Disk Space

Posted: Mon 26 February, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Geeky | 3 Comments »

Now that’s what I call storage…

1TByte (for the non-geeky, that’s 1,000 Mb Gb (feck)) for about £300. Not bad at all. Hell, it might even hold all my MP3s if I decided to get efficient and rip every single one of my CDs to it…

Amateur Hour

Posted: Wed 21 February, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism, Geeky, Work-related | 2 Comments »

As regular readers of D4D™ will have noticed by now, I absolutely hate working with bloody amateurs.

At the moment, the entire network at work has the stability of overcooked spaghetti, and completely dies with depressing regularity. By which I mean roughly every 20-25 minutes. No connection to network servers, no connection to the outside world, no nothing. Even when it is working, it’s still flakier than the Singing Detective, with particular gems including that (according to our system) the BBC News website doesn’t exist. Not even that it’s taking longer than usual to connect, but it just doesn’t exist.

And yet the IT support department insists there isn’t a problem.
“Oh, we’ve checked, and everything’s fine”
“So why can’t I connect to anything?”
“Um, dunno. But we’ve checked, and everything’s fine”

It’s driving me (and everyone else in the office) fuckin’ mental. And the IT Support (and their superiors that this is already being escalated to) have all the technical skills of yoghurt.

It’s going to be a very long day…

Wide Open Vista

Posted: Fri 16 February, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism, Geeky | 1 Comment »

When it was released, I wrote a small post about why I had no intention of moving to MS Vista® – and from the news stories etc. that’ve followed on, I have to say I’m pretty cool with being right about it.

This piece from The Register demonstrates my case nicely.

The basic summary? Wait at least until Service Pack 1 is released.

Spam Blocking

Posted: Tue 13 February, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky | Leave a comment »

Since installing WP2.1, there seemed to be some fairly major issues with the set-up I’d got to combat comment spam. This is a geeky post, and if you don’t care, don’t click on the more…
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Talented

Posted: Wed 7 February, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Geeky, Web Development, Work-related | 1 Comment »

Note : This post is sickeningly immodest. Live with it
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Not Getting It

Posted: Tue 6 February, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Cynicism, Geeky | 2 Comments »

Sometimes you just have to laugh at the way the government just doesn’t get the entire internet and chatroom thing. In this instance, the story about registered sex offenders having to provide details of their email addresses and ‘chatroom identities’ (no, I’m not making this up)

Anyone who’s actually used Internet Chat (whether it be MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, whatever) will know how easy it is to set up email addresses, profiles, IDs, the lot. God, if I think back a couple of years to when I haunted Yahoo chat, I had a couple of hundred IDs.

So it amuses me when they’re talking about registering ‘paedophile IDs’ – it’s so easy to set up another one, this really is either a) an attempt to say ‘look how on top of things we are’ or b) a proper display of knowing chuff-all about anything technological and/or internet based.

Or c) both. Which I guess is the most likely…

Mac vs PC

Posted: Mon 5 February, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Cynicism, Geeky | 1 Comment »

Charlie Brooker in blinding form (you may need to do a dumb free registration thing, I don’t knowCheers, Jann, for the reg-free link!) about Macs…

I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

It’s all in regard to the new set of ads from Apple about PCs versus Macs starring Mitchell and Webb.

I like the ads, although I have to say, personally I’m not a fan of Macs. Maybe I should be, but I’m just not. My personal opinion is that they’re expensive, over-branded, over-iconified (it’s not a word, but bloody well should be) and a nightmare to upgrade.

Sorry, but I’ll stick with PCs for the moment, regardless of whether or not I supposedly should want a Mac.

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