Day to Day Log

Having had a nice day out yesterday, despite over 7 hours in the car (more in a rant), I sat down this morning to check a few facts. I was looking to check up a little more of my own time line, but first hit was my involvement with Firebird. I had been using it since the fort from Interbase, so when Mozilla tried to mussel in on the name I was quite vocal that it WOULD cause a conflict. I tried using Mistral to establish a few facts, but it quickly became obvious that facts are something that…

If it's not one thing it's another. Broadband has been out in Evesham for 4 days finally being restored yesterday. At least I should now see some automatic compensation, but having been without broadband for 6 days in the last three weeks I feel that 2 days compension is just a con? While the fibre was down I was using the phone's hotspot to at least stay in touch, but that can't restore the fixed IP address and websites. In any case the whole reason I had to get fibre fitted…

Post to The Register and I've also posted in the Intel situation thread 'IBM only made two mistakes with the PC'. Follow up ... Another Register Post

To add to the fun with the broadband, the desktop computer has been throwing a wobbly with one of the monitors randomly going blank and then coming back. I think the problem is the computer end as swapping the monitors, the problem moves. While it was just the odd flash a day I could live with it, but yesterday is was the odd flash of display. Swicthing the displayport to HD from 4k has made it stable, but just why is it causing a problem now, almost 9 months since I set the machine up. I am…

Hopefully all back up and running again! 48 hours after it first went down. Had a few restarts of the new router only one of which I instigated but need to see if there is any problem for the rest of the day. NOW I need the returns envelope that was supposed to have been shipped with the new router and get the bill for the new one cancelled!