Bob Cringely wrote (found via Stowe Boyd): Facebook is a huge success. You can’t argue with 750 million users and growing. And I don’t see Google+ making a big dent in that. What I see instead is more properly the fading of the entire social media category, the victim of an ever-shortening event horizon. […]
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I have to hand it to McAfee for their courtesy and even their tenacity, but phone calls at weekends (and then failing to call at rescheduled times) are getting ridiculous. When I file a bug report, I like an acknowledgement that things are being worked on, and that’s great. But considering I’ve spent […]
While I still can’t get into TelstraClear’s support site, one tech has been responding to my feedback-form messages and following up—so I don’t have the difficulty of the telephone, where I have to start from scratch with people there. And, because Daniel Borgshammar at TelstraClear is a intelligent guy, he’s managed to get to […]
Read More… from Progress at TelstraClear; not sure if you could call it that at McAfee
Some very interesting errors on the internet today. Facebook blocked an innocent link about the price of electricity in Scotland, from The Scotsman, because it was deemed ‘abusive or spammy’. Maybe Scottish accents don’t go down well in California. Hang on, didn’t they import Craig Ferguson? I am told by Colvin Inglis on […]
Read More… from Facebook hates The Scotsman, and other xenophobic bugs
This one hasn’t happened for a while (over a year), and, the last time I blogged about it, I managed to solve the issue—after putting up with it for years prior to that. (The solution before December 2009 was to wait for the computer’s foul mood to pass—hardly scientific.) Unfortunately, this fix no longer […]
Read More… from Errors abound in the New Zealand internet as government flip-flops again
I wonder if peripherals are getting better. Although I spent 26 hours getting a wireless network up here, it was thanks to Jethro Carr on Twitter, one Facebook friend, two real-world friends, two of their friends, and one forum that got it up and running. There are a few things that don’t work […]
After this issue with Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, I went to the McAfee forums to record it so others knew. The McAfee volunteers and tech support guys have, in the last while, been fantastic. There’s one volunteer there, Peter, who’s always been right. So I would be foolish to ignore their advice. You […]
Read More… from Internet Explorer 9 can’t even display Microsoft’s own page
I was prepared to put up with the epic fail of IE9, since I hardly use the program. In the years I’ve had IE8, I’ve only opened it accidentally (e.g. when certain programs are removed, they load IE for the ‘Why did you remove it?’ customer screen). But I forgot one thing: some programs […]
Read More… from The epic fail called IE9 has consequences for other programs
A while back, I came across Benjamin J. Heckendorn (a.k.a. Ben Heck) and his Commodore 64 laptop. This is a quite a fascinating machine, considering the actual “portable” 64 Executive was a heavy beast that could kill if hurled at you. While Ben took the 64’s odd colour, keyboard and 64C’s motherboard, his is structured […]
Read More… from And now, Ben Heck makes an ‘Atari’ Xbox 360 ‘1977 edition’
Since discovering that Firefox 4 Beta 13 is stable, I have spent less time with Firefox 3·6, the buggiest, most oft-crashing program I have ever used in 30 years of computing. But I used it today enough times to net myself five crashes, though this is above average. The ‘unmark purple’ bug that plagued […]