Lugging a laptop down to the conference room
I thought I had solved our safety officer's problem a couple years ago. He had a bunch of videos he needed to show during his training classes but it was a pain to lug a machine in and set it up before each class. I set all his videos up as private vid...
update 2024 - this is still happening but not just bing or yahoo search. Google has also been letting these float to the top of results for years now. I'm not sure how anyone can use the modern web without blocking ads and javascript.
The top sponsored ad on the Microsoft search engine for th...
OK, so forgetting about the fact that the Windows issue that I was searching for info on today (Windows Updates) hasn't been fixed since 2008 when this "temporary solution" was posted on Microsoft's site, I find it pretty funny that the oldest comment on the Microsoft community blog page (obviousl...
Caveats
I don't use Microsoft Windows at home. I did at one time - I ran Win3.1 and 3.11, Win95, Win98, Win98SE, WinNT4, WinXP, and still use Windows Server and Win7 on occassion at work, but in 1997 I switched over at home to running Linux, then in 2001 switched to OSX, then FreeBSD briefly, and...
Right before I left tonight a consultant we work with on occasion was in and showed me his Win8 tablet and some of the stuff he's been working on. The software doesn't look terribly different from his older stuff just formatted for the touchscreen, but what I was interested in was his tablet. Alth...
This embarrassing video showing a Microsoft Vista voice recognition feature demonstration gone awry brought me back. Microsoft is blaming 'ambient noise' for the snafu, but having personally set up and used Dragon Voice recognition software for my boss who used it for several years (and that was s...
