So much detritus is out there on the internet right now, all about the movement of one company. Flame wars have started over the older time-tested operating system versus the upstart that is trying to assume the throne. What’s more, the full time journalists cannot agree over testing procedures and methodology, so when the results […]
Well, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has new about the successor to Vista from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.
In a small piece about Windows 7, Chris Flores, of Microsoft basically points out the usual garbage that Microsoft spews, along with news that makes Adrian believe that ‘7′ will be Vista SP2, with a few factors changing its […]
The current lawsuit that Viacom is pursuing against Google, because of YouTube, threatens the way that information is exchanged over the internet.
If Viacom has its way, the entire ‘chain of custody’ from content source to ISP would be forced to police all binary data ‘on the wires’. Not only would this slow internet traffic to […]
Network World had an article…well, a sort of a rant, yesterday, concerning the 10 Most Annoying Things Tech Companies Do. Without restating, or quoting them (the article is worth the read), I would like to say that what they feature is applicable to most of the world, and what is not said is that a […]
In an entry of Microsoft Subnet, on Network World, Mitchell Ashley lets out the news that the previously vaporous Windows 7 will be previewed at the Wall Street journal’s All Things Digital conference.
Then he almost immediately recants that, saying he is not sure if ‘7′ will be shown. This is the sort of ’smoke and […]
Anyone older than 30 has had at least one experience with a Polaroid Instamatic Camera - maybe only seeing it used in a movie, but many more of us had one in the house. In many houses these were passed down from father to son, as a treasured item. These were once the only way […]
As has been reported in the news, a reseller on e-Bay was reselling genuine copies of used AutoCAD software, and was given, over time, cease and desist orders by Autodesk, makers of the software.
The man in question, Timothy Vernor, was buying copies of the software at yard sales, estate sales, and various other places, […]
(imagine a teletype in the background - yes, they are still in use somewhere)
Yesterday, before its landing, mission controllers acknowledge that they are receiving telemetry data from the spacecraft. The mission controllers are using two spacecraft orbiting around Mars to track Phoenix. Acquisition of the Phoenix signal by the two spacecraft is verified. […]
For those who arrived on planet Earth before the advent of Windows, and those who know about the power and precision of the command line interface, yet aren’t ready to dive into a brand of *x just yet, there is a great little replacement for CMD.EXE. It is called Take Command Console {LE}.
First, the LE […]
When I reported that Windows XP Service Pack 3 was causing even more problems the newest problem had not been under investigation long enough to assure anyone whose problem it really was. That time is over, and it appears those who have had this problem could have been spared lots of grief. Why? Because the […]
