My Vodafone 3G modem arrived today. This worked properly one one of my laptops, but did not work at all on my main Dell laptop. I eventually rang Vodafone support, and they got me to uninstall the driver, and then …
This morning I have been busy with a couple of tasks. Number one I have been backing up my PC onto the network. This is running in the background, and the program I am evaluating looks quite good. I am …
Speaking to a friend this morning revealed an interesting story. This friend needed to test Voicemail functionality. This is fine, and is part of his job. There was only one problem. He needed to get a managers approval for this …
I have been looking for backup software for my computer. I want something that I can back up the HDD and send it to a server, scheduling it as required. I found AllSync, but somehow it MOVED my backup files …
I have needed to do some hardware repairs on a tracking unit. Strangely, both units had the same problem with them – both had a faulty LED because a miniture resistor had been damaged. I could not (and still cannot) …
I went for a short run this morning – only probably about a couple of KM. I wanted to build some speed rather than build distance. It was good to have a chance to run since I have not been …
I am going through my emails after a couple of days building with little chance to catch up on such things as well as a few days before that being flat out. So I had an interesting collection of things …
I think it is time to get a new cellphone… Once more last night driving home I needed to reboot my cellphone when it would not connect to the bluetooth hands free in my car. More correctly it thought that …
When I bought the HDD I got a SATA drive… Serial ATA. Less wires. The only problem is that I do not have an adapter for power. So this will be connected up in the morning when I get a …
Today has been good… Let me explain… Firstly, I needed a new computer monitor for a project I am working on. I was going to get this through mail order, but it turned out that Richard needed to return a …
Firstly, Burce Parens has an interesting story in his Blog about how Richard Stallman was accosted by security at the WSIS Internet conference in Tunisia. Richard Stallman started one of the huge open source projects, probably starting the open source …
BoingBoing has once again a cute link to a site… It is to the FrogReview site that has two frogs reviewing web sites and the like. It has a good review of the ticketmaster site, and I guess when things …
I guess it is time to get some emails replied to before I start work on the plane. I just have so many things to follow up… I am not sure what we will be doing on the plane, but …
I really do not think I have got much work done today – of the work that I wanted to get done anyway. I did get the work done which I described here earlier, but I had other things I …
This morning amongst other things I re-mounted my E-Tag. A week back I got a new mounting kit for it since the previous one had fallen off. Unfortunately this one just did not stick. This was not good. After thinking …