Nothing like a good bit of Host file editing to while away the Tuesday afternoon, except I couldn’t save the file in notepad. A quick Live Search later and I found this excellent post by Tim which walks you through the steps very nicely. Of course I forgot to open Notepad with Administrator privileges -…
Tag: General Rambling
When error messages are good
I was playing around with the new image library of the space shuttle when I broke Photosynth. I got a javascript popup telling me about my faux-pas and instead of just dismissing the error without reading it, for the first time in my life I read an error message. Why? because it was human and…
Bursting the Web 2.0 Bubble
Jack writes on the Guardian technology blog about the fear in the industry about the impending bursting of the Web bubble. I’ve been thinking about this too and I have been worried too I have to say – going so far as to say that it was inevitable. After reading more educated people on the subject…
iPod connectivity on planes
Genius! 😛 “On Tuesday, Apple announced a partnership with carriers Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM and United. Beginning in mid-2007, the six airlines will offer iPod connectivity so that travelers can charge their iPods in transit. Additionally, the planes’ seat-back displays will be configured so that video content stored on the media players can…
Microsoft: Change the world or go home?
It’s interesting how different people are interpreting Hugh MacLeod’s latest cartoon on Microsoft (pictured right). I personally believe we do a lot of things that change the world – it’s just that most of the time people don’t stop to realise. When you invest $7.5 billion in research and development you expect some pretty cool…
Woah there cowboy, you’ve got information overload!
Ok I have waaaaay too much information coming at me in every direction. I need to cut back on my information addiction… I went to “Informatics Anonymous” last week (saw my boss and Matt there) and got the following things of my chest: I’m subscribed to 30 internal email distribution lists – ranging from Vista…
Live Q&A: Do you think Vista will be a success?
Check out this cool new Windows Live site called Live Q&A. It’s a community driven site where you can ask any question and get it answered by a whole host of different people. I did a quick search for Vista and came across this question: Do you think Vista will be a success? What do…
Vista’s Blue Screen of Death
🙂 Courtesy of Long Zheng.
What has BMW got to do with Vista Build numbers?
I just found an excellent, excellent, excellent post by Long Zheng which explains the complicated beast which is Windows Vista version branching. He listened to a pod-cast by Sven Hallauer, Director of Release Management for Windows Vista and interpreted his thoughts onto an underground like map which looks like this: It helps explain why there are…
Shopping for cars, much like buying Windows in the future…
Those thought leaders over at Gartner have sited Virtualisation as the end of what we know as Windows. So, in the future we should expect a more modular approach where you can build your own Windows according to your needs. It’s comparable to choosing the extras on your car I guess. First you choose your…