Recent content by Rover321

We have some Windows 7 PCs at customer sites that are occasionally locking up requiring manual restart. The system log says "shutdown at xxx was unexpected". There's no BSOD type information. Some testing I did with Sys internals Process Monitor showed that if windows shuts down/ locks up...

Is anyone using Scrum for software development? - or have an opinion on it? Does anyone like it?

My Father is 92 and losing his eyesight. How hard is it to control an ipad with voice commands and to get it to speak the contents of a news article or an email or to send an email or listen to music or radio station? Can a totally blind person use one? How hard is it to connect a charger?

ok, sorry. I've observed it lock up on my own machine and the application crashed/ malfunctioned first of all, after which free memory started slowly decreasing and the machine would have locked up completely eventually. For the machines in the field that lock up all we currently know is that...

I'm thinking of trying MediaWiki using free hosting here https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze Does anyone know if MediaWiki supports "tags" - like the ones in this forum - so you can search on them? Also does MediaWiki support moderation so you can block human spammers?

Can anyone recommend a good free wiki host for technical information that allows moderation to be used for spam protection and page tags for searching.

We supply some third party Windows 7 Delphi software to our customers. Recently, one particular customer site has started getting intermittent lockups/ freezes of the whole machine. All Windows event logs show is "unexpected reboot" and occasionally "PC shutdown unexpectedly at xx:xx" Apart...

That would be ok for off topic but for technical forums that would tragic.

Rubbish. Bullies should never be tolerated. If his complaint is genuine he should complain to the governing body of the organization.

Awesome information. Thankyou.

If you don't like my response then confine yourself to making constructive comments instead of silly comments. I never said I didn't like the email policy, I'm trying to find out the reasons for it and what standard practice is.

37000 posts!!!!! Why do you hate sunshine?

If the company isn't guilty then the cost should be paid by the other party, otherwise the company is being effectively fined without justification. A court shouldn't have the right to impose that kind of cost to a company.

Well, actually they can be moved to special folder where they get auto deleted after one year instead of 90 days. I'm trying to find out if auto deletion is standard practice and what the reasons for doing it are. If the reason is to minimize company liability in a criminal prosecution...

Nope. Backup and pst files are not allowed.