Posts tagged with: crash

Links of interest for 22 Apr 2010 - 19 May 2010: Chrome Incognito Tracks Visited Sites - Lewis showed me this yesterday morning before posting this blog post. Guess incognito mode isn't as forgetful as you thought. Funny Photoshop Crash Reports - It's amazing what people write in these crash reports. Oracle on ZFS Whitepaper - Quite a useful whitepaper on running Oracle on ZFS. Warning, it's a PDF. Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life? - Some great hard hitting quotes from Larry Ellison explaining exactly why Sun became such an easy takeover... Continue reading ►

There has been a fair amount of fanfare about Windows 7 beta that Microsoft released to the world to "tinker" with. I've held off downloading and tinkering, but finally the curiosity got the better of me. So I headed over to the Microsoft Windows 7 page, used my Passport ID (I've got one because I have friends on MSN) and set to downloading the public beta which promptly fired up a Java downloader applet to perform the download :-) . I have no idea how long this took as I left it running overnight, but a warning for those with caps on your broadband: it comes in at a whopping 2.44Gb. This morning I installed it on VirtualBox (2.1.2 even has Windows 7 as an available OS type), allowed it to perform an automatic update (I don't normally allow this, but as I have actually registered for this beta test, I may as well), installed the Guest Additions (these ended up being just the Vista additions) and rebooted. Continue reading ►