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Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 28 September, 1996 10:00

MSN comes in to say hello. We struggle manfully to get our guests a telephone line, and then nod wisely as the Great New Plan is unveiled. The MSN client software is being ditched in favour of totally Webbed content. With CompuServe saying that the same fate awaits the less-than-loved WinCIM, this leaves AOL all out on its lonesome once again. MSN's business model is that the company sells you Internet access... Read more

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 21 September, 1996 10:00

To the Cumberland Hotel, where a floor has been set aside for a xDSL conference. xDSL covers an entire hoard of acronyms Read more

Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 14 September, 1996 10:00

Much giggling in the office at the news that NT 4.0 Workstation and NT 4.0 Server are exactly the same bit of software and you can switch from one to the other by changing a couple of registry entries. Tut tut, Microsoft. Not that there's anything wrong in marketing stuff in that way, but when you've heard so much about how Server is hugely optimised and special and nobody should consider running anything at all... Read more

Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 7 September, 1996 10:00

One of the delights of being a computer journalist is that people assume you know the answer to everything silicon. At one extreme, this leads to the I'm Off Duty syndrome: for example, the barman at the Bunch of Grapes overheard a conversation I was having one evening, and subsequently brought along a sheaf of listings to demonstrate a problem he was having with his LaserJet and Word for Windows. I knew nothing... Read more

Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 31 August, 1996 10:00

Bank Holiday. Time for all sensible types to loll around in the hot sun, sipping cold beer... which is why I'm in The Flying Vicar's (see last week) front room, busily explaining how frames work in Microsoft Publisher. MS Publisher is one of the most usable programs we've seen at PC Magazine -- we've given it various prizes for its usability, and compared to some of the infinitely painful rubbish to which we... Read more

Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 23 August, 1996 18:24

Monday morning. What a relief. Have spent most of the weekend recovering from Friday's Gary Numan V96 warmup gig, held down in a shed in Chelsea. It was a big shed, but very loud nonetheless... devotees of the pasty-faced one can catch my write-up on the Numan mailing list. Not that this is something I'd admit to 30 million people on the World Wide Web... What? Oh...

Milling around in the bar before the show, I... Read more

Rupert Goodwins Weekend Diary

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 10 August, 1996 10:00

Oh dear. One of the more pleasant aspects of this job is the steady stream of Stupid Things that turn up in the post from public relations companies and their clients. Nobody's quite sure why they do this, and nobody can ever remember which bits from which companies are supposed to make us think of which products. On my desk as I write this are a cheap pair of sunglasses from HP (or was it Sun?), a... Read more

Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 2 August, 1996 18:34

Any week that starts with me having to rip the top off my PC is not going to go smoothly, but, nevertheless, have great fun with a new video card, Motion Picture from Advanced Technologies Manufacturing Ltd. This is a UK company who's previously done stuff for Acorn computers in the educational sector - don't get me started on Acorn - but is now branching out to Windows, PCs and other, more common markets. To my... Read more

Rupert Goodwins' Saturday Diary

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 27 July, 1996 10:07

Email addresses: seven. E-mail messages: 168. Not good. Muse miserably about being "Technical Editor (Online)"; everyone sends you free accounts for their Internet services, which is good. Almost none support E-mail forwarding, which is bad. If I ever have to move away from my main private E-mail address, I doubt I'll be able to leave a forwarding address. I'll vanish from the online world as cleanly as if I'd... Read more

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