This past week the Yahoo!-Microsoft deal, or lack of a deal, has been hoarding the headlines. There have been pros and cons on why this deal should or shouldn’t go through, including many takes on what Google is doing to stop the deal. In reading some of these reasons why Google doesn’t want to see [...]
This is interesting for no other reason that today alone I have run into at least Google alerts referencing his alleged posting. At first read, I was just going to ignore it completely. I guess my thinking is why would any company go to the expense of adding a keylogger to every computer they manufactured. [...]
Last night I downloaded the complete Windows SP1 Vista pack which is about 2.87G in size and in .iso format. The download took a while since during the last 1%, the download stopped. Using Microsoft’s File Transfer Manager, I soon learned that by doing a suspend of the download, then a resume somehow corrected the [...]
Microsoft has yanked the prerequisite update for Windows Vista KB937287. On its blog site Microsoft has also provided the following information to assist those who are experiencing the loopback problem:
We’ve heard a few reports about problems customers may be experiencing as a result of KB937287, the servicing stack update I blogged about last week, and [...]
Microsoft has compiled some of the programs that may lose functionality for those users who are using Windows Vista with SP1 installed. This list by Microsoft also provides some of the links where possible fixes and supported versions are available. Microsoft also states that this is not a comprehensive list. It also states:
INTRODUCTION
Service Pack 1 [...]
Last night my wife and I were having a pleasant dinner with a good friend of ours, when the subject of spyware popped into the conversion. He mentioned that he had downloaded a product off of the Internet that suggested his system had over 6,000 infections. I looked at him at first thinking he had [...]
I have read many times that people are reluctant to make the switch from Windows to Linux stating they needed Photoshop for their work. Google seems to have heard you and has sought the assistance from Codeweavers [Wine] to improve the Photoshop experience in Linux. In a statement about how Google is supporting this project, [...]
While wandering around the Internet I found an interesting article by a television station in the Sacramento, CA area about an experiment done concerning PC repairs and three of the major chains. The TV station KCRA-TV had its own Manager of Information Technology (David York) create a problem on an IBM PC by disabling [...]
If you own a Toyota Prius and want to get better mileage in your ride, OEMtek has a upgrade worth considering. Or is it? Priced at $12,500 the upgrade is said to increase the mileage of the Prius to 100 MPG. That’s an expensive alternative for something that is untested. But according to OEMtek [...]
If you are a student and are giving any thought to creating the next break though in technology, you may wish to take a look at Microsoft’s free give away program of their developers software. Students will be eligible to get copies of software such as Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Expression Studio, Windows Server 2003 [...]
In my roaming around the Internet I have found that some on the are blaming KB937287 as causing the loopback problems on their Vista systems. As of this writing there is no posted fix I could find. It seems that this fix is needed for the installation of SP1 for Vista to proceed. On the [...]
Toshiba has finally given up and thrown in the towel over it’s HD-DVD format and is bowing to the popularity of Sony’s Blu-Ray. In and announcement today Toshiba stated that:
TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD [...]
I’m getting this second hand from a friend of a friend of a friend, you know the drill. But it does serve to remind us all of the warning about telephone scams. Just when we thought that the do not call list would protect us from scammers, I heard about this over the weekend and [...]
Rumors have it that because of the reduction of flash memory pricing, Apple may be looking at a reduction in their pricing for iPhones. The price could drop as much as $100 in the next three months or so. Over at phonemag they seem to feel that either people should wait for the price reduction [...]
I am sure most of us have already seen the disgusting video of employees pushing cows with a forklift. Some videos also show employees using a cattle prod on the eyes of cows. Then you have this goody two shoes response by the CEO of the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., Steve Mendell, saying:
As President [...]
A recent PC World article indicates that some analysts are recommending to Microsoft that they keep Windows XP available thought out 2008 and into 2009. The assumptions are that Microsoft is going to fast in their conversion of XP users to Vista. The article states:
Microsoft should keep Windows XP available until at least 2009, not [...]
At first it appeared that Microsoft was creating an artificial shortage of its Xbox 360, in an attempt to follow in the footsteps of the Nintendo Wii. The less Wiis there are available the more popular the Wii has become. But it may not be supply and demand that is the driving force behind the [...]
I received a link yesterday for an advertisement for a software product, and upon arriving on the site I noticed they were also selling Academic software as well. I found a upgrade copy of Windows Vista Home Premium for only $69.95 over at buy.com. For those of you who are not familiar with Academic software it [...]
Well I got Scot’s Newsletter Blog on Sunday afternoon, and I noted that Scot once again is visiting the Comodo firewall software. You may recall that last month there was a minor confrontation between Scot and the folks at Comodo in which some lively discussions ensued. But in the end, it may appear that the [...]
Over in Britain there is a new laptop which is about to be introduced which costs under $200 and looks like it would be a great children’s system. Because of the low price tag, this could also be a great option to the OLPC and also Intel Classmates computer systems. In a news article from [...]
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