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Posted by Rob at October 25th, 2005

Posted by Rob at October 24th, 2005

I can’t believe that a certain person, who shall go unnamed, doesn’t fully understand how Windows Share permissions and NTFS permissions are used.

Posted by Rob at October 20th, 2005

10. It’s Isaac Newton’s birthday.
9. I couldn’t decide whether i is the square root of -1 or i are the square root of -1.
8. I accidently divided by 0 and my paper burst into flames.
7. It’s stuck inside a Klein bottle.
6. I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook.
5. I had too much pi and got sick.
4. Someone already published it, so I didn’t bother to write it up.
3. A four-dimensional dog ate it.
2. I have a solar calculator and it was cloudy.
1. There wasn’t enough room to write it in the margin

Posted by Rob at October 18th, 2005

I’m conducting a poll to decide is people think that banning dihydrogen monoxide is a good idea.
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Posted by Rob at October 18th, 2005

English Rules of Thub
English Rules of Thub (sic)
Here are some rules of the english language
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Posted by Rob at October 17th, 2005

After the mail server crashing last week I’ve hod a load of people wanting to move to Outlook.
So as the “Computer Center” seemed incapable of configuring Outlook automatically I decided to take a look at doing it. It took me a couple of hours to find out a few ways of doing it and to get a web page setup to actually do it.

So now when some one asks me to configure Microsoft Outlook for them I can just tell to goto a webpage and do it their self. I just send them to http://newman.ad.hull.ac.uk/outlook

So much easier then having to go down to a users office and try and catch them in.

Posted by Rob at October 16th, 2005

quoted from The HTML Hell Page

“Best viewed with…”
Ah, yes, “Best viewed with…” — surest sign of an incompetent web designer (unless it’s one of the parody buttons from the Viewable with Any Browser campaign). This kind of lameness is not just bad taste, it makes the site actually unusable for the large numbers of surfers who happen to be using something other than the designer’s favorite browser. Unfortunately, the sort of people who do “Best viewed with…” is also usually way too stupid to get the point if you try to explain that HTML is supposed to be about device-independence — so pull them by the guilt-strings and point out that blind people surf too. If that doesn’t work, club them to death with a chair leg or something. No court would convict.

Posted by Rob at October 16th, 2005

Can you believe that a mail server at a major institution crashed last Monday, 10th October 2005, due to a few emails being sent. Yes the mail server crashed after one department tried to send out a measly 21 thousand emails!
How bad is that the server can’t handle that small number of emails, and that even when it can’t handle the load it still keeps accepting more emails until it crashes!

Posted by Rob at October 10th, 2005

WHERE DID THE TIME GO?

What have you done with your life? Spent it sleeping or working?

Take this test and found out.

Posted by Rob at October 8th, 2005

thegeneva.com ? Husband 1.0
Recently I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed that the
new program began making unexpected changes to the accounting software,
severely limiting access to wardrobe, flower and jewelry applications that
operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. No mention of this phenomenon was
included in the product brochure.

When did my Girlfriend 3.0 upgrade? Did she even check that the hardware can handle the upgrade?