Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Reinstalling Microsoft Works 4.5 from a backup (original disks long gone) proves quite exhilarating, trying to find missing files from various places fast enough to keep the installer fed turns into an intricate dance across multiple computers...
[June 16, 2006, 18:50]
Hotmail Flaw May Have Been Admin Tool Gone Awry
News A member of Hotmail's administrative staff, constantly tasked with interrogating user account information for, say, lost password retrieval, could have got fed up with the time each interrogation took to perform.
[August 31, 1999, 11:26]
The Day Ahead: High-tech's Hard Landing
News Everyone from Fed chief Alan Greenspan to chief executives has apparently overestimated the strength of the information technology industry. You could argue that Gateway's warning has a caveat -- it was based on Thanksgiving weekend.
[November 30, 2000, 12:29]
Alenware Pricing Debacle 26th-28th April 2008
Forum On Saturday 26th I was browsing for a new laptop, being fed up with the poor performance of both my single cores. Then this morning I recieved a garbled phone call stating there had been problems with the website over the weekend (note that at no...
[April 28, 2008, 18:02]
Zattoo Puts Live TV On The Desktop
Blog And it is really peer-to-peer; watching Netmeter, I could spot other people popping on and taking streams from me - and when I started up another client on another computer on the same network (you need two accounts for this, but it's easy to...
[April 29, 2008, 14:18]
Fujitsu Goes Wooden
Blog Fed up with plastic or magnesium alloy notebooks? Oh dear, it must be nearly the weekend. It may not be quite so green, but what we'd like is a perspex laptop honeycombed with tubes filled with a selection of transparent brightly coloured liquids...
[April 11, 2008, 11:02]
