Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Sep 2nd, 2008
I spent some of today wondering why it is that no Microsoft employee has suffered any public retribution for what they inflict on us.
Until today Skype had never worked properly on my Vista PC. I gave up long ago and used another PC for Skype. Periodically I updated Skype on the Vista box, and tried [...]
Posted in Misc on Aug 26th, 2008
Who seriously believes Vista is as good as it ought to be?
Bill Gates thinks the I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC ads are unfair. In fact, the blue screen of a crashed Windows machine projected in the Bird’s Nest stadium during the Beijing olympics said it all. Apple isn’t successfully misleading consumers, it’s giving them a simpler and more reliable alternative (most of the time!).
Posted in Misc on Apr 12th, 2008
There has been a lot of chatter on the net lately about Gartner saying that Microsoft Windows is collapsing under its own weight. Elsewhere there are claims that this is why it’s desperate to buy Yahoo. Windows and Office are the cash cows and they are looking vulnerable, supposedly.
I suspect that the end is not [...]
Posted in Misc on Apr 9th, 2008
I just installed a KVM switch to share a Keyboard, Video and Mouse among several computers. Specifically, an ATEN CS1734B, a 4 port switch that also permits sharing of USB and audio peripherals.
Ahh, your Hitler box
said the lady of the house when I described it. A Master of The Universe (MOTU) I could understand, though I am not such an exalted person, but Hitler?
My old KVM switch, which she seemed to have forgotten about (or perhaps never noticed), had died en route from the tropics. As result, I have had two keyboards, mice and monitors on my desk for my Vista and Linux computers for the least year or so.
Posted in Misc on Oct 9th, 2007
There are only 10 days to the next release of Ubuntu Linux, version 7.10 (for 2007-Oct; Wikipedia article here).
Much as I would like to think that Linux will, in the end, be to Microsoft Windows what Microsoft was to IBM, that seems a bit of a stretch at the moment. Linux was recently reported to [...]
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