Posts by Ade

Three-alarm fire bakes Apple facility

Jobs on form

I had heard that Steve Jobs had a reputation for legendary firings....

...I'll get me coat.

Ofcom cracks down on London pirates

SHOUT OUT TO THA OFCOM KREW!

In ya face, literally.

Dell makes exploited hamster cry

A critique of industrialisation over the animal kingdom?

Surely the squirrel is trying to escape the inevitable destruction the Dell sponsored bullet train will blaze? Isn't this a sensitive yet critical comment on the rampant nature of industrialisation and a plea to the world to think - for once - about God's little creatures?

I imagine this isn't quite the marketing hook Dell are looking for, even if it does look like it was made by a GCSE art student.

The 'blem wit' error messages

Recursive errors

A colleague of mine was at pains to use a Windows box to build some software we were working on. We had to test audio playback but the card in the machine hadn't been installed properly. So he installed the audio drivers and restarted Windows, and on boot-up, there was a problem and the driver could only play the first tiny fragment of the Windows startup sound, which was cut short and followed by an error message dialog saying the sound driver couldn't play the sound.

The funny bit was that this error message dialog was accompanied by the Windows alert sound (alert.wav), which was similarly truncated, and resulted in a second error message dialog, triggering another truncated alert.wav, and another error message dialog, etc... etc...

Most amused by this, we left the poor Windows box filling the screen with error dialog boxes and went for a long lunch.