On being a late adopter III
Depite my great and brand new phone and its wonderous open-sorcery, I still don’t hate Apple. I mean, I assume my new phone is great, as I write this it still hasn’t arrived. I said, at the end of that...
View ArticleSkipping User Account Control (UAC) in Win7/Vista without disabling it
UAC is actually quite good for security in Windows, as it means that anything that could steal your dog and run away with your favourite pillow/boyfriend/girlfriend has to get your permission first....
View ArticleWindows 7: How To Automatically Backup Your PuTTY connections
Go to: Control Panel Administrative Tools Task Scheduler Create Basic Task (In the bar on the right) Name: “Backup Putty Connections” Next Run Daily Next, Next, Next (Until “Start a Program”)...
View ArticleHuh
I buy an iPad, and Steve Jobs resigns. D’ya think I should start a Kickstarter project to get a Windows Mobile device?
View ArticleWindows 8 Consumer Preview
Last time I attempted to install a preview version of Windows, it all went a bit entertainingly pear-shaped. This time, the install went better. Well, the software did. On Wednesday, my computer made...
View ArticleWindows 8
I installed the Release Candidate for Windows 8. We are not friends. There are three parts to Windows 8 that I’m going to cover. The first is the install and general behavior, the second is the...
View ArticleMy Terribly Organised Life III:A – Home
The previous MTOL were in 2004 and 2007, and soon I’m going to get over this “I’ve been doing this too long” kick. Organisation Google & Omnifocus, mostly. My email is google-app based, although...
View ArticleMy Terribly Organised Life III:B – Technical Development
Code starts in a text editor. Your text editor might be a full IDE, custom built for your language, a vim window with more commands than you can remember, or an emacs with more metakeys than you have...
View ArticleRipping TV Yarns
I’m in the process of ripping some boxsets of DVDs to Plex, and I thought I should probably document the process. The most obvious thing I’m not using here is Handbrake, which works really well for...
View ArticleBackup Awareness Day
Life goes on. Family stuff’s been on my mind recently, and there’ll be a deep post about the last couple of months at some point. It’s been a while since I did deep personal here, and that’s probably...
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