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Optical Illusions Can Mess With Your Mind
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Like many of the type A folks I work with, I rarely make mistakes. But I made an interesting one this week and by golly it wasn’t my fault. Or was it? Anyone who is a frequent writer knows it’s beneficial to have someone spot check your work...
“Microsoft has yet again raised the bar” – engadget.com on Win7 Media Center
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over 4 years ago
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Engadget.com has a pretty decent review of the new features in the Media Center feature of Windows 7 at http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/07/27/windows-7-media-center-review/ . If you haven’t ever experienced recording TV with Windows XP, Windows Vista...
The Intel® X25-M Mainstream 160GB SSD should rock Windows 7
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over 4 years ago
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Out with the old, in with the new. I’ve been selling a few items on my wife’s costume ecommerce site. I sold enough stuff so far to purchase the recently announced Intel® X25-M Mainstream 160GB SSD drive. This particular drive has been...
Halo Legends anime coming!
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over 4 years ago
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See the Presspass announcement . I guess the Saturday morning cartoons are next. Grin.
Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community
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over 4 years ago
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“REDMOND, Wash., July 20, 2009 — Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for...
On age and The Open
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Someone asked me if Tom Watson was good for the image of golf. They were lamenting that having a 59 year old almost win The Open Championship made it look like golf was too easy. Anyone who would think something like that apparently has never...
What is a “experience-targeted cloud OS” anyway???
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According to Dell’s Doug Anston , his group is researching an “experience-targeted cloud OS” like Google Chrome OS for their line of products. Go for it Doug, I would expect you to. He also goes on to say “alternative operating systems continue to evolve...
Don’t Make Conan Mad
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over 4 years ago
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How long do your hard drives run non stop?
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In June of 2007 I purchased a TiVo Series 3 HD DVR and promptly attached a 500GB SATA hard drive to the TiVo eSATA port. That hard drive and enclosure has had a workout since then. They’ve been running non-stop for 24 months and at some point you...
Expression Encoder Screen Capture 3 – HD screencast demonstration
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You’ve seen me do literally hundreds of Camtasia captured screencast demos. One of the screencasts I did on Windows Server 2008 was captured using the Windows Media Encoder x64 product. That product has now been depricated and the screencast...
Office 2010 – Technical Preview Waitlist Registration now open
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over 4 years ago
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Waitlist Me for the Technical Preview!
“Taking the iPhone 3GS off the job market” by Engadget Editor-in-Chief
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over 4 years ago
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Joshua Topolsky wrote and published “ Editorial: Taking the iPhone 3GS off the job market ” on the widely popular engadget.com website today. I think he’s a little upset. I never would have thought I’d see the day the engadget folks would...
Seen the light?
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over 4 years ago
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http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/seethelight/default.html [UPDATE] Apparently they moved some stuff around after I posted some of the links. Thanks for the comments. Enjoy the new tools!!!
Deployment run amuck
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over 4 years ago
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Someone deployed to many images to this node. Looks like it went into to a freaking loop. I’m sure SCCM didn’t do this. Either that or it’s a WDS server multicasting some streamed images. Photo nightmare courtesy of http://twitter.com...
Revisiting using a Zune with a MacBook Pro
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over 4 years ago
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One of the first things I did when I got my Mac back in late 2007 was to see if the USB connection capabilities worked in Fusion. But that was about eighteen months ago and nearly the entire world has “rev’d” since then. So let the updates begin...
For Sale – some gadgets and goodies
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over 4 years ago
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I am going to start selling off some of the stuff taking up space in my drawers and home office. Some of this stuff is in mint condition so be sure and let me know if you have any questions. All of the photos are just stock photos from the...
The Hyper-V Resource Kit is now available !!!
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over 4 years ago
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Want the latest information about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V? If so, then you’ll want to check out the “ Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Resource Kit ” by Robert Larson and Janique Carbone with the Windows Virtualization Team at Microsoft (Microsoft...
Star Wars USB drives a go – but where is Blu-ray ???
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over 4 years ago
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Anyone else other than me think it sucks that we can buy all sorts of Star Wars approved apparel, but when it comes to buying the widescreen Blu-ray versions of the movies they are nowhere to be found? What is it with George Lucas and the owners...
Using Bing with Firefox 3.5 – default search engine
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I run my share of software that isn’t made by Microsoft. Like a number of you, I downloaded and installed Firefox 3.5. I really have to because I need to make sure the Firefox experience is good on my blog and on edge.technet.com. Gotta...