Just in case anyone is looking for gainful employment: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/news/110-full.html

Just in case anyone happens to be interested or knows someone who is looking, two computing support positions available:

Windows and Mac Systems Administration
Network and Infrastructure Projects

This post is for anyone who, like me, has googled for phrases such as "consolekit.getseats request failed" or "daemon exit: live and let die" in an attempt to find out what's wrong with their system and not ended up finding anything useful (except, hopefully, for this post).

( The rest of you can skip this. :-) )

… when, during the course of your job, you have to ask someone to clear their cache and have to resist the urge to just point them at FAQ  160. Or the tutorial (which I've just now noticed is out of date because it doesn't cover Firefox 2).

While I'm here:

User interfaces we have hated #76 ( Read more... )

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About three weeks ago one of our research groups took delivery of an expensive serverwhich went into our machine room. Although it's from Sun it's based on 64-bit ( Read more... )

I have a Belinea LCD monitor next to me which, when it has no signal (for instance when the computer goes into DPMS screen-saver mode) flashes the whole screen red, green, blue, white and black in repetitive sequence with a period of about two seconds. It's only been doing this since yesterday. Has anyone seen this before, and is it something I ( Read more... )

The other day I phoned the automated Debenhams account line. A recorded voice on the other end said "Sorry, this service is no longer available" and hung up. It seems they've fixed it now, but I registered to access the account online anyway. They will apparently send me a user ID and a passcode, one by post and one by email.
A day or two later ( Read more... )