Despite the fact that it crashes, it’s ugly and it doesn’t have half of the functionality of Firebird, I still have a kind of nervous twitch that causes me to open Internet Explorer while I’m sat at a computer running Windows … it’s like a strange compulsion to click on that little blue e. Today [...]
I was just looking through my server logs and found a large number of search requests coming via Google for The RPC Server is Unavailable, the reason you will have found me through this search is because of a very old rant, indexed by Google on the older incarnation of this site and can be [...]
When I read stuff like this, I have to wonder why schools are so tied to Microsoft software. When there are alternatives. It irritates me that an already underfunded school system is being made to pay out stupid money for licensing fees – when a lot of the work that the computers are needed for [...]
I haven’t posted the last few days due to having a new Linux box to install Debian and KDE on… yum! Give me 2 weeks before I’m moaning about it refusing to work… actually I still have to configure the sound card so make that two days. I came across this site this evening. Lots [...]
I’m at it again… regular readers may already be aware of the fact that, every so often, I feel the need to attack my stable, well configured Linux box and attempt to install something that I don’t fully understand. I use Debian, but I also use KDE, which isn’t supported by the stable release of [...]