Category Archives: Mumbles and Grumbles

  Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products This is more for the fanboys.  By extension, I guess that the other "around half" of Adobe's Creative Suite produts run on Windows systems.  I didn't realize the market … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, the WiFi stopped working on my brother’s other laptop, an HP Pavillion dv6200-series.  Turns out there have been a lot of problems with a lot of HP laptops, and HP has issued a recall.  HP extended … Continue reading →

My brother lugged two kids and two laptops from Phoenix.  At various times through the day today, I’ve been surrounded by all four of them. This particular episode involves a Dell Inspiron 600m.  I’ve never seen a display look like … Continue reading →

One of the great joys a family has when a member works in IT is onsite technical support when we all get together. The Victim Part 1 is pop’s laptop, which picked up a nasty malware bug somewhere.  Probably one … Continue reading →

On Friday at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, Wikia, the Web 2.0 community builder behind Wikipedia, gave the world an update on its progress toward building a new search platform based on open-source software and human collaboration.…Wikia executives said that … Continue reading →

My company recently purchased a new Kodak EasyShare camera for one of our warehouses.  There’s a lifespan of approx. 2 years for anything electronic on a loading dock, and the previous camera was called to its heavenly reward.  Or run … Continue reading →

So the first computer virus was released 25 years ago: http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/07/12/virus_birthday/index.html And, just like the movie theater, commercial radio, and the Big Mac, it all started in Pittsburgh: http://pittsblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/pittsburgh-first-computer-virus.html Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on … Continue reading →

So I catch this article the other day.  I a little terrified at the idea of the government deciding on appropriate content.  Not that this doesn’t sound good in theory, but in practice, they’ll screw it up royally. Senators propose … Continue reading →

Banned Book Week is the last week of September (coincidentally, so is my birthday), and Google Book Search is highlighting a number of challenged or banned books.  I was surprised to how many of the books on the list were … Continue reading →

One feature I’d love to see removed from all versions of VS is the ability to name a setup package “setup.exe” or “setup.msi”.  For the most part, the developer community is really good at naming installers intelligently.  The problem really … Continue reading →