As if Windows sniffed out my intentions, it refused to boot this morning. Only 1 day after I thought I’d give the Linux platform a proper go. So now I’m running SUSE 9.3 which installed from the DVD a burned a few days ago fairly easy. I’ve cheated somewhat though – I’m using a friendly [...]

The Google sidebar happened to allow me to drop into the following blog: Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Site theme no longer completely sucks. Gripping title, isn’t it? The crux of it is that all designers are morons because it’s sometimes preferable to use fixed width styles. Really? I think there’s a time [...]

I see that MS Office 2003 Service Pack 2 is now available for download through Microsoft Update. I’m actually impressed with how well Microsoft Update appears to work. When I got home from work today, there was an update icon in my tray with Service Pack 2 ready to install. Although, every cloud has a [...]

A classic example of online forms and the trickery involved at the PC Pro magazine awards. Spot the last-minute change? No doubt that by the time you get to the third category, most people will not be reading the fine print. It seems quite coincidental that the last two advertising methods happen to be the [...]

Changing the default user profile is not a particularly daunting task. In fact, my experiences show that in Windows 2000, XP and 2003, it’s a relatively painless experience. Logged in as a local administrator, create a new user account. Log out and log in as that user. Log back in as an administrator. Enable Show [...]

I’ve read a disturbing blog today while trying to find something totally different on the internet. The PhysOrg.com Science Technology Blog has an article outlining that the next Palm Treo will be running a Windows mobile platform rather than the traditional Palm OS. A joint venture between the two no less. So what does that [...]