December 2006 - Posts

Merry New Year!
30 December 06 05:08 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Well, another even-numbered year draws to a close. Hope everyone has a happy and safe new year. It's an odd-numbered year coming up, so it's obviously going to be fantastic (as are multiple-of-5 years). See y'all in 07! :) Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Windows Vista FTW: Cleartype over RDP
21 December 06 04:46 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

One of the little things I love about Windows Vista is that I'm able to use the RDP client without The Jaggies. I use Consolas in Visual Studio and elsewhere, and as Jeff pointed out a while back, it's just not built for non-Cleartype environments. I Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Terminal Server, Windows Vista

My First Tablet-ish PC
13 December 06 12:24 AM | tristank | 3 Comments   

Back in 1998, I bought a Cassiopea Windows CE 2.0 Handheld PC. It was just under half the size of my current infatuation (the P1610 ) used a fold-out form factor with a 640x200 screen (CGA hi-res!) had a small and fiddly QWERTY calculator-key-style keyboard, Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Windows Vista, p1610

Windows Vista Performance on P1610
10 December 06 09:52 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

How does a half-size PC perform, you ask? Let's find out what Windows Vista thinks of the setup: Original score: 2.0 {2.7,2.9, 2.0,2.4 ,3.7} Re-test today: 2.4 {2.7,2.9, 3.8,2.4 ,3.7} I wonder what was behind the jump in perf between Setup and now... Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Windows Vista, p1610

P1610 First Impressions
08 December 06 11:19 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   

I got my Fujitsu P1610 Lifebook care of Hugo on Wednesday, and I have a rather long post on it coming (I know, I could do a bunch of shorter posts, but that'd wreck my quality-is-not-quantity posting metrics for the month!). For now, I'd just like to Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Windows Vista, p1610

Fujitsu Lifebook P1610 - The First Day (and a bit)
07 December 06 10:42 PM | tristank | 6 Comments   

On Wednesday, my care package from Tegatech arrived - a brand new P1610! I thought there must have been some sort of mistake when the Mail Guy handed me the package, as it was obviously far too light to be a laptop and included bumf. Plus, it was just Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Aussie, Windows Vista, p1610

Expression this, WPF that...
05 December 06 04:32 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

The Expression series of designers have been refreshed, with free trials available for all. Now available in Expression Blend (formerly Expression Interactive Designer), Expression Design (nee Expression Graphic Designer) and Web (FrontPage), flavours Read More...

Filed under: Developery

IE7 crashing on secure sites...
05 December 06 02:34 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

A colleague's copy of IE7 on Windows XP was playing up today. When browsing secure sites (that's https or ssl for the search engine crowd), IE would crash with a polite message offering to create a dump file. Otherwise, it was fine, but this was kinda Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Networking