Year: 2006

  • Web perils advise switch to Macs

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    Funnily enough, as I’ve been complaining about scan, scan, scanning on PCs Sophos have commented that Macs are safer, and are likely to remain so for some time. BBC News article

  • New Shoes

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    I’ve been getting bored again recently. I’ve had to put an awful lot of hours into my job for the last couple of months to ensure that the students will be as prepared as possible for an upcoming exam, and because I’m organising two modules at once. Consequently I’ve had neither time nor appetite for…

  • HRH Visit

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    Pretty much my only view of the Royal visit today: Swansea University webcam from home.

  • Coke Zero

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    I have a bit of a coke problem. In that I often drink too much of it, and it contains far too much sugar. There seems to be a new branding thing here, but I’m not sure how this differs to Diet Coke. It doesn’t taste too nutrasweety (or maybe that’s just because I drank…

  • Pre-Royal Visit

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    The University is full of police searching the grounds today, before tomorrow’s Royal Visit. We had a fire alarm this morning so the Fire Brigade turned up too. Almost a full suite of emergency services.

  • Tour 06

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    OK, so the football has finished (for England). Did you *really* think we’d make it all the way this year? Anyway, England left the tournament just in time for the start of the Tour de France. Get your live info updates from Eurosport, a live online video feed from rtl.lu (if you’re very lucky), your…

  • Sun, beer and jenga

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    A sunny weekend, spent with good friends in Cardiff. Excellent.

  • Scan scan scan (cont)

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    Naturally, after yesterday’s network installation of new virus scanning software to my work PC nothing works now that I’ve rebooted. I’ve spent most of this morning either waiting for File Explorer to wake up or trying to view an Excel sheet. I’m seeing a lot of those joyless “(Not Responding)” tags on the end of…

  • Hosting Limits

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    For the first time I had an automated warning email this morning, telling me that my hosting space is about to reach it’s transfer limit. I have a 10GB transfer limit on the server space that I rent for a bunch of websites (including this one) and this is normally plenty. The culprit is cardifftri.net,…

  • Scan scan scan

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    I’m not PC bashing, really I’m not, and I do understand some of the problems of running the same operating system as 90% of the rest of the world. You see my office PC has just had a network-delivered install of Symantec anti-virus software. This is on top of the Windows Defender beta, Zone Alarm’s…