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- IT related Short Story (12,428 words) available free for a week
- Here's your chance to get a story free, an IT related short story is free for the next week - should end about 27 August 2007 - depending upon time zones (yep i can't convert them right) the offers is a few days old already. Look for it on the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Deadly Ernest, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-08-19
- Web Based Office Operations - no way, not by anyone with any sense.
- I know Google and many others are busy developing web based applications to allow you to do all your business over the web - but anyone who uses this type of set up is asking for big trouble. Sure this would be good for the home user who may need...
- Tags: Word processors, Channel management, Web technology, Microsoft Office, Deadly Ernest, Microsoft Word, Web, server
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
- Hey, here, it's 10.25 am Friday Yuk time
- I don't know if they carried it in the Reader's Digest elsewhere, but the Australian issue had an interesting anecdote.A fellow is out with his girlfriend who works in a computing environment, seems she like a good joke.The waitress takes their order and starts to walk away, a couple of...
- Tags: Deadly Ernest, Fairy Godmother, Cinderella
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- OK 7.15 am on Friday Yuk time - Hear about the blonds who wanted
- to die their hair?........They bought bottles of peroxide.
- Tags: Deadly Ernest
- Discussion threads 2007-06-07
- Ok, it's Friday Yuk time as it's Friday here. Starting with Disk names
- I was talking with my son about drive letter and names and their usage. we often use Drive D for Data. we looked at some that should just be what they are because they're just right. It varies if you use the word disc or drive and the order you...
- Tags: Deadly Ernest, disk, OK IT, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Only Microsoft would do this - Win XP doesn't recognise Win XP
- I'm in the middle of fixing some computers for a friend, she has two PCs bought at the same time. One has Win XP Home full copy, the other had Win 98 when bought and they gave her a Win XP Pro Upgrade disc with it. She didn't bother loading...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Deadly Ernest, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Hey TT, I have a lot more sympathy for you and the walkers now
- On Monday I headed to Sydney via Canberra. 3.5 hours drive to Canberra, did some business there, stayed overnight, 4 hours to Sydney the next day. Drove all the way. Came back via Canberra on Thursday. Stayed at a hotel well out of the Central Business District CBD.My plan for...
- Tags: Deadly Ernest, bank
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- Friday Yuk -Proof of Global warming -I'm off to my execution this afternoon
- 1.......It's Friday morning here in Australia (12.03 am), so I'm starting the Friday Yuk. If it's not yet Friday where you are, you're not allowed to read it yet, come back when it is Friday. Bloody time traveling people - stay home.2.......Seriously people, I've found some true scientific research on...
- Tags: Deadly Ernest, Friday Yuk, global warming
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- DRM = All you base belong to us, and the treble and the vocals too
- I was talking to my son tonight about a problem with DRM, you know that thing from the USA, Digitally Ruined Media is what it must stand for. Anyway, as we talked I realised that DRM means they own the base, the treble and the vocals soDRM = All you...
- Tags: Deadly Ernest, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Insert foot in mouth and pay the PS3 bounty
- One aspect of all these media hypes on game machinesand any other thing, that i find very interesting - is that they either show the stats as raw figures of sales, or raw figures of dollars taken. I often wonder how they'd come out if done on the basis of...
- Tags: Deadly Ernest, hardware, off-topic, geekend, Sony PlayStation 3
- Discussion threads 2007-02-16
- Advice on Linux program please
- I'm seeking a program to assist with file management by amending file names in bulk groups. Imagine a folder with all the files labelled claim01.rtf, claim02.rtf, claim03.rtf etc - I seek a program that will enable me to identify the folder or highligh
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Deadly Ernest
- Discussion threads 2006-12-27
- If the USA government was serious about political correctness
- and removing everything of a single religious basis they should pass laws that make it unlawful to have any religious based holidays - if you want it off it comes out of your annual leave or is leave without pay. So all those religious based public hol
- Tags: Deadly Ernest
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- A few thoughts for Remembrance Day
- I'm Australian, and for over 100 years Australians have left our shore to fight overseas. They did so, in the strong belief that they were combating something evil and wrong. For most of that time, the soldiers were volunteer militia, later some were c
- Tags: remembrance, war, off-topic, poetry, military, WW2, Deadly Ernest, young men
- Discussion threads 2006-11-08
- Help wanted to identify 3D animation software
- OK people, I'm seeking some recommendations on 3D animation software, for use with LINUX forget Whinedoze that'll work on a 64 bit system. I don't care if I have to pay for it, as long as it works.Please tell me of the programs that you know abou
- Tags: 3D, 3d animation, 3D-animation, 64 bit, Blender, Deadly Ernest, F/OSS, Linux, Maya, off-topic, programming, software, tool
- Discussion threads 2006-10-11
- Dealing with telemarketers, and getting your own back
- While reading the thread on likes/ dislikes of the new web site, I read a few comments on telemarketers, and had a thought about hwo to get back at them.In many countries you can rent a Premium line where people pay a dollar or two per 30 seconds t
- Tags: Deadly Ernest, income, off-topic, telemarketer, telemarketing, telephone
- Discussion threads 2006-10-11
- Katrina - reprise - three questions
- Katrina - reprise - three questionsOK before the two questions. I just finished watching a Discovery Channel special on Katrina. It mostly dealt with the problems at the Super Dome and the Convention Centre, and the delays in relief support. I got the impression that many people saw the problem...
- Tags: government, Katrina, bureaucracy, emergency, Deadly Ernest, off-topic, Tracey
- Discussion threads 2006-08-20
- Hey have any of you guys, and girls, noticed the TR
- humour on the discussion lists. try reading some consecutive discussion titles as if they are one sentence. I love the New Discussion and Hot Discussion list, they get some beauties.OK 11.32 pm Aust East Standard Time, Friday night 11 Aug 2006, from the hot discussion list'Dealing with past felony' 'God,...
- Tags: class act, Deadly Ernest, humour, tr, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2006-08-11
- Don't limit it to Windows approved signatures
- because much of the software that needs to be loaded will NOT have MS Windows logo signatures. For the home user, the most common thing they will be loading is their games, patches and upgrades - few now have the MS digital signatures. The system should not be limited to...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-06-17
- Review of some Linux installations
- Review of some Linux installationsG'day humans and others,OK first off, this is NOT a definitive review of all the Linux systems. I have been looking at what is easy to install and use for the BASIC level END USER that is technically illiterate - you know the type that does...
- Tags: Fedora Core, Microsoft Windows, Linux, ease of use, reviews, Deadly Ernest, Fedora Project, software, Linux Installation
- Discussion threads 2006-05-16
- No offence meant, but,
- No offence meant, but,How do I get vomit out of a keyboard?Cynic n: One who, upon smelling flowers, looks around for the funeral.When I am done laughing with neilb(you ARE laughing, aren't you neilb?) :) I will say thank you for this, Ernest. I, of course, love it!(And you KNEW...
- Tags: Tech Support, Customer, installation, help desk, joke, love, Deadly Ernest, off-topic, neilB, Tech-Support
- Discussion threads 2006-04-30
