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Notes on my notebook
Database, James Hein, Published on 23/06/2010
» So, after many years, I have a new notebook. I settled on the Acer TM 6293-A3G32Mn. It also marks my personal foray into the world of Windows 7. I like the notebook because it comes with Win 7 Pro instead of the usual Win 7 Home edition. There are a number of reasons for this including the support for the virtual Windows XP and all the other features that a Pro version of Windows brings over the generally useless Home versions.
Don't forget, computers are made by humans
Database, James Hein, Published on 26/05/2010
» As you might imagine, I often get asked questions about all manner of IT subjects. Sometimes these questions are very simple ones and this reminds me that not all people are computer experts, or even what I would call computer-aware. So, this week, I'm going to go right back to the basics.
Thailand trumps Oz in tech stakes
Database, James Hein, Published on 05/05/2010
» Thailand is sometimes called a Third World country but, compared to some so-called developed nations, it beats them in technological developments. For the purpose of the exercise I'll use my country of birth, Australia, for most of the comparisons.
Microsoft developer troubleshooting woes
Database, James Hein, Published on 14/04/2010
» I don't believe that Microsoft understands developers and development environments. I was working my way through a training course on Visual Studio 2008. The course itself, from Total Training, was not too bad. The product covered both Visual Basic and C# programming languages in their examples. One plus for .NET apart from the syntax differences is that the coding was quite similar when it came to the .NET functions.
Companies play the upgrade waiting game, MS massages its stats
Database, James Hein, Published on 17/03/2010
» Microsoft recently made the claim that they had sold 90 million copies of Windows 7 since it reached the manufacturers in July last year. What actually happened then was that OEMs were told to put Win 7 on new machines by default. So the word "sold" is a little misleading here.
Bigger is not always better, especially when running a notebook
Database, James Hein, Published on 10/03/2010
» Is bigger really better in the computing world? As an example, I've chosen the latest iteration of Visual Studio, VS 2010. There has been a trend over successive versions of many software developers to add in everything they can think of in a new release.
When Windows can mean life or death
Database, James Hein, Published on 10/02/2010
» Windows 7 has been slowly settling into public use but is it an OS you will want to use for critical situations? A close friend of mine works in the IT service and response industry in France and related the following situation.
Join the thousands and add your voice if you don't trust Oracle
Database, James Hein, Published on 13/01/2010
» You may have noticed that things tend to slow down a week or so each side of the New Year.