is unstable. It’s fine if you turn it off every day but leave it on all the time, like I do, and you will likely find it hung by morning.

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--> Sorry, due to spammers, I am only taking comments at LiveJournal, for now. Thank you, The Slamlander

This is my first real blog post on the new site. Geek Alert: this is heavily technical.

A few days ago Mary Jo Foley wrote a nice piece about Vista, looking for the killer app. In that article she asks where it is, one year on. Methinks that, that is exactly the wrong question. The real question is; Is Vista a significant step forward from XP? I ( Read more... )

MSFT Vista, the new OS from Microsoft, will not play online games, imagine that!
According to Goldman, WildTangent, which is the largest publisher of online downloadable games from the Internet, just concluded a year-long study statying that virtually no web-based game is compatible with Vista. That could prevent 70 million gamers from playing ( Read more... )

Gary (Electric Storm @ UF) sent me this little beauty.

This revocation can have unforeseen carry-on costs. Windows' anti-piracy component, WGA, is tied to system hardware components. Windows allows you to make a small number of system hardware changes after which you need to renew your Windows license (the exact details of what you can and can't ( Read more... )