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I’ve recently noticed a bug in Firefox 3. If you subscribe to a lot of blogs you’ve probably noticed the RSS symbol on the right hand side inside your Firefox address bar.
The feature is very useful because, when you go to a blog or a news page, you can quickly and easily subscribe via your feed reader.
A good case in point today. Software ran just fine on Windows XP but the move to Vista stops the software working.
First conclusion: the software mustn’t be compatible with Vista. Wrong! It was nothing to do with Vista. It was the anti-virus software running on top of Vista that was causing the problem.
For reasons best known to BitDefender, it thinks the protocol used by Sensatronics for retrieving the temperature readings looks like the Yahoo messenger protocol. The only thing the two have in common is that both use XML over HTTP.
A few pictures from around Otley, West Yorkshire on a snowy day in December 2008.
Over the last couple of years we’ve donated around £2,000 in order to be Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) registered.
In the same period how much toxic electrical waste have we saved from landfill? None. Not a single solitary chip or board.
Why don’t we all just admit it: WEEE is just another tax and a dumb tax at that.
…to be hosted with all of its brothers and sisters over at wordpress.org. The new hosting facility over at Wordpress provides a much better environment for the widget where it can be version controlled properly.
…by Grig Gheorghiu over on the Agile Testing blog: The sad state of open source monitoring tools.
I wish there was a standard nomenclature for this stuff, as well as a standard way for these tools to inter-operate. As it is, you have to learn each tool and train your brain to ignore all the weirdness that it encounters.
One of the problems with I.T. is the absence of a standard terminology. It would make things a lot easier if everybody used a standard set of terminology. Kinda hard to see how this can be imposed though. I guess over time a standard terminology will just evolve after the industry has matured a little more.
The Tech Teapot is two years old today. Now we’ve got 13 categories, 334 posts & 412 comments.
A selection of some of my favourite posts from the last year:
Thanks to Chris Garrett for his advice and for co-founding the local Wordpress in the North group. Also thanks to Alan over at The Open Sourcerer, Matt Simmons and John M Willis for commenting here and for putting up with my comments on your blogs.
One of the things that has surprised me about running this blog has been the number of people who subscribe via email.
John Naughton has created a great post outlining the development of the recession in Google Trends. My suspicion is that Google Trends will also show the upturn before anything else too. I wonder which searches will be diagnostic of the upturn?
In the early nineties I managed to time my emergence from college to exactly coincide with the beginning of the last recession.
It wasn’t a nice time. Jobs were in short supply and the jobs that were advertised were usually deluged with applicants.
Newly qualified people are bound to feel a downturn the hardest. You don’t have a track record, your skill set may not exactly match what is required by industry. In addition, people with work experience, who’ve been made redundant, start applying for entry level jobs.
