Ramblings, ideas, problems, and solutions

Category: Operating systems

  • Give me one bar, make it do more!

    I have said it once, and I’ll say it again; I love my iPad. It’s light-weight, instant-on and, most importantly, for the most part, it just works. However, there are a few frustrations, some of which I’ve mentioned previously, such as what they did to the rotation lock switch.   Now, most of the time…

  • Welcome to the party, Microsoft

    Like many, many others, I have been urging people to stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer for years. Finally, Microsoft is starting to come around to part of our argument, and has launched a website called IE6 Countdown. Welcome to the party, Microsoft. My biggest problem with IE is still the fact that it is an…

  • 2010 roundup

    Almost past us, I think it is time to take a look back and take stock of 2010, and see what the year brought. Exciting product launches: The iPad, easily among the top ten most anticipated new products of the year, was announced in January, and hit stores in April. I got mine in September,…

  • Give me my rotation lock switch back!

    or: how I think apple should have changed things.   I recently installed iPhone OS 4.2 on my iPad, and generally speaking, I’m happy with what I’m seeing. I like the folders for programs, and I think multitasking was inevitable.   One thing I don’t like is the fact that my screen rotation lock switch…

  • The iPad and videos – an app review

    One of the things I immediately thought of when I got my iPad was how it would do when it comes to video playback. Now, according to the technical specifications, Videos, the built-in video player is able to handle both .mov and .avi. On trying to transfer .avi-files, however, I was told that the format…

  • Taking screenshots in Mac OS X

    My fiancée has been using a Mac for close to a year now, and it’s a pretty nifty machine, I’ve gotta say. However, things are fairly different to what she, and I, are used to. One thing she does fairly often, is take screenshots, which she had a bit of trouble with until we figured…

  • BitLocker asks for BitLocker Recovery Key at restart

    Having gone from Windows XP to Windows 7, we are seeing a rash of new problems. One of these is that a lot of our users are unable to boot into Windows, as they are prompted for a BitLocker Recovery Key. The temporary fix for this is simple enough; look up and tell the user…

  • There’s an app for that, or, my must-have apps for the iPad

    I simply adore my most recent toy. A slim and slender device the iPad is a perfect example of what product design can be when you put your mind to it. However, the iPad is just the platform, without apps, it has very little value in and of itself.   There is a plethora of…

  • The iPad reviewed

    First off, I know I said I wasn’t going to get an iPad. That decision was based on the hype and buzz about it, after laying hands on one myself, though, I’ve got to say I was simply wrong. Probably not about my concerns, as I still feel they are valid, but about my decision…

  • Resolving “Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API” errors

    This error message has had me running around for a while now. Some of my users are part of the salesforce, running SAP Mobile Sales on Windows XP computers with Microsoft SQL Server. It’s a big and complicated setup, but it has been running stably for years now. The problem only occurred with users running…

  • Resolving “File in use” when moving or deleting a file

    A while back, I opened a file to see what it was, then decided to move it, at which point I got a “File in use”-error, preventing me from moving, deleting or renaming the file. Luckily, there is a fairly simple solution to this problem:   I’ve written about Process Explorer before, and I still…