Economic commentators can’t be trusted
Tue 4 Mar 2008Filed Under: Current Affairs | Comments Off on Economic commentators can’t be trusted
Check out this article from The Age newspaper.
It is so true last year all the so called professionals said the budget was fantastic yet they clearly missed the obvious and impending sub-prime mortgage crisis. You just can’t trust anyone these days.
Windows Vista in February 2008
Mon 3 Mar 2008Filed Under: Computers, Windows Vista | Comments Off on Windows Vista in February 2008
I find it enthralling that MS is still in the PR market with Vista – supposedly releasing documents that focus on the lack of Vista drivers rather than the reality of using Vista, in particular Internet Explorer. The things broken whether deliberately or not is debatable.
Nevertheless I use the Vista everyday and not by choice these days but due to work and it’s still really slow requires huge amount of CPU power for no reason. For example I had to fix an old Pentium III notebook on the weekend, it was still running the original XP release from 2001. Got it going again and was so impressed with the load times and application run times. I installed XP SP2 on it and wow it actually improved things. When I checked the specs, I found only 384 megabytes of RAM! I was even more shocked when I got it on the internet and ran Mozilla and it rendered pages with Flash content in the fastest time I’ve ever seen.
Vista hasn’t improved things we’ve gone backwards.
Price of petrol in Australia – February 2008
Sat 1 Mar 2008Filed Under: Petrol Price History | Comments Off on Price of petrol in Australia – February 2008
The average price of regular unleaded in Australia for February 2008 is $1.47.