Last year I saw online a mention of the passing of Ward Christensen. In reading up about him, I then came across a documentary "BBS: The Documentary", which included interviews with him and many other people who were involved in running computer bulletin boards (BBSs) in the 1980s and 90s. I finally got around to watching the series in the last few weeks and it brought back many fond memories. It was also fascinating putting faces to many names I had largely forgotten:…Read more...
I forgot to mention this a few weeks ago but I passed the AZ-104 - Microsoft Azure Administrator exam, and this means I now have the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification. It's been just over 3 years since I took my last Microsoft exam, and this time there was one thing that was a pleasant surprise, that I wasn't even actually aware to start with.…Read more...
I quite often like to have music playing in the background when I'm working. Double J is my default choice, though I sometimes will pick out an old CD that I have copied onto my Synology, or for that rare time when I'm under the pump then some calming classical music (via ABC Classic 2) is just the ticket.…Read more...
Now that I've got a reliable process for reinstalling Windows, I do have a list of things that I'd like to automate to get it configured "just right". As such, I've created a new repository on GitHub and added issues to track each one of these. While my Boxstarter scripts will remain for now as GitHub Gists, I think it's going to be easier to manage all of these things together in the one Git repository.…Read more...
In theory, I'd like to reinstall my laptop regularly - say every couple of months? In practise, it's easy to keep putting it off. One of the detractions was not just the time to re-install Windows, but also to then install all the various device drivers. So time goes by and next you realise it's been a year or longer.…Read more...
