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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog At the end, upgrading to XP took a good fifteen to twenty hours of a weekend, when I had it down for five at most. Here's how I spent my weekend. Check back on copy, to find that it had hung (around five minutes after I'd got confident enough to...
[June 16, 2006, 18:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It was on one such weekend that I happened to turn on my laptop. That was OK -- but of course, I couldn't resist the temptation to repeat the experiment at various other times during the weekend. I had pictures to send, email to read, sites to...
[October 22, 2004, 18:05]
Build A Killer Robot, Win Cash Prizes
News Over $50,000 (£31,000) in robotic equipment was damaged this weekend at the Long Beach Pyramid in California. BattleBots, a "battle-to-the-death" competition between remote-controlled robots, featured even more fun and destruction as the weekend...
[August 18, 1999, 10:41]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News As a result, when I got in, there was a weepy message from The Vampire, pointing out that he had a busy week and had hoped to get all the copy edited over the weekend, and he'd come into the office to edit copy.
[January 17, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News This will include the new Pentium II 266 which is one of my parents' retirement presents to themselves: I'm planning to take up a USB videoconferencing system and introduce them to that - if you're online at the weekend, watch out.
[September 26, 1998, 6:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This will include the new Pentium II 266 which is one of my parents' retirement presents to themselves: I'm planning to take up a USB videoconferencing system and introduce them to that - if you're online at the weekend, watch out.
[September 26, 1998, 7:29]
Anatomy Of A Server-room Meltdown
News Back in June, the UK experienced its first hot weekend of the year. One IT manager, who asked to remain anonymous in return for sharing the litany of horrors that followed that weekend - but we'll call him Bob - spent Saturday and Sunday, like most...
[August 2, 2004, 16:35]
Microsoft Fails Slammer's Security Test
News Microsoft's policy of relying on software patches to fix major security flaws was questioned on Monday after a series of internal emails revealed that the software giant's own network wasn't immune from a worm that struck the Internet last weekend.
[January 28, 2003, 8:39]
... But Still A Few Things Amiss (with Vista)
Blog I had my first BSOD over the weekend, when I was turning the laptop back on after suspending it. I think in this particular case I had suspended the laptop with the Sierra Wireless card still inserted, but not connected of course, and then removed...
[August 11, 2008, 7:26]
Best Laid Plans Of A Man With A Mouse...
Blog I previously reported that I spent last weekend inside a VB2005 project. I thought I had found an interesting “feature” of Windows. Well I discovered why things looked so good but just didn't seem to work right.
[August 21, 2008, 14:04]
MSN Messenger Hit By Virus, Outage
Talkback I got my msn id stolen,everytime I signed in ,it says I was signed in at another location,I didnt go on my pc all weekend ,then monday morning I had loads of returned emails from people that I dont know claiming I`d sent them a virus, mainly from...
[November 10, 2005, 11:58]
High-tech Cops Probe Premium-rate Internet Fraud
Talkback I have been billed £2700 for one premium rate phone call by BT made while I was away for a weekend by an outo dialler that had been installed on my PC without my knowledge. My regular monthly BT bill is £23.00 - had this been my bank they would not...
[December 17, 2004, 11:38]
Pity That BT Say Otherwise ...
Talkback Sitting in a small village in southern Berkshire over the past weekend I received a telephone call from a good friend who had lost her internet connection. Having set this system up for my neighbour who is an elderly great grandmother - I've...
[February 6, 2008, 12:07]
Web Problems Make Tax Taxing
Talkback I did my tax return this weekend and even though the web site was slow at certain times at no point did it crash or stop responding. What is being refered to, I believe, is the message on the web site that your return had not yet been processed and...
[January 31, 2005, 18:45]
HTC's Lost Touch
Blog After a pleasantly hot weekend, I noticed that the Touch's screen had some smudging in the centre that wouldn't polish off — because it seemed to be on the inside rather than the outside. Now I had received a free sample to play with, and will get...
[June 14, 2007, 11:10]
Skype's 5 Years Of Lows
Blog Besides the frozen video that my partner experienced last weekend, I have had two continuing problems crop up again this week. I have been running Skype on my older laptop with Ubuntu the past week or so, and on Monday (September 8th) it suddenly...
[September 10, 2008, 9:31]
OpenSuSE Stumbles, Ubuntu Shines
Blog I tried loading openSuSE 11.0 on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110 over the weekend. The touchpad was often completely unresponsive, and when it did work, it generally behaved as if I had drag-lock on all the time.
[July 15, 2008, 9:21]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback After several phone calls a travel consultant eventually got back to me offering different dates than those asked for and flying out on a monday (not a weekend or at least a thursday) plus I was told I had to upgrade.
[August 27, 2004, 17:10]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News It is a mistake to put your machine on a high-FAT diet, but that's what I did this weekend. Next mistake: of COURSE I had a boot disk. I did. Back in November, I carried a digital camera around Comdex in Las Vegas and came back with 100 photos of...
[April 12, 1997, 8:00]
Alenware Pricing Debacle 26th-28th April 2008
Forum Then this morning I recieved a garbled phone call stating there had been problems with the website over the weekend (note that at no point did they admit a pricing error or mistake), and that the true price of my laptop was over £2200 (perhaps...
[April 28, 2008, 18:02]
