-07-09 09:50:00 I glibly upgraded iTunes to 7.3 the other day and was that a glib thing to do on a very glib day. You betcha it was. Yesterday having uninstalled a buncha stuff on the XP machine, I started iTunes only to have a message displayed that iTunes had lost some of its files and couldn’t run. ... More About: Pod , Apple , Itunes , Library , Files
Deep Log Analyzer screws own schema and trying to fix it on Vista
2007-07-06 20:43:00 Started up Deep Log Analyzer on the Vista machine and it had shot its own schema in the foot and refused to start, great. Googled for the error message to no avail so decided to uninstall it. As soon as that started and I had confirmed that yes I really did want to uninstall Deep Log ... More About: Crew , Chem
Microsoft to release defect list with Vista SP1
2007-07-05 12:53:00 Microsoft today announced that with the upcoming release of Vista ’s SP1 they would also be releasing a defect list of known bugs in the Vista operating system. What chance is there of that? Absolutely none. But if they did release one then what would you get for your buck? A list of the known bugs in the originally ... More About: Microsoft , List , Release , Lease
Loading an XP Outlook .pst file into Vista & User Access Control
2007-07-05 11:22:00 I’ve been trying to import Outlook ’s .pst file from the XP machine to the Vista machine and that is definitely easier said than done. When importing I get a file permission error. This is all bound up in the Vista User Access Control software which reads like a royal pain. Did some research to see how ... More About: File
Oh that?s why it takes 11 months to build a test environment, Mr Magoo outd
2007-07-04 14:15:00 I was going on about our pseudo DBA that has trouble building systems and I have just seen the light. I noticed that he has a cup on his desk labelled ICL. Now that name might not mean too much to you as it was a British computer company that fell apart a few years ago. ... More About: Environment , Test , Build , Magoo , Iron
IE7 stopping Adsense ads and some give away money from day traders
2007-07-04 11:17:00 I’ve been trying to make sense of the ad statistics provided by Commission Junction and they are very comprehensive. Haven’t a clue what they are pointing at though. Somebody that’s got a degree in marketing would probably understand them in a second then have a laugh at the pitiful numbers. Who knows. Using Vista in anger is getting ... More About: Adsense , Money , Traders , Give , Away
BT?s new FTP server needs old password and Mr Magoo tries to build a test e
2007-07-03 10:52:00 I was setting up an FTP client on Vista and got FTP access to 1and1 working OK but with BT it failed as we have been moved to a new server. Checked the BT web site, found the server name but it wouldn’t connect. Phoned up the BT support number and the support guy didn’t really ... More About: Password , Server , Test , Build , Sword
Aggressive banks firing line, come back in 6 months & Windows with no windo
2007-07-02 14:33:00 I was talking to someone the other day who has in the last 6 months started working for a large US bank, one of those places where it seems so many of the staff are always bordering on being angry and as soon as you arrive you are on your way out (Sounds like a nice ... More About: Windows , Banks , Back , Line , Months
Migrating to Veesta, not much works
2007-06-29 13:47:00 My XP machine is creaking a lot these days so I have been thinking about putting my life in my hands and considering moving all my essential apps to Veesta and starting over with the XP machine. My usual way of doing this is to install all of the essential apps on the new machine and ... More About: Works
PS3 connecting to Internet, DNS found & trying to surf without a keyboard
2007-06-29 13:45:00 Had another go at connecting up the PS3 to the Intern et and this time succeeded. Rather than use the Easy connection option I went for the Custom option which allows you to enter all of the IP addresses, including Primary and Secondary DNS’s. I was OK with the PS3 IP address, as well as the subnet ... More About: Surf , Keyboard , Connect
Connecting the PS3 to the Internet, works with IP addresses, DNS? fergeddab
2007-06-28 16:03:00 I got the PS3 connected to the Intern et yesterday and the first thing it did was upgrade the operating system. After downloading the upgrade it did warn me that whilst it was installing the upgrade not to switch the PS3 off as it could bust the PS3. So what would happen if you had a power ... More About: Works , The Internet , Connect
Install something, knocks over Internet connection, rely on non-auto start
2007-06-27 17:58:00 Awhile back I installed something on the XP machine and it knocked out my internet connection. Did some digging around to no avail so eventually went to reinstall the BT client which I had a CD for. Except that it was lost, not something that I usually do. Before I got a new disc I used ... More About: Internet , Connection , Auto , Start , Connect
How not to use Test Director and some quality QA people
2007-06-26 15:24:00 Why Mercury has changed the name of Test Director to the flimsy sounding Quality Centre beats me. Maybe they think that by calling it Quality Centre they will give prospective customers the idea that confronting their software with the newly named Quality Centre will push it out of the back with a shiny new quality sheen. ... More About: People , Not to Us
Why do we need defect clusters at all? & iTunes losing bought music
2007-06-25 11:03:00 I was reading a thread in a testing forum which started “I wanted to know about how we can use defect clustering principle? How can we obtain defect clusters?”. With that as the opening question I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at the ensuing threads confusion. The moderator did a good job of straightening this question ... More About: Music , Itunes , Clusters , Tune , Cluster
Someone?s out of their mind, Doctor learns to send email
2007-06-22 19:41:00 We have a guy at work who most people think is a brick short of a load. Now this guy is not stupid. He has a PhD in computer science and if you ask him about a UNIX command he will give you the perfect answer with the complete command line (Why not just use the man command? Ed). He thrashes ... More About: Email , Mind , Send , Doctor , Some
Exploratory testing, play with it till it breaks?
2007-06-22 15:01:00 I keep reading about this exploratory testing stuff and how more formal testers have trouble practicing this new black art. When I was a developer we never had test plans when I was doing unit testing. I just played with it till it busts, then fixed it. Then when I started system testing I performed similar ... More About: Play , Testing , Breaks , Tory , Brea
Misunderstanding testing concepts at SQAforums, who?d be a moderator?
2007-06-21 10:45:00 I rediscovered SQAforums.com the other day, which is a forum for discussing testing subjects, and man is that good value for money. It’s not so much a discussion forum as a generator of confusion. Some of the invoked threads are more like begging letters for knowledge, others are written in barely understandable English and a few are ... More About: Concepts , Testing , Once , Concept , Understand
Today a cook, tomorrow a recruitment consultant, no kidding
2007-06-20 14:36:00 I was talking to this French guy the other day and when he found out I was in IT he told me how surprised he was that his brother, who was in catering, wanted to jump ship and change industry and get into IT. There’s nothing surprising about that but what was surprising was that he ... More About: Consultant , Kidding , Today , Cook , Tomorrow
Solutions providers corporate thuggery & Deep Log Analyser
2007-06-20 11:14:00 The spinny Solutions Provider that a friend of mine works for have decided to shed some staff. Bit odd that they are doing that bearing in mind it was only a couple of months ago that they were on a major recruitment drive. Suppose you could say that they are getting rid of some dead wood ... More About: Corporate , Deep , Hugger
How come site visit stats from different counters are never the same?
2007-06-19 16:13:00 How come site visit statistics from different counters never show the same number of visits? And they never do. You could put six counters on a site and within days the numbers of visits will not be the same. What’s worse is that quite often the counter writers try and justify it. I just came across the following ... More About: Site , Stats , Visi , Count , Visit
Do Apache log files include all site visits? & Google Analytics attempts at
2007-06-19 10:45:00 I ran the test yesterday where I visited my own blog’s pages at specific times of the day, which were noted, so as to check that all visits were recorded on the log file. And were they? Yup. Everything showed up like where I expected them to. So confidence has been restored with regard to the ... More About: Google , Apache , Site , Google Analytics , Analytics
Testing log files, if known visits aren?t recorded what?s next?
2007-06-18 12:41:00 Thought I do the dreaded blog log file test to see if the raw log file does contain my visit hits. Lord knows what I’m supposed to do if my visits to my own blog entries aren’t recorded. To do this test I’ll find out what my IP address is and then at each hour of today ... More About: Testing , Files , Visi , Record , Visit
Viewing blog log files, lot of visits Sitemeter misses
2007-06-16 12:54:00 I’ve been having a look at the own hosted blog log files, which are as user friendly as a cornered rat, but do provide a lot of site visit statistics. It shows IP addresses of site visitors and there are a lot. What you have to try and figure out is which ones are for browsed ... More About: Blog , Files , Visi , Visit , Viewing
Wordpress stats are a mess, can?t count, won?t count
2007-06-15 16:28:00 I’ve noticed all sorts of hit count problems recently on the Wordpress version of this blog. Seems that visits to the page are not incrementing the hit count, one by one, consistently. But then it’s free so what do I expect. It was reasonably consistent till about 4-5 weeks ago but since then they’ve been up and down like a ... More About: Stats , Count , Stat , Mess
Interviewing Business Analysts, IT experience is required
2007-06-14 10:12:00 A friend of mine, who works for a solutions provider, (Have solutions providers got anything to do with IT? Ed) was interviewing someone for a Business Analyst position the other day. This was one of those horrible telephone interviews and lasted an hour. Eventually the interviewer wound up the interview and had already decided that the interviewee ... More About: Experience , Viewing , Peri
Two test consultants, could talk it but not walk it
More articles from this author:2007-06-13 14:39:00 I was working with a couple of testing consultants a few years ago and they were great at consulting but hopeless at testing. They’d been working on the project for a couple of months before I turned up but a lot of the documentation they’d pumped out so far was pretty worthless. Great high-level documentation type stuff ... More About: Talk , Test , Consultants , Walk , Cons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
|
 |
|
 |
