As expected, the month of May left little time available for the quest. But it got even worse and took a step backwards. My two year old MacBook attracted a spilled cup of coffee. While it got a good splash I was hoping that since it was only one corner and I cut power and pulled the battery as fast as possible that things would be OK once things dried out. After all, it was black coffee, no cream and sugar to muck things up. But no such luck, 5 [...] Read the rest »
Windows 7 Release Candidate
I doubt this is the first place you’re reading about it, but Microsoft released Windows 7 RC1. The release candidate will have a fairly long life as a free OS, running without any limitation until March 1, 2010 at which time it will begin shutting down every two hours. It will completely expire on June 1, 2010. The March 1st date is well beyond most guesses for the official Windows 7 release date. I’m still running the beta version on my bare metal windows machine and I’m quit happy with [...] Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #40: April 2009 Edition
Ok, it’s actually the first of May so the title is wrong, but this post is all about the last month. I had 14 posts this month. I have to go back to July 2008 to find a month with an equal number of posts and March 2008 to find a month with more posts. My April obsession was optimizing WordPress on Apache and that obsession didn’t take hold until the last half of the month. Things started off simply enough, I just wanted to see if there was a [...] Read the rest »
