Next!!! Got the new version of the Restore CD from Compaq, started the restore process, and wham! Crash-ola! Blue Screens, illegal operations, unrecoverable errors. Guess it wasn’t old versions of the cd that caused the crashes, eh? Well after running through various diagnostics for an hour or so with Andy, from Compaq, (who was actually…
File-swapping case may break new ground They may have a case, Napster did have a central server and was designed to share MP3’s, many of which they knew would be copyrighted. These guys are simply distributing software that can be used to share copyrighted materials, but can be used for many other things as well….
Well, well, well turns out that we don’t have the latest version of Compaq’s Restore CD, that would be why a quick restore I was trying to do today kept crashing. Well, either that or there’s a hardware failure, they’re not really sure. Great! At least they are overnighting the new version of the Restore…
Finally got some pics from New York uploaded. Including the pics that really made the reality of the World Trade Center tragedy hit home for me. Yeah, there’s a couple of pics of the area, from a distance, with the smoke still rising, and the damaged buildings around it, but it’s the pics from a…
Monday, Monday. Actually today hasn’t been too bad, the new and improved security policy was rolled out this morning to staff, so today’s been busy answering questions, explaining to people what they need to get rid of, and why. We’re really working to root out unlicensed software, and spyware that’s gotten into some of our…
ACLU: Face-recognition systems won’t work Now let me get this straight, the systems would have only stopped 2 of the 19 terrorists, maybe, if they worked perfectly and the CIA had good accurate pictures of them. The system only works about 90% of the time, meaning hundreds of people everyday are going to be misidentified…