Richard’s Ramblings

When you work with a team of Java developers of varying experience levels, you will often see compiler warnings that are ignored by Java 5 — and thus just as often ignored by the developers who figure that if it isn’t important to Java, it isn’t important for them to fix either. I find the [...]

When you view the Network Map on Windows Vista, you can’t see Windows XP computers on the network diagram. But Microsoft says Vista is not to blame.

I arrived home from work a week or so ago and discovered the oh-so-friendly and wondrous Blue Screen of Death on my Windows XP x64 Dell Precision 470, which bore the foreboding phrase: STOP 0×000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME.

And, speaking of Doctor Who, I’ve spent quite a bit of time over the past 12 to 18 months working on my model of a TARDIS in LightWave, most of the time being a few hour stints of actual work interspersed with many months of inactivity.
This project has had quite a bit of a learning [...]

My Eudora email client started giving me a strange and frustrating error message the other day. Every time I sent out email, a Winsock network timeout error code 10053 showed up in the Task Errors window. Coincidentally, I had recently installed a few other minor applications so it was almost impossible to easily isolate the [...]

There are days when I just don’t like Microsoft. There are days when I hate Microsoft. And then there are days like today when words utterly fail me. What the $#^%$@#$ is wrong with Microsoft?!!