November 2011
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Keyboard
End user: Is there an issue accessing folders at the moment?
Me: No, what's the problem?
End user: The properties window keeps comes up when I go into a folder.
Me: OK, I see. Is there anything resting on your keyboard?
End user: Ah, yes.
I've been in this game long enough to know when a stuck key interferes with the status-quo.
Nov 10th
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July 2010
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Jul 8th
June 2010
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Upsetting the Apple cart
When it comes to opinions about Apple or their products on Twitter, the general consensus seems to be that only positive opinions are permitted. Negative views are shot down in flames, and owners of those opinions are interrogated in order to quantify their thoughts. It appears one could easily disagree, unchallenged, about a general political issue, or the war in Iraq; but to speak ill of...
Jun 8th
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May 2010
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May 7th
February 2010
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Feb 14th
December 2009
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Comments on Frog
I recently visited a local school website, and discovered (via the rather prominent link in the footer) that it was powered by Frog. Frog is a learning platform for schools - a bit like a web content management system but for learning resources, attendance data, grades and so on; but can also power a front-end website. Being the curious web person that I am, I investigated the source code of the...
Dec 18th
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Dec 14th
There's no more confusion
It’s all in the detail. Random message landed in my Facebook Inbox, I couldn’t resist engaging in a bit of dialogue. Them: Hi Craig, I am fron Honduras, do you study medicine? Cheers! J Me: Hi J I am from the UK, and yes! I *do* study medicine! How did you know? It really is a fascinating subject. Thanks! C Them: Hi Craig! I did find you at Mcom fans!.. I do study medicine too, In...
Dec 8th
October 2009
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Oct 17th
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A Cunning Plan
We have 8 Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers. Some of them are for our forthcoming RM CC4 network, and some have active roles in the current network. Two of them were purchased before the rest, and use 3.5” hard drives rather than the newer 2.5” disks that the rest have. All servers were bought with 2x 70GB disks and configured for RAID1. We wish to make the most out of the servers and...
Oct 15th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 9th
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Oct 4th