I’ve been meaning to blog about this for well over a year now, but for some reason I never got round to it. This came up in conversation the other day with a couple of workmates and it prompted me to revisit the issue.
Have you ever fired up an application on Windows XP and got [...]
This is just a quick post to say how much Microsoft and their draconian OS licensing mechanism are pissing me off right now.
Last week my computer stopped booting. I didn’t get around to looking at it until a few days ago because I had visitors over from the UK. Not just that, it is Christmas, [...]
When I started my new gig on the 15th of this month, I was handed a new laptop to do all my work on. It’s a nifty little gadget with 3GB RAM! Very schmick. There was one catch..
… see, the company is migrating to Vista, which means I have to use it too. A while [...]
Microsoft’s Automatic Update feature has always been annoying. I don’t care who you are, none of you can possibly say that it’s not annoying I thought that it wasn’t possible for it to become any more annoying than it already is, but today I was proved wrong.
My main gripe was that almost regardless of [...]
This is the first of a collection of posts that I’m going to be making about shortcuts in applications. I’m constantly on the lookout for keyboard shortcuts to aid in improving the speed of my day to day activities, and I thought it’d be a good idea to start sharing them with you. These posts [...]
I’m sure that everyone knew that this was going to happen at some stage. Whether or not they believed it’d happen so quickly is another matter. Either way, it’s official, the new wonderdumpling operating system from Microsoft has been cracked. Aparently the activation and installation of the whole thing has been bypassed, and it’s available [...]
I know for sure that many of the geeks out there on the World Wide Wibbly have the “fun” task of sorting out every possible computer issue for any/all of their family and friends in the cases where they’re not geeks themselves. I am one such geek, and I’ll be honest and say that I [...]
I just thought I’d add this last post as a bit of food for thought before signing off today. This link comes from a bloke who’s been through the pain of wanting to move away from Windows, only to find that the results were just as, if not more, painful than sticking to what he [...]
OK, so it looks like I might have been misinformed (er… wrong :)) by stating that the basic versions of Vista can’t be installed on VMs. That’ll teach me not to read the licencing details properly myself! It looks like it was a slight misunderstanding of the terms and structure that MS used in stating [...]
And so the Vista malarky continues! More and more details of the behemoth that is Vista are coming to light which, quite frankly, freak me out even more.
First of all, Microsoft won’t let you run some Vista editions virtualised, which is a bit of a surprise. Why would they push for free Virtual PC software [...]
