The gentle ramblings of a bored software engineer
Just like probably every other computer blog in the UK, the iPad has hit our shores… Its been over a month in waiting since it was launched in the US. If you watch Formula One racing in the UK you will have already seen the iPad replacing good old pen and paper. At the last [...]
So I’ve been having issues with startup time of my laptop, over the years its been getting slower and slower. The standard thing that appears to happen with Windows Machines. So the usual approach is to reduce the number of programs that setup when windows is initially loading, nice and easy using either msconfig or [...]
Slightly off topic from my usual posts about computer science and technology but I saw this in my BBC Focus Magazine and just had to post about it! Turns out that having a beer a day is actually good for you. The study carried out at the University of California found that the amount of [...]
Its been a heck of a week for the iPad, released just under one week ago and what a week its been. Starting out with the hype of new videos being added to the apple website showing what the new iPad can do. I have to admit that it does look a really good product [...]
Regular Expressions can be abit of a black art, I remember doing them at university many moons ago and remember being really confused by them. I eventually got into them alot when constructing scripts for a desktop program called Samurize (probably the best program in the world). Its been awhile since I’ve touched them (talking [...]
A couple of weeks back I was struggling to fix a problem with a computer network interface (that I mentioned about). I believe it turns out that I did fix it by adding another network card. Unfortunately it turns out my testing was not working because my DHCP server was not working correctly on my [...]
It must be a sign of my age or something like that, because yesterday was the first time for a long time that I’ve not been able to solve a problem with windows! I was trying to fix a computer for a relative, what you would expect to be a simple problem that it was [...]
A really great review from the register of the last decade or is it the last decade! Anyway a great read about how things have changed in the world of technology. How the mighty have fallen and the once little start-up seems to be taking over the internet. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/noughties_review/
Well its taken me almost 6 months but I’ve finally found a flaw in my lovely iPhone! With all the “cold weather” that has hit the UK I’ve been having to wear gloves when being outside (understandably) unfortunately the iPhone does not work when wearing gloves. So the screen on an iPhone works by noticing [...]
Looks like the Millennium bug hit 10 years later than expected… after thinking about it last year I thought the next one was going to be a long way off but turns out it was 2009 -> 2010. Looks like a number of companies and countries have been effected by problems when everyone was shouting [...]