Month: February 2006

Halo 2 on the PC to require Vista?!

Posted on February 9, 2006 by ericgharrison

Oh this is rich.  Bungie (aka Microsoft) has just announced that Halo 2 will require Windows Vista (aka Godot) to run.  While I can imagine that Microsoft wants to help drive sales of Vista, this isn’t going to be the way to do it.  I can just see the discussion at the sales counter when […]

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The Ultimate Programmers Keyboard?

Posted on February 9, 2006 by ericgharrison

Over the years, I’ve come up with a lot of ideas for products, both real world and software.  Some of those would be: 1) Ear muffs with built in headphones 2) Surround sound headphones 3) A keyboard that works well for programmers, including instant macros, a billion shortcuts and more.   #1 was brought out […]

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Another Western Digital drive failure

Posted on February 2, 2006 by ericgharrison

It seems that hard drive quality has gone downhill significantly.  I just had a 250 meg WD2500 hard drive fail.  The drive wasn’t even used that much. It was used periodically to create Ghost images, and today, when trying to Ghost my workstation, the drive wouldn’t spin up. I remember that I’d had problems with […]

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Stupid In Line Ads

Posted on February 2, 2006 by ericgharrison

As many of you have noticed, many web pages have "in line" ads that try to look kind of like links, and are actually advertisements.  Every now and then I notice a particularly stupid in line ad, which I thought was chuckle worthy.  See the attached photo.  I don’t believe it’s actually an eBay ad, […]

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