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Windows Vista Business and Ultimate Editions: The Experience Part 1

I have been using Windows Vista since it went RTM back in November 2006. It is tough to objectively evaluate Windows Vista since my personal computer is a bit under-powered. I did have the chance to use Windows Vista on numbers of newer and more powerful computers. The two versions I get to use are Windows Vista Business and Ultimate.

I first installed Windows Vista Business on the computers. Windows Vista Business is somewhat the upgrade to Windows XP Professional. Unfortunately I was unable to activate the copy since it was looking for Key Management Service (KMS) locally. We don’t have a KMS server set yet.

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I then installed Windows Vista Ultimate on the same computer on a different hard drive. It ran a little sluggish, due to insufficient amount of RAM and less powerful graphic cards. Once I turned Aero and Glass off, Windows Vista ran a lot faster.

Computer Specs:

  • AMD Turion 64 ML-30 1.60GHz
  • 768MB DDR PC2700 (128MB shared with the graphic card)
  • ATI Mobility Radeon XPress 200 (128MB Shared RAM allocated)
  • Hard Drive: 40GB 4200 RPM

…to be continued

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SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta2 1.0.1.144 is Available

SlingMedia has released SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta2 1.0.1.144

With the new version of the Player, SlingMedia also releases new firmware upgrade for the SlingBox.

Unfortunately, SlingBox Setup Assistant is forcing firmware upgrade and saying that the version of the SlingPlayer has expired. No firmware upgrade can be done. As of this moment, the SlingPlayer for Mac OS X can not connect to the SlingBox.

http://us.slingmedia.com/object/KB-005161.html

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Review: Slingbox Pro (The Prelude)

I’ve been wanting to try out Slingbox since it was first out. Pricing and the lack of Mac support were the main reasons why I never actually bought it. Fortunately, an acquaintance purchased Slingbox Pro a few days ago. I was asked to set it up and I didn’t waste any seconds to do so.

To summarize the whole experience, it’s great.

I’ll post the details later on.

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Troubleshooting Mac OS X Display Resolutions

iMac G5 1.83 GHz
20 inch display
GeForce FX 5200 64MB VRAM

Mac OS X 10.4.8 with all the lates updates as of 12.26.2006

For some reasons the Displays System Preferences only allowed two different resolutions: 640×480 and 1680×1050.

None of the following steps able to fix the problems:

  • Deleting display preferences (com.apple.preference.displays.0011247aabd0.plist etc)
  • Replace Display.prefPane (/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane)
  • Resetting NVRAM
  • Zapping PRAM
  • Use AppleJack to repair permissions, etc.

The solutions is much simpler than the steps above. Install Mac OS X 10.4.8 Combo Updater again.

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Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Small Businesses (Part 0)

A lot of small businesses still running Windows 2000 and older Office suites (XP and 2000). Some of them just recently switched to Windows XP since computer vendors no longer had the option to have Windows 2000 pre-installed.

Windows Vista and Office 2007 will be officially released in the end of January 2007. Generally business users would wait for a while before upgrading to Windows Vista and Office 2007.

There are still compatibility issues between versions of Microsoft Office. Some users are still using Office 2000 because number of Macros and Visual Basic Scripts do not work well across different versions of office.

…….to be continued in Part 1