November 2007 - Posts

FIOS ordered!
30 November 07 03:00 AM | Brandon Live!
They’re supposed to be sending someone over to install Verizon FIOS service at my place next Wednesday.  15mbps up, 15mbps down.  Just the way the internet was meant to be.  And hopefully, without the Torrent-stifling connection-dropping level of service that Comcast has been supplying for a while now. Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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FAQ: Office 2007 documents, kind:document, and 64-bit Windows
29 November 07 04:54 PM | Brandon Live!
If you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista, or a 64-bit version of WDS 3.x on Windows XP/2003, you may notice that the new Office 2007 document formats (.docx, .xlsx, etc) don’t show up when you search using the “Documents” filter in the search UI, or the kind:document Advanced Query Syntax. This is a known [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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A poor SP1 comparison (updated)
19 November 07 02:36 PM | Brandon Live!
As I read up on the latest TechMeme news this morning I saw a headline that didn’t seem quite right, “Vista SP1 a Performance Dud” it said.  Intrigued, I clicked on the link and discovered an entire blog devoted to rather poor performance testing and entirely unhelpful rants. The author of the SP1 comparison claims to [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Catching up.
03 November 07 05:37 PM | Brandon Live!
There’s been plenty to write about lately… the most obvious probably being WSUS accidentally installing WDS on unsuspecting machines and Google’s launch of OpenSocial.  Sadly, I’ve been neglecting my blog for a while now, so today I’m going to try and catch up a bit. I hope that the WSUS issue has already been addressed for everybody [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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