- Dell Adamo Laptop getting a lot of ink. Dell stakes claim to the worlds thinnest machine.
- Silverlight 3 the target of Microsoft attention.
- Cisco still in the news. Cisco embraces Open Source? Why?
- MySQL injection out of control.
- Three new Android phones coming.
- Windows 7 may not drive demand. Why not?
- Lots of weird start-ups showing off at SXSW event in Austin.
- UWB standards group shut down. Sigh.
- IDC says that the economic downturn will drive Linux sales up.
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Just saw Horowitz getting chopped to bits on the Daily Show (online clips from last night). Bet he’s thrilled. Kudos for The Daily Show! Can’t wait to hear the next Dvorak-Horowitz Unplugged.
I can’t believe people are still getting caught with SQL injection. There are lots of bots shooting injections at sites but they are relatively easy to protect against. This isn’t even tough in ColdFusion for Pete’s sake.
Holy crap! After hearing that disclaimer, I’m not taking any Dvorak any more!
Maybe they based it on this Adamo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Adamo
Windows 7 build 7057 is hot shit! And this is from an Apple Fan sister.
Windows 7 won’t drive sales of new computers for the same reason that Vista didn’t drive sales. In the 90′s the demographics of computer users was different, techies and nerds. Nowday everybody has a computer, and if it does what they need, they are happy with it. They switch OS when they get a new computer. People get new computers when their old ones break, or it doesn’t run some new fangled bit of software.
Oh and if you are one of the morons who had ethical qualms about Vista for whatever crack head reason, you wont like Windows 7 either. The irrelevant performance differences are not noticed by most people.
Most of you are just bitter that you never got above help desk paygrade, and you are no longer needed.
#6 – Vista is a steaming turd, Windows 7 rocks! This has to be more than turd polished Vista. Torrent a copy, burn a CD and run it, you’ll be amazed. I ran 7032, 7048 and now 7057. We have to use the wireless from the Starbucks next door. You’d think the fucking church could spring for some access.
Sister Mary Hand Grenade of Quiet Reflection
1. I love the name
2. Your comment was accurate and hysterical
And once again…
A Microsoft hater on Zdnet has a blog post benchmarking different versions of Windows right now, and freely admits, you can only tell the difference on antique crap hardware….
So perhaps its not Vista that is a steaming turd, but the computer that the Sister (who will disappear forever when W7 is released BTW) is using.
What computer are you using Sister of steaming piles of turd?
GregA, did you just bite on a steaming turd?
heh heh I was figuring they’d use David as a “bad guy” in the tds segment
#10,
Im from the midwest, so when I read the words “Hand Grenade” I think of the steaming pile of turd in the yard that the Dog deposited there.
So her name is quit literally “Sister of Steaming piles of Turd of Reflection”
I mean thats cool, She must be one of the two girls in that video from last summer.
#9 – I installed Windows 7 on a Gateway laptop, 2Ghz and 2GB of memory. I know the beta version will die in August. Who the hell knows, we all may by then.
Speaking of dogs, a friend of mine was looking for one. She said she didn’t want one that its asshole showed or its ball hung down. I LMAO, that is one hell of a criteria. Oh yeah, it couldn’t shed or shit all over the place. I told her to get a stuffed animal. BTW, women are kind of like dog turds. The older they get, the easier they are to pick up.
LOL
#9 Nope, Vista is a turd. And not necessarily due to slow performance
#15
Then why is Vista a “steaming turd?”
Vista is faster than XP, more secure than XP (and OSX while we’re at it), and has a better GUI than XP. What are you complaining about?
The anti-Vista folks really need to get a life.
Vista v.s. HD sizes…. Seems like most people only bought it pre-installed, and the newer machines tend to have HUGE HD’s anyway…. Upgraders running XP also probably had most of the space necessary without thinking about it. Going from 98 to XP sucked up a mountain of HD space, though….
To be honest, if Vista was as stable as XP, I’d like it. Lots of “move/change for the hell of it” that drives me a little nuts, but most of the magic (I like the “glass” thing) seems to work, most of the time. Pre-installed, though – I ended up having to buy two machines rather quickly. I would never have upgraded – I had the chance to play with it on a friend’s notebook, and wasn’t impressed. I expect the two Vista machines here would run Win7, but probably won’t bother.
Regards
#16,
Notice how much of this is driven by peoples reluctance to admit they were wrong?
#18
Yeah.
I’m wondering if a lot of the initial anti-Vista sentiment was due to people having bad experiences with it right after the launch or due to the fact that activation of pirated copies isn’t as straightforward as it was with XP.
Microsoft didn’t make an activation-free volume license version of Vista like they did with XP, Vista enterprise requires a special local activation server. Early on the only way to keep a pirated copy of Vista working was to use a timer stop crack to kill the activation timer. Now the most common method is to use an OEM BIOS emulation hack to make Vista think its installed on an OEM machine. I would imagine a lot of the pirates decided to stick with their “safe” pirated volume license copies of XP rather than bother trying to work around activation and these anti-Vista arguments that have been going around are their attempts to rationalize why Vista “isn’t worth the upgrade anyway.”
Or maybe they’re just typical morons who like to complain.
#16 Vista is not faster, I just have a computer fast enough to run it. As for the reasons why is a turd search the blog, I’ve stated them many times. The only one I’ll cite here is the one that just recently happened and is a damned video fuck-up thanks to giving into hollywood DRM crap.
I had my laptop connected to a tv thru hdmi. The TV was off (stand-by) and I was working with the laptop’s LCD. I double-clicked on a trailer I downloaded from the net. Up comes Win media player and then…no play; the palyer stays black.
Hmmm, corrupted video file? NO! The damned player didn’t want to start playing on the laptop’s LCD until I disconected the HDMI cable from the TV (It was off, remember?).
Once I unplugged the cable, media player finally started the video. Talk about fuck-ups. Thanks MS for that F’d up DRM!
#18 Notice how many MS apologists don’t wanna face reality?
#19 No, morons are those that see something wrong yet keep saying they don’t see it. macfans and MS apologist are birds of a feather.