June 2008 - Posts

Who is a bigger threat to the US? Islam or Creationists?
30 June 08 04:24 AM | Brandon Live!
Earlier this evening I discovered a wonderful series of videos on YouTube (which I am convinced more than ever is a Google plot to make sure I stay up all night watching videos and don’t get any work done in the morning). It’s a series called “Why do people laugh at creationists?” and it is published [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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NYT article says we should throw away Windows
29 June 08 06:22 PM | Brandon Live!
A couple months ago I posted about an article by some guy at Business Week, that made all sorts of rubbish claims about Windows and OS X. Not to be outdone, Randall Stross at the NY times decided he could use some TechMeme love and wrote basically the same piece. He says of Windows: Painfully visible are the [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Snow Leopard = Apple’s XP SP2? It better be.
23 June 08 12:23 AM | Brandon Live!
As I read the initial details about Apple’s “Snow Leopard” release (ostensibly called OS X 10.6), I got to thinking… What do they mean that they’ve taken the focus away from new features? From Apple.com: Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard’s enormous [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Good time to join Yahoo?
19 June 08 11:22 PM | Brandon Live!
If they keep losing people at this rate, you’re bound to be running the place pretty soon. Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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John McCain debates himself
16 June 08 03:08 AM | Brandon Live!
Found this slightly amusing. My greatest concern with McCain is how different he is today from the man he was a year or two ago.  I feel that he’s compromised far too many of his principles, and turned the wrong direction on many issues - apparently believing that is how he will get elected.  What do [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Slate: The Democratic Party’s presidential race in 8 minutes
08 June 08 08:15 PM | Brandon Live!
 Pretty decent summary, in case you’ve been living under a rock for the last year or two. Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Windows Search 4 vs Vista built-in search
07 June 08 11:32 PM | Brandon Live!
When I first posted about the WS4 release on Neowin a few members had a response that I had never expected.  Some examples: Windam - I wonder why this would be released for Vista since search is already a well integrated feature to begin with. Is it just because(optional)? Maudit - Pardon my ignorance, but what the difference [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Windows Search 4.0 released!
03 June 08 05:16 PM | Brandon Live!
Windows Search 4.0 was released this afternoon.  This release focuses on performance and reliability improvements.  Here are some highlights: Faster queries, often several times faster Faster indexing / reduced resource usage Support for EFS (encrypted folders) Support for indexing delegate mailboxes Fixes for all the top reported Watson crashes / errors New group policy options   This release also adds the following [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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