I just found out about this site yesterday and am already pulling stuff from it. Aside from the SQL 2000 System Tables poster, you can find damn near every poster and reference list anyone has put out there when it comes to computing.
If this interests you at all, you should have fun perusing the site.
Granted, apparently Bing is actually useful and a decent search engine. I wouldn’t really know as my history with Microsoft search has been awful. And no, I’m not a knee-jerk Microsoft basher; I’ve just been burned repeatedly to give such reviews much creedence.
So, basically, I use either Google or Yahoo for searching stuff. At least, I used to. Apparently, since Yahoo has some bills to pay off, they are joining forces with M$ and will soon be using the Bing search engine instead of their own useful one.
I guess this only leaves me using Yahoo for email and fantasy sports playing. Boo!
Still a work in progress, but this PC hardware chart is pretty damned cool.
I plan on printing it as a nice reference. Lord knows where I’ll hang it up though.
For some reason, I read random how-to articles. I’ve got a couple email related ones to share with you today.
For your consideration, here is one related to better email etiquette, which you have to admit is probably something we ALL need a refresher on.
The other is strictly tied to Google Mail, which I use a lot, and comes in a series of tips at increasing levels of difficulty.
Give them a look. You’ll probably learn a few things you can put to use right away.
It won’t help you today, but for nothing more than historical reference, a guide to the digital changeover.
If nothing else, it is a passing of an age for a lot of us. I was about ten or eleven when we got some form of cable and was pretty adapt in the manipulation of rabbit ears and whatever else you needed to get a signal. Living in Galva and being cable-less was always a trick, especially since our nearest signals were over 40 miles away – in opposite directions. You could get two NBCs and ABCs – or none at all.
Just a couple weeks ago we lost the cable for the better part of a day and whipped out the rabbit ears. Now, we won’t have the option unless we go buy one of the new boxes I guess.
And so this passes, along with rotary phones, playing in the streets until dark without fear of pedophile rapists, and high beams you click on with your feet.
I guess I’m getting old or something.
From the Pointless Task desk, Microsoft thinks it can reinvent their search wheel.
First off: why bother? Live was, is, and probably always will be crap. I’d have better luck searching for useful results with a scrying bowl. And I’m no sorceror.
Second, most of the damn planet is trained to use Google. Accept that. Move on.
Third. I take it all back. This should be funny as hell to watch Microsoft spend billions to fall on it’s face again. And again.
I mean, they are losing the ad war to Apple when the Mac is an overpriced piece of eye candy with proprietary hardware. How do you not beat that in the marketplace of ideas? Even with buggy software. They’ve lost the geek crowd almost entirely to Linux. Seriously, give out some free OSes, open it up, and let the hobby crowd fix your errors for you. THEN sell it to Grandma in a prepackaged box at Beast Buy. Come on!
Microsoft: too big to fall, but not so big that their screwups can be covered up.
There’s a difference between clinging to the past at the expense of progress (re: any example of conservatism in America) and hoping to keep a small piece of the past alive.
The latter example lies with the folks in this article who are trying to recreate Polaroid film so they can keep snapping pictures.
Good luck to them.
These are amazing pics taken from the recent shuttle mission that finally made it home on Sunday.
Whatever happened to the American imagination? We should be colonizing the local planets, not quibbling over whether or nation should be partaking in barbaric torture rituals. We’ve fallen far from Camelot folks. Someone needs to take our Luddite Talibangelical Quislings aside and beat them silly for sullying our nation’s good name.
Yes, tools amaze me. I’m a gear geek and these one-of-a-kind Hubble fix-it tools are pretty damn cool in my book.
So, I’m trolling through the job ads this morning and then bounce over to CNN to check on the news (yes, that IS entertainment for me). Anyways, our unofficial government news agency FoxNews is suing Al Franken because they don’t like the title of his book – nor likely the content of it either. Just goes to show how whiny people get when you give ’em a little power.
Some of you may have come across that nasty MSBlaster/LoveSan worm. Hopefully you do not have it on your computer, but if you do, come on back after your computer reboots.
You back yet? Okay, take a visit over to this link, which will give you directions on where to get your relevant Windows updates. I will give you to quick links to McAfee and Norton’s advice as well. Good luck out there.