Category: General

Seventeen Minutes with Bill

February 15, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

Interesting video interview on Channel 9 with Bill Gates. Find out what he thinks about the Web and what the future holds for software. Microsoft have really become much more transparent lately. Channel 9 is a great way to get an insight into what goes on at Microsoft and meet some of the key people. […]

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How Does Macro Scheduler Help You?

February 7, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

I’ve resurrected an old thread in the forums called “Tell us how Macro Scheduler helps you, what you use it for”. It’s now a sticky so that it won’t get buried away again. We’re always interested to hear how Macro Scheduler is being used and how it benefits people. It’s helpful for other people to […]

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Enhancement Suggestions

February 1, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

What would you like to see in the next version of Macro Scheduler? As always, we’d like your input. You can post suggestions for new features and functions in the Enhancement Suggestions forum.

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IE7 Beta 2 Public

January 31, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 went public today. Finally IE has tabs! Download it here. ZDNet have a review here. This beta version is likely to have bugs and may not display some sites properly. Microsoft want site designers to test it out fully before it is shipped later this year with Vista. I’ve tested […]

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Documentation and Contingency

January 30, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

Recently I wrote about why it’s good to automate and how automation can help you learn software and improve its design. There are other good reasons for automating beyond the obvious benefits of saving time and money. Documentation: Automation scripts are the ultimate way to document a process. A script that automates a process describes […]

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Particle Acceleration

January 27, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

Nothing much to do with Macro Scheduler this except that it finds me sitting in an office in Geneva today. 100 meters beneath me, under the ground, is a circular tunnel 35m wide, 55m tall and 27 km long. It goes right underneath houses and offices in the city of Geneva and surrounding areas. Sandwiched […]

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MicroISV Show

by Marcus Tettmar in General

I was interviewed yesterday for Channel9’s New MicroISV Show. It will be aired in 5-6 weeks. MicroISV is a new term to describe small software companies like MJT Net Ltd. ISV stands for Independent Software Vendor. The show is aimed at developers and small software companies and will give an insight into the benefits and […]

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Thou shalt not waste time doing repetitive and mundane tasks

January 18, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation, General

This is the 10th commandment of system administration according to Brian Warshawsky’s article “Ten Commandments of system administration” over at NewsForge. I couldn’t agree more. You’ll find the article with links to the other nine commandments here. These articles are for Linux administrators so much of the content and the example scripts won’t be much […]

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Keyboard Shortcut Correction

by Marcus Tettmar in General

Tim Jones emailed me to point out an error in my keyboard shortcut article. Tim is a proper keyboard junky. Not even sure he has a mouse! ___________________ > SHIFT-RIGHT on its own just moves the cursor to the end of the > word and then to the next word and so on. Reverse it […]

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