From the daily archives:

Monday, April 9, 2007

My take on the need for the Blogger code of conduct

by Earl on April 9, 2007

in Humor, Internet, Observations

Whoops…I guess this probably falls on the wrong side of most codes of conduct.

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Vista…are you disappointed?

by Earl on April 9, 2007

in MS Windows

I’ve spent considerable time today reading feeds and consuming general information and I have to say there’s one thing I’m puzzled over. After five long years of development by a company with one of the largest R&D budgets in the world;after promising a revolutionary operation system…“Longhorn, the next version of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows desktop operating system, will be so different from its predecessors that users may not like it right away.” Bill G.;and delivering what has been described as a slightly unstable XP with a pretty face and some extra utilities;after taking the simple packaging model of “Home”, “Media” and “Professional” and turning it into a non-technical users selection nightmare; andafter taking one of the biggest concerns for Windows users, “security”, and making it so unfriendly and frustrating that most users turn parts of it off,is there not general disappointed in the OS upgrade that Microsoft delivered?

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Aperture stumbles at finish line, winner Lightroom

by Earl on April 9, 2007

in Photography

In the end, I bought Aperture in the hope the speed will not be an issue on my high end MacPro 3GHz four-core system with 4GB of RAM.Well, I soon grew disappointed…. The pictures occupy some 360Gb of my hard drive.”But the biggest problem I found was only after I started assigning keywords to pictures…. At the current moment, doing any search will totally bog down my computer to the point it becomes unusable.I was so disgusted by this that I went back to Adobe Lightroom, now a full 1.0 release.Unless I discover a major deal breaker in the next couple of days I’m going to start importing and working out my workflow with Lightroom.

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