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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewAug 21, 2018
Why I’m moving from MacOS to Windows
Over the past week I’ve been moving my primary development machine from a Macbook Pro to a Surface Book. I will write up some of the detail of actually switching, however this post is essentially because I keep answering the same questions over and over again on Twitter. Therefore here it is for those who...
On life in generalPooters
Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewMar 23, 2008
Dear lazyweb – what should I do with all this email?
I get a lot of email. I currently have 9 different email accounts spread across work and personal stuff, the important email all is IMAP (on my own server) with list mail being spread across gmail accounts and some POP accounts on my server. Not only do I get a lot of email every day,...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewDec 6, 2006
Bedework
Congratulations to my Dad – Mike Douglass – and everyone working on Bedework, an open-source institutional calendar system, on winning a Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration. The awards were presented on Monday 4th December by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The Mellon Foundation’s Press Release gives details of all award winners, and there are photos and more...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewMay 1, 2005
Syncing the Nokia 9500 Communicator with Tiger
I was disappointed to see that my Nokia 9500 wasn’t supported by iSync, however a bit of searching this afternoon turned up this thread on Mac OS X Hints. I just replaced every mention of 9300 with 9500 and it all worked beautifully. It goes without saying that making a copy of the file that...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewApr 20, 2005
Mac Mini
In sympathy for my advancing years my very lovely boyfriend bought me a Mac Mini for my birthday. It’s so tiny! The Windows desktop it is going to replace is a Shuttle, so not exactly a monster of a thing, but you could stack 5 Mac Minis in the same space. First impressions are good...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewMar 14, 2005
Moving offices
It has been admittedly a rather long time since I posted here. The main reason for the hiatus was moving my business out of my home office and to new office premises. This all went fairly smoothly although it is very strange to not be working from home after three and a half years of...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewFeb 6, 2005
hardware hell
Thanks for all the great comments on my post Convince me to get a Mac. I actually saw the Mac mini in real life last weekend at the Apple Store and they are every bit as lovely as they appear in photos … I may just be convinced … and I fear that the other...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewJan 15, 2005
Convince me to get a Mac
My main issue with switching to Mac has always been cost. I don’t like laptops to work on all day, the iMacs are funny looking and the towers complete overkill for most of what I do – which is essentially to edit text files all day. However the Mac Mini is a great price and...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewAug 11, 2004
TheOpenCD
If you are a Windows user and interested in trying out some Open Source software without needing to scour the web, then you might like to download TheOpenCD, which is a collection of open source and free software that runs on Windows.
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewMar 2, 2004
Fixed the random rebooting problem
The computer that had rebooted itself on Friday was fine all day and then the second I turned the monitor off yesterday – it did it again. Turning off your monitor really shouldn’t reboot your machine should it?! It was then I realised that plugged into the USB hub in the monitor was my Sharp...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewSep 18, 2003
Why is my computer so slow?
I installed XP Pro on my Windows box a couple of weeks ago. I’ve managed to de-uglify it but my main problem is that my machine, which ran perfectly quickly under Win2K, now crawls. It’s not the newest machine in the world (Athlon 1.4/768MB RAM) but it should be able to handle XP … I...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewAug 13, 2003
Don’t click on the blue e
Despite the fact that it crashes, it’s ugly and it doesn’t have half of the functionality of Firebird, I still have a kind of nervous twitch that causes me to open Internet Explorer while I’m sat at a computer running Windows … it’s like a strange compulsion to click on that little blue e. Today...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewAug 12, 2003
The RPC Server is unavailable
I was just looking through my server logs and found a large number of search requests coming via Google for The RPC Server is Unavailable, the reason you will have found me through this search is because of a very old rant, indexed by Google on the older incarnation of this site and can be...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewJul 9, 2002
Linux in schools
When I read stuff like this, I have to wonder why schools are so tied to Microsoft software. When there are alternatives. It irritates me that an already underfunded school system is being made to pay out stupid money for licensing fees – when a lot of the work that the computers are needed for...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewDec 27, 2001
new toys
I haven’t posted the last few days due to having a new Linux box to install Debian and KDE on… yum! Give me 2 weeks before I’m moaning about it refusing to work… actually I still have to configure the sound card so make that two days. I came across this site this evening. Lots...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewNov 4, 2001
argh Linux!
I’m at it again… regular readers may already be aware of the fact that, every so often, I feel the need to attack my stable, well configured Linux box and attempt to install something that I don’t fully understand. I use Debian, but I also use KDE, which isn’t supported by the stable release of...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewOct 31, 2001
Gah! Pooters!
Does anyone have any idea why an otherwise perfectly healthy computer would just randomly reboot every now and again? Sometimes it goes for a couple of days without doing it. This afternoon it has done it 6 times in 15 minutes! I’m fairly convinced it has something to do with power supply to the motherbord...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewJul 25, 2001
argggghhh.. stop it!
The SirCam virus is driving me mad! For the last two days I have watched as vast attachments slowly download to my various email addresses. I’m not daft enough to open one so virus infected I am not – I think the damage from this one will be as mail servers grind to a shudering...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewJul 8, 2001
Monday Monday
The ‘where to put all the pooters’ problem was solved by a trip to Ikea and the purchase of another desk. My bedroom now looks like mission control but at least I have reclaimed my dining room table for eating! My new pooter is really nice, and fast. I’m awaiting the delivery of a new...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewJul 3, 2001
More pooters … must have more!
The pooter count increases. Drew’s new ickle imac “for testing.. no, its NOT a toy” has taken up residence on my dining table, my new machine is still awaiting its memory before it can be put together… and there is an Amstrad on its way (I found one on eBay – yay!) I have no...
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewJun 23, 2001
whirr .. whirr .. whirr
This is the noise my Linux box is making as I install Apache, MySQL and PHP in order to have a play with the PHAkt server model for Dreamweaver UltraDev. whirr.. whirr… crunch crunch…
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel AndrewMay 25, 2001
amstrad computers
anyone know where I can get an old amstrad… just for old times sake really. The first pooter I had any experience of was an Amstrad CPC 464 that was bought when my little sister was born to distract us from prodding the baby I think! My dad had a CPC 6128 which was closely...
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