Windows Vista, Yes

I started This Action!! I

Resist Urge to Kill

Microsoft Vista:

“Modem Not Recognised”

Assassinate Bill

Microsoft Vista

Doesn’t work with anything

Steve Jobs is Laughing

Take that Apple…

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Spam at work is boring and clogs your in-box. Especially in this workplace.

Course, most of the spam here is internal, sent by moronic idiots people clicking “Reply All” rather than just “Reply”.

I’ve sent a few mail responses (to all just to make the point) since I started here, highlighting – if sarcastically – this habit. For example, in response to an enthusiastic announcement to all-and-sundry that a particular application had been completed, I responded-to-all thus:

Waytogo! I’m so impressed I’ll let everyone know!

Yesterday, one of the big bosses wrote a message asking that people don’t click what I am now calling The SPAM button.

However, it has been ignored by all.

Today, I got bored with clicking delete repeatedly (I’m getting RSI of the forefinger as a result of this), and as tempting as it is to write a message to all dripping sarcasm and pointing-out my current forefinger injury, it seemed far easier (and very Lisa 4.0) to create a catch-all mail rule, which I am calling Team [MYCOMPANY] SPAM.

And it works… oh it works… and in the last 30 seconds it’s grabbed 5 incoming messages.

Finally, something that MS Outlook can actually do without crapping-out.

I am so good, I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

Note for future reference: When having trouble setting-up printers on a PC, use Apple software to fix it!

Bonjour in-fact…

And to install a printer which is connected to an Apple airport network, check this out!

Cop THAT Ballmer, you skanky git!

Restaurant review time!

Check-out the statement at the bottom-left

Another M:Bot find.

DRM is dead. Long may it remain that way…

However, not to be outdone, Sony music (among others) are now resurrecting the long-thought-dead concept of watermarking.

And MS, that champion of the rights of the consumer at its own cost*, has patented El Dorado, which will supposedly remain with music for the length of its lifespan (in the case of most pop music, about thirty seconds after it hits music shops; what’s the point?!)

The death of the music and TV industries can’t come fast enough IMO. Even the movie makers are jumping on the internet bandwagon. 

As a good friend has put it: the patriarchy is dying, best get out of the way.

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* Joke, Joyce.

Well, the official word from MS is this:

Note  The default location is a hidden folder. To use Windows Explorer to navigate to this folder, you must first turn on the display of hidden folders. In Windows Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Folder Options. On the View tab, under Advanced Settings, under Files and Folders, under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders. If you want to see all file name extensions, clear the Hide extensions for known file types check box under Files and Folders. Hidden folders appear dimmed to indicate they are not typical folders.

Now that was simple wasn’t it?  Except this information is bunk; I’ve got Hidden Files and Folders turned on already. Morons.

Tech tips!

• Hate your Windows desktop?
• Running Xtra Problems, Windows 2Krap or any of the other laudable attempts from Microsoft to create an operating system that actually enables you – the user – to actually get something done?
• Wonder about the opposition, and what those mac-heads are really banging-on about when they drool over their shiny new macs and the operating systems thereof?

Wonder no more!

Simply download FlyAKite!

Download the Zip file to your Piece of Crap, extract the FlyakiteOSX executable and run it.

After a quick restart you’ll end-up with this:

…and feel a LOT better than you did.

All they’ve got to do is get the UI buttons on the correct side (MS has the window controls on the right, MAC has them on the left) and fix the Firefox icon (which when you add it to the dock, appears as the OSX finder icon) and they’ll be fine and funky!

w00t!