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Sony SZ270P running extremely slow
Thursday, 29 Jan, 2009 – 9:53 | 2 Comments

If you have yourself a Sony laptop and it is running extremely slow and you’ve troubleshot the crap out of it, try going into the BIOS and messing with the touchpad settings.  There is a …

Internet Explorer 8 RC1 sucks
Monday, 26 Jan, 2009 – 20:12 | 11 Comments

There are still massive amounts of bugs.
I bugged a bunch and many of them they said cannot be fixed until IE9.  I think that’s a bit absurd if you ask me.
There is one that is …

Seagate 7200.11 hard drive problems
Saturday, 10 Jan, 2009 – 16:07 | One Comment

So I ordered 3x1TB 7200.11 drives from Newegg.  I only now realized that the entire 7200.11 line of drives are defective.
I knew for a fact the 1.5TB drives had problems but that a firmware patch …

Internet Explorer 8 is not compatible with Netsuite.com
Friday, 9 Jan, 2009 – 16:37 | 7 Comments

I’m so disappointed with Microsoft’s IE team in that they truly dropped the ball with Internet Explorer 8 and compatibility with some really big name companies such as Netsuite.
I used Netsuite for work and have …

Installed Windows 7 onto my Apple MacBook
Thursday, 8 Jan, 2009 – 0:46 | 3 Comments

I installed Windows 7 onto my MacBook using VMWare’s Fusion 2.0 virtual machine software.
So far so good.  It took about 10-15 minutes for the complete install.  I’m in there looking around.  It seems pretty similar …

Mac World 2009
Tuesday, 6 Jan, 2009 – 9:29 | One Comment

So Mac World started today.  Very interesting news coming out through the regular gadget sites.  A new MacBook Pro 17” model with a non-removable battery is being released.  The iLife/iWork suites are being updated for …

64-bit operating system virus and antispyware protection for Windows XP, Vista and 7
Saturday, 3 Jan, 2009 – 16:09 | 7 Comments

I’m disappointed with the lack of proper cleaning tools for 64-bit versions of Windows.  There are so many great tools to use to clean out spyware and virus infections like ComboFix and SDFix.  But unfortunately, …

Happy New Year to all
Friday, 2 Jan, 2009 – 11:03 | No Comment

Thank you for the great readership you’ve all given me throughout 2008.  It was a very cool thing to experience.  This blog received over a million hits within the last year.  It’s growing each month, …