"I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!" –Howard Beale, Network (1976) Well, I think that captures the essence of my pain.. Sorry, but I’m really at a loss to explain the sudden – but measurable – drop in the quality of products (notably software) in the past […]
Monthly archives: October 2007
21 posts
Well, I just had a fun experience. Here I was searching the Internet, chatting to a few colleagues when suddenly all hell breaks loose with my laptop’s CPU. So, naturally I’m concerned because I’m not doing anything that should be CPU intensive, so I fire up ye olde Task Manager. […]
More surfing the interweb has turned up this patch from Microsoft. It’s not been included thus far with Automatic Updates, but is available as a separate download. I’m installing it today to gauge for myself whether the patch does indeed stabilize Vista because my recent experiences have been horrible. Just […]
Jumping out from the void comes this exciting post from Scott Guthrie. It seems that in the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft will be releasing the source code to the .Net Framework. From Scott’s post: "We’ll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for […]
Madden 08 – Rumoured to be bad enough for an official patch. That’s right. Electronic Arts apparently will release a patch for the PS3 and xbox 360 consoles. About time too, because my franchise has come across a new glitch: I’m unable to sim or play past a regular season […]
So it goes without saying (well, almost) that a well tuned machine makes life less stressful. Sometimes I have to use other people’s computers and it amazes me how much punishment they abide by letting their system get so slow. These next few posts will pertain to increasing the performance […]