Archives
Well, that’s an awful lot of drivel down there, isn’t it? Perhaps you’d like to view by month instead:
In the beginning…
- IT Support, Angry Technician speaking.
- LadiesMan
- The users
- Monday Morning Destruction
- This is why we don’t muck around in classrooms, kids
- Favourites
- Dear educational software suppliers
- How not to vandalise Wikipedia
- Half term
- MrsRobinson
- You couldn’t make it up
- In the industry, this is known as ‘passive cooling’
- How to be a Favourite – #1: Ask us for easy things
- Dear software support manager
- How to be a Favourite – #2: Respect the equipment
- PEBKAC
- The same mistakes
- Have you learned NOTHING?
- How not to vandalise Wikipedia, part deux
- Ticket
- Dear impatient user
- Crush
- How to be a Favourite – #3: Be nice to us
- Trust no-one
- “Of course it will run under a limited user account”
- Reply To All
- How to be a Favourite – #4: Attend the training
- Bond
- Cisco
- Banned
- Pendragon
- Excellence
- Breaker
- Public Relations
- How to be a Favourite – #5: Be an attractive member of the opposite sex
- Yes, you really did break it
- A little housework
- Not my fault
- Blue Screen Of Death
- Jack of all trades
- How to be a Favourite – #6: Be an enthusiast
- Second opinion
- Princess
- The payoff
- Dear indignant teacher
- Not my job
- Getting away with it
- Ingenuity
- “What have you broken?”
- This won’t break anything… oh, except that
- Why go to the trouble of becoming a Favourite?
- Season of Goodwill
- UPS
- Not a good start
- We can’t help you if we don’t know you exist
- There’s always one
- I hate HP
- Federico
- Sometimes I feel sorry for them
- Discipline
- Insanity
- The Test
- On stupidity and arrogance
- Dear staff laptop users
- No, the Internet is not broken.
- Overshare
- All in your head
- A Good Year
- Dear Sun Microsystems
- Waster
- Seek and Destroy
- Doing good vs. Looking good
- “How do I stop school technicians deleting files/folders”
- Antivirus programs are rubbish
- Glue
- Let me Google that for you
- VPN
- Commuting
- Now easier than ever
- Personal Development
- Dear educational software designers
- Only YOU can save them
- Losers
- Dear Google (beta)
- Let’s solve everything with Technology #1
- Patience
- Saving face
- Rubbing it in
- The Confession
- Everyone hates HP
- Smoke machine
- Let’s solve everything with Technology #2
- Delayed reaction
- Dear Samsung
- Do you see this scorch mark?
- Responsibility
- VNC
- How to fix a computer that “won’t turn on”
- Dear Graphic Design department
- Have you done your backups lately?
- This is a real ticket we got today from a student
- Please do not feed the printers
- Not my job #2
- Dear AVG
- 8 different ways to please your technician
- Let’s solve everything with Technology #3
- Adobe: We don’t support business use
- Tanked
- Test Rig
- It really doesn’t work
- Please engage brain before printing
- Things not to keep on your school file server #1
- Lost
- Cheeky
- 6 months off for bad behaviour
- Day off
- Never ask me to do a survey
- Dear reprobate students
- Things not to keep on your school file server #2
- Procedure
- Not how I left it
- I wish I’d thought of that
- Sales
- Things not to keep on your school file server #3
- Easter Zen
- Training
- Let’s solve everything with Technology #4
- Promotion
- HP seriously need to get it together
- Dear YouTube
- Toast
- Time after time
- Anger Management
- Things not to keep on your school file server #4
- Scamming
- Best Windows 7 feature so far
- Memory
- Dear Samsung: I’m Right
- HP ships critical update to partners, ignores paying customers
- It’s not your computer
- Voice Activated Anger
- Graft
- Attack of the fusers
- Dear programmers
- Hurdle
- Way to screw up my 5-year plan, Dell
- A discourse of insanity
- Never let Angry Technician do a BIOS upgrade
- The Case of the Deleted Incriminating Evidence
- AVG, how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways…
- Some things never change
- Nothing is working
- Drunkeness
- “Is the network on a go-slow today?”
- Power
- Hypocrite
- Samsung NC-10: just not tough enough for school
- Expectation
- Skivers
- “I’ve wasted all this time and it’s your fault.”
- The Case of the RESEND UPGRADE message
- Retro computing
- Wallace
- Acronyms
- Prudence
- The sorry state of Group Policy Preferences
- Let’s solve everything with Technology #5
- I’m coming, stop talking
- Proofreading
- Let’s solve everything with Technology #6
- Some things change, some things stay the same
- Dear RM
- Incommunicado
- Your Top 11
- The XPS Document Writer is xenophobic
- Dear Intel
- Heat
- The Round File
- The 10 Commandments for setup program designers
- Legendary
- Donkey
- Ignorance
- “Because you have to”
- Taking the rough with the smooth
- Excuses
- “Orientate”
- Spam
- Bad Marketing
- Pack Rat
- Paint
- Confessions of a Window Cleaner
- Dear Network Installers
- Cash Cow
- Relic
- Objects in mirror are less Angry than they appear
- No trunking? No problem.
- Dear Dell
- Beep
- Electrolyte
- Deliveries
- Scripting is not a user interface
- Dear Cisco
- Universal Speaker Mount
- Miscommunication
- Dear BT
- Dear Arrogant Sales Staff
- Tractor Feed
- Every administration tool should have this menu
- Dear Digital Blue
- Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
- Lazy behaviour
- Overpaid
- Dear Canon
- Just enough
- Stubborn
- Dear SMART Technologies
- Brownout
- Low Power
- Dear Xerox
- Value
- Recovering a deleted Microsoft Outlook PST file
- Dear RM
- RM don’t have a damned clue what they’re talking about
- How to be a Favourite – #7: The Thank-you Email
- Dear Acer
- Testing
- Toner
- Downselling
- The Angry Technician’s Guide to Managing Windows 7, you Idiots
- The unwanted guest
- Bonjour? Au Revoir.
- “Office Vista”
- Health Hazard
- Milk
- Reckless
- Dear Mainstream Press
- Unions
- Personalisation
- Upgrade
- If HP made R2-D2
- Dear School Photographer
- Surgery
- Stuck
- Tear Up Useless Qualification
- Dynamic Disaster
- New toys for Christmas? Break out the UV marker.
- Timing
- Hardware USB encryption is broken on three major brands
- Antiquity
- IneptDesign
- It’s about HP printers, of that much I am certain
- Enabling Windows 7 Device Stage via Group Policy
- Intruige and Disappointment
- Silence
- Stickers
- Help users over the phone with Unsolicited Remote Assistance
- You may not like it, but Microsoft technology IS some of the best going
- I don’t hate Apple products
- Rose tinted distortion
- “But it’s free…”
- Promethean unboxing… of DOOM
- Xerox are ripping me off
- Apply here to become EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED
- Schadenfreude
- Defenestration
- This is why you’re not getting a new laptop
- Blocked
- Steve Jobs hates Google and Adobe even more than I do
- Dear Dell
- Dear Web Design Companies
- How the Adobe/Apple struggle might pan out
- Group Policy Preferences: still useful, still pants
- The irony of having to block the EU browser choice screen – and how to do it
- Forward Planning
- Dear Local Council
- Office 2010 to be released to businesses on 12th May, public in June
- Contagion
- Dear BT Openreach
- Argumentative
- Always install Exchange 2010 rollups from an elevated command shell
- Gatekeeper
- Catch-up
- Undermine
- Taunt
- Printers
- Delay
- It’s NOT installed, you lying turd, stop claiming that it is
- IT vs. ICT
- How ICT Co-ordinators could save the IT industry from collapse
- Subterranean
- A Piece of History
- The real reason I dislike Apple
- Context Menu of DOOM
- Cleaning dust ingress from the Sanyo PROxtraX PLC-XE31
- HP know how to ring in the new term
- How the mighty have fallen
- Accurately Broken
- It’s getting hot in here
- Dear Facebook
- Simpler times
- Born yesterday
- IIS configuration problems with Search Server Express 2010
- SYSTEM NEEDS REPLACEMENT. Initialization halted.
- NMs: invitation to take part in research
- Loose lips sink ships
- A delicious beverage
- Achievement
- Attachment
- How to fix a broken/empty Jump List on Windows 7
- ORDER BLACK CARTRIDGE
- Most Valuable
- That new Word 7 (on Windows 2010)
- Access
- Say goodbye to Google products working properly on Windows
- “While you’re here…”
- Now I remember why I hate smartphones
- Contact your System Administrator
- Netgear ReadyNAS is about as reliable as a tabloid horoscope
- Fancy sending an Android phone into space?
- Dear Microsoft
- On The System
- Projection
- Comical
- The Angry Technician’s Guide to streaming Freeview via VLC, you Idiots
- Crash Protection FAIL
- I’ve got the power! Part 1: Windows 7 vs XP
- I’ve got the power! Part 2: Don’t blame IT
- Dear Flickr
- How to get me to ignore your quote
- This is why I hate eBay
- Ticking Over
- The Wanderer
- How to stream EVERY channel from Freeview onto your network
- Retro Gaming
- Americanism
- Redundancy
- ‘Building font cache’: VLC Media Player doesn’t like AppData on a UNC path
- I’m just following YOUR damned instructions!
- 1, 2, 3, Many
- Do you want your life ruined? Thought not.
- The torture of installing System Center Essentials 2010
- Myriad
- Target Market
- Angry Technician’s Law of Crisis Management
- OptiPlex 780 USFF has COA sticker hidden on pull-out tab
- Metric
- Chocolate don’t make you fat
- Not a good time
- Mysterious Blue Smoke
- Attention
- Automatically increasing the system font size in Windows 7
- Dear Zen Internet
- Anyone else have an interactive projector?
- Shipping
- Identity
- Advance Warning
- Fudge
- Deploying Windows Live Essentials 2011
- Dear Granada Learning
- Retort
- Schools don’t need ICT? Pull the other one.
- Gerbil
- Username
- Goop
- Disguise
- Immune
- The case of the slow font drop-down in Microsoft Word
- Dear Digicare
- One day with Android 2.2 (Froyo) on the Dell Streak – better, but far from perfect
- Taking the Biscuit
- Dear Year 7
- Neglect
- Culprit
- Latest Version
- Bully
- Define password complexity for individual users or groups
- This is not a Critical Alert
- MIS
- Official Tester
- Please Hold
- Sometimes I just want to punch Google in the face
- What a coincidence
- Google Apps Directory Sync requires elevated privileges to Simulate Sync
- Getting unread mail details from Google Apps via 2-legged OAuth in .NET
- Money for Old Rope
- Tactical Retreat
- Duplicates
- Replicating PHP’s sha1() in VBScript
- Incorrect colours being printed on an HP LaserJet 3600
- Dear Dell
- Vssadmin is dead, long live Diskshadow
- Deliveries – Part 2
- GMail deliberately serving up spam in pupil inboxes
- Adobe Reader 10.0.1 enterprise download is actually bug-filled version 10.0.0
- Convenience
- Escape Plan
- How to create Exchange Mail Users in bulk using ‘Enable-MailUser’, you idiots
- Time Warp
- How to disable IE9 add-on performance notifications, you Idiots
- Cardboard Box
- Why Acer servers are pants
- Terry is a lackadaisical idiot
- Dear ooVoo: here’s how to fix your annoying user experience
- The Twilight Zone
- How to get a list of every WSUS update using PowerShell
- Securing your Google Apps SHA1 password hashes
- Goodbye SCE – I never liked you anyway
- Why every technician should own a Dremel Stylus
- What’s wrong with this network port?
- What’s wrong with this fibre ducting?
- The Mystery of Port 11
- The Duplicity of Port 8
- TODO: Hire QA Department
- This is not a major version increase
- They will then are assessed
- Independence Day
- Overengineered
- My Own Personal Printer
- Needle in a Haystack
- Find a bug in Windows, wait 6 months for a fix
- Pulling a fast one
- Letters of Note
- Informative
- Why Portable Appliance Testing is important, you Idiots
- This disc will self-destruct in 5 seconds
- Using Exchange to prevent information leakage by your idiot staff who can’t type
- SQL Server’s utterly pointless event logging
- Indistinguishable
- Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of… Printers?
- Them and Us
- Suspension
- How to stream Freeview HD (DVB-T2) over multicast using dvblast, you Idiots
- Never an Idle moment
- Not For Production Use
- ORDER TRANSFER KIT…
- Cut-off
- Fixing a broken Outlook 2010 jump list on Windows 7
- Unravel
- Powerless
- Restart
- How to fix a ‘User information is disabled’ error on the Canon imageRUNNER Remote UI
- Bodge
- Easiest. Install. EVER.
- You do not need to defragment this volume
- Why you don’t want to link your work email to Facebook
- Dear Facebook. About these Ads…
- Glad I Could Help
- Oh, the irony: Google Maps gives wrong address for Google offices
- Overheard on the site radio
- Dear SMART Technologies
- How to make an 80mm CD disappear
- No more spreadsheets. Long live spread sheets!
- No regrets
- How many teachers does it take to turn on a projector?
- Screw it
- Friends Reunited are lying about ‘deleting’ your account
- The Case of the Disappearing Start Menu
- Yes/No/What was the question again?
- How to confuse your cover teachers
- WE NEVER CLOSE
- So that’s where that went
- Click-and-Run
- TTS Tuff-Cam – “USB Device Not Recognized”
- Diplomatic Immunity
- Stripped
- Converting your multicast IPTV Freeview to HTTP unicast using udpxy
- Count the Screws
- Stock Control
- Children are filthy and disgusting, and that’s why I’m going to buy these keyboards
- Unsecured
- For fsck sake
- The Fixer
- Plain text emails appear in a white (invisible) font in Outlook 2013
- Beep Beepity Beep
- Only you could have done this
- The Perfect Wireless Solution for your School
- Priorities
- Reading Comprehension
- Instructional
- Double-barrelled
- The Consumerised Future
- Dear iWork users
- Another way to scan DVB channels: w_scan
- Eat a balanced diet
- Office 2013 error: “Sorry, we are having some temporary server issues” – fix it by clearing a key in the registry
- Snapshot
- Spot the difference: is your Griffin Survivor case a counterfeit?
- Top tip for your interview as a Teacher
- Dear Windows team
- Unreported
- Area of Expertise
- Speaker Trouble
- Dear School Trip Leader
- Some thoughts on the Start button
- Not Very Good
- Enabling Dvorak for the Windows 8.1 on-screen keyboard
- Alarming
- Copyright
- Dear pupils trying to download Minecraft
- Doesn’t even need a plug on it any more…
- Google not loading first time in IE11 via a web proxy on Windows 8.1? Turn off SPDY support.
- This is why I don’t let users change their own printer cartridges
- Reasons that normal people install Google Chrome
- What they say, and what they mean
- The Mystery Fridge
- Thoughts on father figures
- Dear teachers: pupils are here to learn, not to run your errands
- How you know the holidays have started
- All Good Things