I sat down 30 minutes ago to enjoy a final quiet hour of gaming before starting my next class tomorrow, and Microsoft kindly reminded me why I no longer use their other computing products.. yet again. First, the damn console insisted on crashing 3 times in about 5 minutes while playing Fable off of Xbox Live [...]
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Welcomed To The RRoD Club, Part 2
January 11th, 2008
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The RRoD 360 repair process has been straightforward so far. (After all, Microsoft has certainly had an ample volume of opportunities to improve it.) The online repair form was straightforward, and my empty pre-paid shipping box arrived yesterday. Everything needed to package the console for return was included: a plastic bag for the console, padded foam, large [...]
Why Outlook Sucks: Part 2 of 900,000
February 28th, 2007
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Note: Yes, this is still on an older version of Outlook because that’s what I’ve had to use. Please feel free to contribute to this series in your own blog via trackback/ping, and I’ll post links en mass to the front page when I get enough! Let’s delete a folder to which messages are directed [...]
Why Outlook Sucks: Part 1 of 900,000
February 23rd, 2007
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Let’s find an email from Toni regarding her party next weekend. There appears to be a search box in the toolbar. Wait.. that seems to be only for contacts. Nevermind. There’s a find button to the left which brings up a toolbar, but it appears to search only the Inbox. Unfortunately I have a bazillion [...]
