Even when on vacation, you find computers everywhere. Someone asked me, “what do I do? when I try to start my computer, I get a boot drive not found”.
Microsoft has a good discussion about what happens if you get Operating System Not Found or Missing operating system. The long and short of it is that [...]
Windows Boot Drive Crash
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
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I’m such an idiot
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
I jammed a superdrive back in April. Forgot about not leaving a DVD in there and now Microsoft Office 2008 is stuck in there and it won’t come out. I can actually hear the drive spinup and try to access and then stop. Once I even got the CD icon for a second. Looks to [...]
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Clickz on Ad Placements
June 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Hat tip to Bill on this one, a good source of overview information that shows the size of the internet advertising business. Clickz which is mainly from Neilson Online (really Netratings). Some tidbits:
- Web Media (what ever that is?) is largest at 74B impressions per month
- Financial services is the largest segment I understand at [...]
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Snow Leopard to support Exchange natively
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Mac OS X
This is a big deal for making Macs enterprise friendly. Can’t wait until next year!
AppleInsider | Apple previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard with QuickTime X
Mac OS X will include native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X applications Mail, iCal and Address Book, making it even easier to integrate Macs into organizations of [...]
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Operating System Share
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Hitslink.com has a cool site. Shows installed base market share for computer hitting sites on the internet. Kind of interesting, although not clear how scientific. Certainly better than counting all those computers that are door stops these days for operating systems#
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