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Virtual

Some time ago, while explaining the concept of virtual memory to a work colleague, I remembered something I’d seen about twenty years earlier… Between July 1988 and September 1989 I worked at an IBM research lab in Winchester, Hampshire. This was the industrial placement part of my four-year computer science degree. I was about 20 at [...]

The three laws of batch files

1. Don’t use batch files. Really. 2. If it doesn’t work then rem-out the @echo off at the start of the batch file. 3. Nurofen.

Installing 64 bit itunes on 64 bit Windows 7

This has been driving me mad for the past couple of days, and I wanted to give the solution a little Google-juice in case someone else encounters the same problem. If you’re trying to install the 64 bit version of itunes on the 64 bit version of Windows 7 and you’re finding that the installer [...]

Being Mobile

Yesterday I bought a T-Mobile G1 – the “Googlephone”. I haven’t had much time to play with it yet, but it seems like a great piece of technology.The broadband access to email and maps, the user-interface, and the general build quality are very good. I hear it also does phone calls. I hope to have [...]

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