Posts Tagged ‘Humor’

So I was Googling my Dad just now to see if I could find any of his eBay listings since I was curious. I ended up just searching for his name and Arizona. Sure enough it returned his phone book entry as the first result. Next I tried my Mom, now what’s funny about this is that my Mom has always been kind of paranoid and so back in the days of me living at home she’d make sure our info was unlisted. I guess somehow that got reversed and now it’s nicely published. Oh and be sure to check out her Stained Glass website at GoStainedGlass.com.

The funny thing to me is that besides having her home phone it also has her address. I checked it out to see if Google updated the satellite view, nope, Live Maps still has newer. But Google has done one better. They actually for some reason unbeknownst to me went through Joshua Tree with a street view car and photographed poor little Joshua Tree. I lived there for I don’t know, 13 years, so I guess you can say I grew up there. Now there are only 3 reasons why people actually know of Joshua Tree, the first is U2, the second is because it’s sort of near Palm Springs, and the third is because of the National Park. I’m sure if my Mom had her way it’d also be known for it bearing the gift of her stained glass and my amazing wit. Har har.

Hopefully pasting in this iframe will work, but if not, feel free to explore. It’s just completely amusing to me. I mean I know based on examination of the view that both my Mom and sister were at home and most likely sleeping during the time the street view car drove by and took the photos. I also know it was likely a Tuesday because they left the trash out but it hasn’t been taken yet. What’s more amusing to me and something I’ll have to call dear old Mom about… I didn’t know she replaced the front door with what looks like a red one. Truly, Google, thank you, “nostalgia without the plane fare”. Though by the looks of it she needs me to come visit, that mailbox is looking a little dilapidated and in need of me fixing it once more.

Despite the fact that Vista shipped 4 months and a day ago + the 5 years of development time, Creative has just now finally decided to do some work and ship what should hopefully be some quality non beta drivers. Granted this hasn’t stopped some OEM’s, like Dell, from shipping logo’d systems with Vista and XtremeMusic cards with beta Creative drivers (oh and these aren’t even the latest beta drivers Creative made available)!

The new drivers can be found here (narrowed down to the XtremeMusic that I own, oh and if you have an Audigy 2, non beta drivers are available now as well):

The drivers download there supports the following audio devices only:

• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic,
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

Oh and to just prove that Creative aren’t a bunch of idiots and haven’t been sitting on their hands all this time since Vista shipped:

Known issues:

• This driver does not support the following:
  • Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS™ signals
  • DVD-Audio
  • DirectSound®-based EAX games
  • 6.1 speaker mode.
• SPDIF passthrough is supported on Vista 32-bit only.
• Applications from the original Sound Blaster X-Fi CD will not work with this download.

Sure the entire bloody audio architecture in Vista changed, but there have been years of ramp up now. To release drivers this late and with a plethora of known issues that people care about, well, that’s just unforgiveable. It’s no wonder why you’re losing the market and everyone just sticks with onboard AC’97 and now the far better HD Audio.

I’ve been running the beta drivers now on a 4.9 WEI system with my XtremeMusic and I can’t even move a file from one folder to another without having WMP or VLC crackle and pop while playing music. All I can say is that unless this driver release or a new driver release in the next 90 days resolve this I will never buy a Creative product ever again.

I can’t for the life of me understand why Microsoft wouldn’t include the release notes for Exchange 2007 on the DVD instead of just having the htm be a fwlink to some MS downloads page for the actual relnotes htm file. I mean if the intention was it always provide the most up to date release notes doc why not at the very least provide the original on the DVD then at the top of that page provide a note saying “go here for the most up to date release notes”.

I guess timing was off and not enough attention could be paid to something as insignificant as a release notes doc. Here’s the text of the doc and link to the actual release notes:

\E2K7EN64\relnotes.htm
Exchange Server 2007 Release Notes   
Release notes for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 are available as a stand-alone .htm file from the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Release Notes Web page.

Or just click here if you want to go directly to them. At least there isn’t some WGA to get in the way.

Anyway, now that I’ve got that out of the way it’s time to do a test deployment .

Going through Scoble’s blog, CTRL+Q’ing the stuff that’s duped or isn’t so interesting I stumbled upon blogger comedy gold.

The brothers in RSS advocacy aren’t in sync anymore. Scoble has unsubscribed from Pirillo.

Back about 8 months ago in March I talked to Chris about the lack of full text feeds on his blog. He did mention looking into getting them turned on. At the time though he also suggested I do the incredible and actually download the webpage (via Fetchlinks for NewsGator).

What the!? Combine this with all the dead blogs. And the dead readers.

Maybe the blubble has burst, dead blogs, dead readers, nothing radically new, major RSS advocates not even using RSS to the fullest. Tsk tsk… What is going on in the world?