Impressive.

Gizmodo have released a nice article with 19 Windows 7 tips.  Take a look.

Working locally on my Mac.  I took a good look around it and cannot find a floppy drive.  This was followed by “insufficient memory” errors.

Cause: Me adding a table to a document.

MS Office 2008 for Mac is one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used.  In fact, the 2004 version is superior.

Powerpoint 2004 on Mac…. At least
with Lotus Notes, you
can customise any error message.

Last week, a friend of mine asked me
to pop over to his house and take a look at his broken internet access.
 I set up his ADSL Netopia router many years ago and it had served
the two computers in his house well for all that time.  The issue:
 His new computer was getting sub-dialup connectivity speeds, if it
managed to connect to the wireless network.  At all.

The beast that is his new PC is impressive.
 Dell XPS power desktop, 4GB RAM, mother of all SATA drives and top
line CPUs.  Not cheap.  He uses this for….

running multiple vm’s?  no.

massively complex calculations? no.

Photoshop work? no.

Checking email and web surfing and general
cocking about.  Bingo!  I can hear the cackles of laughter from
the Dell sales rep.

Anyway, I digress.  When repeatedly
trying to connect to the wireless network from this desktop, I had the
same connectivity error 50% of the time.  I did a google and found
that he
was not alone.

His old XP laptop connects fine to the
wireless network.

My Mac… connects fine to the wireless
network and was getting 3MB download rate.

Vista – still borked.  I did not
want to start mucking about with the driver because I noticed he also had
purchased the "we will do totally everything for you supporting your
computer even if you dump a pint of water on the motherboard" contract.
 Its a driver problem, and looks like installing the XP driver may
sort it for you – but call Dell.  He asked me how could this product
be released like this?  He has had hardware problems in the past,
but nothing like this.  Difficult to answer without going off on a
rage against the product from a geek perspective.  Even from a user
perspective this is maddening.

Another point I noticed in my time trying
to get this to work.  Even on this model, I could hear the disk working
hard from time to time – not sure what it was doing, since the machine
was barely in use, but Vista was up to something in there…

44.6Bn
bid for a company that is on the way out,
as the
Google Juggernaut piles ahead...
 Interesting way to spend revenue from an overpriced OS and Office
Productivity suite.

Too little.  Hopefully too late
(sorry – I’m in a mean mood today).

Update – Names discussed for
this…
Microhoo (hopefully)

McHoo

Yahsoft

HooLive

(yes… this is what goes on in the
ILUG chat)