At the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on August 12, 1981 IBM presented the 5150. At a price tag of $1,565 ($3,704.77 today with inflation) this system included: 5.25-inch floppy drives or a tape drive 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 Processor 16 KB of RAM (expandable to 256 KB) PC-DOS 1.0 More at the Seattle PI
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In the phone market that is. Microsoft and Nokia have unveiled plans on how their partnership is going to keep both of them alive in the US mobile market. It will be interesting to watch, but I doubt Microsoft has a chance against Apple (which is now the most valuable company in the world) with their iPhone or the Android phones. The only “selling point” I have seen is towards the end of the article: As iPhones and Android devices pick up steam in the corporate world, BlackBerries are in less demand. Windows Phone 7, which comes with light Office…
Famous words of Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer in a 2007 Interview with CNBC in response to Steve Jobs unveiling of the iPhone at Mac World in January that year. By the end of 2007 with the iPhone only being on the market for six months apple sold nearly 1.4 million iPhones. That numbered jumped to 11.6 million, however 6.8 million of that was the newer iPhone 3G and also at that time Apple slashed the price to $399. [Full Sales History]
While I was in Chrome over the weekend, I noticed avast! also install the WebRep add-on in this browser as well. Further, in Firefox I could only disabled the add-on, not remove. A quick Google search turned up this post in the avast! forums. To remove the Web Rep, right-click on the avast! icon in the taskbar and select Open avast! User Interface then click on the Additional Protection tab. From there select WebRep and click Uninstall next to the browsers you want to remove the plugin from within. You will need to restart the browser(s) for the plugin to…
Once in a while I end up getting Package is Broken error when trying to do an update on either the definitions or the avast! application. This latest incident was getting a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) after taking my computer out of Hibernation. After Windows restarted was when I started getting errors, either when Avast! attempted to update itself or I tried a manual update. Long story short, something got corrupted as result of the earlier BSOD. No matter what you try to do, the best solution is just to download the latest version of avast! then run the…
While I really like working with WordPress, especially with the Weaver Theme engine, it gets to be a major PITA when there are updates to not only plugins, but the core WordPress as well. May not be so bad for someone who has a couple WordPress sites, but I have nearly a dozen: Firefox Extension Guru (3) – Main Site, Blog, Wiki The Email Mafia (3) – Main Site, Blog, Wiki El Guru (2) – Main Site and Blog 3 more misc sites However, PITA or not it is important to keep WordPress updated, so I am off to update.
I really not sure what I did to get this to work. I had done a fresh install in another folder and had it working there, but a lot of the customizations were missing. I started poking around in the original folder trying to see if I could figure out what was wrong. Why was I getting a PHP White Screen of Death when attempting to access the gallery? Even looked at my servers error logs, which didn’t really tell me a whole lot. I somehow figured out that it seemed to be choking on the admin.php file. So I…
El Guru’s Gallery is currently offline. I am attempting to fix an issue that was caused by updating the core gallery software. The gallery should be working again sometime on Monday, June 27th. I will post an update once I have this fixed.
This morning after doling a ton of Windows Updates along with an update of the video software. After all the reboots were done, I was getting all my applications back on their correct monitors. I was working in Firefox and was noticing how crappy the display looked. At first I thought it was the most recent Nightly update for Firefox 7. So I dragged in another build of Firefox and notice the same thing. Then I noticed the ‘black border’ was back. After getting into the AMD VISION Engine Control Center (much to my amazement it launched without a hitch…
BlueGriffion by Disruptive Innovations is an open-source Mozilla powered web page editor. I used this a little bit the other day. It does seems like it can do quite a bit and a lot more stable than the NVU web authoring software which is the predecessor to BlueGriffion. Of course most of my sites I have converted over to WordPress so I don’t really use a desktop web page editor much any more. ” BlueGriffon brings support for the most modern web technologies including HTML5 new layout, form and media tags, ARIA, CSS3, SVG features including transitions, transformations, shadows, and…