Posted 05/08/2009 at 06:21:43am

I'll still take my Asus 1000HE over the Dell -- better proc., bigger HD, easily upgradable to 2GB RAM.  Oh yeah, and a score of 9 in the June MPC.

Posted 04/08/2009 at 09:47:20am

I guess I'll be upgrading (replacing) my Asus 1000HE netbook soon.

Posted 03/11/2009 at 07:50:29am

It appears this patch Tuesday killed my Exchange server.  Got in this morning to a ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt error.  Yeah, happy day.  At least that's my only server M$ took out this morning.

Posted 02/27/2009 at 06:45:24am

On the recommendation of MPC, I've started using Dropbox.  Though I never used the Yahoo service, Dropbox's free 2GB storage option sounds like a good alternative.

Posted 02/27/2009 at 06:38:21am

I was sick of waiting for the US debut of the mini 10.  Given the pricing and the need to "upgrade" to the 1.6, I'm happy I just ordered an Asus 1000HE.  I got a N280 1.66GHz proc, 802.11n, bluetooth, webcam, and an upgrade to 2GB of RAM, all for less than the $399 base on the Dell.  Am I missing something?

Posted 02/24/2009 at 01:46:51pm

Agreed.  But they still show web standards compliance, which was my point.  I was a diehard Opera user for years.  Regardless, I'll stick with FF 3.1b for now.

Posted 02/20/2009 at 08:42:53am

If you think the issue is IE8 enforcing standards compliance, why does RC1 fail the Acid 3 test so miserablely?

Scoring only a 20/100.  Especially when FF3.1b2 scores a 92/100.  And Opera 10 scores a perfect 100.

Posted 02/06/2009 at 09:53:57am

I've avoided deploying Vista on my network.  I had one user forced to use Vista back when MS forced it on a Dell laptop.  When this user experienced problems prompting a complete rebuild, we happily moved him back to XP Pro.  I'm using Win 7 beta, and enjoying it.  I'll just wait it's release and begin upgrading then.

Posted 01/15/2009 at 07:05:10am

Why suggest a trial version of WinRAR when 7-zip (www.7-zip.org) is a free, opensource archive manager?  Not to mention a native 64-bit Windows build of 7-zip is also available, which is not the case for WinRAR.  I have a legally purchased copy of WinRAR I have abandoned for 7-zip.

Posted 12/10/2008 at 02:20:41pm

My install of Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 scores 91/100 on the Acid3 test.  It sure looks like the Mozilla folks are shooting for a perfect score to better compete with the new Opera.