Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft Corp.
The lawsuit was filed in Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday by lawyers representing Detroit’s police and fire retirement system and general retirement system, as well as “all […]
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Morons
18Feb08I love Yahoo!, and I am proud to be a Yahoo! I will not work for Microsoft. I’d be embarassed to admit that I worked for Microsoft, and having it on my resume would be detrimental to my career.
— Some Yahoo
Put me in the camp that thinks Microsoft buying Yahoo is about the stupidest idea […]
Bill’s Last Day
27Jan08My favorite BillG video:
Migrating
19Jan08The one time that I really envy Mac users is when I get a new PC. It is just so friggin hard to get all of your applications, settings, and data transitioned from one PC to another. I did give the “Windows Easy Transfer” tool a whirl but after leaving the house for a few […]
More than a decade after Microsoft added long filename support to their operating systems, they still cause problems. My Windows Home Server has been showing this error for a few weeks now:
According to this thread the limitation is within the .NET Framework, which I actually find more disturbing than if it were some sort of […]
I Hate Computers
05Jan08Came home this afternoon to find the power supply in my MCE box dead. Thought briefly about just ordering a new XPS 420 from Dell but that wouldn’t solve the problem of needing to record The Wire tomorrow night.
Scrounged up a power supply but it wouldn’t fit the stupid Cooler Master Cavalier case and I […]
Excel Sucks
22Dec07What did I ask Excel to do? Cut. Fucking Cut. It’s Two-Thousand-and-Goddamned-Seven, and Excel has trouble with Cut.
Dear Microsoft,
26Oct07Please stop re-using acronyms. Yesterday I saw some “WDS” articles come thru Google Reader. Excited to learn something new about Windows Deployment Services, I clicked only to discover some dreck about Windows Destop Search.
Tonight I’m searching for Windows Preinstallation Environment and getting results for Windows Portable Executable format.
Automated Deployment Services vs. Active Directory Services.
I could […]
