Comments for schlackman.org

Comment on ThinkPad Button Customiser by Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:09:13 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have an A21e running a Windows XP and I have missed the Windows button. Thanks again!!!!

Comment on ThinkPad Button Customiser by Jay

Jay — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:27:37 +0000

I have had some thanks over the years by email, but my old website (when the software was in its prime) didn’t have a commenting system.

Thanks for your praise though!

Comment on ThinkPad Button Customiser by thinkpad fanboy

thinkpad fanboy — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:18:00 +0000

I can’t believe that with all the Thinkpad fanatics out there with a non-working Thinkpad button on their prized machines, that not one of them has thanked you for writing this wonderful little program. Kudos!!

Comment on Our flat was built by idiots by Miles Cole

Miles Cole — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:08:46 +0000

Pretty typical of a certain type of carpenter. But where was his manager? Hope that you can shut the window and get the sign off.

Comment on Democracy in action? by Jay

Jay — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:16:04 +0000

Update: the earlier version of this post stated that John Redwood had not explained his absence from the debate. He later confirmed that he felt that further opposition was a lost cause given that every prior effort had been soundly rebuffed. His comments also implied that Martin Salter was only there as part of Labour’s reserve of Ayes that were deployed for just such a rebuff.

Comment on Betrayed by Jay

Jay — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:12:24 +0000

Yes, we’re moving into a staff flat at my work. Zero minute commute, baby!

Comment on Betrayed by Glenn Fitzpatrick

Glenn Fitzpatrick — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:05:30 +0000

You’re moving? Are the two of you still staying in town?

Comment on Slideshow by Jay

Jay — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:58:39 +0000

A have had a report once before of false positives by F-Prot, which was corrected about 18 months ago. Having now checked the file a second time with VirusTotal, I am slightly irritated to find the identical download that was checked last time is now being picked up again by several different engines, most of which detect it as a different threat. The .zip download has not been modified from it's original form since 2004, long before most of the reported viruses even existed. It it also an exact match for the original file on my hard disk. I can say with almost utter certainty that there is no virus contained within the download at the time of writing. I have updated the page to include the MD5 and SHA-1 checksums of the original .zip file for comparison purposes.

Comment on Slideshow by Rob Fisher

Rob Fisher — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:14:19 +0000

Annoyingly, ESET Smart Security thinks this is “probably a variant of Win32/Spy.Agent trojan”. That seems unlikely to me, it certainly doesn’t seem to open any network connections. And it works well on Windows 7. Thanks for the handy program.

Comment on Traction by Miles Cole

Miles Cole — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:04:08 +0000

Jay, Welcome to the world of winter. I remember getting up the hill to our house in Germany with Anna sitting in the trunk (boot) for traction. Miles