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October 23, 2009

Trust me…

How can I not post this? Windows 7 is not going to have any of the problems that Windows Vista had, trust me! While I'm at it, there are another two over here: PC News and Teeter Tottering.
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October 23, 2009

The best kind of advertising

I love advertising when I get something out of it. In this case, VW are advertising their new GTI. It will be an awesome car, but that's beside the point. VW have commissioned Firemint to create a customised version of...
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October 21, 2009

Date Orders – DD/MM/YYYY, YYY/MM/DD or MM/DD/YYYY

You'll get crazy Americans that say their middle-endian date order makes more sense because, as they claim, "That's the way you say it - October 21st, 2009"... But is it? They have that most American of all American holidays, the...
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October 21, 2009

Apple – Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

Apple have finally acknowledged that the Xserve is rather overkill for a lot of environments where Apple computers are used. It's hard to see a 5-person design studio dropping the coin on an Xserve plus all the other associated bits...
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October 19, 2009

Broken LDAP Database on Mac OS X Server

I had a client with a broken LDAP database on their OS X Server today. The power had failed and the UPS didn't do it's thing, so the power was yanked from the server. Upon rebooting, things weren't looking too...
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October 18, 2009

Resume: A Tale of Desire, Intrigue, and Formatting

Wow. A software developer with a strong preference for open-source tries and prefers commercial alternatives over open-source for page layout. There are some well reasoned choices made in the article justifying why a commercial font and commercial software was much...
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