Archive for the ‘Technical’ Category
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I find it amazing that a new, professional site has the following message on a main page:
Please ensure pop-up blockers are turned off for this domain.
People block pop-ups partly because of advertising abuse, but I imagine it's increasingly because the popularity of tabbed browsing allows the user control of the ...
Posted in Technical, Work | Comments Off on Not unblocking pop-up windows
Friday, June 6th, 2008
A few months back I was having trouble with UKFSN, my hosting provider at the time. Part of the trouble was not being billed for my hosting account, which, along with other problems, pushed me to move my hosting package to Memset instead. I sent a couple of ...
Posted in Technical | Comments Off on Minus three months' notice
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Switching from the EU server to the US server in City of Villains meant I had to fiddle with my game installation a little bit. At least, it would have meant a bit of fiddling had I been running Windows. Instead, as I am running Crossover Games on ...
Posted in Gaming, Technical | Comments Off on Deleting a saved command in Crossover Games
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
My DVD player was getting lazy. Whenever I asked it to wake up and play a disc it would often hit the snooze alarm and sleep a bit longer. Sometimes it would hit the snooze alarm many times, not waking up for ages. It was quite frustrating. ...
Posted in Technical, Video | 2 Comments »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
I found a new bit of functionality on my iPod Touch at the weekend. I was turning on the wireless connection so that I could check my e-mail without needing to power-up my desktop machine. To save power, I keep wireless turned off until I need it, and ...
Posted in Audio, Technical | Comments Off on Tapping sliders on the iPod
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
My iPod Touch's battery lasted me the whole of the four-day working week between recharges. Okay, so Friday is generally a half-day, but it's a lopsided half with a longer morning than afternoon, so I tend to get home only a couple of hours earlier than normal.
I hadn't intended ...
Posted in Audio, Technical | Comments Off on iPod Touch battery
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Here's the dilly yo. The renewal date for my domain was due recently. Normally that isn't a problem, as I pay someone some money and retain control of the domain for another year or two. However, as the first automated e-mail I received about this was from ...
Posted in Technical | Comments Off on Hosting hassles
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
It's at times like these that I would rather I were a bit more knowledgeable about various internet services. I'm currently unsure whether I have gone wrong in setting something up or if I just need to wait for DNS records to propagate.
Right now, the best thing I think ...
Posted in Technical | Comments Off on A little shift
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
My Google Reader subscription has now picked up the feed for this blog. It didn't before today, and that may have been because I was using a release candidate of Wordpress, whereas now I am using the full release, although I would have thought that the RSS link would ...
Posted in Technical | Comments Off on RSS feed activate!
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
This is mildly interesting: if I include the OpenDNS servers in my internet configuration I can connect to my MSN Messenger account in Adium, but then I get DNS problems connecting to this subdomain, which means I can't view my own blog some of the time. If I remove ...
Posted in Technical | Comments Off on DNS troubles
