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Monthly Archives February 2009

Stupid idiot installer

Auughh! I hate InstallAware and/or the way CodeGear is using it. I just got a new computer, a cheap desktop to use as a dev machine, and I’m installing everything from scratch on it. Last night I spent roughly three hours setting up Windows Vista Ultimate and Office 2007. Then another hour downloading and installing [...]

| Posted 28 February 2009 | Antti | Programming | Comments Off |

How cheap can you go

I just bought one new computer, an el-cheapo HP to my office so that I always have a place to do some programming in quiet. It’s nothing special, just the cheapest machine I could find. Now, I know that for a while now, regular computers haven’t come with installation disks of the operating systems, which [...]

| Posted 27 February 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

To inform or impress, that is the question

I just had a weird moment of clarity, almost an epiphany, and I just had to write this down. Don’t worry, you don’t have to read this if you don’t want to, just drive on by. Here’s the thing: the reason why most of the “corporate talk” we see, for example just about everything on [...]

| Posted 26 February 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

Videos, all we see is videos

What’s up with everything on the web being a video these days? Whatever happened to written documents? Sheesh. Who came up with the bright idea to make videos of software presentations, should be shot on sight. You see, when I want to find out if a product does what I need it to do, I [...]

| Posted 20 February 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

Complex passwords less secure?

I had an interesting discussion online with a friend the other night. Their corporation has fairly strict security policies, including password policies. These are all the normal hoops: complexity requirements, length, automatic expiration and so on. Now, it’s a long known truth that the more complex password, the more difficult it is to guess or [...]

| Posted 18 February 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |