Technology Woes
I think my laptop is dead. It reached three years old and is finally in the throes of agonising component-by-component shutdown.
Angelo Bagnasco is an obliviot
Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, the head of Italy’s bishops, is this month’s obliviot for comparing a bill that would grant rights to same-sex couples to allowing incest and paedophilia. La Repubblica newspaper reported his comments at a meeting of Roman Catholic church employees: “Why say no to forms of legally recognised co-habitation which create alternatives toContinue reading Angelo Bagnasco is an obliviot
Solid-state storage
As predicted*, the first 2½" notebook drive based on flash technology has been released by SanDisk. It currently sits at 32GB and is twice as fast as a 5400 80GB ATA drive. See related link.
Oh Thank God!
Microsoft has acknowledged the Vista bug that I mentioned last week, relating to copying and moving files over the network, and released a hotfix (see related link).
More on technology
Vista on my notebook is still running, but it is a lot quicker since I turned off the search service, and run a defrag every night.
I hate Vista
It was a foregone conclusion, but I put myself through it anyway.
It’s official
My future hubby has proposed a date to become my real hubby: 14 July 2007. I've accepted.
Duplicate emails
One of the most annoying things in Outlook over the years has been duplicate emails, usually as a result of merging PST files. I've been using Outlook since 1997, so there was a fair number of duplicates.
Thunderbird to Outlook
My original reason for moving my email to Thunderbird was so that I could run SUSE 10.1 on my laptop.
More on Vista
Aero is back. I did a full defrag and am using the new Diskeeper intelligent defragger, and it has made the computer much more responsive. If Aero bugs me, it's gone though. I found the Vista Basic interface to be reasonable enough, so it is an adequate replacement to Aero if necessary. The biggest issue I have is when my typing takes too long to appear on screen. Waiting half a second every sentence is annoying as hell.