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Prediction: Surface RT slab Fails
This one is the first prediction I’ll make for the new year. The Surface RT slab will fail in 2013. (as in period) Windows 8 on Surface Intel processors will be unstable, but the ARM RT will vanish entirely. UPDATE: … Continue reading
Posted in General IT issues, Information, Marketing, Microsoft, Windows
Tagged Microsoft, Pad, prediction, RT, Slab, Surface, Tablet, Windows 8
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If it moves, it breaks!
Having been in IT for the better part of 30 years, I still sometimes forget, so when the New 500GB disk in my new laptop threw an error, I thought it was my fault. It wasn’t, it was, what is … Continue reading
Posted in General IT issues, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Windows
Tagged Clevo, Diskdrive, PC Specialist
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My new Clevo W240EUQ Laptop from PC Specialists
This is the Laptop I have moved to. No longer a Mac user, never more than a PC user and never a Windows fan. I’m now entirely into my custom built Clevo W244EUQ laptop, built to my configuration by PC … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, DIY server, Freedom, General IT issues, Intel, Linux, Mac, Maker, Microsoft, The Future, Windows
Tagged benchmark, Clevo, Intel, Linux, Mac, Mint, OS, PC Specialist, Windows
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Nokia’s direction down
If anyone has any doubts about the sanity of Nokia’s, rather eFlops selection of windows to hang Nokia’s future upon, this should settle them as Nokia Lumia 800 sales forecast gets chopped that puts first batch sales almost half of … Continue reading
If you Love/Hate Nokia read this
Will the Real Stephen Elop, Please Stand Up? I couldn’t on my best day, speak to this better than this article. If anything it should speak to any CEO/CFO/CTO that arrogantly enters a new company environment with preconceived notions of … Continue reading
Browser Stats – Internet Exploder
I have been observing a vast increase in traffic, traffic without apparent purpose, over the last several weeks. And I didn’t give it much thought. However I now know that its MSNBot a Bing Robot that is deeply scanning all … Continue reading
Posted in Broadband, Conspiracies, General IT issues, Marketing, Microsoft, monopolies, Statistics, Windows
Tagged Browsers, Internet, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Statistics, Web
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Sync Me Up
How do you keep your connected devices connected? How many different services do you depend on to keep your ‘stuff’ safe and available from anywhere? Could you imagine a better way? I can, and I almost have it working with … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Apple, Broadband, Internet, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Microsoft, Nokia, Projects, Social Networks, telecommunications, Windows
Tagged connected devices, Internet, Sync me up, sync-me-up.com
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Smartphones, thick as Flies!
Well if anything, you can’t say there there are too few choices in the Smartphone arena. Joining in the iPhone , Rim, Palm Pre , Windows Mobile firefight, there are now Maemo and LiMo. The later two (Maemo and LoMo) … Continue reading
Webmin back door
NOTE: Do not accidently drop your own permissions to su to root. {Unless you happen to remember to have Webmin running. } This weekend while trying to get CUPS to print on my DYI-Server I managed to grant myself ‘CUPS … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, DIY server, General IT issues, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Psychology, Windows
Tagged Linux, OpenSolaris, Webmin
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A different thing in a real OS.
Through the weekend I believed that I had managed to screw up my OpenSolaris installation. So serious was my suspicion I was planning to erase the disk and reinstall the entire system. The sound system that I’d manage to get … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, DIY server, General IT issues, History, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, monopolies, Windows
Tagged Ekiga, OpenSolaris, Time Machine, ZFS
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A sheep in Wolfs (Windows) dressings
If I were managing Microsoft, I’d announce a new Operating System (OS) and prepare copies to hand out of Windows 7 “pre-betas” at PDC, WinHEC which consists of a slightly re-skinned Vista OS which no one wanted when it was … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, monopolies, Psychology, Truth, Windows
Tagged Marketing, Microsoft, Perceptions, Vista, Windows
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One more foolish Palm move
if this rumor is true that Palm’s Treo Pro in the wild, probably not fake. Then Palm has got to be the most foolish company in the world. Just when they are promising a new OS, a Linux cum Android … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Microsoft, Palm, telecommunications, Windows
Tagged Android, Linux, Palm, Windows Mobile
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Microsoft legacy
Microsoft will NEVER be free from the support requirements of Windows XP, you know why? Take a look at the photo I took today; If they can’t get VAR’s from using ancient Windows NT 4.0, they will never be rid … Continue reading
Posted in General IT issues, Microsoft, Windows
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Apple Leopard platform phase-out
This last 10.4.9 release of Mac OS-X has me again wondering about what platform’s will be set for end-of-life when Leopard is released. I’ve made the assumption that my old 500MHz G3 iBook would be on that list, with Tiger … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, General IT issues, Mac, Microsoft, Windows
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Vista’s new lemmings
Having seen the underoverwhelming advertising for Windows Vista, and hearing that as a result, PC sales have skyrocketed (a whole 5% represents a very low sky or a very short rocket). I felt compelled to repost an old favorite, Lemmings, … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, General IT issues, Information, Microsoft, Windows, Work
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