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Friday July 15 2005 @ 5:07 PM

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I would just like to point out how fantastically intuitive Computer Associates Harvest change manager is. To create a package for "State" B, you create a package in State A (named 'Create request'). This will not create a package in the Create Request state; it creates the package in the 'Unit Test' state. Create Package isn't even an option for the Unit Test state.

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Here is a screen shot of the Windows Media Player for Mac download page. How come the size and download time for the .bin file is not available?

Here we see Microsoft Word has ran out of memory. In the first screen shot, Word says that the hard disk is full, with some added punctuation. Windows Explorer says that there's 65 gigabytes free. In the second screen shot, Word was a little more general with it's out of memory error. There are the same 65 gigabytes free, and then you can see there's about 750 megabytes of free physical memory. Microsoft needs to change those dialogs to something like "Word's programming is pure shit, we some how cant allocate more memory from your huge pool of free memory, and we cant allocate more disk space from your even huger pool of disk space, so chances are you need to close the program and reopen it." Maybe they could code in like "if free memory is greater then the average total memory for normal users, don't display this box!"

Here we see some operating system requirements from IBM. They are really specific about which version of Suse you can use, RedHat, AIX, Windows, etc. Then they say you can use "Linux". I don't think it will run on every version of Linux.

This is a really good promotion from IBM. If you spend a million bagillion dollars on one of their servers, they will give you an iPod shuffle! Now lets look at this a bit. If you can afford one of their servers, I think you would already own an iPod. A 100 dollar "freebee" for purchasing something that costs 20,000 seems a little insignificant. So if your company does buy one of these servers, who will get the SINGLE iPod Shuffle? I see a fight coming on.

In this screen shot, we see IBM giving a link to contact an operating system. If I were going to buy a crazy expensive OS from IBM, I would rather talk to IBM, not the OS. Actually, I would like to talk to the OS, it would probably be really interesting? or really boring.

Here is another good IBM development. It seems some of the features of this software are these web servers. Most are running Apache, but it seems one is running the original web server. It must not be WebSphere, IBM wouldn't pass up the opportunity to toot their horn. Ether way, I want it. Original flavors are usually better than the other ones.

What? More from IBM? Here IBM is talking about some 31 bit CPU. I would guess that it was a typo, but the mention it in two places.

And last but not least, we have a Windows Update screen shot. I don't know what to make of this.