And Apple’s latest ad almost nails it.
To be truly accurate, every time that Security speaks the screen should flickr and go blank just long enough to make you wonder if the computer crashed…
Archive for February, 2007
UAC Sucks
06Feb07Teh F4st3r
05Feb07A speed test from the office. I think the data set is too small for really fast connections.
Mmmmm, Speedy
04Feb07More upstream, please.
Mac vs. PC
03Feb07Mac vs. PC spoof.
I’m a Media Center PC and that means I can record live TV, and pause, and rewind, and skip over commercials, and skip the boring parts.
DVDs, I can play DVDs.
I can play DVDs too.
Can You Be Sued for Quitting?
03Feb07An interesting (to me at least) Ask Slashdot query:
An anonymous reader asks:
“I work at a large hosting company in Texas, and recently decided to go work for a smaller competitor. I had a great relationship with my employer and wanted to leave on good terms, and I hadn’t signed any non-compete or employment agreements . […]
Some Vista Screens
03Feb07Nothing upgrade-worthy here, but some nice little touches.
Resource Monitor is what Task Manager wants to be when it grows up. All the pretty little graphs on one screen. Click any of the headings below and they expand to list the running processes and how much of that particular resource they are using.
Hovering the mouse over […]
Elevator Pitch
02Feb07I was reading the Newsweek interview with Bill Gates on the Vista launch that everyone has been linking to, but what stood out to me was BillG’s response when asked for his elevator pitch to convince a stranger to upgrade to Vista:
The most effective thing would be if I could sit down with them and […]
Windows Home Server ‘blog
02Feb07The Windows Home Server weblog launched this week. I am hyper-interested in this product, storage and backup have been huge pain points for me, I just hope that it will be available sans hardware — either Retail or “OEM.”
