Permalink 17/01/07 09:03:42 pm Categories: Technical , 212 words, English (AU)

OK, maybe I will use Windows Mail after all...

A couple of days ago, I posted about "Why I won't use Windows Vista Mail." Basically, the reason was because it didn't include a manifest to say it was "high DPI aware", and there was no way to set those compatibility properties (that would force it to b… more »
Permalink 17/01/07 03:06:18 pm Categories: Hall of Shame , 51 words, English (AU)

What am I supposed to do then?

Logging in to one of our server machines today, I’m prompted with this doozey: So clearly, I can’t “Restart Later.” I also can’t seem to “Restart Now.” What do they want me to do? “Restart ½ an hour ago” doesn’t work – I don’t have a time machine. more »
Permalink 13/01/07 09:56:42 am Categories: Hall of Shame , 222 words, English (AU)

Why I won't use Windows Vista Mail

I thought that I might like to give Windows Mail a try, on my shiny new Vista install, since it should be more "light weight" than Outlook. But there's a problem, and I don't think I will be using, unless I can figure out a work-around... Take a look… more »
Permalink 11/01/07 01:31:06 pm Categories: Hall of Shame , 231 words, English (AU)

Restart Manager

I think I just had my first experience with the Windows Vista Restart Manager. I'm not sure whether I particularly liked the experience, though. See, it was updating the video driver for my laptop. What happens is, Vista starts installing the updates… more »
Permalink 11/01/07 01:13:57 pm Categories: Personal , 144 words, English (AU)

Graffiti for the new millenium

I was walking down the street today, when I see this piece of graffiti. Normally I just ignore graffiti, but this one caught my eye: (Note: I pixellated the personally-identifying bits) The geek in me just had to go visit the page, but it wasn't… more »

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