May 27, 2011 2:25 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
and my secondary monitor goes on the blink,
Big deadlines bring out the gremlins,
e-mail gets funky,
On deadline day Word gets weirdOK, so midnight last night was the culmination of a huge project I've been devoting nearly every waking hour to for the past 15 days (yes, you read right: 10-plus hours a day for over two weeks). And indeed, midnight last night was also when we finally put the document that resulted from those...
May 11, 2011 9:04 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
1 critcal and 4 important patches for 5-11-2011,
Minimal updates for May 2011 Patch TuesdayAfter the burgeoning baskets of security updates for the previous two Patch Tuesdays, May's collection comes as something of a welcome relief. There are really only two ( or perhaps five) updates that are truly worthy of note, as this Executive Summary table from the
May 8, 2011 9:03 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
KB2515325 does address vexing Windows Explorer issues,
second patch Tuesday for April includes another gemOn April 27, I mentioned one particular update as of great interest in the "Second Patch Tuesday" for that month. It appears in that blog...
May 6, 2011 10:02 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Application Compatibility Update apparently fixes faulty fingerprint scanner driver in Windows 7,
fingerprint scanner suddenly starts to behave properly on HP dv6t notebook,
HP dv6t gotcha evaporates after last round of Windows UpdateLast February or March (2010) I purchased very nice HP notebook PC for about $1,100: it's a dvtt-2300 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC with a Mobile i7 Quad-core processor (720QM 1.6 GHz), 6 GB RAM, nVidia GeForce GT 320M graphics, and a 7,200 RPM 500 GB hard disk.
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May 4, 2011 2:04 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IE 9 shows signs of continued flakiness,
IE 9 WordPress issues persist,
interesting gotcha installing IE 9OK, so I've been slowly rotating my Windows 7 PCs (of which I currently have 7 at my disposal) from IE 8 to IE 9, thanks mostly to the elevation in status at Windows Update from optional, manual update to automatic or pushed update. By and large, this transition has gone reasonably well, but I do...
May 2, 2011 1:41 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
debunking myths of Windows 7 migration,
slower rates of Windows 7 migratin spell future opportunities,
Unisys VP Sam Gross on Windows 7 migrationUnisys VP Sam Gross has been in the news quite a bit lately since he posted a blog last week (April 28, last Thursday) entitled Busting Windows 7 Migration Myths. His reports on a recent...
