November 29, 2007 by vortmax.

Thinking of voting for Rudy Giuliani? I ask you to watch this and think long and hard about doing so.

We’ve already been subject to one President using our fears to further his own foreign (Iraq War) and domestic (Patriot Act) policies.  We should NOT allow ourselves to be subject to another who is even worse.

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November 28, 2007 by vortmax.

In case you didn’t know.  Yes, I finally figured out to make my own named account and promote myself to administrator level.  

I is a compooter dood! 

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November 27, 2007 by admin.

This time, it’s not Infoworld, or some other reputable source.

This time it’s just little old me. I’ve been working on an ActiveX wrapper for our new plugin software (since IE doesn’t support Netscape-style plug-ins since 5.5 sp2, the buggers).  Up until last Wednesday, it was working fine.  Then I downloaded an update to Visual Studio.  Now my compiled version of the control works fine on my Parallels XP/IE7 and Vista/IE7, but it crashes on native Vista/IE7.  The assertion looks like it cannot create a new window for the plugin to load into.

OK, so I guess this is more a Visual Studio gripe for breaking their own code (yes, the assertion is in their own codebase, not mine).  Still, can’t MS do anything right? 

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November 26, 2007 by admin.

Infoworld has posted two articles:  one is a review of Mac OS X 10.5, otherwise known as Leopard, and the other is a recommendation that businesses avoid Windows Vista.

My experience with Leopard, while not as thorough as the review, has been quite positive.  Leopard has been stable and has some must-have features (Spaces, mmmm).

My experience with Vista… mirrors what the Infoworld article says. 

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