When I last looked at accounting software, I was somewhat concerned about choosing a Microsoft product. It appears my concern was well founded. If I had decided to use Office Accounting, I’d be shitting bricks right now: It’s discontinued (via email): Dear valued Microsoft® Office Accounting customer: We are writing to let you know that [...]
New Way to Tap Gas May Expand Global Supplies: “We know the shale is out there,” said Lars Erik Oino, a Statoil geologist working at Chesapeake headquarters here, as he rubbed hydrochloric acid on a shale sample to test its mineral makeup. “This could have a huge impact on the European energy situation.” Dude, look [...]
If such a thing happens, I want to be a participant. My Dell XPS 1530m which shipped with the faulty part, a G84 based 8400GS-M, is starting to show signs of failure. Dell is simply offering to trade me another broken part under warranty, as all G84 GPUs are faulty by design. I want to [...]
With Opera 10 just released days ago, I must say you’re severely incompetent if you can’t support a modern Internet browser, but support AOL’s variation of a Web browser by name. Actually, the former is true irrespective of the latter. Starting October 7, 2009, you will not be able to access Wachovia Online Services unless [...]
If you can’t stand the new Amarok 2, maybe because it crashes constantly, no longer seems to understand m3u files from gnump3d, or hangs for an inordinate length of time when expanding the search results list from shoutcast, the functional 1.4 release is available as a package now. A big thank you to Bogdan Butnaru [...]
Just installed kubuntu 9.04. I already managed to crash plasma once by attempting to unmount an already unmounted USB drive that plasma still thought was mounted. Clicking the eject icon left me with a completely hung plasma. Killing it and running it anew from konsole brought it back to life. For some odd reason, kubuntu [...]
I have been using Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop as my primary collaboration client for nearly four weeks now. During that period, I reported a number of bugs and voted for many other bugs and feature requests. Unfortunately, Zimbra Desktop is as yet unsuitable for productive use. Zimbra Desktop itself is actually the Zimbra Web client, but [...]
No, seriously. I installed it, tried to run it, and my running copy of Thunderbird came to the fore. Closing Thunderbird and running Eudora brings up a seemingly broken copy of
Disease of Rich Extends Its Pain to Middle Class: Right now, it is estimated that 15 million to 20 million Americans have elevated uric acid levels, known as hyperuricemia. But they do not have gout symptoms and are therefore not treated. If further studies prove that high uric acid levels contribute to other diseases, though, [...]
I cannot express the rage I feel at the discontinuation of Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper. I still fondly remember its introducion. I stumbled upon it in Virginia while at a SANS conference there. I had to wait six months for its introduction into Florida. My opinion of it was not unlike a review from bevreview. [...]