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Author Archives: James McParlane
Running Microsoft Live Messenger Under Server 2003
If you just try and install it normally from the Microsoft Live website, the installer Bork’s and tells you that its not for Server 2003. Its just that the installer does not work under the 2003, not Messenger itself. The solution … Continue reading
Posted in Downtime
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A Little Bit Of A Bug In TeamCity
If you set up a TeamCity server, don’t tell it to check out your project into a path that is root of a drive. Don’t Try This At Home Drive You would think that checking out ModuleX into “Checkout Directory” C: … Continue reading
Finished The Latest Ian M. Banks Culture Novel
Matter by Ian M. Banks May contain spoilers. Thank goodness because its been 8 years since the last novel featuring The Culture and I was beginning to give up. Mind you I consider “The Dwellers” from The Algebraist to be the “The Affronters” from Excession … Continue reading
Posted in Downtime, Faster Than Light
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Homebrew Wii Games
My first “post” of the year – work has been keeping me very busy. Looks like there is a lot happening in the world of Wii homebrew 🙂 http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2008/how-to-homebrew-wii-games-73-tips-tutorials-and-resources/
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Why People Won't Accept Nuclear Power
Pebble bed reactors will be safe and available in 20 years. We will be left with the moral question of who disposes of the waste, the country that used the fuel or the country that mined and sold it, and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Rants
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The Irony
Got a report that by blog has stopped working in Firefox. “Bad Element in position 1,1” Tested it myself and all I got was Blank page. I decided – now was the time to upgrade to the latest version of … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Sladen Is Still Hawt
Elizabeth Sladen is to me, what Felicity Kendal is to Rick, The People’s Poet When I was a lad watching Dr Who, Elizabeth Sladen (Who played Sarah Jane Smith) was certainly one of the sexiest things on TV. After watching the 2007 pilot for … Continue reading
Posted in Me Myself and I, Rants
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As I And Everyone Else Predicted – Games Consoles Now Used For Super Computing
I remember 15 years ago talking about the logical progression of gaming hardware and predicting that consumer demand would end up putting superior performance in the games consoles, and then they would then be used for “evil”. The future is weirder than we … Continue reading
Posted in Coolhunting, Faster Than Light, Hardware, Rants
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Facebook's Beacon
There is an unwritten social contract between we the punters and social networking sites that make money by data-mining our activities and targeting ads at us. That contract is essentially that we will let them have our personal data in … Continue reading
Posted in Rants, Web2.0
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