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X-bit labs - Microsoft Denies Plans for Add-On Blu-Ray Drive for Xbox 360.

All the more reason why I plan on buying a Playstation 3 tomorrow. Microsoft fails again. X-bit labs - Microsoft Denies Plans for Add-On Blu-Ray Drive for Xbox 360.

Posted to Rob Kennedy's Blog (Weblog) by RobK410 on 10-12-2008
Finally picked up a new laptop

Well I found it was about time to get a new laptop so I went on a spending spree today. Picked up a new HP DV5-1004NR . It's a pretty decent laptop for the price tag, and it certainly has some nice features included. It was mandatory I get a 64-bit cpu and I liked the AMD64 better than the Intel...

Posted to Rob Kennedy's Blog (Weblog) by RobK410 on 09-28-2008
My Computer Runs faster after ditching Norton Anti-virus

It's no surprise that running an anti-virus program will put a performance hit on your PC. However, I was recently really getting fed up with Norton Anti-virus as it's resident programs were always bloated using up to 50mb of ram and my system had taken a significant performance hit on disk access;...

Posted to Rob Kennedy's Blog (Weblog) by RobK410 on 09-27-2008
10 Things I want in a Job

I've had it. I quit. I'm done. It can't be done here. I'm tired. Help! All of the previous statements have been said by me in the past few years here at my current job as a Sr. Software Engineer at a local government contractor. Our company attrition rate has gone almost into double digits...

Posted to Rob Kennedy's Blog (Weblog) by RobK410 on 08-19-2008
Calling Vista by a new name might be appropriate...

Microsoft released a website recently posting reaction videos of people they had asked to preview a new version of Windows called Mojave. Only this was simply Windows Vista they were actually previewing. The point being to show that people had misconceptions about the operating system. The problem I...

Posted to Rob Kennedy's Blog (Weblog) by RobK410 on 07-31-2008
Upgrading to Mobile 6.1 killed my Phone as Modem service...

...killed it for a couple of days at least. Until I came across a comment in a blog about a related issue regarding how Sprint denies MMS on Win mobile and blackberry phones. Although I had also read that Sprint will "soon" be releasing an update for this capability on WM6, the mere fact that...

Posted to Rob Kennedy's Blog (Weblog) by RobK410 on 07-28-2008
Tron 2 Is Coming Soon

Hell yeah! I loved the first Tron; to hear they're making a second one is pimp. About time! A movie only a computer geek can appreciate. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x692m3_tr2n-cleaned-up-001_fun

Posted to Rob Kennedy's Blog (Weblog) by RobK410 on 07-27-2008
I'm now on facebook

Oh yes, I've done like the rest and have moved on from mySpace to Facebook. Quite frankly after using Facebook, I'm wondering why I hadn't done so sooner. It is quite frankly a more robust site, with "pluggable applications" it's allows one to customize their web site without...

Posted to Rob Kennedy's Blog (Weblog) by RobK410 on 07-07-2008
IExpress: Forgotten Tool Revisited

So I was fumbling around my hard drive looking to reinstall my old copy of PackageForTheWeb 4.0, and gave up when I realized that the install was nowhere to be found. After doing some googling, I came across a reference to a Microsoft tool I long ago used but left in the dust due to nice GUI of PFTW...

Posted to Rob Kennedy's Blog (Weblog) by RobK410 on 12-06-2007
Changing the default HTML viewer in Internet Explorer

Sadly, even to this day, Internet Explorer relies on notepad for viewing HTML source code through the default view source menu item. There is no programmatic way to change their either; which completely blows. Luckily there is a registry setting one can add that will allow you to change the source viewer...

Posted to Rob Kennedy's Blog (Weblog) by RobK410 on 09-06-2007

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