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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
Windows XP SP3 - What I've found so far

Just some quick notes on what I've noticed, or been told by people I trust, about XP SP3 so far. My own experiences are based on a clean install at home and a few test upgrades at work (ah the benefits of being paid to do R&D). What XP Service Pack 3 is - and is not. Windows XP SP3 is a collection...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 04-28-2008
Windows XP SP3: Pretty damn good actually. Windows Live Installer: Sucks like a vacuum.

I was originally going to base the title on The Scorpions' " Rock You Like a Hurricane " but then I realised that "suck you" was open to all kinds of misinterpretation and wouldn't end well. Still on with what I really wanted to say. I've just done a clean rebuild of my...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 04-26-2008
Just because you're used to an abusive relationship, it doesn't make it OK.

I have to admit that some areas of the computer industry make me asahmed to be part of the IT profession at times. Take gaming - 1up.com's article on 5 botched game launches talks about Steam ... Yes, yes, we all love Steam now. By which we mean "It hasn't gone away yet, and people won't...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 03-22-2008
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
I can has Leopard upgrade?

I'm sure it'll come as no shock to regular visitors here to learn that I've upgraded to Leopard today. Will it last as long as my Vista install? Place your bets now! The Leopard install took about 30 or 40 mins with the "archive" install option, which tells OS X to archive away...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 10-26-2007
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
Smartphone Apps - What's on yours?

Due to Windows Mobile Device Centre Center sucking so hard it can pull a very large watermelon through a very small straw at one hundred paces, I had cause to do a hard reset on my current phone . Yes I am still annoyed about that. But no I'm not going to rant. Let's try to get something positive going...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 05-27-2007
Leopard to ship in October.

From Daring Fireball (just joined today by the way, after spending 3 days on a rather dry course, reading the site archives). Actual press release on Yahoo Business. Well I wonder if any of the Windows advocates who love to take cheap shots at Apple will dare to sneer over this one. Not only was Vista...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 04-12-2007
Open for Business.

Yet again, it's the start of a new academic year where I work. We've done our best to get everything lined up and ready for the return of our lecturers and students. And mostly, we've managed. A couple of things spring to mind: Software is supposed to be about ones and zeros. Binary. It either...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 09-09-2006

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