Author: Happy Resurrection!
In my ongoing quest to rid myself of relying on Windows, I've finally got network printing working from the iMac. Yay!
Online again
Thunderbird is running and I'm online again, as it were. I transferred Cyberduck to the Mac, and now I'm investigating replacement software for all the little things I had on my laptop.
:-(
So yes … the laptop finally died. I now can confirm what I suspected last night: when the Caps Lock and Num Lock lights flash simultaneously, it means the machine is running too hot.
Quote of the week
In response to an article about a rumoured new VW Golf in 2008:
Breakthrough!
About two months ago, during our automation process, I wanted to add in "send a mail" functionality to notify certain parties of certain events in the process, as one does. This wasn't a problem with SQL Server 2000 and DTS, because it has a MAPI plugin that connects directly to the Exchange Server.
It’s time for “Good Idea, Bad Idea”
On the Animaniacs, there used to be a segment called "Good Idea, Bad Idea", which was probably my favourite next to Pinky and the Brain.
Odd day
Today is an odd day at work. Being the beginning of the month, we have several processes that need to run, but there are gaps in between hectic processing of databases and reports that I have a spare moment.
Technology Woes
I think my laptop is dead. It reached three years old and is finally in the throes of agonising component-by-component shutdown.
So how long did that take? 8 years?
From the article on the related link.
Angelo Bagnasco is an obliviot
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