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When I was a lad – you read the newspaper for news, you talked to neighbors to network and find the local gossip, you watched TV or went to the Cinema for movies. Nowadays, it’s all done on computers and it’s us programmers that create, nurse and stroke this things called computer programs. How you …
Feb 2014 Update — If you are here looking for details on how to fix VPN failure after doing a Windows8.1 or Windows10 upgrade then use Windows Troubleshooter to Change the mode to Windows compatibility 1. Right click VPNUI in the Cisco install folder. (for example “C:\Program Files (x86)\Cisco\Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client\”) 2. Choose Troubleshoot compatibility. …
A mysterious energy has been unearthed by a team of scientists in Europe. The origin and purpose of this force is unknown, but some researchers believe it is influencing the way we think. We must control it or it will control us. This world around you is not what it seems. Our future is at stake, …
Peep show… peep show… bloody brilliant … nuff said Arguably my favorite laugh-out-loud sitcom of all time. Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb and it filmed from the unusual ‘through-their-eyes’ point of view. You can also hear the thoughts of the person who’s eyes you are looking through. Saying …
Wordle is an excellent website for a some serious lunchtime cyberloafing. It basically takes any string of text, parses it and creates a nice little word-cloud graphic with the most used words. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently …
Tinkering with one of my wordpress sites I noticed that Jetpack was unable to connect. The WordPress Jetpack Error says “Server unable to connect with my site http 404” which is nicely vague. Luckily, the excellent support guys over at ICDSOFT quickly gave me the solution: 1: Log into the control panel obviously your control …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Life, Programming
IBM i System Reset Button Breaking news from a medieval insider at the IBM laboratory rochest’r, mn – in ‘rd’r to bett’r competeth with the growing competition from microsoft s’rv’rs, ibm plans to installeth a big r’d did reset button on the newly did announce pow’r systems and changeth all ibm i op’rating system ‘rr’r …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Life, Programming
The AS/400 does not exist anymore Discussing a data interchange process with a software vendor today (who shall remain nameless), they told me: … our product talks to AS400 but I don’t think it has experience of iSeries or IBM i…. Customer Support Bloke for XYZ Company *sigh* I am not telling you the company …
“Remember, you are on the West Coast now. You are expected to have and use at least one of these….surf board, sail board, skate board. Walking is permitted only in unusual circumstances. Generally, you should be running, biking, skate boarding etc. to get from one place to another on terra firma. That is just a …
Modernizing RPG Programs – Learn the RPG History first I had email email from an old work colleague this morning. He was a windows programmer, with limited exposure to RPG, but works in a company that is driven by a huge, old, complex RPG3 application that has changed little over the last decade. He is …
Rev. Rev. is a delightful comedy starring Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman. It’s about a Church of England priest who comes to an inner city flock in London. It’s funny, dark and magnificent. One of the finest British comedies to come out of Britain in the last few years. Pramface Pramface is another BBC comedy …
PRINCE stands for PROjects IN Controlled Environments – The PRINCE2 MASTERCLASS teaches project managers how to grab the PRINCE2 tiger and shake it by it’s tail. Prince2 is a structured method for effective project management. It is a process-based approach for project management providing an easily tailored and scalable method the management of all types …
