McAfee My first enterprise antivirus experience was McAfee.  We’re talking probably late 1980’s and there was nobody at the company interested in viruses so I figured I’d take a look.  I managed to clean an infection and decided we needed a corporate antivirus and policy, thus Mc...

As you no doubt have read, I’m having hard drive problems with my laptop.  It’s not so much a problem as a total failure but sometimes we like to stay optimistic (or use Classic British Understatement<tm>, even though I’m not British). The hard drive continued to sit the...

Some of you know I worked at Microsoft years ago (’94-’03) as what they call a program manager. In any other company the job would be known as team lead or project manager, and it was an awesome job. When I was hired 1994 there was a cult around the role. Program Managers had a reputatio...

Did you ever have one of those years? 2008 wasn’t so hot.  2009 hasn’t exactly started off too well either. My equipment is after me again.  Maybe the equipment is a proxy for the universe.  Something is out to get me and appears to be doing so via computers. Let’s start off wit...

The time has come, I'm going back on what I said and likely going to pay full price for the 8GB iPhone. I've had my Windows Mobile (WM) 6 SmartPhone since March and at first I liked it, but then I started really using the web and trying to use the device for something other than phone calls, te...

The time has come, I’m going back on what I said and likely going to pay full price for the 8GB iPhone. I’ve had my Windows Mobile (WM) 6 SmartPhone since March and at first I liked it, but then I started really using the web and trying to use the device for something other than pho...

If you want to see what a good old-fashioned internet rant looks and sounds like, Joel Spolsky unloads it for you. He's talking about Microsoft, Ray Ozzie and Live Mesh. It's important to note that Joel used to work at Microsoft, and contributed to what I consider the single greatest app of the PC e...

I am reinstalling Windows on a few of the systems here tonight and things are rapidly getting ridiculous. This is a not-altogether-abnormal household in terms of computer ownership (definitely on the upper side of ownership, but I know families without geeks who have similar numbers of computers, ju...

…although, I wish that trend would come to an end. I couldn’t have been happier this morning, when I read the news that Toshiba had come to their senses and dumped HD DVD. Instead of relaxing on the couch while I sipped my morning coffee, I listed my HD DVD add-on and all my movies on eB...

What did I ask Excel to do? Cut. Fucking Cut. It’s Two-Thousand-and-Goddamned-Seven, and Excel has trouble with Cut. Copyright © 2007 Bryce Yehl . This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only....