Windows too.

12 Jul 2004

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Brand-newly-installed Windows XP (with latest service packs, all care of Windows sysadmin at work) machine. Try open second disk with Explorer with Folders sidebar enabled (default when you click the Explorer button in the task bar application launcher). Freeze. Do the same without Folders sidebar, it works. Repeat for four other disks. Also, is the quality of software just poorer in Windows? The work I'm doing is running into various system limits (dealing with millions of multiple-megabyte print-quality images), and I'm not getting the nice error messages (or even _any_ error messages sometimes) I'd get in FreeBSD or Linux...

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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

What I do

  • StarCamp

    I was the main instigator behind this 2-day unconference in December 2007 in Cape Town. There'll be another one in Cape Town around July.

  • GeekDinner

    I help out in making these geek social events happen every two months in Cape Town since March 2007.

  • SynthaSite

    I make sure that the systems run smoothly at this Cape Town-born Web 2.0 startup.

  • Presentations

    I speak publically on a number of topics - generally related to technical aspects of open source software or on software development.

  • Code

    I've written a few software projects of my own over the years (although mostly I'm the only user of them).

  • Photos

    I'm far from an artist, but I enjoy capturing my experiences on camera.

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