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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog someone bald from the planet Strange making beat-box noises with his mouth (fun for five minutes, excruciating for ten) and someone tall from Germany being diffident about marketing research. The newest Minidiscs have a USB connection and can...
[February 8, 2002, 15:58]
Why Dilbert Loves The Internet
News It was just a strange coincidence and they had decided that they wanted to maybe feature some cartoonists playing with their logo and wanted to ask me if I wanted to be the first. Well, it was a strange coincidence.
[June 4, 2002, 7:32]
Martin Veitch's Weekend Diary
News Deeply strange today. It's a strange world out there on the Internet. Now, like so many companies it is focussing on core competencies as they say in the press releases. Is there a single software company that can call itself a serious threat to...
[September 27, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Darren "Strangely" Strange, UK Product Manager for the 2007 Microsoft Office system, previously made me feel desperately old by turning up at our offices and looking like an escapee from the NME. More than happy to promote the blog, Mr Strange...
[October 13, 2006, 19:35]
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]
Hotmail Complaints Keep Flowing In
Talkback I was also having a strange problem. That's right. When i use to forward an email with attachments, virus scan windows were popping up, but then they were going in some ifinite loop causing my ie to hang.
[November 26, 2005, 1:29]
Rocket From The Crypt
Blog 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 night skies of Western Australia.
[February 21, 2007, 20:52]
Experts Eye Biometric Issues
Talkback Very strange. I had a customer today, she had two plastic arms. I wondered how I was going to giver her shopping, and how she would pay. She used her toes to pass me the money, then I had to give her change, back on her foot.
[December 14, 2004, 22:15]
Something Spooky - Any Answers?
Forum Something very strange happened whilst replying to a personal e-mail from my hotmail account at work. I clicked on the reply icon - definately did not cc.anyone else in. Anyway, when I checked my hotmail account in my lunch hour I was shocked to...
[February 13, 2006, 21:55]
A Brief Look At C++
White Papers C++ has simply been something peripheral about which little concrete was known, but about which a multitude of strange rumors persisted. This note describes some key aspects of what C++ is and of how C++ has developed over the years.
[December 23, 2003, 0:11]
Steorn Cancels Free Energy Demonstration
Blog Comment There are many strange things in this world, relativity being just one, quantum mechanics, wave/particle duality, superconducitivity that all challenge and sometimes disproves the convention. As a physicist, I view this development with an open mind.
[July 10, 2007, 11:26]
My Worst Nightmare
Blog For a week or two it had been making a bit of a strange noise which I put down to a noisy fan. Being out on the road all the time has it's risks and my worst nightmare came true a couple of weeks ago.
[May 27, 2008, 18:32]
See How One Admin Climbed The CCIE Mountain
News I thought that was strange, considering that he was employed by Cisco and had been working as a systems engineer for it and some other companies for a number of years. On 25 May, 2002, in Raleigh, North Carolina, I made my third attempt at Cisco's...
[July 24, 2002, 14:19]
OpenSuSE Stumbles, Ubuntu Shines
Blog Mandriva was even more strange - when I boot with both displays connected, Mandriva comes up in 640x480 mode! I tried loading openSuSE 11.0 on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110 over the weekend. It's an AMD Turion 64-based system, and of course it...
[July 15, 2008, 9:21]
Unravelling The Mystery Of Time Computers
Talkback As one of the suppliers who is now losing a lot of money, I must say that we for years already have found the company pretty strange. Has anybody ever thought about the timing for this close-down of Granville?
[August 1, 2005, 16:50]
Protocol Analysers Are Good For Admin Work
News It was then that I noticed something strange: Each workstation on the network was requesting the current date and time from the Novell server 20 to 30 times per minute. Protocol analysers now top out at around $1,000, and some are even free -- and...
[April 18, 2002, 16:14]
Big Blue BlackBerry Pie
Blog I'm not sure whether it's a strange move to go for Lotus' communication apps. I went off social networking some time back now; I put it down to already being listed on lots of websites and wanting to preserve an extra degree of anonymity.
[April 23, 2008, 9:48]
Apple Crumble Grumble
Blog I think this is a strange move from a strategic point of view based on the consensus from the rest of the industry. OK I know; Apple doesn't get a whole lot wrong does it? Although I drafted this blog before seeing the lead story “Firefox chief...
[March 25, 2008, 8:38]
Troubleshooting
Forum I am her friend, and troubleshooting this problem has gotten very strange results. The problem seems to be whenever she tries to sign into anything encrypted, such as HTTPS. This includes World of Warcraft, so the problem is not her browser.
[January 12, 2006, 21:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Mine was messy, confusing yet ultimately incredibly rewarding (oh, do shut up at the back there), but it took a good few hours fighting unfriendly software and strange new ideas - a subnet mask, you say?
[July 18, 1998, 7:00]
