I’ve been having a play with the sleep options on my new iMac over the last few days. Since it’s replacing an always-on PC, I could keep this always-on too, but I thought I may as well make it sleep overnight and save the planet from global warming. As an aside, I don’t believe in global warming. But anyway. Things weren’t working right, as far as sleeping was concerned, and I asked about in uk.comp.sys.mac for some help. An interesting …
I came across an odd thing today. I have a database with a numeric field and a Yes/No field. If the Yes/No is Yes, a calculation is done on the numeric field (in a query), otherwise a different calculation is carried out. Lets say the numeric field is “Hours” and the Yes/No is “Extra”, and the calculation is to multiply Hours by 0 (if Yes) or -1 (if No). This may not make sense here but does in the context …
But having heard nasty horror stories, I’m tempted to send it right back again. And it cost FIVE POUNDS for postage, which took five days. Rubbish.
A while ago, I was debating whether or not to ditch Windows and move over to a Mac full time.¬¨‚Ć Well, here’s the outcome: I’m still setting it up, but this new 24″ iMac will soon replace my now-ageing Athlon XP PC. Shiny!
You may have noticed that despite my console’s apparent death, I’m still playing games on it. This is because only a few games actually fail to work, with others playing just fine. One of the working games is Tomb Raider Anniversary. At least, I thought it was. Until this morning, when I tried to play it. Turned on my 360, loaded the game (it was already in the drive), and started playing. Five minutes later, the game froze. In fact, …
And other tales. For the last couple of days, I’ve been struggling to get Server 2003 installed on a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 III server. I didn’t think ¬¨¬£500 for the OS and Dell to install it was value for money, when I had some spare licences lying around. Unfortunately, wishing to save this money was a real headache. First of all, OS-less Dell servers come with… nothing. No software at all (aside from some drivers). When you turn them …
Toast for the Mac doesn’t just get things 100% done. Or 110% done. No – that wouldn’t be good enough. Toast will go above and beyond the call of duty by getting things 749,984% done! And that’s only burning one of two discs!
I got another reply today. Hello Andy, Thank you for writing Xbox Customer Support! I understand that your “Viva Pinata” and “Eternal Sonata” game discs got scratched even if your Xbox 360 console was not moved in any way, and now your disc won‚Äö?Ñ?¥t play properly. I deeply apologize for the inconvenience that this might have caused you. Andy, we are very sorry to hear about what happened. Movement of the console or strong vibration while the console is reading …
Yes. That is correct. Let me use this strange opportunity to inform you that my site is scheduled to vanish from the internet at some point late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. Not forever though, so worry not! My provider is upgrading things or something. You’ll just have to do something else for those 15 minutes. Like have a wash – you bloody stink.
We got a couple of Philips Freevents 11NB5800 laptops at work this week, and they’re actually very nice. Of course, they come with Vista installed, so we had to remove that. Problem #1 There are no XP drivers for the Freevents 11B5800. There’s nothing in the box (not even a Vista restore disc), and Philips have no mention of any of their laptops on their website. In fact, outside of PC World’s online store, the Freevents doesn’t appear to exist. …
I got this email today at work: Sorry to be pedantic but whoever did the pop-up for interview day has spelt pracitse wrong. I should point out that it wasn’t me that did the pop-up.
Yesterday, I emailed Microsoft with the problems I’d been having. Today, I got this reply: Hello Andy, Thank you for writing Xbox Customer Support! We have received your email and I understand that you found that your game discs got scratched while they were inside the Xbox 360 console. I deeply apologize for the inconvenience. Scratches on a game disc can occur for several reasons. However, scratches do not necessarily prevent the disc from working. If you move or reposition …
Like 16% of other Xbox 360 owners, I too now have a dead console. Unusually, mine doesn’t suffer from the “red ring of death”, but instead seems to dislike playing games. You might recall the problems I was having a couple of months ago with Eternal Sonata, crashing and freezing. Well, a couple of nights ago, Viva Pinata Party Animals started doing the same thing. Last night, it froze completely, and will no longer play at all. Here’s what I …
I’ve had a Mac mini now for almost four years. I bought it for two reasons: I needed a new Linuxy server, and my wife needed a machine for internet and email use. Since OS X, under the hood at least, is close enough to Linux to allow me to set up the SSH server, Leafnode, Apache and PHP things I used my old (P233) Linux box for, and it was easy to use “at the desktop”, it seemed perfect. …
