Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Oct 16th, 2008
My brother in law gave me some grief recently for having recommended Vista to him a couple of years ago. I had suggested that he postpone a computer purchase until it was available. He did, and it wasn’t a happy experience. His printer stopped printing etc.
I didn’t say
If we knew then what we knew now…
I [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 16th, 2008
Bye Bye Vista
I reformatted another Vista PC at home and installed Ubuntu the other day. That still leaves 4 PCs running Vista, including a personal video recorder or PVR.
As we approach the 2nd anniversary of Vista’s release to manufacturing you’d think that some of the major annoyances would have been sorted out by now. Not [...]
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 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 [...]
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