Initial reports on this SP were scary so I pounded the crap out of it last weekend. Honestly, I didn't run anything under Vista because I wanted to test the core stability of the bit and I had no Vista machine handy anyway.
My conclusion is that this service pack is fine to run with. The fixes the dev team made to issues far exceed my expectations insofar as some of these issues have been around for a long time.
Good job to the devs at MS!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Express Lines
A quandry:
I was in the Express Line (10 Items or Less) at the store yesterday. I had 12 items but 2 were from "buy one, get one free" offers, so technically, I was buying 10 items.
Was I OK or breaking the item limit? Hmmmmmm
I was in the Express Line (10 Items or Less) at the store yesterday. I had 12 items but 2 were from "buy one, get one free" offers, so technically, I was buying 10 items.
Was I OK or breaking the item limit? Hmmmmmm
Saturday, October 13, 2007
I Need to Report a Kidnapping
Somebody kidnapped the Miami Hurricanes football team and replaced them with imposters. That must be it.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
The Modular PC
An idea I've been kicking around my head for at least 10 years is the modular PC. What's that?
Imagine a bricksized casing, slightly longer and thinner, with high-speed ports on all sides. Each brick would hold a part of the overall PC and would attach to other brings by stacking, being placed side-by-side, whatever - the ports would connect and link the components.
Individual bricks would hold the CPU, RAM, DVD, HD, and networking components. Other bricks could hold peripheral cards such as graphics and sound cards. Another could hold USB ports.
The brick housings themselves would be low-cost.
The big advantage of this architecture would be that you could swap out or add bricks as required over time to update your system. You might never need again to replace an entire computer.
Need another hard drive? Buy a hard drive brick and snap it onto the stack.
Now there may be a need for a bus controller brick but that's not a big deal I would think.
If upgrades were reduced to simple plug-ins then I would think the peripheral and upgrade market would explode as it would be cheaper and easier for the technically inept to pull off. The bricks would be plug-and-play.
What do you think?
UPDATE
Looks like someone's already done it to a degree, but not to the extent I was contemplating.
Imagine a bricksized casing, slightly longer and thinner, with high-speed ports on all sides. Each brick would hold a part of the overall PC and would attach to other brings by stacking, being placed side-by-side, whatever - the ports would connect and link the components.
Individual bricks would hold the CPU, RAM, DVD, HD, and networking components. Other bricks could hold peripheral cards such as graphics and sound cards. Another could hold USB ports.
The brick housings themselves would be low-cost.
The big advantage of this architecture would be that you could swap out or add bricks as required over time to update your system. You might never need again to replace an entire computer.
Need another hard drive? Buy a hard drive brick and snap it onto the stack.
Now there may be a need for a bus controller brick but that's not a big deal I would think.
If upgrades were reduced to simple plug-ins then I would think the peripheral and upgrade market would explode as it would be cheaper and easier for the technically inept to pull off. The bricks would be plug-and-play.
What do you think?
UPDATE
Looks like someone's already done it to a degree, but not to the extent I was contemplating.
FoxPro Advisor is No More
Just spotted this on the Wiki: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FoxProAdvisor
Sign...yet FP another institution gone.
Sign...yet FP another institution gone.
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