As mad as a hatter... sometimes
Colin Smyth
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Jun 07 2007
How the Mighty have Fallen…
Seriously where the fuck have all these sales calls came from? its like a spate of morons calling up looking for someone looking to flog the Next-Best-Thingâ„¢. My boss is now off on the sick, his road trip to Germany for his new fancy Trike has knocked him back to suffering from the dreaded lurgy. …
Jun 05 2007
Brain freeze
I have always wondered how some people manage to forget their passwords after 3 days. Hell, I have had people change their password, then forget it less than an hour later! I would see past it if we were strict with passwords and had them set to something like Bk3@~99Dra$1 and you had to write …
May 23 2007
Loosing Touch
Has social networking sites made it easier or harder to loose touch with people? We have all read how MySpace and Bebo bring people together, its the new “watering hole” of the digital era where it allows groups of people to communicate quickly with their peers, but has it introduced a new affect, where its …
May 09 2007
Your Nemesis…
Okay, strange post of sorts coming up. Every so often I have came across a computer (or in this case a server) which through no reason decides that it has to blue-screen at random, the wonderful BSOD. We have a nice 12 server Citrix Farm, but 2 of these servers are based in our off-site …
May 07 2007
I really should title my posts…
Last month I decided enough was enough, I threw the head up and asked Eclipse Internet for a MAC code. 5 Days later I gave Zen a call and transferred my service across. Why you might ask? Eclipse throttles p2p traffic, and I suspect nearly every other bit of traffic on their “oversubscribed” network, of …