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The reason I will never buy a Mac desktop

Published on Apr 17th, 2008 in blog, interesting links, hardware, apple, thumbs down | 2 Comments »

While browsing around this morning I stumbled upon this bit of news: “Apple released a new graphics upgrade kit today.” For those Mac Pro users out there (that is, the tower desktop system, not the laptop) can now upgrade to a GeForce 8800GT for about x1.5 the actual price of the card, ain’t those wonderful […]

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Craiglist listing gone really bad

Published on Mar 26th, 2008 in blog, interesting links, thumbs down | No Comments »

When I read this I couldn’t believe myself, apparently it’s not the first time happening either. I have never used Craiglist but this kind of story makes it easy to believe how powerful of a network it has created in some areas (in case you have never been to the 1997-looking site, it’s all about […]

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Vista crashing in the most simple of tasks

Published on Mar 20th, 2008 in blog, windows, microsoft, software, thumbs down | 8 Comments »

So let me rant for a bit. After defending Windows Vista, not because I like Microsoft but because based on my experiences I have had relatively few problems with the OS, last night I saw it giving me a deja vu of the early Win95 days!
A solid install of Vista now running SP1 was put […]

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Crazy, crazy funding for a web startup

Published on Mar 16th, 2008 in blog, the web, thumbs down | 1 Comment »

Just like a bad habit or a reality TV-like guilty pleasure, over the past few weeks I have grown accustomed to check out startup-related blog TechCrunch once a day just to see what’s popping around the web. It’s been exciting times for a while on the web now, the late nineties bubble is well forgotten, […]

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How to run Windows Live Messenger on Windows XP x64 and Server 2003

Published on Feb 4th, 2008 in blog, windows, software, tips & tricks, thumbs down | 14 Comments »

Sorry, Windows Live programs cannot be installed on Windows Server, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, or Windows operating systems earlier than Windows XP Service Pack 2.
Being a new user of Windows XP x64 that message puts me off quite a bit, apparently Microsoft wants you to install the old and ugly MSN Messenger instead of […]

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Drivers and Windows Vista

Published on Jan 3rd, 2008 in windows, software, gaming, hardware, thumbs down | 2 Comments »

Mostly when people post something about Vista it’s either bashing it or praising it, however those two camps generally agree on one thing; that drivers have matured quite well since its release.
I’m gonna create a third group now; they are both wrong!
UAC, admin accounts, memory requirements and all other stuff aside, I’ve concluded one thing: […]

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Adobe bloated software, and how to disable automatic updates

Published on Dec 20th, 2007 in blog, interesting links, software, tips & tricks, thumbs down | 1 Comment »

Personally, I hate the trend of software adding bloat in subsequent versions as much as I hate people saying an application is bloated just because it’s no longer a simple one-dimensional kind of program. That said, Adobe current crop of products have to be some of the worst in this sense.
At this point I’m sure […]

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