Category: Software
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Troubleshooting WLW
Suddenly encountering difficulties publishing a post from Windows Live Writer where the post contains an image. Troubleshooting with Joe Cheng at Microsoft. This is a test post to see if it now works if I disable the Bad Behaviour plugin…
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When saying sorry won’t be enough
Ars Technica reports that Microsoft’s anti-piracy service, Windows Genuine Advantage, suffered a global outage on Friday: Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista…
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Retro Mac theme for WordPress
I’m not a Mac user although I did use an Apple Macintosh II from time to time in the late 80s. Seeing this retro Mac WordPress theme brought back some memories: I wonder if there’s one modelled on the Windows version…
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Skype outage and restoring confidence
Even if you aren’t a user of Skype, the internet telephone service, you probably won’t have missed seeing or hearing about the total service outage during Thursday and Friday last week. Service came back up over the weekend and today…
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Understanding OpenID is not easy
Last year, I signed up to get an OpenID. I didn’t fully understand what it could do but I did believe that it would become more important, not to mention useful, to have a means by which you could identify…