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Re: Our online lives slowly leak away

DaleWiseFaq — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:08:33 -0000

Robert, I think you've pretty much nailed it. Multiple copies in multiple places, perhaps on different storage media types. Such as Hard Disks and DVDs and "the Cloud".

I personally would not trust tape for long term archival backup, as I have always worried about being able to read the data back.

Re: How to open the Seagate FreeAgent Go External Drive.

DaleWiseFaq — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:50:53 -0000

Yes, it's SATA. In particular it's 5400 rpm Seagate Momentus 5400 drive.

Re: Where’s the gang of 2,000 who controls tech hype hanging out today?

DaleWiseFaq — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:36:15 -0000

"... you can influence this group a LOT easier than you can influence the old-style journalists"

I'm hoping you don't mean payola here Robert.

Re: Real time comments will piss off pro bloggers (at first)

DaleWiseFaq — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:32:34 -0000

Technogran, there are a number of "push button" Wordpress hosts out there, which makes things easy.

Whether Disqus would be your best choice for a commenting system is another thing. I use Disqus, and there is one or two things which erk me about it.

Re: How many PCs can you image with SMS 2003 in a night?

DaleWiseFaq — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:44:16 -0000

Well yes, that is true. But if you're doing bare-metal installs, your advice does not apply.

Which is what I was getting at, in a round-about way.

Re: If I was a traffic cop for a day,

DaleWiseFaq — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:51:48 -0000

You're right :-)

Re: The Good, the Bad, and the “Git Off My Lawn, Boy”

DaleWiseFaq — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:04:15 -0000

The X1 is available via Telstra as well. They have a demo one at their Bourke Street Melbourne store.

Would love to do laptops. Getting someone to lend me four current model laptops is going to be difficult through :-(

Re: Tilt, Cock, Lock, Look

DaleWiseFaq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:56:12 -0000

Indeedy.

Re: Blah de blah blah

DaleWiseFaq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:51:44 -0000

Migr8tor,

It's worth a follow-up post, that's for sure.

Using line counts gives a raw figure, which allows management to say, we've got 200 KLOC which we need to work on, with 80% of that in module form, that we just need to touch once (ha!).

Tools can highlight the obvious issues, which require attention. But not all of the issues. That will still require a programmer to review the converted code to ensure it works. Y2K code changes on a HUGE scale.

IMHO, the best way way forward for us, would be to get an expert in to convert the code to .Net, and work with us on any functional queries (ie. it looks like you're trying a do XYZ, it that right?)

Regression testing. Yes, testing is where we would be spending most of our time.

Thanks for calling past Migr8tor; I hadn't heard of greatmigrations.com before, I have some reading to do :-)

Re: I’m not the only one annoyed with HP’s UPD print driver.

DaleWiseFaq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:18:47 -0000

Josh,

Yes that's the theory. We've been working with HP and Novell since at least August.

The solution for us is UPD 5.0.x and iPrint 5.12. We've tested it with the UPD 5.0 Beta driver, and it works very well.

We're in a holding pattern until then :-(

Lanier/Ricoh have also gone UPD as well.

Re: Why we ran the biggest ICL shop in the Southern Hemisphere.

DaleWiseFaq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:13:07 -0000

Not sure which piece of junk you're talking about there.

I worked at Clayton occasionally. I remember we had to leave the IBM 3800 Laser print room door open, as it would cause too much heat buildup, and trip the fire alarm.

Re: Being short $10 dollars

DaleWiseFaq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:09:05 -0000

I like the idea of walking out, and returning. Might do that next time it happens.

Re: More like giving a baby a loaded shotgun.

DaleWiseFaq — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:06:08 -0000

Some of the stuff I've seen would make a good set of posts for the thedailywtf.com

Re: HP Universal Print Driver – shame it doesn’t work with Novell Netware.

DaleWiseFaq — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:29:10 -0000

"HP Universal Print Driver (UPD) works very well with Novell."

No, it does not.

As I explain here:
http://blog.wisefaq.com/2009/05/28/im-not-the-o...

Re: It could only happen in?

DaleWiseFaq — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:50:55 -0000

A company which should have know better.

Re: “It’s By Design”

DaleWiseFaq — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:16:51 -0000

There's always one person :-)

Re: “VBA? You wrote VBA code for that?”

DaleWiseFaq — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:16:09 -0000

"Hehe, Ralph screensaver. "

I wondered if anyone would notice that if I slipped it in. There's a story behind why I listed the Ralph screensaver, which I will write about.

Re: Why is it, that only South Africa gets this day???

DaleWiseFaq — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:16:21 -0000

I remeber seeing "somewhere" that there are more events than days in the year.

Re: Why is it, that only South Africa gets this day???

DaleWiseFaq — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:15:35 -0000

"Today I am wearing matching bra and panties."

Well thank you for sharing.

Re: HP lets buggy print driver lurk on web.

DaleWiseFaq — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:14:07 -0000

In short, no.

Re: “They rang me up, and said …”

DaleWiseFaq — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:13:27 -0000

True. The downside is that on occasion we do ask users what their password is, and "Hotandbothered1" makes for interesting times.

Re: “Guess I’m buying my own FIGJAM mug then.”

DaleWiseFaq — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:09:39 -0000

Thanks Rebecca, I've add them to the list

Re: Important Information on the Household Stimulus Package

DaleWiseFaq — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:43:19 -0000

I don't know either there Tina, but I do thank you for visiting.

Re: Not enough memory to complete this operation (adding a printer with Vista)

DaleWiseFaq — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:42:26 -0000

Well you'd be wanting Local first Ed, then you'll be swapping the port to TCP/IP later.

Re: Week of Motorcycling - Day 2 - Track Days

DaleWiseFaq — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:41:21 -0000

Buggered a perfectly good set of (stroked) rims going air-borne over the speed humps in Bendigo Street, Richmond...