29
Dec
2007
0:00 AM

Computer Stuff

Today's entry will be boring, but it's about something that annoys the snot out of me.

I'm talking, of course, about applications that steal focus. This happens primarily in Windows, though I've had apps do it to me in MacOS before - just not with the alarming frequency that it happens with on Win...

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04
Jan
2006
0:00 AM

Bugzzz

I have a bad case of the "Don't Want to do Anything" disease at work today, and hence, had the time to discover the following Windows bug. When clicking a mailto: link (which calls a start mailto:x), the computer spits out the following error message:

Could not perform this operation because the...

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15
Jun
2005
0:00 AM

Conversations with Misinformed DNS Servers

Recently, I had the oppertunity to talk to a DNS server at the hospital where I work. The reason I took time out of my busy day to converse with said server was the inability of the Information Protection department to prevent a particular PC from accessing the internet. On realizing that the IP set...

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