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Some people are easily pleased

Just found Ed Bott's report of the "crapware" free laptop that Sony have given him to review (thanks to John Gruber/ Daring Fireball ). I'm glad for Ed that he's so happy, and this is certainly a big improvement over the last time he got down deep with a Sony laptop, but I've...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 07-21-2008
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
Round-up

I just wanted to quickly gather up some links to articles I've found interesting of late. First of all, Claus Valca has some great posts over on Grand Stream Dreams. I want to draw your attention to a link roundup and comments post Claus made a week or so ago because of some interesting stuff he's...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 05-05-2008
In the Meh-sh

So it seems the fruits of Ray Ozzie's labour at Microsoft are starting to appear in public at last. And I for one say "Your point being...?" I'd love to link to their blog at this point to let them explain it, but it seems that their .live.com server is knackered at the moment. Bodes...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 04-26-2008
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
Boycott Mac Heist. It really is that simple.

As if they didn't already have a bit of a reputation in some parts, it seems the people behind MacHeist have really decided to sink as low as they can this year. If you're involved with MacHeist in any way, I'd like to take a moment to thank you. I wondered if you were all as big a bunch...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 11-28-2007
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
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
More WGA madness

Well it seems people won't stop complaining about WGA no matter what. Wonder why that is. I would be really interested to break down the list of complainants to find out what portions are made up of the following groups People who'll moan and whine about anything Microsoft do (sorry dudes I meant to...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 06-30-2006
Robert's WGA FAQ

Why should I install this latest version of the infamous Microsoft program dubbed 'spyware' by various respected online publications such as PC Advisor and Softpedia ? Good question. I certainly would advise against it unless you absolutely needed to. In fact this is good general advice to be honest...

Posted to Someone Else (Weblog) by Robert Moir on 06-27-2006

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