Posts Tagged ‘Vista’
The Truth About Geniuses, Viruses and Good Marketing
In: Technology
13 May 2009If you have seen Apple’s recent crop of ads to counter Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter Ads, you will find two themes: Apple Genius’ are amazing at technical support, and Windows computers just don’t operate without crashing and constantly catch viruses. Of course these are just marketing gimmicks, just like the Laptop Hunter ads were also, but [...]
Copied World of Warcraft from another machine to save time and now you can’t update? Here’s a fix…
In: Gaming
22 Feb 2009World of Warcraft is a beast to install alone, patching it up to the latest version is another story. Many people, me included, will make a backup of the World of Warcraft folder to save time installing it on a new machine. This used to work just dandy, but now you might find yourself presented [...]
Is the Linux advantage Free or Freedom?
In: Technology
7 Jan 2009I have been quite actively interjecting my own opinion in a thread on a website about Linux. I know, I know, don’t say anything if you can’t say something nice, but sometimes it’s just so much fun. There is actually quite a bit nice to say about Linux, I just happen to believe that it [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Vista, Windows
Can’t wait for the Netflix Xbox Update? Fill in the tween time with vmcNetFlix
In: Technology
22 Sep 2008I don’t know about you, but I love me some Netflix. We shred through five or six movies and TV shows on DVD per week. Dawngrrl and I have been addicted to Showtime’s Dexter and when we ran out of episodes on the disc we had, we were in a panic to watch more. Lucky [...]
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- Tags: Media Center, Netflix, Vista
First let me say that I am a Microsoft employee and this post is pure opinion and not an official position of my employer. That being said, reading my morning dose of feeds I have already came across nearly a dozen articles whining that Windows 7 looks just like Windows Vista. Not to go directly [...]
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- Tags: OS X, Vista, Windows
HP Might Be Going Insane…
In: Technology
12 Sep 2008First, read this: HP Exploring Shift to Linux in Order to Bypass Vista, Compete With Apple [Hp] By Sean Fallon on Vista According to Businesweek, HP has been quietly working on two projects aimed at bypassing unpopular features in Vista and possibly competing with Apple down the line. The first involves developing software that modifies [...]
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A Laptop With Split Personality Disorder – Making Room for Bootcamp on a Macbook Pro (Hard Drive Upgrade)
In: Technology
10 Aug 2008Last weekend I walked a tightrope. I was probably the most nervous working on a computer I have ever been. I gathered my courage and undertook the most dangerous of all upgrades, the Macbook Pro hard drive replacement. My Macbook Pro has been suffering with an anemic 120GB Hard Disk for quite some time. Now [...]
WordPress Theme Design: Vista Theme
In: Online|Web Authoring
13 Jun 2008I decided today to make a Vista theme for my blog. I started with a screen shot of Outlook, and opened it in Adobe Photoshop and started simplifying it. Once I had the basics of what I wanted, I had a single flat jpg that looked something like this… I brought it into back into [...]
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- Tags: Vista, Wordpress
I would venture to say that given this site’s general topic of OS Agnostic computing, I know more than most the arguments for and against these two titan operating systems. The arguments against Vista are legendary. I have made no secret of the fact that I started carrying a Macbook Pro in September of last [...]
I decided that it was time to make a concerted effort to get my TV-Tuner card working in Windows Vista 64-bit edition so I could watch TV in my downstairs office without having to have a dedicated TV for the purpose. This meant breaking down and trying to figure out how to get the unrecognized [...]
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- Tags: 64-bit, Microsoft, Vista, Windows
Ah, PC Gaming….why I love to hate it…
In: Random
16 Feb 2008This morning I was up as soon as my body would allow and on my way to Fry’s. I had decided that my newly purchased PC would bring me back into the realm of PC gaming a bit. That being said it was a little anemic in the Video department and I couldn’t exactly be [...]
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- Tags: Gaming, Vista
Windows Vista Ultimate in Bootcamp and VMWare Fusion Redux
In: Technology
26 Jan 2008I decided to give Windows Vista Ultimate under OS X 10.5 Leopard’s Bootcamp option one more shot. This also includes integration with VMWare’s Fusion for my particular setup. The machine in question is a relatively new Macbook Pro laptop. It’s got a 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo processor with 4 GB of Ram and a 120 [...]
Macenstein Goes Overboard with Vista Coffin Article…
In: Technology
14 Jan 2008After reading this article on Macenstein this evening, I felt compelled to bang out a quick blog to add a little truth to the reality distortion field that is already reaching fever pitch more than 12 hours away from Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld tomorrow. The article’s title "On Macworld Eve: Two more mails in [...]
Blogging from a tablet PC with Windows Vista
In: Random
4 Jan 2008So I am trying something different tonight. while I am sitting, here watching some TV, I am this blog on a tablet pc with Windows Vista’s hand writing recognition and it really works! I thought it would be sketchy… it really isn’t! Ok, now for the disclosure. I just switched back to the keyboard. It’s [...]
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- Tags: Blogging, Vista, Windows
90% of Bloggers use hating Vista as link bait!
In: Random
19 Nov 2007Ok, so that is an entirely made up number. I have read so many article like this one lately. Talk about beating a dead horse. We get it, a lot of people don’t like Windows Vista. A lot of people have been caught up in the whirlwind of negative energy the blogosphere has created about [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Vista, Windows
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