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Google Chrome: The five best new features

Google Chrome: The five best new featuresThe biggest crap is IE, which STILL ships with ActiveX, is slower thanmolasses in January, STILL includes old obsolete proprietary rendering, and is years behind in standards.More Google crap. Use at your own risk!http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/chrome_privacy_is_full_of_dents.htmlGoogle is wanting your material.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/So far impressedI am quite impressed by...

Tags: Web browsers, VERY SELDOM, HEARSAY, Google Inc., Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

PowerBook G4 defects

PowerBook G4 defectsTake A ValiumApple product buyers are the biggest whiners on the planet. Whether it's whining about sealed batteries in an ipod or not playing 4x dvds or whatever, they seem to feel they have an entitlement to extort from Apple using the threat of a public fuss.Don't...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Advertising & Promotion, hearsay, Internet Forum, Apple Inc., disc, Apple PowerBook, Apple PowerBook G4

Discussion threads 2006-01-26

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Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourcePerhaps if you read what you wroteYou say regarding Wintel:"you’ll find 2o FTEs an extremely conservative minimum just to keep the lights on."and then regarding Solaris:"you’re going to be paying about ten people, four of whom you don’t actually need every day"Your statement about doubling...

Tags: Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, environment, Microsoft Corp., development environment, server, Sun Solaris, Solaris Servers, Wintel, open source

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Copying pasting blogging = trouble

Copying pasting blogging = troubleAgreeI agree... Too many people talking about the same thing.RE: Copying pasting blogging = troubleIt drives me nuts. The amounts of comments pinged back to my blog are purely regurgitated, as if it's been automatically picked. It's just...

Tags: blog, blogging, Cut-and-paste

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Microsoft on Vista: 'The time of worry is over.'

Microsoft on Vista: 'The time of worry is over.'PR or R&DThey can crow all they want, but for many Vista is a lame duck. It's fine for home use, and even great for digital photo enthusiasts, but the reality is businesses and power users are in a bind if they...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, O/S, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Improving Windows Vista's reliability

I don't buy into all the "Windows Vista is rubbish" rhetoric that's been floating about. Rather than rely on collective hearsay I much rather collect my own data. Also, when it comes to operating system reliability problems that look like they are down to the OS are usually down to...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, BIOS, Software, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-06-23

China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?

China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?FUD?While Chinese owned companies (and being Communist, the government owns those companies) has been responsible for some things, no doubts there as the pet food and tooth paste can confirm, shouldn't a proper distinction be confirmed before empty blaming?How do we know the guilty hackers aren't...

Tags: Hacking, INTERNET, blackout

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisons

Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisonsWhat's fair? PRICEMy former employer had a yearly workstation benchmark process. We would invite the big 4 UNIX workstation vendors (HP,Sun,IBM,SGI), give them the applications and test matrix - and let them tune their boxes to their hearts content. After the benchmark was complete, we looked...

Tags: Operating systems, Workstations, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, workstation, hardware, paging

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

NetSuite's numbers are not what they appear

NetSuite's numbers are not what they appearOfficial response from NetSuite to inaccurately cited customer dataDennis, some points of clarification:1. On our call and in our filings we talk about active customers. Customers are not considered "active" until they go live with the product. Since customers choose their own...

Tags: Blogging, Dennis Howlett, NetSuite Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

Enchanted House - Animated Screensaver (exe)

Would you like your computer to have an animated screensaver. By hearsay of the residents of this neighborhood, this house is inhabited with ghosts and that is why people try to pass over this house. And it is not in vain. Today, on the eve of Halloween, phantoms, skeletons and...

Tags: House, Screensaver

Software downloads 2007-11-29

$200 Linux PC selling out is another reason Wal-Mart is good for America

$200 Linux PC selling out is another reason Wal-Mart is good for AmericaI disagree...[B]"I’ve shopped at Wal-Mart most of my life, and think that by and large, Wal-Mart is a positive force in our society."[/B]I haven't shopped in a Wal-Mart in years. The overall quality of many of their goods...

Tags: Quality, OPEN SOURCE, PC, Linux, Linux PC, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-13

Wal-Mart plays Black Friday spoilsport

Wal-Mart plays Black Friday spoilsportNope, just WordsThat is where the NDAs come into play. Don't ask why this is. I don't like it and don't believe it would happen.Look at what happened to Apple with the case of a blogger getting details to an Apple product early.So do...

Tags: Taxes, Benefits, Sam Walton, Wally World, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

Peter Gutmann turns to smear tactics with help from PCWorld NZ

Update 9/1/2007 - Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source   Peter Gutmann - the man who admittedly never used Vista and author of the widely cited and widely discredited paper "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" - has taken his fight in to...

Tags: Problem, Blog, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC World, Slide, Gutmann, Peter Gutmann, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-01

Vista scare stories distort the real picture

Vista scare stories distort the real pictureMy favorite is ....... "Marc Orchant hangs" without the quotes yields 13,600 hits. Even if you divide that by 10 it is clear evidence that there is a problem with Marc. :)change the search to ... "Ubuntu 7.04 hangs"Compare apples to apples...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Yes IE7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

Discussion threads 2007-08-06

Microsoft to ship critical Windows, Office patches

Microsoft to ship critical Windows, Office patchesTime to waitWhy on earth does MS feel they have to stick to a constant timeline for updates. If the update is ready to go out now, then give us the damn thing so we can patch our stuff. Instead we have to wait...

Tags: Patches, information technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., patch management, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-05-03

Microsoft targets more software pirates

Microsoft targets more software piratesThis is the correct strategyInstead of treating all Windows users as potential thieves with WGA, simply go after the real thieves.Does this mean nowthat the ridiculous high priced Windows Vista , will be lowered in price . If not , then why is Microsoft stating that...

Tags: Games, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, game, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, software pirate, Microsoft Windows Vista, software

Discussion threads 2007-04-02

Microsoft makes copying Vista a monster task

Microsoft makes copying Vista a monster taskEvery coin only spent once...One wonders if, in a country where the ingrained selling price of Windows is three to five US dollar equivalents; merchants will be able to convince purchasers to spend 45 US dollars for Microsoft's hobbled-by-design and sold-to-the-third-world version of Vista?...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., piracy

Discussion threads 2007-03-30

Terrific podcast about IP economics

Some of the best discussion Ive heard to date and certainly recently about the economics of intellectual property in the technological era can be found in Episode #31 of Dave Levines Hearsay Culture. The guest is University of Chicago law professor and Hoover Institution fellow Richard A. Epstein. ...

Tags: IP, intellectual property, podcast

Blog posts 2007-03-16

One minor error in Sinbad's death notice

One minor error in Sinbad's death noticeMoney QuoteThe money quote on this article is how people were constantly changing the page BACK to what they thought it should be based on an email. One, that shows that more than a few people who edit wikipedia do so based on hearsay...

Tags: Wiki, Corporate communications, Wikipedia, Sinbad, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-16

Apple megapatch plugs 45 security holes

Apple megapatch plugs 45 security holesApple megapatch plugs 45 security holes45 security holes but yet I'm supposed to get a mac and be done with it. I think not.Nice FUDGot to love how the NBM group calls a service pack a "megapatch". As of note some of the included...

Tags: Patches, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., OSX, security, NonZealot, patch management, operating system, security hole, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-03-13