Krazy Glew's Blog

Andy "Krazy" Glew is a computer architect, a long time poster on comp.arch ... and an evangelist of collaboration tools such as wikis, calendars, blogs, etc. Plus an occasional commentator on politics, taxes, and policy. Particularly the politics of multi-ethnic societies such as Quebec, my birthplace.

The content of this blog is my personal opinion. It is not that of my employer. See Disclaimer.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Requirements and ZBBs

I dislked "Requirements Engineering". Very often it is associated with projects that do not satisfy the customer. At the end, th...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

45 minutes = 500MB ?

Yesterday IT complained that I had exceeded 1GB of diskspace on my home directory, and the 17GB disk was full, hurting 47 other users on the...

Autoclose timeout of security problem reports without investigation

I have posted about my paranoia about malware on my laptop. I think this email from IT's servicedesk / bug reporting / ssue tracking sys...

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

ProcessExplorer - yay

Thanks to Tom Walsh for pointing me to Microsoft's ProcessExplorer, and other sysinternals. One heck of a lot more useful than task mana...

Just because I am paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get me

My system is dog slow. Microsoft RootkitRevealer indicates suspicious stuff. (Hmm... maybe a good reason not to upgrade to a newer CPU with ...

Standby Exit Speed

Continuing occasional notes about excess slowness coming out of standby: This morning, at home while "hurrying" to find a phone co...

Monday, May 26, 2008

Fear and Loathing of ... Powering up my PC to see my Outlook calendar

I positively dread having to check my Outlook calendar on my company PC. This evening it took 12 minutes to get from standby to the point wh...

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