Damien Hayes

Windows 7 RTM.

damienhayes0 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:53:38 +0000

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/22/windows-7-has-been-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

Check out the link. Be interesting to see if Microsoft can improve on the DISASTROUS Vista! Would not be hard really! Suppose it could work out Vista users will see the changes in 7 as a dramatic improvement to Vista and think its the bees knees when actually it might be a slight better modification to the XP build! Well, were going to find out soon enough!

Official Security Update for Internet Explorer out now.

damienhayes0 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:27:24 +0000

Microsoft just released the official security update for Internet Explorer to address the serious browser exploit that it is experiencing currently,so if you’ve running IE it would probably be wise to download it!

The patches are accessible in a variety of different downloads depending on what version of IE you’re using and what OS you have, some of the downloadsare not all done yet, but I presume they will be there shortly!

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical [Microsoft]

High Resolution Quailty Wallpapers

damienhayes0 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:16:10 +0000

A great place for high resolution quality wallpapers:

http://interfacelift.com/

Contains 1000’s of pictures from some of the worlds best spots taken with high quality camera’s!

Urwerk UR-202 – A serious watch!

damienhayes0 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:19:36 +0000

The Time on the UR-202 is displayed using telescopic minute hands operating through the middle of three orbiting and revolving hour satellites!
The telescopic minute hands precisely adjust their length to follow the three vectors marking the minutes: 0 -14, 15 – 44, 45 – 60. Extended, they enable the UR-202 to display the time across a large easy-to-read, dial. Retracted, they allow for a very wearable and comfortably sized case; thus providing the wearer with the best of both worlds.

The UR-202 is also the world’s first wristwatch featuring an innovative new winding system regulated by compressing air utilizing minature turbines.

The UR-202 available in red gold, white gold, black PE-CVD platinum and ALTiN

And who said watches just tell the time! It’s a bit more advanced than my €5.00 watch!

Good late night Music!

damienhayes0 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:49:57 +0000

Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia, two brilliant French DJ’S and muscians! Good music to get lots of ZZZzzzzzz’s to!

Classic!

JBL Creatures II in Black = Awesome!

damienhayes0 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:05:03 +0000

Best Christmas Present I ever got!!!!!

The first track I listened to was Daft Punk -Da Funk! The room was shaking! Suffice to say I cant listen to music using internal speakers or with out a sub woofer anymore!

SPECIFICATION

Speaker System
Input Impedance	>5K
Signal-to-Noise Ratio	>80dB
Frequency Response	50 – 20kHz
Input Sensitivity	400 mv rms for rated power output
Voltage Input	120 VAC
Satellite
Drivers	One Odyssey Plus transducer
Power Rating	8 watts per satellite at 10% (THD+N)
Dimensions (H x W x D)	3″ x 3″ x 3″
Subwoofer
Drivers	One 4.00 inch Magnum transducer
Power Rating	24 watts at 10% (THD+N)
Crossover Frequency	180Hz
Dimensions (H x W x D)	9″ x 9″ x 9″
General

For the price €80.00 its very good qulaity!

Tesco Carton Orange Juice! How stupid?

damienhayes0 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:34:40 +0000

Okay I know this is petty and probably not worth posting about? But my girlfriend did our weekly shopping in Tescos yesterday and purchased some small cartons of juice which I availed of this morning! Only problem when I wnt to pierce the carton with the straw it just crumpled and snapped! I was very peeved off 10 minutes to get to work and this happens! So I grab another one and same thing happens! The straws were crap beyond belief! Safe to say no OJ for me!

So stupid!

My question:

Was it just a bad batch I got or is it with the lower prices in Tescos are they cutting costs on production and manufacturing quality to be competetive?

Some problems with working in IT?

damienhayes0 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:38:48 +0000

I received my daily dose of tech republic emails which I’m not to fond of but keep subscribed to none the less as to keep updated to any major changes in certain IT divisions. I did however come across an interesting article by by Jason Hiner, Editor in Chief called Tech Sanity Check.

Basically what are the most frustrating aspects of working in IT for a company. Here’s a few of my personal favourites:

1. Users confuse IT with magic

TechRepublic member Eric from Colorado pointed to the problem of “Wildly unreasonable expectations, i.e. IT=magic.” He wrote, “Non-technical end users think you are a graduate of Hogwarts instead of some place in the real world. Typical end-user expectation: ‘I would like access to the last 10 years of my email, with all attachments, instantly searchable and with no performance lag – and I expect you to make this happen on my Pentium II… Anything less means you’re an utter incompetent.’”

Very true sometimes users and clients have unrealistic expectations on what a PC or a person is simply capable of, Sometimes we IT folk need magic wands to perform some requests!

4. People assume you’re an expert in all things tech

When you’re an IT worker, non-techies tend to assume that you know everything about all tech subjects. For example, if you’re a help desk technician you get questions about how the company’s Web site is built. And if you’re a Java developer you can expect to field questions about how to deal with spam and spyware on an employee’s machine.

Getting asked to fix laptops has become a weekly occurrence for me with users arriving at my desk whilst having my lunch with there laptop in hand which is not even theres but they thought you would have a look as your in IT. “Il buy you a pint at next Staff outing”, yeah right take a jump melon head.

Or walking to canteen you get stopped two to three times by people with requests to fix something thats not your responsibility. Log a help desk ticket and wait, do I interrupt you on your lunch and ask you questions NO! Go away…..

And my personal favourite:

5. You get a lot of fingers pointed at you

When error messages pop up and system outages occur, employees and managers quickly start pointing fingers at IT and the pressure is intense to get things fixed quickly to keep users from losing productivity. That’s part of the job and you have to always be prepared for it. In fact, some IT pros even get an adrenaline rush from this type of high-pressure stakes.

The problem is that IT pros hear loud and clear when things aren’t working, but they rarely get much appreciation during the other 99% of the time when systems are running smoothly.

So so true, a press breaks ring IT, the lights are gone ring IT, My chair is uncomfortable ring IT. You have to take a Zen like approach to these requests with some tongue in cheek humor to move past this.

Working in IT often requires Kid gloves it’s not all bad the projects keep you going but the helpdesk world is always difficult. IT and human inadequacy is bound to have breaches of intelligence, organization, structure and technical ability. Question is Is it worth the pain.

I work in a small office where the users are all easy going and friendly so I am lucky in this respect but its the bigger offices with the large staff numbers are that can be problematic!

The Private Repress !

damienhayes0 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:46:44 +0000

What an album! Better than the Private Press maybe? Remixes from Soulwax,unkle,roots manuva, mos def and yours truly DJ Shadow? Originally acquired CD at a CD sale in my hometown with a bonus DVD that was brilliant but lost it, I downloaded it again from the very highly regarded Torrenttech.org which has the best electronic and house downloads on the web! Anything stellar in the electronic musical world you will find here:

www.torrentech.org

Some great guys here aswell with all the top info? I just cant say enough about it!

Anyway favorite tracks are:

six days (soulwax mix).mp3
gdmfsob (unkle uncensored) feat. roots manuva.mp3

Brilliant stuff!

It does not get much better than this!

WordPress Themes

damienhayes0 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:03:54 +0000

Having not blogged in quite a few months I have to say word press has come long way, functionality and usability has greatly improved, probably the best I have ever seen it!!!! : ) One small thing though I would love more themes to be available, I know if I had my own domain I can do this but its so handy and FREE using wordpress.com! Please more themes bucket loads of them! I change my desktop wallpaper weekly Id like to the same with my blog with wp.com!