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- Dear Microsoft: What's the deal with Windows 7 upgrades?
- Location?38.921473?N 77.066946?WYep, same here ...... stonewalled at every turn. With you ...... I can see, because you've been pulling on Microsoft's scab lately. But in Ed's case, I don't know why they would treat him like that.^o^Message has been deleted..Believe it or not ...... it makes little difference. The...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumers
- Can't wait to see theseThe local Best Buy is having a midnight launch. I'm probably going to go and geek out for a bit.RE: Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumersWish I could afford the upgrades.Been laid off and on for 6 years now.Could not renew my...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Did 'reporters' sink Vista?
- Yes. They made it much worse.There were early driver problems, many devices NEVER got updated for Vista, the fit and finish was and is rough, the extra security was a nag (but should have been DEFENDED and EXPLAINED by the tech pros, instead of being ridiculed), business was right to...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- How to avoid the amateur cloud
- You are cluelessMaybe a large company would do enough research to weed out a bad cloud provider from a good one, but the fact is cloud services are being pitched at **individuals**.No one will do the required research, and you know it. But as a nice cloud evangelist that's your...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- T-Mobile turns Sidekick data disaster into a PR mess
- This wasn't cloud computingThis wouldn't have happened with cloud computing. In a cloud architecture users wouldn't have even realized any disruption. They would have automatically been distributed among other non failed geo dispursed instances while the failed instance was automatically restarted on other hardware and restored from replicated data...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- It's time to bring the EULA madness to an end!
- My gripe with EULA is when I'm patching software.Why do I need to read an EULA when I'm patching a piece of software (I'm looking at you iTunes)? Shouldn't the patch be covered under the same EULA agreed to when initially installing the software?As for understanding them I do. They...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- DRAM error rates: Nightmare on DIMM street
- A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought -- a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. This is the world's first large-scale study of RAM errors in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers
- Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale
- ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- RIM signals price war potential; Fallout could be substantial
- Thesis-changing?Potential MBAs racing to their pcs to start re-writes?RE: RIM signals price war potential; Fallout could be substantialWant to see consumers really scoop up smart phones? Have the carriers charge $5.00 a month for data plans... Some consumers don't see the value in paying $30 a month for mobile...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design
- Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- How to save the PC: A petition to Microsoft and Apple
- IndeedThat's the point. Let's not leave this to the user to have to figure out, when a change to the default installation could make system recovery a lot easier for both IT and end users.Yes, two drives would be idealBut it's also a little more expensive and it would depend...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Give me one good reason not to just move them all to Linux
- RE: Give me one good reason not to just move them all to LinuxAs a roaming tech helper and trainer, I completely concur. Over the past few years, I have moved quite a few of my clients to Mac or Linux and they couldn't be happier. And lately, the infestation...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- The taboo of failure
- Google plans for failureI read sometime back about google's strategy to handle hardware failure. Instead of focussing on building expensive unbreakable hardware, they assume it a given and build it into the software to handle hardware failures. So the concept is gaining ground.http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/13/built-to-fail-how-companies-like-google-ideo-and-37signals-build-failure-tolerant-systems-for-anything/Great managers understand it.I once worked for a...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-07
- Regretful upgrade: Snow Leopard incompatibilities
- I just saw a Mac commercial that said to use Macs because they don't have headaches and just work. But this article says it is causing headaches... so who am I to believe?Yeah, and Vista was SOOO smooth.....I don't even own Mac's and think this is silly. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Colbert heats up global warming
- Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable?
- AppleTV only called a hobby after its dismal failureTo be sure, Apple did [b]not[/b] call AppleTV a "hobby" when they released it. It was only after they released the dismal sales figures for this piece of garbage that they "apologized" by calling it a hobby.You know what Apple should do...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Designers build portfolios, maybe land jobs at 99 Designs
- Culture of cheap cr@p...at least one designer landed a few bucks for his work and 3) other designers have another design for the portfolio.It's exploitation as far as I'm concerned. Graphic design ... at least good graphic design ... is not a hobby some kid does when he runs out...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- Thwarted by technology
- I have a devicethat is still using a serial connection! I finally found a quality serial to USB converter... but I am waiting for it to get here before I pass verdict on it's reliability.Still have two applications that are Windows only... makes it difficult since I have to maintain...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Ballmer: He knows when you're using a Mac
- Ballmer: He knows when you're using a MacTrue...Microsoft never pretended to be "high quality, high volume". You simply can't. They made that choice long ago to be "mediocre quality, high volume". They are realizing in the last few years they need to compete on quality now.Because..Apple makes devices that don't...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
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