I’m settling into a weekly posting schedule and I still have nothing of interest to say… With that being said, let’s begin.
I was chatting with the wife on the weekend and we were discussing all the stuff that we should be thinking about buying. Furniture, dishes, pots & pans, you know, domestic crap. She has it in her head that she’s going to buy all these Korean pots & pans and then bring them here. This likely is why she wants me to go to Seoul and pick her up…
Then she said it… “I want to get an LCD TV” Dear God… and here I was trying to come with ideas to slip that one past her. I figured that leaving large, open coffees on the TV would be a good start. “Hey MiHwa, whatta ya say we toss the old pig skin around? Wanna wrestle?”
[startTech] Tech squimish readers can now go away. “Thanks for visiting Biff!”
I’ve been testing Windows Vista at work. It was my suggestion so I openly declare myself an idiot… Three days of attempting to get it to install finally culminated in the PC blue screening. I tried it on different machines, including a server class box, followed by VMware and Microsoft’s own Virtual Machine.
I downloaded it twice and yes, I did confirm the checksum. So then a dev walks by and mentions that he was able to install it in VMware. After I finished banging my head on the desk, I asked him to put the image on the server so I could download it.
Today was my first full day using it. Oh. My. God. This is a release candidate? This is what you have to show for 5 years of dev work? I understand that most of the years were spent crippling the feature set but it’s more like a beta than an RC. Picture XP with a new theme and all the menus moved around and there you go. Except that the requirements for Vista are so high that even a 3GHz CPU cause it to stutter and chug away.
Now it’s only been a day and I’m not a big fan of Microsoft so I guess I’m biased but really… Moving stuff around and then creating a new control panel so the user can now control all the items that used to be together is not moving forward, it’s busy work.
The good news is that our stuff works on it. That’s Java for you… Good enough; let’s not speak of this again. [/startTech]
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[sarcasm]Gee, I can’t wait until it releases[/sarcasm]
After it releases it’ll only be another 3 years and 2 or 3 major Service Packs and it’ll run as stable as Windows 2000.
Two steps forward… Three steps back.
I vote we go back to command line OS’s. Yessir, DOS 5.0 for me!
See.. that’s why I’m a linux convert.
And as soon as I get my linux box running… I’ll rave about it. Only about another 250 hours of work left to go
Yeah,MiHwa! She is my kind of lady. We’ll meet in Van.
“MiHwa, my shopping experience and your credit card”.
Oh J…. can’t you use your c-card and give the new daugther-in-law a break… or r u testing her stamina…. ha ha ha…. anyway buddy, calling her (MiHwa… with all due respect mind you.. of course you did that…. )”the wife” demonstrates to us… the “hoeterville” family that we need get our 1940’s go-to-meeting clothes out of the closet… and you know how much clothing we have purchased in the last 38 years… eh…. well you know… we need a date now… can’t trust everything to the drycleaners…they use chemicals you know…so, buddy, give us a date….Love & Stuff…. the a/u in Lake Country… PS… Thanks J for the Rememberance of Lowell…it menat a great deal to us…
sorry for all of the s/p mistakes… goes with the…. whatever… l&s …
You said, “I’m settling into a weekly posting schedule…”
I think you ’settled’ into the couch instead.