Posted in Misc on Sep 5th, 2008
Inflection Point Most of us remember getting a first laptop, using the web for the first time, getting an immediate reply to an email from someone far away, first using a webcam, and various other positive experiences. They help offset the frustrations when things don’t work as expected, or when a better product is announced [...]
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Posted in Misc on Apr 19th, 2008
Vista Service Pack 1 finally showed up in my Windows Update. I have had some fun with Vista lately. My C: drive was approaching capacity and Vista told me that I couldn’t extend it. I succeeded in the end but it was unreasonably difficult. Vista makes simple things needlessly complicated, like keeping your software and [...]
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Posted in Misc on Dec 6th, 2007
I thought Apple was hitting balls out of the park these days but Kevin Allison writing in the Financial Times last month quoted Davey Winder slagging off the latest Apple operating system (Panther) saying, in effect, that it’s got Windows-type reliability problems. I don’t read Winder’s blog very often, but I know who he is [...]
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