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VLC Cache Rant
The first time this ran it took for freakin’ ages! This should take less than a few minutes What the hell is that supposed to mean? Less than a few? 73 minutes perhaps? Rant over..
Annoying Vocalists in Great Bands
I was listening to some Lamb of God this morning on the way to work and I came to the realisation during the track “Dimera” from the album “Burn The Priest“, that I really can’t stand the vocalist(Randy Blythe). By comparison to all the members of the band, he is definitely at the bottom of the “skills list”. I mean, those guys are really talented, they pull of some pretty…
Why we don't choose MSSQL!
Everybody always raves how great Microsoft SQL Server is, and how much data it can hold, and how much bigger it’s “package” is than your own. But the truth is that I hate it with a passion! I use RDBMS‘ on a daily basis and never used to hate MSSQL so much until recently when I had to modify a very large site that was built in Classic ASP(yuck) and…
Royal Mail – Royal Fuckups?
It’s right when they say that the Royal Mail is quite bad. I had a package delivered to me this past weekend and a collection slip was left for me to get it from the depo 48hours later. I arrive 45hours later and am told to either come back later or the following day, so seeing as though I do have a day job I return the next morning at…
Turbo C++ in DosBox for Windows 64bit
I had to compile a C++ application under a DOS environment and was running Windows 7 64bit. Firstly, Turbo C++ is a 32 bit x86 application and therefore will not run when initialised from an x64 environment. This can easily be solved by installing the DOS Emulator called DosBox. One can then mount the Turbo C++ folder as a drive and install it under a subdirectory. e.g. mount c c:\PathToMyTurboCppDirectory\…
Component Inspector in Flash has ISSUES!
I discovered a very annoying bug in the Flash IDE a little while ago, and it has happened to me quite a few times. Today it happened again and so I write this post.. While in the Flash IDE you select a component on the stage, then you click “Component Inspector”. This opens up into a modal window which is nice and everything BUT…. …..if you then give focus to…
HP Pavilion Laptop Madness
I have got an HP laptop and have started experiencing problems with it starting up for the past few months, it is only about 1.5years old and is supposed to be a decent one. It is an HP Pavilion dv9700 by the way.. Today the damn thing just didnt want to startup and eventually after trying every trick in the book I got it to boot into Degugging Mode in…
Microsoft apps never care!
I often seem to have this issue when dealing with Microsoft software. You click “Cancel” and it just carrys on going, so you click it again a few more times and instead of it just stopping in it’s tracks, decides to rather tell you it’s cancelling and then shows a cancelling dialog box for the next 10 minutes! Cummon guys, that’s not very professional!
I hate desktop email clients
I used to use Mozilla Thunderbird to handle my pop emails accounts and then I started experiencing performance problems when doing almost anything. My email inbox contains a good few thousand items at any given time. I decided to change to Microsoft Outlook 2007 as I had used a previous version in the past and it seemed to lag a hell of a lot less. After installing it I had…
UK Police are Ponces!
Today as I was driving to work along the London roads I looked in my rearview mirror to see a bus in the buslane stop a few metres behind me. There was a car with it’s left wheels in the buslane. A few minutes before seeing this I had seen 2 police women standing at a bus-stop. The bus could obviously not get past as it had stopped and the…
