May 2009 Blog Posts
Last night after returning home from a Pinewood Derby event, I noticed that my rear driver side door had been dented in. This was no small job and I was quite aggravated to discover this. After wrangling with my wife on the futility of going back to investigate, we returned to the not yet complete event.
Upon closer investigation I ascertained that the damage had not been caused by a vehicle. There would have been paint missing and the impact point would have been lower on the door panel. No, a person or other obtuse object had made this damage. I...
It's always interesting to pit Microsoft and Apple together for comparisons, even more so, though, since they share a rivalry that spans decades. Ars has some cool analysis from a TechEd 2009 video. The more interesting part involves a mea culpa on the Windows Mobile 6.5 hack job:
The reason why we couldn't complete the interface on Windows Mobile 6.5 is because of time. We only spend what, eight months, nine months, to build 6.5 from ground up and it's actually an amazing engineering feat. But, in order to do that, we had to do some prioritization and we had to...
I installed the first release candidate for Windows 7 this afternoon. I was pretty impressed. Install is pretty easy, setup a snap, and the operating itself seems to have the polish one expects out of product that has over a twenty year history. The biggest thing, however, is it is much more responsive when playing games than its predecessor, Windows Vista, ever had.
The UI, too, has gotten quite a rework. From the new task bar to a few new eye-candy tweaks, Windows 7 is worthy of an upgrade from Windows XP. Except on thing--why upgrade? XP works fine for me,...
Windows 7's release is on the horizon with the debut of its first release candidate this week, but even more troubling than the repeat of the myriad versions that we'll have to sort through, most people won't be able to take advantage of the new 'XP Mode'. XP Mode allows a user to run a concurrent virtual instance on Windows XP while using Windows 7. The idea is to ease the transition of users who still need to run certain applications that are not compatible with Windows Vista or 7. That's all fine and dandy, of course, except a few...