Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
As long time readers of Best Hubris know, I have had a running battle with Microsoft operating systems and wireless networking problems. Yes, by now I may have spent less time and energy by running out and buying a bunch of brand new hardware, but I don’t think that I should have to buy all … Read more
Google’s recent attempt to crack the social networking market comes courtesy of an ill-conceived service titled Google Buzz. The idea is that that Buzz provides similar status updates, and shared links, and so on, right inside of your Google email account. Of course, it is this very concept that dooms Google Buzz to failure, and … Read more
Update: There is an official Windows 7 hotfix regarding WiFi disconnection. It isn’t auto-installed though, so you might want to try it first: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3094412 Here we go again. I had hoped this crap would be fixed in Windows 7, but apparently the long suffering Microsoft blunder known officially as NetBIOS / NetBEUI, and as NetKablooey by … Read more
Ah, more Windows 7 glitches. This one is particularly irritating because it is caused by Microsoft Windows 7 trying to be smarter than the user. In general, I don’t mind when the operating system takes care of me, but when it does, I expect a way to be able to undo what it is doing, … Read more
Update: And we’re back again 🙂 It looks like the issue is caused by having an unsaved “custom theme.” Don’t think you made a custom theme? Think again. Any change to the “personalize” settings like background image (desktop image), colors, font-size, etc… results in a custom theme being generated with those changes. In other words, … Read more
Plenty of people downloaded the Windows 7 Release Candidate over the last six months or so. It made plenty of sense, of course. Since so many people hated Vista, there were not really any options for those looking to upgrade from Windows XP. That, plus the fact that Windows 7 RC was free to use … Read more
What in the name of all that is holy is going on here?!? Sometimes I just can’t help but wonder what is it that makes computers so difficult? Today, I noticed that my Cruise Down and Cruise Up buttons on my Logitech mouse stopped working in Firefox. The odd thing is that they continued to … Read more
I’ve been running Windows 7 on my primary desktop computer for long enough now that things are starting to emerge that I want to be tweaked to my preferences or workflow. One of those things is tweaking the Windows 7 Start Menu to be smaller and more compact, instead of using those large icons. Having … Read more
It appears that HP has decided to abandon several popular printers by not providing Windows 7 printer drivers for them at all. Some devices have been categorized as "Category 6" devices, meaning that HP will not support them under Windows 7. Not today, not tomorrow, not at all. This might be more acceptable if it … Read more
We’ll consider this a micro-blog for now, as I don’t have the time here right at the month end for my freelance writing business to sacrifice the time to a longer post. How easy do you think it would be for Google and / or Delicious themselves to segregate users based upon how many links … Read more
In my never ending quest to eliminate the vast number of resource wasting utilities, files, services, startup programs, and boot-up loaders that software companies insist on foisting onto my PC, I take out Revo Uninstaller from time to time and start removing bloatware wherever I find it. Recently, a new error message started popping up … Read more
Update: Since the beginning of 2013, WestHost has proven less reliable than necessary. I can no longer recommend them. Check here for the latest on WestHost reliability or lack thereof. Shared Web Host Companies and Fantasy Limitations Or No Limit Fantasies Once upon a time, all web hosting companies sold hosting plans with a cap … Read more