Wow! You want to see something truly amazing? Visit YouTube, search out a video on Tibet or the Dalai Lama, and say something about Jesus, Freedom or Tolerance. Then you sit back and watch the torrential flow of anti-Tibet, anti-western, anti-you filth vomited up by the army of propagandists. And don’t even pretend that they [...]
Considering the sheer HELL Dell is putting me through at the moment, I’m not at all suprised that a quick Google search bought up an article from 2005 with the title “Dell Tops All Others Combined in Consumer Complaints”. You can read the article from consumeraffairs.com here. I’m pretty sure it would be a good [...]
Alien abductions: They might not happen, they might be a figment of someone’s imagination, but I feel that the chances are that they actually do happen. Here’s why… The Drake Equation is a mathematical principal that allows us to reasonably deduce just how many space-faring alien civilizations are actually out there in the Milky Way [...]
I had this issue on a brand new Dell Vostro laptop. After all the pissing about that I had to go through just to order the damn thing (two and a half hours on the phone to some lady in god-knows-where who’s first language was NOT English, dammit) it arrived with XP pre-installed and Vista [...]
According to this article, which surfaced this morning on the Google news run-down for NZ, Microsoft has been running an anti-piracy bender in the great green down-under since February. What really got my attention, though, was the way that MS had decided to do with those people who were found to be operating counterfeit software… [...]
Here’s the message that OpenOffice.org 3.1 threw up at me when I tried to run it … “The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more details.” The platform: Vista Home Premium 32bit (SP2) on an Intel dual-celeron rig. Here’s what I tried, things [...]
Isn’t it fun to find applications that play well together? Here’s a few tools that I’ve taken to using side-by-side to make my job easier on a day-by-day basis. FileZilla and Putty. Putty is GREAT for making SSH connections to control remote *nix servers, but SCP commands can be a pain in the rear for [...]
I’ve installed 10.5.6 as an upgrade on my MacBook Pro, and during the process I encountered one particular hickup that might distress a good number of people. About 5 minutes in to the upgrade, the screen went blank and the computer became unresponsive. The power was still on, and I could feel the faint vibration [...]
N.B. * Resolved * Problem; When installing OS X Server 10.5.8 update, the update fails. The error message reads; “The installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.” I did a bit of Bing’ing for solutions (Ouch, that was horrible! Bing is such an ugly verb…) and most [...]
N.B.; Problem solved. Thanks to the miracle of MSDN subscriptions, I’m privileged to be in the possession of a (legally licensed and perfectly legitimate) copy of the brand new release of Windows 7 …. not the RC, mind, the RTM made available so that manufacturers and the like can prepare computer for release on the [...]
