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- MSI A6000-029US (Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium)
- Very Bad Experience with MSILet me try to summarize the situation. Last month I was considering purchasing a new computer. I looked at Apple's and Dell's websites, but I also decided to go to the local Office Depot and look at the computers they had. I spent about...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Intel Core 2 Duo, MSI, XP Mode, Microsoft Windows 7, computer, Microsoft Windows XP, recovery disk, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Open source is not about Wall Street
- only M$ ia about wall street greedand yet it failed to deliver because of its flawed business model.The answer to the Golden Rule"My way or the highway," may work for proprietary, closed code, but with Open Source there is always a FORK in the road.MySQL can easily become OurSQL. Larry...
- Tags: Databases, MySQL, open source, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Apple Store fails the Nordstrom test
- Yet another Apple horror storyOnce again, an Apple horror story, trouble straight out of the box (forget "it just works").Most of the Apple afficionados I know have such horror stories. There's a massive one right now with the new iMacs. On the other hand, I know very little such stories...
- Tags: Desktops, UNIX, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Nordstrom Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-27
- Death of the black box EULA
- Nonsense. Just look at Psystar.They died by the EULA. The judge even brought that up.And open source software has an EULA of its own, telling you exactlly what you can and must do to be able to use the software.Any failure to follow the EULA/GPL allows the owner of the...
- Tags: EULA, black box, software
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral
- Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, XPS, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Apple to smokers: butt out or void your warranty
- Well here it is...http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0446.htmlI have seen tar filled electronicsIt gets nasty. You open them up, and they can be full of tar and all this brown/black gunk. You can get a nicotine high just by touching the parts.As for second hand smoke risk, thats kind of unfounded. Is that gunk...
- Tags: Apple Inc., cigarette, joint, Cannabis, tar, smoker, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- AOL ditches the triangle; previews new brand identity, logos
- Those are some ugly logos, I do hope they go with something better and more appealing to the eye.RE: AOL ditches the triangle; previews new brand identity, logosWhy? What's wrong with their initial logo? It wouldbe something akin to Chevy putting a Ford logo on its' cars. ...
- Tags: Branding, LSD, America Online Inc., new brand identity, brand identity, brand
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Velocity Micro NoteMagix M17 Ultra
- Velocity Micro reviewI had ordered a very expensive M17 Ultra gaming laptop from Velocity Micro as my little gift to myself this holiday season. Well, I got it last night...To start with, I was a returning customer. My desktop is a Velocity Micro rig, bought in 2007, and I've...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, PRODUCTIVITY, Velocity, Velocity Micro
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- 'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary
- Drucker and E2.0Oliver -- Thank you for the kind words and for pointing out the HBR Drucker Centenary issue. My "Enterprise 2.0 Schism" post was fun to write - with tongue firmly in cheek - as you note. But it also expresses some serious beliefs.For me the key Drucker quote...
- Tags: Leadership, Drucker, E2.0, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer
- With their Comcast and AT&T dealsMcAfee has a huge market share hereit pretty much does nothing to prevent being infected by these rogue antivirus attacks.I have found Combofix (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix)is the most effective tool to remove these things but even that isn't 100%.Usually you will want to rename it before you...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Vista/7, software, McAfee Inc., AV Software, Malwarebytes
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- ASUS Eee PC 1005HAB - Atom N270 1.6 GHz - 10.1" TFT
- If you like Customer Service, DO NOT GET AN ASUSBought one of these from Best Buy September 17 and by the power supply starts working intermittently in less than two months. Asus REFUSES to send a new power supply without receiving the bad one back. So I have to have...
- Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), ASUS, TFT
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Linksys WRT160N
- Basic functions OK but no USB storage!Router is advertised to allow the add-on of a USB external hard drive. I've spent 12+ hours on Linksys phone calls with tech people, supervisors, and customer service and still cannot get this feature to work. They replaced the router under warranty, but still...
- Tags: Home networking, Linksys Inc., USB
- Discussion threads 2009-11-08
- The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda
- Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samples
- RE: Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samplesyawnWho can I trust *now*....Even Ed Bott said '7' was more secure!The Windows Infect Season is not over yet.. Nothing's changed.... That people even USE Windows these days is quite remarkable.... It must be the power of habit...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, malware, UAC, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"
- RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, stock split, Win7, recession, Steve Ballmer, sales, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Open source needs successful champions
- Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...
- Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Google defines its focus in Apps in 2010
- Chrostopher: the need for detailed formatting as we know it is going away.Actually, the detailed formatting is moving to making it look like you want on computer screens, NOT on paper, which is quite different.All of those baroque features for printing on 8.5x11 paper are looking more stupid every day.Interesting...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Document management, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- My Top Scary Technology Trends
- The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...
- Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Google Inc., hardware, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- MSI CR600 013US - P 2 GHz - 16" TFT
- MSI CHEAP OK.MISLEADING WARRANTY . ONCE YOU BUY A COMPUTER. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. NO CUSTOMER SERVICE. NO TECH SUPPORT.WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER.I RECOMMEND TO BUY OTHER PRODUCT TOSHIBA ,SONY, HP, DELL FOR 50 OR 100 DOLLARS MORE AT LEAST YOU GET THE SERVICE.CUSTOMER SERVICE NEVER REPLY...
- Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), customer service, HAVE, TFT
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
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