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New Buildings and Apologies

In the grand tradition of this blog, I need to apologise for not posting again. I don't have much of a defence, except that I've been very busy at work for reasons that I can now talk about: My employer has finally received all the confirmations, funding and planning permission we need in order...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 07-21-2008
You know what would be even faster?

I found this post on Lifehacker via Kurt Wismer , someone whose comments I've kept an eye on for since I started reading the alt.comp.virus newsgroup, which is quite a time ago now. Kurt seems to have the habit of annoying people by simply speaking the truth as he sees it and not spending too much...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 04-05-2008
Internet Explorer 8 announced. No one appears to care.

So with great fanfare*cough*, Microsoft have announced the next version of their web browser , which will be Internet Explorer 8. Didn't see that one coming! Dean Hachamovitch, manager of the IE team, has some fun with 'alternative' names in the IE Team blog post I've linked to above...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 12-09-2007
Waiting to switch...

Glenn Wolsey posted today about his experiences with migrating from a desktop machine to a MacBook Pro and how it's caused him to re-think his storage strategy. This got me thinking about my own computers and storage needs. I'm actually very happy with my MacBook even if it isn't a 'pro'...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 11-29-2007
Vista sucks - officially!

Don't let the spin fool you. Microsoft have agreed to extend the "end of shelf-life" date for Windows XP for another 5 months because people are just not buying into Vista in the way they hoped. This is an embarassing climb-down for Microsoft, and one that I think has been forced by OEMs...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 09-28-2007
Stupid Command Line tricks.

In the cases below I’m talking about commands that can either be run natively by the operating system, or (in the case of Windows at least) are available as free addons. Windows Remember that Windows commands are case INsensitive, e.g. "PING" and "ping" are the same command. pathping – Effectively performs...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 09-20-2007
Setting up SmartPhones for business use

Choosing a device One of my recent projects at work has been to introduce a pilot scheme for smartphone use for college staff who need to stay 'connected' all the time. We've played around with PDAs before, and the college has some conventional mobile phones it can loan to staff going off-site, but we...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 07-01-2007
If you can read this then Apple have pulled off something really interesting.

Not that I expect a lot of people to be paying attention to my little blog in the sea of virtual "ink" that will be spilled over this, but what the heck. Apple have released a public beta of Safari 3, the browser they are aiming to include in Leopard. Not too much unusual about that you say, unless you...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 06-11-2007
Is more RAM or matched RAM more important in a MacBook?

Interesting article here on a series of tests across various machine configurations to find out whether having more RAM was more important than having two identically matched sticks of RAM in a MacBook.Long story short, the conclusion was that for everything except gaming, it was better to have more...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 05-27-2007
Vista: Not at all a rip off of Mac OSX.

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 04-21-2007

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