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NTLDR is missing… if you bothered to use a decent OS you’d never ever see this crappy error message. But you’re a stubborn SOB and brainwashed so it all makes perfect sense to go on banging your head against that same window. IT’S MADE OF GLASS! That’s why it keeps breaking. I prefer hanging on the dock. It’s more peaceful… and aluminum.
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BETA 3 of Postbox is out now for testers (go sign-up) and… okay, when I was using Windows for so many years I was happy with Outlook Express (before OE was released I used Pegasus). It was “good enough” and none of the other Windows e-mail apps really seemed to have anything more to offer. Then eventually I switched to Outlook. It was better, but eh, it was e-mail.
I switched to a Mac in 2002 (hear the trumpets?) with Mail.app. I liked it. It was great… I didn’t use my mail apps for calendaring, scheduling, hairdrying, etc so it was great. Better in the simple and “just works” category than Outlook. I tried other apps just to try ‘em but nothing stood out as better.
It’s the funnest (borrowing from Apple) e-mail app in the world. Really. “Funnest” because it works and it beats Mail.app and Windows Live Mail and Outlook and Thunderbird and that other one I’m forgetting that you think is awesome-er. It’s like e-mail app from heaven funnest. Yeah.
So I’m being a little goofy. But it’s a very, very promising e-mail app. I love the interface, the features, the fact that IT WORKS WITH IMAP like I expect it to. Here’s where I should list more specifics including exactly what features it has but it’s BETA, pre-version 1.0 and features are being tweaked as well as new and REQUESTED features are being added with each release. The Postbox website has information and screenshots on display. Go look. See for yourself. Sign up if you wanna try the BETA.
Should I get a pre-nup if I ask Postbox to marry me? We haven’t known each other very long and there’s always the possibility that it might end up being a disappointment. I’d hate to think about that happening, but it’s happened so many other times in the past with software I discovered that one minute made my heart go pitter-patter then the next it’s stomping on my heart with lead-weighted boots. No, no… that won’t happen this time. It can’t. I won’t let it. I love Postbox.
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Tagged:So I’m fixing up a two year old Dell Dimension 4400 with Windows XP Home for a co-worker of Christina’s. He’s had it sitting in a closet for most of that two years because his daughter had allowed so much junk to be installed on it that it wasn’t stable any more.
I didn’t hear Christina the other day when she said he wanted it completely wiped with a fresh install. So I downloaded a BootCD system repair package deal and started at it. See, if I booted his computer in its current state it would freak out because it wasn’t online. He had so many trojans and non-such trying to contact someone or something that the system was completely overloaded. And something kept crashing some service and a window would pop up informing me “system shutdown in 60 seconds” a few minutes into every boot. So I tried the BootCD… and ran Ad-Aware. OMGIGE (Oh My God It’s Going to Expload)! Ad-Aware found nearly 300 critical problems. Not just cookies or little minor things… I’m not counting those.
I tried McAfee Anti-Virus next. After 30 minutes… I gave up. The system was so infected with so many different things his system wasn’t ever going to work after everything McAfee was finished cleaning and deleting.
This is where Christina reminds me that he just wanted a wiped and fresh install. YEA!!!!! So I pop in the little Dell Operating System CD (so cute, it’s not labeled Windows XP… it’s labeled “Operating System”) and go through the process of wiping his drive and installing Windows XP clean. It does that pretty smoothly and quickly enough.
But then comes the driver updates, hotfixes, service packs, etc. I left it to its own at the point last night and went to bed. I also left it running smoothly with the latest nVidia graphics drivers.
This morning… I’m looking at 4bit color and it’s throwing fits about the screen resolution. I was able to rollback the driver but come on Microsoft, why did you UPDATE the graphics driver from 2006 to one from 2003? You know better than nVidia? Or me… the current end user?
Of course you do.
Everything is back in order and I’m installing AVG Anti-Virus trial on his system once it finally gets the remaining updates from Microsoft. I’d put Ad-Aware on there too but I’m not sure if he or his family would know when to say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to inquiries from Ad-Aware about what it discovers in scans. It really can be a bit confusing some times.
With all of this, again and again I’m reminded, it’s why I love my oh so sweet Mac, even when it’s going on six years now. Imagine running Vista on a six year old PC. Bahaha.
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Tagged:Just taking a quick peek at Casual Hex with the developer preview release of Safari 4. I’ve already got a few minor tweaks in the stylesheets for it but I plan on doing more. If the other browsers can’t keep up, so be it. It’ll look nice(r) to those of use using Safari whenever Safari 4 is released.
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