Microsoft has tentavely let the cat out ofthe bag. That cat goes by the name of IE8. Gotta warn people, the beta is not for the meek. Without going into any more details, I’ll just put it this way, the most prominent feature is a button reverting it back to IE7 emulation.
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Microsoft released Vista a year or so ago. I pretty much ignored it until I was forced to buy a new PC at work. Now, I’m into it. The first thing a bud told me to do was install SP1. So I did. This is what SP1 offers:
Hardware Ecosystem Support and Enhancements
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Adds support for new [...]
Shift happens
Posted in Computers, Education, People, Technology on May 11th, 2007
Man, I love stuff like this:
Technorati Tags: Computers, Education, People, shift-happens, Technology
I got a crash course in Vista today. Bought an Emachine in the box with nothing telling me what was running on it. It was Vista. Now, I immediately ran into two critical problems. The old hard drive kept rebooting with the new machine, and the VPN driver ( Contivity ), [...]
2,000 year old PC?
Posted in Computers on Dec 1st, 2006
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism — from the island off which the Roman ship sank — the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock.
Only the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in western Europe. "It was a pocket calculator of the time," [...]
I have been using, get this, comma delimited text, to transfer data reliably since about 1988 or so. I like it for two reasons:
Although the data is readily available to anyone, you have no clue what the data is. All that’s there is the data itself and a whole bunch of commas.
It works.
Starting a few [...]
Ever wonder where :) came from?
Posted in Computers on Feb 24th, 2006
I have used emoticons since I pretty much got on a computer. Even in the days of my TI-99, emoticons were a quick and simple way to relate simple expressions. In those days, being simple meant something other than just being lazy. Computer memory was a premium for the low-end user. Modem transfers were about [...]
Big Brother has a willing accomplice
Posted in Computers, The Internet on Feb 1st, 2006
And that accomplice goes by one name:
Bad Google, bad.
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CGI killed the cinema star ( hopefully )
Posted in Computers, Entertainment on Dec 12th, 2005
I was just browsing through headlines, when I stumbled on The Schizoid Split in Movies on Slate. Now the angle being discussed there is about the separation of CGI effects and the live action. Sometimes it’s pretty messy and screws up an otherwise OK movie. Sometimes it’s the star of the movie and the actors [...]
$100 Laptops?
Posted in Computers on Dec 9th, 2005
Potential computer users in the developing world will not want a basic $100 hand-cranked laptop that is due to be rolled out to millions, chip-maker Intel Corp. Chairman Craig Barrett said Friday.
Schoolchildren in Brazil, Thailand, Egypt and Nigeria will begin receiving the first few million textbook-style computers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) media [...]