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Samsung Instinct appears to be full of fail

Robert Moir — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:17:22 GMT

Coming from a snark on John Gruber's site about Samsung's instinct going head to head with the iPhone in a hundred million dollar advertising campaign, I find the Gizmodo article with videos of the two phones side by side. And I have to say what...(read more)

Round-up

Robert Moir — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Building a Media Centre

Robert Moir — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:46:41 GMT

As anyone who takes even a cursory glance at this site will know, I've been critical of Windows Vista for a very long time ( way before it became fashionable to bash it! Who says I'm not a trendsetter?). With Service Pack One being released I...(read more)

Windows XP SP3 - What I've found so far

Robert Moir — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:13:07 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows XP SP3: Pretty damn good actually. Windows Live Installer: Sucks like a vacuum.

Robert Moir — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:21:00 GMT

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...(read more)

In the Meh-sh

Robert Moir — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)

You know what would be even faster?

Robert Moir — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:02:00 GMT

I found this post on Lifehacker via Kurt Wismer , someone whose comments I've kept an eye on for since I started reading the alt.comp.virus newsgroup, which is quite a time ago now. Kurt seems to have the habit of annoying people by simply speaking...(read more)

Exchange 2007 SP1 migration: Troubleshooting OWA issues

Robert Moir — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:28:00 GMT

I'm going to make a note of issues I've encountered with the Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 migration at work, and which didn't have immediately obvious solutions. It's been far too long since I posted anything that wasn't a thinly...(read more)

Just because you're used to an abusive relationship, it doesn't make it OK.

Robert Moir — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:23:00 GMT

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...(read more)

FDisk is back, now with a GUI interface.

Robert Moir — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:06:00 GMT

Microsoft have released a new tool to render your Vista installation (even more) unusable and hence prod you into moving back to XP or buying a Mac. More info here . I'd love to give a serious review but the laptop we use at work to test Vista / simulate...(read more)

iPhone to support Exchange ActiveSync

Robert Moir — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:28:00 GMT

Apple have today announced that along with their SDK to allow developers to produce 3rd party apps for the iPhone they have also been working on support for Exchange server. How about that, I guess I was right . Doesn't the list of things Phil Schiller...(read more)

Netscape Navigator to die (again?) on Feb 1st 2008.

Robert Moir — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:37:00 GMT

Ah the death of Netscape. I remember it well and I guess I'll miss it, a large part of computer history and my own too I guess, so goodbye and thankyou Netscape Navigator. Just finished reading this blog post on wired that reports that Netscape Navigator...(read more)

More Interview Tips

Robert Moir — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:53:00 GMT

As a long overdue follow-up to my interview tips article from 2006 (yes, I said it was an overdue follow-up, heh) I'm going to address some of the most common points and questions that have come up since then. Some of these are based on comments I've...(read more)

Internet Explorer 8 announced. No one appears to care.

Robert Moir — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:16:00 GMT

So with great fanfare*cough*, Microsoft have announced the next version of their web browser , which will be Internet Explorer 8. Didn't see that one coming! Dean Hachamovitch, manager of the IE team, has some fun with 'alternative' names...(read more)

Waiting to switch...

Robert Moir — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:39:00 GMT

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...(read more)