(Have been meaning to post this all week) Very sad to hear of the death of Sir Richard Doll. I don’t have anything to add other than what I wrote on the BBC Tributes page, but I’ll include it here just in case that page ever goes away: I work in the Sir Richard Doll… (read more)

Here’s one for you … In this scenario, there are two PCs. Let’s called them A and B. Why? Well, why not … The user of A reported via email that the “PC was generally OK, but became really slow when B was switched on too”. Ri-i-i-i-ght. So, I went off to investigate. A and… (read more)

Given that the W32/Gibe-F virus messages were coming in at 5 or 6 every hour, I was slightly concerned about what Being Away For Five Days would do to my email accounts. Five days worth of messages at 5 or 6 per hour makes around 5*24*5 = 600 messages. At 150K in size each, that’s… (read more)