Archive for the Category: General

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc… and a Happy New Year. 🙂 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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A Must Read for IT Managers!!

Mike Hadlow has posted an excellent blog item that every IT Manager should (must) read: http://mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/are-your-programmers-working-hard-or.html Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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The Perfect Cup of Coffee

At first I thought this article ‘Over-Engineering the Perfect Mug of Coffee‘ at Slashdot was a joke but it is real. Since coffee fuels my programming, I’m seriously thinking of getting one through the KickStarter project or maybe I’ll ask Santa for it. 🙂 The company that will be creating the mugs is called Joevo. […]

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Do You Backup Your Data?

Over the weekend, I read Alan Zeichick’s article Protect your developer data and it made me smile as I’ve been through the exact same thing many times over the years. Of course, it made me think, are people/companies backing up their data or just flying by the seat of their pants. Do people think that […]

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Winamp is Shutting Down on December 20th, 2013

I’ve been using Winamp since the 90’s and this is really sad news. Here is a banner from www.winamp.com: Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. Regards, Roger Lacroix […]

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T.Rob Wyatt and IoPT Consulting

T.Rob Wyatt of IBM and Bank of America fame has decided to become an independent consultant. His new company is called IoPT Consulting and he will be doing consulting work in the following areas: WebSphere MQ WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition (FTE) WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security (AMS) WebSphere MQ Telemetry (MQTT) WebSphere Message Broker […]

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The Best 404 Error Pages Of All Time

Now this web page at Business Insider is seriously funny: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-404-error-pages-of-all-time-2013-3 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Pictures from a Developer’s Life

If a picture speaks a 1000 words, then this web page is worth a thousand laughs: http://martinvalasek.com/blog/pictures-from-a-developers-life Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Emergency Broadcast System Hacked

I’m sorry but I can’t stop laughing when I read this article. I especially like the police’s response. http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/zombie-alert-hoax-emergency-broadcast-sy/240148355?cid=nl_IW_daily_2013-02-12_html&elq=f2fe05f4fed74f9eac66c2cababa620e Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Rogers internet was broken on Wednesday

Once again Rogers Communication totally screws its paying customers. Yahoo article: Rogers Internet back online after outage. Around 6:40PM on Wednesday, I started getting errors in FireFox and Eudora (email client) around domain name resolution. Usually, resetting the cable modem box fixes the issue but not last night. I checked the internet on my iPhone […]

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