The new workstation arrived yesterday. Big box. Inside, nicely packed, under a cardboard tray with the keyboard, software, cables, and mouse, was the computer. Big computer. Honkin’ big computer. Normally, I open up a new machine before powering it on to make sure nothing has slipped loose in the journey, but the Dell machines have… [Read More]
Win 7 SP1 OONE
What’s an OONE? I just made it up. Remember that OOBE was an “Out of Box Experience”, which encompasses the user’s initial contact with the product. Since Windows 7 Service Pack 1 doesn’t arrive in a box, but rather is downloaded from the Internet, it can’t have an OOBE. It can, however, have a Off… [Read More]
Tech Hall of Shame: JPEG 2000
Brooks Jensen has this to say: …a clearly, demonstrably, indisputably better image compression format that failed miserably in the marketplace because of bureaucratic wrangling and delay after delay after delay. Shame on everyone involved in this one. It’s always tough for new document or network standards, because their successful implementation requires so many people to… [Read More]
THoS: gratuitous daylight savings time changes
Prefatory note number one: this post, unlike most of the Technology Hall of Shame series, is not about the infliction of pain and suffering by technologists, but rather about aggravation caused by the confluence of brittle technology and excessive lawmaking. Prefatory note number two: Doctors have to take an oath before they’re allowed to practice…. [Read More]
Tech Hall of Shame: iPad
Here’s what Brooks Jensen has to say in his nomination: …for not including Flash, crippling untold numbers of both web pages and PDFs from playing correctly. What gives with implementing a format half way? What if the iPad had Word document capabilities, but no tables or bold fonts? What if it played MP3 files, but didn’t… [Read More]
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