Cranking up for Windows 7 Inside Out
17 Nov 2008 9:12pm GMT The contract is signed, the outline is in place, and the authoring team has had its first weekly conference call for the next member of the Inside Out family. Now all we need is some software to write about. This is the unsettled part of the book-writing process, as the software coalesces to a point where [...]
Check your UPS battery
16 Nov 2008 11:12pm GMT My office is equipped with three uninterruptible power supplies. Each one can run its equipment load for 5-10 minutes in the event of a power failure. These little gizmos really come in handy when very brief power outages (just a few seconds, typically) occur. If the UPS is doing its job, you barely even notice, [...]
Weekend puppy blogging
16 Nov 2008 5:03pm GMT The new puppy is here, the new puppy is here! Her name is Lucy (short for Luciana). Six months old, a rescue (like her new housemate Mackie) from English Springer Rescue America. Let the “I Love Lucy” jokes begin,,,
A great Home Server deal
13 Nov 2008 10:34pm GMT Via Cheap Stingy Bargains I note that Buy.com has the HP MediaSmart EX470 1.8GHz Home Server for $400 after $150 instant discount, with free shipping. That’s 50 bucks less than Amazon.com’s price. [Update 14-Nov-2008: Well, that didn’t last long. As Dan notes in the comments, the deal seems to be dead now.] Last year at this time, [...]
Happy birthday, Windows!
11 Nov 2008 6:07pm GMT Via Todd Bishop comes the reminder that “Monday marked 25 years since the unveiling of Windows 1.0.” As Todd notes, it took another couple years before the product actually shipped. And of course even the most rabid fanboi has to admit that it was roughly seven years (Windows 3.0 in 1990) before Windows was really [...]