Archive for April, 2007



Burned by Vista

A few weeks ago some neighbors got married at home, surrounded by family and friends. I took a few photos.
Today I thought I’d burn a CD for them. My CD/DVD burner can burn CD-Rs at 48X, and I’m using good-quality 52X-rated media, so I figured it would take about five minutes.
At this moment, Vista is [...]

Been waiting for most of the decade for iTunes to become multi-user savvy? Yeah, me too. Since iTunes’ Windows support is (and will probably continue to be) a bit weak at the edges, here’s how to fool iTunes into playing nice with multi-user Windows installations.
To do this, we’ll need to do two things:

Move iTunes’ library and [...]

As a long-time ATI customer, it was ominous to see ati.com get redirected to a sub-domain of amd.com — a huge marketing/branding mistake, on the order of moving the Jaguar site to a tab under ford.com. (Ford owns Jaguar, for those who may not track that kind of thing.)
Since being absorbed by AMD, ATI has been stumbling from a quality perspective. [...]