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ROTM In The Real World.
Blog I spent most of the weekend inside the bowels of my Visual Basic dotNet monstrosity courtesy of the VS2005 IDE debugger. I do not claim to be a dotNet expert especially after this weekend but I'm a heck of a lot closer to that than I was last week.
[August 18, 2008, 9:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Have spent most of the weekend recovering from Friday's Gary Numan V96 warmup gig, held down in a shed in Chelsea. Worry all the way through the weekend, but Monday takes my mind off things. Monday morning.
[August 23, 1996, 18:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News Have spent most of the weekend recovering from Friday's Gary Numan V96 warmup gig, held down in a shed in Chelsea. Worry all the way through the weekend, but Monday takes my mind off things. Monday morning.
[August 23, 1996, 17:24]
Steve Jobs Has Surgery For Cancer
News Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs underwent surgery this weekend to remove a cancerous tumour in his pancreas, but told employees in an email that the surgery was successful and said he expects to be back on the job next month.
[August 2, 2004, 8:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This weekend, I'm going to visit my parents for Mothering Sunday, because I am a dutiful son (ho! Laptop, thumbdrive full of Sysinternals magic (I love these people more than my own kidneys), radio, spare socks, toothbrush - all the essentials to...
[March 24, 2006, 16:50]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News The switchboard, which was pllaying silly games last week, was taken down for the weekend for fixing. What I don't understand, is how I might have been expected to get into the office over the weekend (assuming I'd been silly enough to try).
[January 17, 1998, 7:00]
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. Friday 22/10/2004
[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]
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]
Hacker Takes Back Firefox Hijack Claim
News People worked through the weekend to investigate the issue, Window Snyder, Mozilla's security chief, said on Tuesday. It is an expensive operation in terms of resources and the individuals who lost time with their families over the weekend.
[October 4, 2006, 9:45]
Steorn Cancels Free Energy Demonstration
Blog Comment Yes, I was directed to the fizzx.com site this weekend and saw these figures. Hi, Mary Thanks for that link too. Seeing that Sean told me personally that the company was not looking for investment, and regardless of the semiotics of his statement...
[July 9, 2007, 11:11]
Microsoft Stands Firm On SP2 Downloads
Talkback I did an automatic download of SP2 over the weekend and after the install it immediately caused problems. First, it did not recognize that Norton Antivirus was active/enabled. Second the firewall started going up and down.
[October 14, 2004, 22:16]
OpenSuSE Stumbles, Ubuntu Shines
Blog 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 seemed to load just fine. However, for some reason, it stumbled over the Alps touchpad.
[July 15, 2008, 9:21]
Anatomy Of A Server-room Meltdown
News Bob's weekend was only spoilt slightly on Sunday evening when he tried to log onto his corporate email account but couldn't connect for some reason. Back in June, the UK experienced its first hot weekend of the year.
[August 2, 2004, 16:35]
'Stages.worm' On The Loose
News British and US firms were infected with a computer virus this weekend that arrives via e-mail and convincingly masquerades as an innocent plain text file. It is a holiday weekend. My parents are away for the weekend.
[June 19, 2000, 14:29]
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]
Some Top Secret Business Idea Approach.
Forum I was looking at a few web sites on the weekend, and I saw a number of business ideas that were covered in terms such as… “become a distributor , enriched residual income …….etc”… Hello friends, I'm over it.
[November 5, 2007, 4:08]
... 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. It's not all roses with Vista, of course. They typical long blurb about "If this is the first time.don't we all wish), and some error info related to...
[August 11, 2008, 7:26]
Microsoft Dismisses Apple Threat
Talkback This weekend I was at CompUSA, the only store to carry Apple locally, and as opposed to the last time I was in there, EVERYONE in the store was in the Apple section. No Halo effect? Ppuulleeeeaasssee.
[April 5, 2005, 1:34]
