Microsoft Musings

I did not have a very good start to my day yesterday. It involved my laptop and a glass of fruit punch. And now for some reason, my laptop keys are sticking.

Microsoft yesterday released a beta version of its WorldWide Telescope. I downloaded and installed it this morning and was quite impressed with quality of the imagery. Take a look at these incredible images.

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You will need to have a fairly fast computer in order to even run WorldWide Telescope however. The minium requirements according to Microsoft are:

Ed Bott wrote an outstanding article on “Why do Macs need so much fixing?”. Totally true.

I was trying to install the Blackberry Desktop Manager on Windows Vista, but it kept aborting on the following error message.

error 1325 favorites is not a valid short file name

Frustrating. Turns out its a simple fix. Simply set your Favorites back to the default location. I had my favorites folder pointed to a network location and for what ever reason the installer didn’t like that. Apparently its a bug in the Blackberry installer program.

      Late last week I requested a static IP address from my web host, hostmonster. Supposedly this would be a simple change that would go off without a hitch. And it did for the most part, except for one problem. The A name record for blog.kirb.us was somehow erased, which simply resulted in this website being down. The solution of course is to update the A record. Simple, right? Take a peak at these conversations with Hostmonster Support.
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Microsoft has walked away from its Yahoo bid after Yahoo rejected an even higher bid this weekend. Yahoo officials reportedly high fived each other after hearing the news. I wonder how much high fiving will be going on today after Yahoo’s stock tanks.