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Project Management Template

Quintin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:05:02 +0000

I tend to get myself in a twist when delivering work to clients, since timely delivery and profit are important in the greater scheme of things I have taken the time to draw up a little project management template. I present it here to you, use at own risk, but hopefully it is useful to [...]

A Notice To Everyone Who Needs IT Support

Quintin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:24:53 +0000

This rant was triggered by a client who really pushed the boundary of decency this morning. If you are an IT guy I am sure you can relate, and if you are a person who deals with IT read the story of what happened this morning, and then take note as to how properly treat [...]

A Rebuttal to The Register’s Karmic Frustration Story

Quintin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:38:55 +0000

I have never done this before. As a part-time blogger I have the utmost respect for people with enough passion to write IT on a full-time basis. This is not an attack, yet I cannot sit idly by and not answer this story by Gavin Clarke of The Register. If you read the article by The Register [...]

Going Closed Source Day 7

Quintin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:45:36 +0000

If you have not followed this series from day one start here: DAY ONE Right. I have reached a tipping point in this series. Honestly my experience with Windows 7 has not been all that bad. Has it been good enough to lure me away from Linux and open source? I honestly don’t know at this point. [...]

Going Closed Source Day 6

Quintin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:21:06 +0000

If you have not followed this series from day one start here: DAY ONE 8:20 Start my day with my usual tasks, yesterday putty started using my key for ssh, this morning it won’t. And Windows now takes two minutes before I can launch any programs… I have decided that desktop widgets, plasmoids, gadgets (as windows refers to them) or [...]

Going Closed Source Day 5

Quintin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:23:12 +0000

If you have not followed this series from day one start here: DAY ONE A reader pointed me in the direction of Microsoft Security Essentials as an alternative to Bitdefender. Unfortunately it is not available in my country. So for now BD it is. I am looking forward to today, I have just finished breakfast and am [...]

Going Closed Source Day 4 - And a Virus!

Quintin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:32:29 +0000

If (Windows Lockup due to Antivirus scan - more on that later) you have not followed this series from day one start here: DAY ONE My First Virus Alert And now on to the reason for the title to this post. Last night, just before starting to play scrabble with the family, I decided to install some [...]

Going Closed Source Day 3.

Quintin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:37:38 +0000

If you have not done so, start reading from day one here:DAY ONE Time to take stock Put things into perspective. It is now Saturday Morning, the beginning of my third day of using only closed-source, proprietary software. I am actually looking forward to today, I have sorted out the DVDrom related lockup issues with Windows7. I [...]

Going Closed Source Day 2

Quintin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:15:50 +0000

If you missed day one of my trek through closed country read it here: Day One Right, so day one - getting to grips with Windows, did not go well. Day 2 did not start out good either. I had to go back to Linux in order to do my morning tasks in the office because [...]

Going Closed Source. Day 1.

Quintin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:44:14 +0000

Today I got hold of the release version of Windows 7 Ultimate x64. We are a Microsoft Partner company and we get our hands on these kind of things before the normal populace. Sitting there with 3.2Gigs worth of Windows Vista Problem Solver in my hands got me thinking. I need to try it. But I need to [...]