Previous
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As I've yet to make a good commercial case for a Weird Science Web site - the market in advertising for lab coats and protein depolarizing death rays being somewhat soft at the moment - I have to get what I can, where I can.
[January 13, 2006, 17:05]
Virus Preventing Internet Connection
Forum I think I've got a virus that is stopping me connect to the internet, i've run ewido, spybot S&D and McAfee antivirus but nothing has been found. The weird thing is everytime I click to open Mozilla Firefox, internet explorer, soulseek or my...
[December 10, 2005, 10:17]
VidVac
Downloads It features a download progress bar and timer so you know exactly what's happening and you don't have to wait until the video has loaded once into your regular browser before VidVac works, umlike the vast majority of scripts I've seen for this...
[November 22, 2006, 20:16]
Sony Ericsson K700i: A First Look
Talkback The 32 meg of memory can hold loads I;'ve got 80 games, 40 themese , 15 vids 30 wallpapers ,loads of pics and I;ve still got about 20mb left . I got a K700 for £100 of one of my mates who got 2 by mistake , am very pleased with the phone has lots...
[July 20, 2004, 22:09]
Proceed With Care review
Reviews Now, I've had problems like this in the past, and in many cases, my attempts to fix things have made things much worse. Here are a few troubleshooting tips I've learned along the way. Disclaimer: These are my ideas, based on what I've learned over...
[July 20, 2005, 10:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To bolster my collection of mildly weird radio hardware, I bought a pair of GMRS/FRS walkie-talkies for $50 at a Radio Shack — illegal to use but not to own in the UK, they highlight an ongoing problem with wireless standards.
[October 6, 2006, 18:55]
The Culture Is Self-perpetuating
Talkback I've been in that sort of place in that sort of organisation, and it's most uncomfortable. And I've been in IT companies where the opposite is true. Even weird people. So I think the answer is to have not fewer blokes in IT, but different blokes.
[September 27, 2007, 17:19]
Dear Diary
Blog It's getting on for two years old now, and I've written hundreds of thousands of words on it. I'm a long way from home, I've opened it up and it's darker than a raven in a coalmine. it's a custom connector I've seen nowhere else, getting a...
[November 6, 2006, 8:51]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I've reinstalled. I've tried different network cards (doesn't everyone have at least four different makes at home these days? I've been out on the Net reading loads of people saying, "My XP network doesn't!
[February 22, 2002, 15:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Please, please, please let this reveal that the UK developer community is the hotbed of independent spirit and creative anarchy I've so long hoped it to be. There's such a strong link between weird music and the weirdos who live in computers that I...
[February 24, 2006, 16:10]
Ballmer Sounds An Upbeat Note
News I think we've had some hard work, and still do, hard, important work on security. I think we've done a pretty good job. With my every fabric I want to make sure that we keep a culture that allows us to continue to be passionate and innovative and...
[July 14, 2004, 13:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary - Holy Land Special
Blog If you like weird, you must go to Israel: it's much, much stranger than anywhere else I've been to. There's so much more than I've got room for here. I nudged a German journalist standing next to me and his face lit up.
[January 6, 2006, 17:40]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment Considering the press I've read especially from a few of the bloggers I trust and admire, Ubuntu 7.04 Server sounds like the real deal. That is a fear I have already and I've refused any Windows Media Players past version 9 that come down the pipe...
[May 30, 2007, 5:33]
Spinning Around A Sales Model
News I've got kind of a mixed picture whether that's in line with your projections. Yeah, I mean the overarching thing here is the demand was so great, and we would have liked to have had a few more. We've known for years that the demand was going to be...
[February 6, 2006, 17:30]
Zander: Motorola Has To Mean Something
News I've got to first sit down and take a PhD in Motorola and then I will be able to size up "Are we in the right business? One of the things I did in 1995 was to define Sun around the Internet and Internet computing.
[December 18, 2003, 10:35]
Java Guru: C# Misses The Point
News So I went back to the research lab at Sun, and lately I've been on a developer-tool project. But I've had conversations with developers. I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships.
[January 21, 2002, 11:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 27/10/2003If you haven't seen it, may I recommend you inspect our spiffy new Wi-Fi map of Great Britain? While people are more than keen to donate their information to the cause, the stuff turns up in all sorts of weird ways.
[October 31, 2003, 14:20]
When Aggressive Job Candidates Won't Take No For An Answer
News I was taking a shower and the guy next to me says, 'How'd I do on the job interview? He didn't stop being my lunchtime workout buddy until I told him I filled the position. Costello could easily fill a book relating "weird but true" candidate...
[August 5, 2002, 12:48]
My Response To Richard Stallman
Talkback I know that you've said that experimentation' is expensive and that only proprietary software can meet this. Sorry, that's just my recognition that my british picture makes me look like I have a pointed head.
[January 11, 2004, 19:41]
Firefox Sneaks Into The Enterprise
News Two or three weeks ago I was invited to speak at a panel. I was the only vendor, all the others were ministers -- of finance, customs and so on. It was really weird to be only vendor. They are all considering Firefox to be their main browser and we...
[March 1, 2005, 13:35]
