October 2006 - Posts
Home > Blogs
On the Toshiba Vista RC1 Support Page , Toshiba quietly added some updates. The most interesting one, a new bios 2.03. Previously the latest available was 1.70. I didn't immediately notice much difference. I did a recalculation of my Vista score and the
Read More...
The Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Office XP and Office 2003 enables a user to open and even save 2007 Office release XML files. That's cool and reduces the risk when you have some folks using Office 2007 in your company, and others note. Nice
Read More...
In case you haven't heard , John Lam is leaving ObjectSharp (and Toronto) for Microsoft (and Redmond) in January of next year. John will be taking his passion and expertise for Ruby and Dynamic Languages and helping out the CLR team buff up its support
Read More...
Icarumba! All of those things in the title have 1 way or another of storing RSS feeds. But it wasn't as bad as I hoped. Now that I'm using Vista RC2 fulltime, I figured it was time to start looking into the IE7/Vista RSS store. I had been leaning on the
Read More...
I've been running Vista RC2 since the weekend on my Toshiba M400. I was running RC1 before that, and Beta 2 on and off prior to that. During the RC1 “era” (from an XP upgrade) I had a lot of junk on my laptop that wouldn't work. So I was backfilling with
Read More...
A while ago I shared some information on the benefits of turning off your car and not idling unnecessarily. One of my commentors, Ben Fulton , suggested I buy a car that does it for me automatically, and then some. A few other folks have been making Prius
Read More...