Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Apr 22nd, 2008
Today I discovered a delightful little gadget that does a small job beautifully. It’s WebGuide, shown at the bottom in the image to the right.
What it does: among other things, it lists pending recordings for Vista Media Center; no need to fire up Media Center. In any case, I never found a way to do [...]
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 data [...]
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 Feb 3rd, 2008
Suddenly I have an inkling what it must be like to come home and find your house broken into and your privacy violated.
This evening I ran Webroot’s SpySweeper software on my main PC (running Windows Vista). I’d only installed it yesterday and it had found no problem after a lengthy full scan. Today, in contrast, [...]
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 [...]
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