The Battle Is Won

My stubborn insistence and asking, asking, asking has finally paid off: I’ve now got my colleague’s computer, with, notably, 1024MB of RAM instead of 256. I had been on the case from the very first day I started, considering it absolutely unacceptable to be working with a 5-year-old shitty LAPTOP.
I had to push the matter [...]

AFK

I spend a fair bit of time AFK at the moment, and I have to say I’m enjoying it. For some reason the move back up here also has resulted in my watching less TV, and generally being more anti-noise (there was too much noise in my life).
I feel more relaxed - most days are [...]

What to Install Onto a New Vista Laptop

Here is the choice of software I’m currently downloading for my mate D. I’m seeing him and J. in an hour. He bought a brand new Vista laptop the other week, but with nothing on! I.e. no office, no photo editing soft, no nothing. And evil MS tie-ins such as IE7 and Windows Media Player [...]

Using Web Content Management Systems

At my new work, they use a CMS called Morello. I have to say I’m finding it quite annoying to work in, coming from a HomeSite etc. background where you can just edit code directly, rather than having to do it through some media surface software.
It’s rather slow too - as blogged about before, the [...]

lenina gets to Grips with Vista

well, not yet.
Had an email from a friend yesterday, who’s asking me to look at his shiny new laptop and to install the usual suspects - he bought it with pretty much nothing on it.
The only problem is I haven’t seen or worked with Vista before, at all. The Vista-buzz is so bad that I [...]

The IT Crowd

Today I had yet another run-in with IT
I phoned them to ask them to install Firefox on my computer, and their response was ‘this has to be signed off by your line manager… and we need to know the business reasons/benefits for it.’
Wow! The business reasons for using Firefox! When I’m struggling along [...]

Lenina’s IT Repair Shop

I’ve had a draft post stuck in my backend for about 6 months now (I always have at least 2 draft posts for some reason, though I deleted a few a little while ago).
This draft post here is Lenina’s IT Repair Shop, and I started it at a time when I constantly had to [...]

WordPress WTF; M$ F Off

Last night, when trying to post my blog in the tiny time window that I had, WP was down
It’s a shame as I was quite excited about posting that Micro$oft have finally accepted that they’re in the wrong with their anti-competitive business practice that has been bugging me for ages (and that I [...]

Italy Day 03: Computer Stuff :|

Last night, I set up ICS so my BF could get his Mac onto the (sl0000w) Internet here (ISDN). The great thing is that my own password-protected PC has to be started up for him to be able to get online. Thus, this morning we used the Internet first thing (before we went to the [...]

What to do when ‘the Internet is down’

Yesterday evening, our router started playing up. I couldn’t look into it as I was meeting someone that I hadn’t seen in 14 years (a guy I had done my A-levels/Abitur with). When I woke up this morning, my BF had already done all sorts of things to the router to ‘make it work again’. [...]