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Management not happy when bugs found but Windows better work & daft EDS int
2007-06-13 12:51:00 You wouldn’t believe the number of people in IT that hate software being tested. Yet some of these same people that grumble about Windows being as user friendly as a cornered rat and as stable as a large ship hitting a big white thing are also the very people who hate the process of testing software when ... More About: Management , Work , Bugs , Happy
10 Apple Safari problems, including slower than IE6
2007-06-12 15:11:00 These are the listed problems made by commentators to Scott Hanselman’s Computerzen.com blog: Frequent crashes on many sites, apart from Apple .com, and many are rendered wrong Crashes on Windows authentication sites Back button on mouse doesn’t work Font smoothing is wonky Awful UI No tooltips available Menus missing or totally useless No title text Pages frequently stall mid load Slow er than Internet Explorer 6 Hmmm…better have a ... More About: Safari , Problems , Lowe
Wordpress.com site hits return, found under a rock
2007-06-12 09:36:00 Yesterday my blog, hosted by Wordpress .com - www.crunchysoftware.wordpress.com - started breathing again, in other words site hits were being accumulated after 10 days of being in the wilderness. It seems to be cyclic as my site hits dried up 4-5 weeks ago then inexplicably suddenly returned. It’s like someone has unplugged a jammed pipe. All the ... More About: Rock , Site , Return , Hits
Another snappy titled Microsoft product, Windows Live
2007-06-11 11:55:00 I was listening to a podcast this morning and these guys were talking about some Microsoft services under the label Windows Live . It was a bit confusing and that was admitted by one of the presenters who is a bit of a Microsoft watcher. Thought I’d do a bit of research into this Windows Live stuff ... More About: Product
Ads on blog, eeerrrrmmmmm
2007-06-09 20:21:00 I signed up with Commission Junction, hence all the ads on the blog. Dunno if I’ve done the right thing as the ads seem to be taking over. Or is it that I am letting them take over. Anyway they’ve certainly made the page a bit brighter. Seeing all of these name brands make me feel ... More About: Blog , Errr
Why 15 year olds are so great at computers
2007-06-09 17:44:00 A teacher I know was telling me how great school kids are at computers, and I’m sure some of them are. The teacher, I get the feeling, isn’t so hot on PC’s so when he see’s 15 year olds bashing away at PC’s very confidentally and nineteen to the dozen he’s convinced they’re all little geniuses. It ... More About: Computers , Great , Year
Making sense of Wordpress hit counts, can?t
2007-06-08 12:01:00 I’ve been trying to make sense of the Wordpress blog stats and I can’t. The running daily total seems to stick at a number for hours at a time. This is even after I have posted some tripe and uploaded it to Digg and Reddit which always generates hits. I also have referrers from ask.com, search.live.com, ... More About: Sense , Ense , Count , Sens
Belkin 802.11g adapter works in Vista, no thanks to Belkin
2007-06-06 18:27:00 I bought a Belkin 802.11g USB wireless adapter to replace the D-Link that had failed. Thought I would wait till I got home before I checked whether it was Vista compatible (Idiot. Ed). Needless to say it wasn’t. But then neither was the 18 month old D-Link and that had worked. I tried installing the driver first, as ... More About: Works , Thanks , Adapter , Hank
Wireless adapter goes broke, Veesta impersonates XP
2007-06-06 11:05:00 My D-Link USB wireless adapter stopped working yesterday and gave Vista a bit of a runaround in the process. The PC booted OK but wouldn’t connect to the Internet but would connect to the home network which is strange as it never has before. Well it said it would and the adapter send/receive light was blinking away ... More About: Wireless , Less , Person , Adapter , Persona
Is the iPhone compatible with Vista or will it get trashed when syncing lik
2007-06-05 16:44:00 The iPhone probably is compatible as Apple could hardly release it at the end of the month otherwise. Something to think about though. I’ve been getting some adverts setup both for this blog and the self-hosted version. The good thing about the self-hosted version is that you can use javascript on it, unlike the wordpress.com version. ... More About: Iphone , Vista , Sync , Trash
Last place to store critical info is the PC
2007-06-04 12:07:00 I wrote the other day how someone I know was having trouble getting her PSP to connect to the Internet because she no longer knew her WEP key and it got me thinking about all this (God help us. Ed). You get a router, setup the software on the PC’s, enter the WEP key and bingo, everything’s tickety-boo. ... More About: Info , Store , Place , Lace , Crit
Outlook Contacts problem won?t go away, let Veeesta have a look at
2007-06-04 11:07:00 Outlook’s Contacts are still mangled in that what I see in the Contacts folder is not what is displayed when clicking on the To field when writing an email. I did a search for .pst files and found several and two were being used. They both had the same time-stamp. That didn’t make sense. All of ... More About: Outlook , Problem , Away , Look
Hits drying up again, BT Dutch boss talks gibberish
2007-06-01 14:35:00 I have noticed that my site hits have virtually dried up. This happened back in April when between 13th - 30th April. On the 1st May the site hits started getting a lot better again till 25th May when they have slumped again. This is nothing to do with the daily slow down between 9am and ... More About: Boss , Dutch , Hits
Hits drying up again, BT Dutch boss talks gibberish
2007-06-01 14:35:00 I have noticed that my site hits have virtually dried up. This happened back in April when between 13th - 30th April. On the 1st May the site hits started getting a lot better again till 25th May when they have slumped again. This is nothing to do with the daily slow down between 9am and ... More About: Boss , Dutch , Hits
Missing WEP key stops PSP connecting, users don?t wanna write stuff down
2007-06-01 12:09:00 Someone I know was having trouble getting their PlayStation Portable to connect to the Internet the other day and was desperate enough to ask me for some help (They were desperate. Ed). When I saw the PSP screen it said that it had not been able to get an IP address. Turns out that when it ... More About: Write , Stuff , Stops , Missing , Users
Missing WEP key stops PSP connecting, users don?t wanna write stuff down
2007-06-01 12:09:00 Someone I know was having trouble getting their PlayStation Portable to connect to the Internet the other day and was desperate enough to ask me for some help (They were desperate. Ed). When I saw the PSP screen it said that it had not been able to get an IP address. Turns out that when it ... More About: Write , Stuff , Stops , Missing , Users
Outlook address book still bust and writing DVD?s with DVD Architect
2007-05-31 09:58:00 Well I made the changes to Outlook to try and get the Contact addresses usable in email that I previously mentioned. And did it worked? Did it hell. Amended the default address book to Contacts which was set to being an address book and no joy. No doubt if I ran System File Check, a couple of ... More About: Writing , Book , Bust , Archi
Outlook address book still bust and writing DVD?s with DVD Architect
2007-05-31 09:58:00 Well I made the changes to Outlook to try and get the Contact addresses usable in email that I previously mentioned. And did it worked? Did it hell. Amended the default address book to Contacts which was set to being an address book and no joy. No doubt if I ran System File Check, a couple of ... More About: Writing , Book , Bust , Address
Dead hand stops work & PS3 Internet setup
2007-05-30 10:00:00 I have been waiting for the new test environment for weeks and it still isn’t on the horizon. Man, these people work slow. The Dead Hand of the DBA, in a move to preserve his position, is stopping anything happening. The excuse for this non-productiveness is always something pitiful like a missing cable. Well that may have ... More About: Internet , Work , Setup , Stops
Dead hand stops work & PS3 Internet setup
2007-05-30 10:00:00 I have been waiting for the new test environment for weeks and it still isn’t on the horizon. Man, these people work slow. The Dead Hand of the DBA, in a move to preserve his position, is stopping anything happening. The excuse for this non-productiveness is always something pitiful like a missing cable. Well that may have ... More About: Internet , Work , Setup , Stops
Outlook address book and photo?s not syncing from Treo to PC
2007-05-30 09:23:00 I’ve been having an ongoing problem with both Outlook ’s Address Book and a new problem with photo’s taken on the Treo not being sync’d with the PC. Thought if I tried to describe them as an entry here then by the very act of trying to explain the problem I might understand the problems better myself. I’ve even resorted ... More About: Photo , Sync
Outlook address book and photo?s not syncing from Treo to PC
2007-05-30 09:23:00 I’ve been having an ongoing problem with both Outlook ’s Address Book and a new problem with photo’s taken on the Treo not being sync’d with the PC. Thought if I tried to describe them as an entry here then by the very act of trying to explain the problem I might understand the problems better myself. I’ve even resorted ... More About: Photo , Sync
CloneDVD registered at last & playing non-HD DVD?s on Blu-Ray, jeez that?s
2007-05-29 10:24:00 Got another email from Slysoft the other day regarding the non working license key for CloneDVD. Didn’t have the heart to give it another try till today and it worked. The previous license key/registration file they had sent would not update the registry as it was not a registry updating kinda file. What would have made it ... More About: That , Register , Lone , Regis , Stere
CloneDVD registered at last & playing non-HD DVD?s on Blu-Ray, jeez that?s
2007-05-29 10:24:00 Got another email from Slysoft the other day regarding the non working license key for CloneDVD. Didn’t have the heart to give it another try till today and it worked. The previous license key/registration file they had sent would not update the registry as it was not a registry updating kinda file. What would have made it ... More About: That , Register , Lone , Regis , Stere
Testing derivatives, Windows 2008 built from command line & tester that ref
2007-05-25 15:26:00 Just saw a terrific position up in the city testing derivatives. Can’t think of anything better, testing one-on-one with the developer and user really complex processing. Real agile stuff. They even want SQL, Test Director and Unix, which is perfect for me. No point in phoning up about it as there will be a little ... More About: Windows , Testing , Indo , That , Window
Testing derivatives, Windows 2008 built from command line & tester that ref
2007-05-25 10:26:00 Just saw a terrific position up in the city testing derivatives. Can’t think of anything better, testing one-on-one with the developer and user really complex processing. Real agile stuff. They even want SQL, Test Director and Unix, which is perfect for me. No point in phoning up about it as there will be a little ... More About: Windows , Testing , That , Window , Line
Testing derivatives, Windows 2008 built from command line & tester that ref
2007-05-25 10:26:00 Just saw a terrific position up in the city testing derivatives. Can’t think of anything better, testing one-on-one with the developer and user really complex processing. Real agile stuff. They even want SQL, Test Director and Unix, which is perfect for me. No point in phoning up about it as there will be a little ... More About: Windows , Testing , Indo , That , Window
Registering CloneDVD not very well & trailers for Call of Duty 4 & Die Hard
2007-05-24 15:52:00 The registration process for AnyDVD worked OK. This was via a registry edit file which makes everything fine and dandy. Not so the registration process for Clone DVD. The file they have sent isn’t even a .reg file so how the heck is that going to update the registry. I did open the file with Notepad and ... More About: Trailers , Hard , Die Hard , Call
Registering CloneDVD not very well & trailers for Call of Duty 4 & Die Hard
2007-05-24 10:28:00 The registration process for AnyDVD worked OK. This was via a registry edit file which makes everything fine and dandy. Not so the registration process for Clone DVD. The file they have sent isn’t even a .reg file so how the heck is that going to update the registry. I did open the file with Notepad and ... More About: Trailers , Hard , Die Hard , Call
Registering CloneDVD not very well & trailers for Call of Duty 4 & Die Hard
More articles from this author:2007-05-24 10:28:00 The registration process for AnyDVD worked OK. This was via a registry edit file which makes everything fine and dandy. Not so the registration process for CloneDVD. The file they have sent isn’t even a .reg file so how the heck is that going to update the registry. I did open the file with Notepad and ... More About: Trailers , Hard , Die Hard , Call , Rail 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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