“We broke a lot of things. We know that, and we know it caused you a lot of pain.” That’s what Brad Brooks said about Windows Vista on the Worldwide Partner Conference. So what’s Microsoft’s plan? They’re launching a new advertising campaign! It even includes a TV response ad to Apple’s famous “I’m a Mac,… Read more »
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MS Madness
Checking my Windows Updates this week, I found a patch, titled “Update to Windows Vista (KB955020)”. After my recent upgrade problems I check every update offered by Microsoft. Well, according to this article, the update adds the words, such as “Friendster,” “Klum,” “Nazr,” “Obama,” and “Racicot” to the dictionary to prevent applications from underlining the… Read more »
Vista Still Sucks
It’s no secret. Even Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer said that the latest Windows Vista is a “work in progress”. I was hoping that at least some of the problems, such as extremely slow file transfers & operations, network connection issues, and others, would be fixed in Service Pack 1. Of course, SP1 release itself was plagued… Read more »
Using Subversion to update a site
Recently I had to set up a subversion hook, and found the documentation a bit lacking. So, here is a guide, that will hopefully help someone. What: I have a subversion repository for a website, which I would like to be able to test. So upon a commit to the repository, a website on the… Read more »