Office 2008 Database

I opened a PowerPoint presentation from my email and recieved the following notice:



I wouldn't have cared if I had opened PowerPoint a million times before this one, but this was the first time that I opened PowerPoint 2008 on my Mac.  However, considering that this is the same company that released Vista AFTER XP and ME AFTER 98, what should I expect?

Google Don't Know Cincinnati

Okay, I know I don't live in New York, NY or anything, but I don't live in Podunk, either.

Click on image to see what I am talking about.

IE Sucks

It should be illegal to have a site that is intentionally crippled from using another browser.  It should be even more illegal from having a site that is crippled from your own company's browser.

Scary Warning...

As a former IT Manager, I understand when sometimes stuff isn't as complex as it could be.  In fact, I am totally happy about the strides that Microsoft, Apple, and the Linux groups have made from DOS to Windows XP, OS X, and Ubuntu and other Linux Distros that have been trying to make computers easy while still maintaining security and the like.  It isn't easy at all, and there has been a lot of progress made.  If that progress wasn't made, then the would would be so different, and probably not for the better.

Then you find something like this.



That 3.8 GB USB 2.0 FD is my "Jump Drive".  Why would I EVER want to allow Windows Media Player to mess with that?  In fact, why does it need to touch the drive at all?  I just happened to plug it in when WMP was running.

Serious Disk Error?

I work on a travel demand model.  The model I use starts at 300 MB and throughout the run process, the size balloons to 2.5 GB from all the data that is created and calculated.

And I can make it go larger by producing some *REALLY* big reports.  There was one I produced that was 800 MB of plain text.  When opening it in Notepad, it would take forever as Notepad read the entire file.  I thought that maybe Word would read it progressively and allow me to look at the the file while it was loading.  I was wrong.  Word instead of telling me that the file was too big, it told me:

ArcEngine... 0 seconds left?

ESRI isn't the only one that is guilty of this, but if there is 0 seconds remaining, then why have this still on the screen?

Stream Data?

While moving an image (that is about to make it to this blog), I received one of these stupid warnings.  Roxio's shit software should have never touched this, since I have never used Roxio anything on the machine in question.