Much like someone else, I’m back on XP. Vista completely blew up on me last week, and it was the latest frustration in a string of problems I’ve had. I was using my laptop fine at home one morning, and when I packed up to go to work, I actually shut down rather than hibernated […]
This week I got a Pinnacle HD Pro Stick, a USB HDTV over-the-air tuner. It’s pretty nifty, even though Vista support is (of course) still beta. I installed the drivers that make it work with Vista’s Media Center from Pinnacle’s site, and went through the setup process (adding lineups and stuff). The quality of over […]
In dealing with the upcoming Daylight Savings Time changes, Java is one of the things that needs to be updated. Sun has released a tool that updates the Java instances installed on a system with the new DST information. The problem is that Java doesn’t ever uninstall itself when it upgrades, and some applications might […]
