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I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop. Look & Feel Windows XP has quite a cartoony look and feel compared to the slick look of Aero Glass; this is mostly offset by the lack of strange screen artifacts caused by malfunctioning graphics code. You know, almost like static on the screen. This was a once or twice monthly occurrence on my laptop, and happened on my desktop whenever...
Nitwits who by their actions try to show companies and the public that the GPL is run by a bunch of underpants-on-the-head kind of commie pinko weirdos . Here's a hint Harald, and what the hell, let's include RMS in this too, most people involved in OSS or semi-OSS stuff are in it to help the community and not to push some radical political agenda. When you give them no choice but to sign up for your latest crusade, then quite a few will drop out. Free as in do-what-I-tell-you-or-else free...
CNet has a story where they discuss a slowdown in the percentage of software developers targeting Windows. The figures come from Evans Data who say: 65% of developers are targeting Windows, down from 75% last year, almost a 9% drop. They expect a further 2% drop next year. Linux in the same period has picked up 34% more developers, up to 12%. The rest of the article progresses into a fantasyland of pabulum about a WebOS. Reading the Evans release , John Andrews, CEO says: it's clear that a shift...
It's been quite a while since I wrote a post I was as happy with as my Building a Generic Range class (I've been struggling to get my mojo back), so I decided to submit it to CodeProject . Well, it's been moved out of the reader-submitted content area, into the main C# article, and you can find it here . Right now, it's the most popular article in the Generics section there, but given that it's 4.93/5 rating is only from 5 reviewers, we'll have to see if stays that popular...
One of our more colourful politicans in South Africa, Patricia De Lille has called for blogs to be regulated , and has asked the National Intelligence Agency to investigate an anonymous blogger. Apparently this complete swine dared to make defamatory statements about Simon Grindrod, an Independant Democrats representative. Apparently this blog also slandered a rugby player, a reverend and an entertainer. They refuse to indicate where to find this blog as it may give it credence, but are quite happy...
I have just endured over an hour of aggravation, and spent hundreds of rands trying to get my PC to boot. Not a difficult chore you might think, I mean some PC's have been known to boot several times. Hell, put Vista on and you'll boot several times a week . Anyway, whilst I was pulling open the innards of my computer I was musing on the design of these internals. Since I was replacing the power supply, my thoughts naturally gravitated to that. Guess which component on your PC does not come...
Well, I'm sure we've all heard the ruckus about the continuing problems with the eNaTIS system. Due to the issues this system is having, my new car is taking forever to get registered. No complaints here, with my temporary license, I don't have to worry about speed cameras in front of me, giving me plenty of opportunities to really test it's engine capacity. eNaTIS is being developed by a company called Tasima , a joint venture between arivia.kom , Thuthukani , and Webcom . I'd...
According to SuperCricket , "Graeme Smith believes his team have finally buried their chokers' tag after storming into the World Cup semifinals". No, they will shed that tag when they win the World Cup final . And since when is losing to Bangladesh and then hammering England called “storming”? I’d call it inconsistent. Especially considering that we're the bottom placed of the semi-finalists. We're going to need significantly more reliability than this to beat Australia. Share this post: email it...
There are several online newspapers carrying a story purporting to be from Outsurance, claiming that robbers use rubbish outside your property as a mechanism for marking which places to rob, and which to leave alone. You can find the story here , here , here and here . Don't bother following each link though, since the stories are pretty much word for word. The story is sourced from SAPA-DPA, which means it comes from Deutsche Presse-Agentur , a German news organisation. Well, I found a couple...
I'm trying to decide whether Outlook 2007 is the worst RSS reader I've ever used or not. To be fair, that's not really it's job, and besides it's sluggish performance I'm very happy with it otherwise. However it is, should we say, innovative in the way it downloads the RSS, sometimes deciding not to download a feed for days on end. It's feeds list is vile, especially when it comes to news feeds like BBC's with big headers. In addition, it's sometimes as slow as hell opening a post up in a window...
A must-read article on why programmers can’t program from Coding Horror . The scariest factoid from the post: “199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can’t write code at all. I repeat: they can't write any code whatsoever .” Terrifying. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Well, Vista has been officially released, but guess what? The nVidia drivers I thought wouldn't have been released haven't. I hate being right. In fact, happy days, nVidia have deigned to release a new Beta driver . Well done nVidia! The new OS has finally been released after almost a 5 year delay, and you've managed to figure out a beta driver! I mean everyone was going on about Longhaul, but the reality is that the delays Microsoft had was nothing compared to the sheer incompetance of the hardware...
Okay, so for once I wasn't an early adopter, but I tend to be a bit conservative with OS upgrades, especially one as fraught as Vista has been. In any case, I've upgraded only my home machine, which is basically a games machine *** file server, my main development box, my laptop, is remaining Vista free . So, I've been using Vista for the whole weekend so what do I think? Well, it appears to be one of the buggiest operating systems I've ever used. It's blue screened once, required reboots 9 times...
I don't know how many of my South African readers have heard about it, but it appears that our darling electricity monopoly, Eskom, has so ballsed things up that we will have countrywide rolling blackouts. They're calling it "load-shedding", but that's just semantics. It appears that once again they've managed to stuff up the nuclear reactor at Koeberg. How many times is this in the last year now? 3 times? Are their staff so utterly incompetant that they allow a nuclear reactor to fail 3 times in...
Twice in the last couple of weeks I've made the horrendous mistake of buying Sony DVD's. In both cases the DVD structure is so corrupted that my Intervideo WinDVD cannot play it. So, I have a legal copy of a DVD, a legal copy of DVD playing software and yet am still unable to enjoy the movie. I've actually had to buy a DVD cracking system called DVD Fab in order to crack the DVD, and then re-rip it onto a disc. In the USA, that would make me a criminal. Thankfully we live in an enlightened...
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