Posts by Steen

Helpdesk/Service Desk Recommendations

a little late but ...

we use spiceworks, its worth a look and it seems to suit our > 200 org.

Judge drops TV ad-block block: So how will anyone pay for TV now?

I've stopped watching most telly because the adverts ruin immersion, they are loud, long, and too frequent. I cannot sit down and enjoy the experience any more.

Imagine if you went to a theater and every 10-15 minutes everything stopped so someone can tell you, in a very exited voice, about some inane product. BAH! I'm finding other things to do instead.

Google Wallet: Rub our button, cough 15p for quick read

Re: tiresome

Those were my thought too. Also I wonder whether its a get rich quick scheme, whereby content is spread over more pages than it need to be. I cannot imagine that refunds won't have a cap, can you? I guess I will stop traveling the inter-webs if there's a toll everywhere I go. Not made of money me and starting to feel very discriminated against on the grounds of financial barriers to accessing information.

Google will ignore your Wi-Fi router ... if you rename it

Google freetards!

I would like to be able to charge a fee every time someone uses my services for location purposes. Only fair I think.

McAfee offers cash for clunkers

Happens far to often with McAfee

In all the years its been an AV they have always peppered their updates with random faux pas.

Save DAB! Send FM radios to Africa

Is all this digital stuff

really appropriate technology? DAB radio stutters and coughs, can't listen to my prefered station because the signal is weak. My aged tranny lives in the bathroom and keeps on going.

Have to admit that I'm a bit deaf , so what will I want with fabulous quality? FM works for me.

I sometimes wonder why we chase all these new alternatives without considering whether what we have does the job.

Steve Jobs uncloaks the 'iPad'

Never buy new ..

or rely on a Beta, let someone else spend the cash and do the hard work. There are plenty of alternative appliances at that price and I could get a fairly decent laptop for the money.

Microsoft U-turns on Exchange Server 2007 support

Exchange 2010?

Damn! I thought 2007 was the latest version, to much to soon, thank goodness Exch 2003 still works well.

Martha Lane-Fox: No broadband, no citizenship

Tax!!

ISTR that once you post your tax online you can't go back to the paper version. A bit tough if you ain't got no internet. I think thats what they mean by citizenship.

BBC Trust moots new licence laws to cope with net

License for my computer?

........ Never saw that coming.

BBC iPlayer upgrade prompts new ISP complaints

A bit sad ain't it?

Watching Cory Enders repeats on your 'puter? What will they be showing on TV if the repeats are on the net? I wonder why we need iPlayer at all, I certainly cant find the time for it on TV let alone on my laptop. So who wants this?

Retailers risk libel nightmare over 'no-work' database

@job for life

1. Get on this database (without actually committing a crime.)

2. Leave job.

3. Apply for job elsewhere (Where they will use this database.)

4. Be rejected for job.

5. Wonder why?

6. Repeat 3 to 5 until sufficiently depressed....

There something smells of Kafka here

Software pirates put sizeable dent in UK economy

Billions......

.... used to shore up Northern Rock, billions wiped off the values of shares, billions written off in credit crisis......... with that kind of perspective I don't think I care much about the effect that piracy of software has on the economy.

Going for broke.

Microsoft spits out final XP service pack, beta version

Hardware is catching up tho'

I've seen a few Vista laptops and desktops since its release, most of which were slow performers to the point that they were almost unusable. Generally they had been sold with 512Mb ram, some sort of dual core processor and inbuilt graphics. Minimum spec, not nice, not clever, not suited to Vista.

Anyway, I recently saw a Vista PC with a E6750 processor, 2GB ram and a NVidia 8600GT 512Mb. Using the onboard graphics, the performance was ok but not good with games, adding the the 8600GT improved performance significantly to make it very usable. The performance index jumped from 3.6 to 5.6 on the Vista performance-o-meter.

Vista needs loads of memory, at decent processor and motherboard, a decent Graphics card and fast disk access, all of these together.

XP needs lower specced hardware to give a comparable performance at a lower cost, theres the rub! As I see it, there are a lot of functioning computers out there that will not run well with Vista even with some changes to the hardware, XP can work well on these machines in most cases or just by adding more memory. I'm speaking about Windows but Linux is another option.

I guess that a year (Two?) down the line, fewer people will complain much about Vista performance as they will be running it on better hardware which will by then be cheaper.