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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I have lived through strange times. No, not that - and if anyone still thinks www.ourfirsttime.com is legit, I have genuine pictures of Bill Clinton studying Exodus 20:14 for sale - but your first time on the Net?
[July 18, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I have lived through strange times. No, not that - and if anyone still thinks www.ourfirsttime.com is legit, I have genuine pictures of Bill Clinton studying Exodus 20:14 for sale - but your first time on the Net?
[July 18, 1998, 7:00]
Why Dilbert Loves The Internet
News I noticed you have a subscription service set up I thought that sounded like fun because they have a zillion people go to their site and some of them would click on it and end up at the Dilbert site or sign up for Dilbert by e-mail.
[June 4, 2002, 7:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Which I have, and a floppy drive to boot. What I don't have is the cable connecting the floppy with the laptop. I have with me a cool 300MHz PII laptop and the very latest USB modem. As the launch for Jini unfolds, I realise that the technology...
[January 30, 1999, 8:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Which I have, and a floppy drive to boot. What I don't have is the cable connecting the floppy with the laptop. I have with me a cool 300MHz PII laptop and the very latest USB modem. As the launch for Jini unfolds, I realise that the technology...
[January 30, 1999, 8:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News When he tries to drop a graphic onto the page (after I'd shown him that you could cut and paste between applications), it hit all this strange white space and the text went everywhere. It's possible to analyse what's going on and suggest...
[August 31, 1996, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog When he tries to drop a graphic onto the page (after I'd shown him that you could cut and paste between applications), it hit all this strange white space and the text went everywhere. It's possible to analyse what's going on and suggest...
[August 31, 1996, 10:00]
Martin Veitch's Weekend Diary
News The trendy young whippersnapper at the bar laughs and gives me a look two parts contempt to one of pity when I ask if they have the new Bob Dylan. I doubt it. They say it's because of the fact you have to build a new case and so on.
[September 27, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog ZDNet Editorial gets a strange note from Neil, our man in the engine room who keeps the boilers hissing and the Web site pumping. It has incorrectly identified a review for the product itself - and clearly, BayTSP doesn't see fit to have a human...
[September 16, 2005, 19:15]
Why You Should Ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback They work excellently, have a very small footprint (compared to a behemoth like Norton) and do not have strange ebay blocking anomalies, as reported b y few friends of mine who use Norton. I use AVG and sygate as an antivirus/firewall combination.
[November 16, 2004, 13:09]
Future Fibre Networks To Exceed Light Speed?
News But two German physicists claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using the strange phenomenon known as "quantum tunnelling". So, frankly, I would suggest that anybody who is an administrator today probably won't see this till...
[August 16, 2007, 13:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We've got a corker of a story/we have it on very good authority that Vista in all its forms, together with Office and Exchange 2007, is due to have a launch on 5 December. For the record I am 35, and my blog link (which you omitted) is http://blogs...
[October 13, 2006, 19:35]
Network Delays
Forum I have a strange problem, there are some long network delays when trying to access network resources (shared directories & printers). I have 7 Windows 2003 servers in the environment and the problem appears to be happening on any of them...
[June 23, 2008, 10:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 21/10/2003A domestic crisis keeps me at home this evening, and so I have to miss the launch of Microsoft Office 2003. Which proves to be a mistake: reports filter back that strange forces have been at work behind the scenes.
[October 24, 2003, 15:15]
EBay Denies Any Blame For Glastonbury Fiasco
Talkback Oh my God I'm still in shock, after 22 hours and no sleep, I managed to get my hands on two tickets, complete with email confirmation.I have engaged tones permanently coming out of my ears and strange hallucinations.
[April 2, 2004, 18:27]
Having Problems With Windows XP - Changing Between Windows.
Forum I seem to be having a strange problem. Let's say I have "My Documents" open and I have two MSN converstaion windows open. I have to use the ALT+TAB trick to change between windows. When ever I try to click on the windows, to change between them...
[August 13, 2006, 15:46]
Rocket From The Crypt
Blog I have some minority interests. One of them is strange lights in the sky (both causing and enjoying), so a couple of days ago I was intrigued to read about an odd glowing cloud -- with twinkly bits -- that scuttered across the Milky Way above the...
[February 21, 2007, 20:52]
Plaxo Plugs Phishing Vulnerability
Talkback I had strange happennings with my Outlook Express account recently. I am running Window XP professional and have Plaxo installed. One day I went to check my e mail and although all my contacts were intact all of my messages had gone.
[April 1, 2004, 9:54]
Cleaning Up After The MSBlast Worm
Talkback I seem to have that msblast worm but I dont see msblast.exe on my task manager! Some strange things happen to my PC! I'm not sure if it is a worm but the RPC on my services always automatically stop when I'm online and sometimes even when I'm not...
[August 13, 2003, 21:26]
Re: Microsoft Admits Something Shocker
Talkback It was strange to see Microsoft at such a pro open source conference and I really questioned what their motivation was as I am not sure they managed to have much effect on most of the audience's attitudes to Redmond.
[June 24, 2008, 12:27]
