Really? Remove the battery? Twice?
And what happened to apps which gracefully replace themselves with the latest version?
Every time a remove the battery, my Curve takes 10 minutes to be useable.
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To install, first remove the battery. Twice.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010SAP: GUI fail. Behold, the “Easy Access Menu”
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
(The funny scrollbar is because this image is composed of 4 screen captures)
Ok, so which one of these options is to record my timesheet?
Serious GUI fail.
More SAP weirdness
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Following on from my previous post, which described my first experience with SAP, I have continued to be thoroughly unimpressed with this application so far.
Honestly guys, your GUI is shit.
Right click on the system icon, and you get these options:
Both, by the way, kill the client.
Evernote – Was awesome, now starting to suck
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010The 3.5 client is so slow and cumbersome compared to their 3.1 client. Also, after waiting patiently for a blackberry device that supports their client, it fails to install due to an unsupported carrier. Srsly. WTF has my carrier got to do with a free web-based app. Oh, and apparently the Evernote BB app is just a redirection into their website, which totally misses the point of having a notes database on your phone, because, well, err, it isn’t on your phone.
Re-united with desktop after 6 months
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Useful links I’ve used in the last few days to revive the desktop machine after the 6 month hiatis.
- How to disable Outlook 2003 add-ins. Or indeed, just see them.
- How to uninstall Trend Micro Virus Checker without admin password. Although in my case, the reg key was a little different, it worked like a charm.
- Replaced it with AVG…
- Google Desktop Search
- I installed the Enterprise version on the laptop, and I have it indexing my Lotus Notes databases. This allows me to search my current inbox, and all my archives at once, which is something you cannot do otherwise. You can configure it to index any database you like, so the corporate phone list is next….
- Tiny DHCP Server[1]. Using this to do internet sharing with the orange USB modem thingy. Since I want to use WiFi to share the internet with, and since I cannot configure what my WiFi access point gives out as a gateway address, and because windows wants to default to use the 192.168.x.x addressing (which I don’t) I had to install my own DHCP server. This one acts as a DNS server too, so I should be able to completely blacklist certain sites (*cough* doubleclick *cough*). Of course, I could just get a proper firewall setup, but frankly, who has the time for that anymore?
- ViceVersa. One of the best file syncronisation tools I’ve come across. Very configurable. I use a several profiles, each with their own exclusion rules, and tracking databases. After 4 months living out of an external harddrive, the task of re-syncing 400 gig of files is not something for cut-and-paste.
[1] Not freeware.
Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox!
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Remember when Firefox first came out? Mozilla was cool, but heavy. Firefox’s plugins have changed the rules, and even the Man is following suit.
You just plugged something in!
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Why is this important enough to warrent a pop-up? Are we supposed to be glad it noticed? Why else would it tell me that, when clearly I already know….
Explaining the problems of Software using a tree swing analogy
Friday, May 8th, 2009
One panel of the Software Tree Swing cartoon, click for full version
Some background research about the tree swing cartoon here.
I saw this many years ago, and it appears it is many years older than that. I still think it is one of the most succinct depictions of the everyday problems encountered in the software business.
Update: The copyright of the above image has been called into question by Paragon Innovations. Although, the link provided initially seems to indicate that the idea pre-dates the artwork, nevertheless, credit where credit is due.
Evernote
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009I’ve been trialling evernote, and it seems pretty nifty, it not perhaps a little insecure.
But it’s better than Outlook notes. Of course, I’ve known that for a while, which is why I was using Phatnotes which was awesome when I was running a WinCE smartphone. Now that I’m a crackberry addict, I need something else. Plus, Phatnotes had no way to sync different databases, or even compare them.
The most slick feature of Evernote is the OCR ability, even for handwriting. So need to remember that awesome wine at dinner? Just take a picture, and upload it to your evernote account. Nifty.
Must be time to clean out the registry….
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008The LinuxHater has very good points, a lot of the the time, and about a lot of things. I was actually starting to get used to the idea of not running a Linux desktop.
After the big computer rebuild, the machine was running better, but still had some slow areas.
I realised it had accumulated a lot of cruft! Lots of badly un-installed software that you thought you had uninstalled, there were a tonne of services starting up that just no longer required at all!
Well, that’s no real difference to something LinuxHater accused Linux of having to do: namely, get stuck in and maintain your distribution.
I actuality, I wonder if the LinuxHater really runs windows at all, something I’ve always assumed, and I bet I wasn’t alone in doing so.
Update: Turns out he does, a Ubuntu desktop
Because honestly, sometime I really hate computers. You know? Why can't they Just Work. This is usually when people tell me to try a Mac. I've thought about it so much, but I never quite get to the point of actually doing anything about it.