I write a lot of documentation as part of my day job. Often, this means I have to use Microsoft Word, because that’s what every business has and expects their doco to be in Word .doc format. This sucks for many reasons that they don’t care about. People really suck… Read More
You’ve spent 10 minutes crafting an email. You’ve explained yourself well. You’ve been erudite, concise, clear, and yes, even witty. You hit send. And realise that you didn’t add the attachment. The attachment that is a vital part of the email. That is very obviously missing from the email. Sound… Read More
Firstly, some disclosure: I do a lot of work with NetApp kit, and have a close working relationship with them. In the past, I’ve had a close working relationship with Sun Professional Services. SunOS was the first Unix I learned on. I even owned some Sun stock once. Sun have… Read More
Ok, I promised you that I’d explain how to get mobile broadband with the 3 network working in Australia. There some information out there about how to do this, but it’s a bit hard to find, and what’s there can be obtuse. Geeks really need to learn how to communicate.… Read More
I just bought an Asus M50Vn laptop. I was drawn to the Shiny! appearance, and it seemed to have reasonable specs for something just a shade under $2000. Since Asus make the EeePC netbook computers that started the whole netbook craze, I figured it would have reasonable driver support under… Read More
You expect a carpenter to know how to use a hammer, right? And you’d expect that a plumber would know how to use a plunger. An accountant should know how to use a calculator. A taxi-driver should be able to read a map. If a carpenter made mistakes with a… Read More
Yesterday we had a short power outage here at eigenmagic labs. I commented to Auds that I wasn’t worried about it, because my Shiny! New! UPS would have taken care of it. Indeed it did. For the computers that were plugged into it. Alas, the webserver wasn’t, because it was… Read More
Regular readers will remember that I wrote about Apple’s reliance on Steve Jobs back in March of last year. Wired had commented on the way that Jobs ran the company, suggesting, somewhat naïvely, that he was somehow unique in this regard. I pointed out that Apple is far from the… Read More
I’ve been doing a bit of work on ModiPy this week. In particular, I’ve been writing documentation on how to use it. While still far from comprehensive, you can now get a much better idea of how to use it from the wiki. I draw your attention particularly to the… Read More
To phrase this another way: Do you have backups? That work? Are you sure? Having proper backups is your insurance policy against theft, fire, accidental damage, etc. for all of your photos, code, blogs, letters to your parents, whatever. If your house burned down today, what would you lose? Learn… Read More
