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April, 2009
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Windows 7 – Just keeps getting dumber
April 26th, 2009Well, I played around with the Windows 7 beta a while back, but not too much.
Recently the Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 came out, so I decided to pop it in and see what is new, and what I’ve found is painfully disappointing in most cases.
Microsoft is continuing in their tradition of dumbing-down their operating [...]
Acer Predator Fail
April 22nd, 2009Hahahaha, oh Acer, you make this too easy. Their top of the line gaming system, costing well above the $2k mark, failing brand new out of the box.
In Acer’s defense though, it could’ve happened during shipping. Turns out the video card had come lose and wasn’t seated properly any more. Ryan took it out and [...]
AT&T Fuze vs. iPhone
April 15th, 2009Note: I’ve had this written since last week, just hadn’t posted it yet. I kept going between posting it, or splitting this article up in to 2, 1 comparing hardware, 1 comparing software, because I feel like this article kind of meanders all over the place. But I decided for my little blog site, this [...]
A stroll through a crashed MySQL database
April 5th, 2009Saturday became the day to install a new ceiling fan in our dining room. It was quite an adventure, and ended up not going so well because we apparently bought the wrong type of fan. We needed a flush mounted fan, but the one we bought can only be mounted with a down rod. Frustrating [...]
A look at my Windows Mobile history
April 4th, 2009I recently bought an AT&T Fuze, the latest Windows Mobile powered device in the US. It is in the mail right now and should be here next week some time. When I get it I plan on doing a full on Fuze vs. iPhone comparison. But before I get it, I just wanted to give [...]
