:-(
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.
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.
Angelo Bagnasco is an obliviot
Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, the head of Italy’s bishops, is this month’s obliviot for comparing a bill that would grant rights to same-sex couples to allowing incest and paedophilia. La Repubblica newspaper reported his comments at a meeting of Roman Catholic church employees: “Why say no to forms of legally recognised co-habitation which create alternatives toContinue reading Angelo Bagnasco is an obliviot
Solid-state storage
As predicted*, the first 2½" notebook drive based on flash technology has been released by SanDisk. It currently sits at 32GB and is twice as fast as a 5400 80GB ATA drive. See related link.
Oh Thank God!
Microsoft has acknowledged the Vista bug that I mentioned last week, relating to copying and moving files over the network, and released a hotfix (see related link).
More on technology
Vista on my notebook is still running, but it is a lot quicker since I turned off the search service, and run a defrag every night.
I hate Vista
It was a foregone conclusion, but I put myself through it anyway.