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Windows 95 crashes a cash register

Looking back on the Windows95 launch 10 years ago…I remember all those people waiting in line to purchase it like it was a Star Wars movie or something….

The Old New Thing : Windows 95 crashes a cash register
Not everything related to the Windows 95 launch went well. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a local CompUSA store found that their cash registers crashed at midnight, forcing eager customers to wait ninety minutes before the problem could be resolved. The cause: A bug in the cash register software which had lain undiscovered because the store had never stayed open past midnight before!

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MediaPortal – The ultimate HTPC / mediacenter

Looks impressive…

MediaPortal – The ultimate HTPC / mediacenter
MediaPortal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC.
It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video’s and DVD’s, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/nopes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs!
Please read the requirements before installing MediaPortal!

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When Robots Attack…In Japan!

I mean no disrespect to the Japanese Prime Minister…but this is funny. Apparently, he is ok, so we can all laugh about it now.

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Japan’s first mall-patrolling security robot, the T63 Artemis, took an instant dislike to Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday. A simple meet-and-greet experience was obviously too much for the batty bot, which launched a smokescreen on contact.

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Engadget 1985

Over at Engadget they have a post that looks like it was written in 1985, complete with images and ascii art. It is a great post.

Back in June on my podcast Technorama that I co-host with Chuck Tomasi we did something similar. We produced the show as if it was June 15th 1987. It was a lot of fun to do…but thinking like it was 1987 as opposed to 2005 made my head hurt.

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Star Trek Phone Set to Thrill

I will be interested to see this when it comes out…but it will probably cost an arm and a leg and three tribbles.

Wired News: Star Trek Phone Set to Thrill
Get ready for your phone to go where no phone has gone before.

Sona Mobile and Viacom Consumer Products are set to offer a Star Trek communicator-themed mobile device that will let users make calls, play video clips, play online Star Trek games and surf the internet.

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IE 7.0, Boycott it.

Definitely an interesting read about IE 7 and the technical challenges behind it. I am sure that it isn’t easy to implement all those features but It can’t be that tough to pull off, come one, it’s Microsoft!

Firefox has done it, and further more, it is here today.

Also, isn’t it tiresome that Microsoft still chooses to use proprietary technologies rather than fix or support current web standards?

IE 7.0 Technical Changes Leave Web Developers, Users in the Lurch
My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It’s a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn’t secure and isn’t standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.

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Here’s to you mister Sysadmin Guy for all you do!

{listen to patriotic music while reading}
Here’s to you mister Sysadmin Guy,ah Person, for all you do!

Thanks for:
* Helping users do battle with the day to day forces that delete files or create viruses.
* For securing our networks to keep the baddies out.
* For climbing under desks and into ceilings to pull countless cables.
* For routing packets that needed routing!
* For dealing with office politics when it comes to network policy
* and for keeping the Internet up.

I toast this Jolt to you Mister Sysadmin! Happy Sysadmin Day!

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The Space Shuttle is Away!

I just watched Nasa TV using realplayer and at 10:39a like clock work, the shuttle took off. That is engineering at it’s best.

Besides the take off, watching the shuttle peal off from the large external tank was amazing. There was a camera attached to the external tank to facilitate seeing the under side of the shuttle as the orange tank fell away.

Congratulations Nasa and Shuttle Crew! Welcome back to space.