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Lakers 118, Seattle 112

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Seems, contrary to the opinions of those idiots in print and online outside of Los Angeles, that KB24 can play within the system, as his return didn't change the momentum of the Los Angeles Lakers when they edged past Seattle last night.
Five Lakers scored in double figures, with Andrew Bynum just missing out on a double as well on his way to grabbing nine rebounds.
BTW, the Lakers are at 3-0!

Starters
NameMinRebAstPFPts
L Odom, F4246228
K Bryant, G4146323
L Walton, F3385120
S Parker, G3331111
A Bynum, C238039
Bench
NameMinRebAstPFPts
R Turiaf1670213
V Radmanovic153216
B Cook82114
M Evans152022
J Farmar152102

Tech editor cannot install IE7?

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The road to irrelevancy, for some publications, is mercifully swift and welcome, but for others, long and arduous; especially for their readers.

To wit:

The editor-in-chief of eWeek, could not successfully install IE7!

WTF??? Are you freakin' kiddin' me?

Is that the worst bunch of drivel you have read in a while or what?

If you remember that eWeek evolved from PCWeek, and now offers up this nonsense, a shame!

Lakers 110, Golden State 98

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Them boys are rollin' along. The emergence of Ronny Turiaf, and the continued inspired play of Lamar Odom is a pleasure.
Game Stats
Lakers (2-0) Season Stats Roster
Starters
NameMinRebAstPFPts
L Odom, F3399122
L Walton, F2962215
M Evans, G164138
S Parker, G234126
A Bynum, C114245
Bench
NameMinRebAstPFPts
R Turiaf3293523
V Radmanovic2453211
J Farmar251419
B Cook178158
S Williams222343
S Vujacic73010
© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Lakers 114, Phoenix 106

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What a niiiice start to the 2006/2007 NBA season for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Even with KB24 on the bench along with Kwame Brown and Chris Mihm.

Even with Phoenix scoring 41 points in the first quarter on the way to a Lakers deficit of 19 points at that time.

However, 'D', as in defense, always wins. And a jump-shooting team cam only be relegated to the stands during the NBA finals.

Memo to Phoenix: Feel free to mix in some defense, and post play!


Starters
Name Min Reb Ast PF Pts
L Odom, F 44 13 6 3 34
A Bynum, C 24 9 5 2 18
L Walton, F 29 2 3 2 11
S Parker, G 36 6 7 2 9
S Vujacic, G 25 3 3 1 0

Bench
Name Min Reb Ast PF Pts
M Evans 29 4 0 3 17
B Cook 15 1 1 1 9
V Radmanovic 20 3 3 4 8
J Farmar 14 2 1 1 6
R Turiaf 3 0 1 0 2
© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Zune Dislike #1

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It is not yet released but I know something I hate about Zune already: reloading my (new) Zune account with content from my current URGE account.

How pi$$ed am I going to be?

Three items would mitigate this problem for me:

  1. A larger catalog of songs than any other subscription service available today, especially the crucial DISCO and Ragga eras.
  2. A better PC interface than even the current URGE service.
  3. Music videos.

Still looking forward.....

(Small) Kids & God

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While I was in Da' Basement, I decided, on one of the days I felt better, to try out the pressure washer I purchased to wash the whips eight, nine months ago. (Hey, I got around to it, didn't I?)

After hooking up the hoses and whatnot, I started spraying the cars, and out comes John to help me.

I turned the pressure the least powerful setting, gave him the nozzle and waited for him to either spray the car, or soak me.

What did he do?

He turned the water spray skywards.

"What are you doing?", I asked.

"I'm spraying God. I'm getting His clothes wet!"

Wifey & I looked at each other, I crossed myself - Roman Catholic upbringing, and looked at him in wonder.

Even an atheist wouldn't dare think that!

Kids. They really do love God.

Lakers 114, Phoenix 106

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What a niiiice start to the 2006/2007 NBA season for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Even with KB24 on the bench along with Kwame Brown and Chris Mihm.

Even with Phoenix scoring 41 points in the first quarter on the way to a Lakers deficit of 19 points at that time.

However, 'D', as in defense, always wins. And a jump-shooting team cam only be relegated to the stands during the NBA finals.

Memo to Phoenix: Feel free to mix in some defense, and post play!


Starters
Name Min Reb Ast PF Pts
L Odom, F 44 13 6 3 34
A Bynum, C 24 9 5 2 18
L Walton, F 29 2 3 2 11
S Parker, G 36 6 7 2 9
S Vujacic, G 25 3 3 1 0

Bench
Name Min Reb Ast PF Pts
M Evans 29 4 0 3 17
B Cook 15 1 1 1 9
V Radmanovic 20 3 3 4 8
J Farmar 14 2 1 1 6
R Turiaf 3 0 1 0 2

IE7 Release Party, San Francisco, CA

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Last night, October 18, I had the good fortune to be invited to the IE7 Developer Release Party in San Francisco, California.

I met members of the IE7 team, including Dean Hachamovitch, Gary Schare, and Chris Wilson on Wednesday, Oct. 18 in San Francisco, which rocked! (Thanks, Kelsey & WagEd!)

Met a lot of interesting people including Steve Szaraz, Martin McKeay, Matthew Levine, Harry McCracken, Jeremiah Owyang, Bess Ho, etc.

The enthusiasm, and The Love for IE7 was palpable, and we gave due credit to the team for not only getting the browser out in record time, but for hiding the revolutionary complexities of IE7 behind the current UI, which is a slight upgrade of IE6.

I can only imagine how much pressure they were under. Both from the public and from within MSFT.

When the decision to resume IE development was made public, the view of the cognoscenti and all over the blogosphere was that Firefox had won, and that Microsoft needn’t even try.

Thank God, the IE Team did not listen. They have produced an excellent market-redefining product in an amazingly short period of time.

Dean and his crew, including my home gal, Uche, need to take a bow!

Guys, you did it

Respect, Y’all!

Martin has a podcast on his eponymous site, www.mckeay.net on the event. Yours truly, logroll, logroll, was in it as well.

Jeremiah Owyang is totally immersed in the Web, and has a text summary of the event here.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Apple: We are upset with Windows for iPod virus!

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From the Apple website:

Small Number of Video iPods Shipped With Windows Virus

We recently discovered that a small number - less than 1% - of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006, left our contract manufacturer carrying the Windows RavMonE.exe virus. This known virus affects only Windows computers, and up to date anti-virus software which is included with most Windows computers should detect and remove it. So far we have seen less than 25 reports concerning this problem. The iPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac OS X are not affected, and all Video iPods now shipping are virus free. As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, ......

¿Que?

Are you jokin'?

But for the fact that it (really) was on the Apple website, I would not have believed it!

What a bunch of fuckin' morons!

As a Windows evangelist, all I can say is Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude (denn sie kommt von Herzen)

Fox uses Windows Smartphone to 'videotape' news

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While the event was totally unfortunate, this use of smartphones to record news events demonstrates the extensibility of the Windows Mobile platform.

And this is just the beginning.

The imagination boggles at what the next generation of Windows Mobile smartphones will bring to the table.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Breaking News: Apple not worried about Zune!

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So was Digital Research (CP/M) about MS-DOS

So was Lotus Development (Lotus 123) about Excel

So was Software Publishing Corp. (Harvard Graphics) about PowerPoint

So was WordPerfect (WordPerfect) about Word

So was Ashton-Tate (dBASE) about Access

So Was Aldus/Adobe (PageMaker) about Publisher

So was Novell (NetWare) about NT, now Windows Server.

So was IBM (OS/2) about Windows 95

So was Netscape (Netscape Navigator) about Internet Explorer

So was Lotus/IBM (Lotus Notes) about Exchange

(I'm trying to remember the other ostriches, and will edit this post as they come back to me.

Where are they now.........................

Jury is out on:

  1. MySpace vs. Windows Live Spaces
  2. PDF vs. XPS
  3. LAMP vs .NET; though recent research shows a lead.
  4. PS 3 vs Xbox 360
  5. YouTube vs Soapbox; new entrant still in beta.

Vista on Track after all!

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Now that it seems, despite the best intentions, and BTW, the worst job of prognosticating, of the Madamme Cleo wanna-be clones at Gartner*, that Vista™ will ship on time, leastways the revised schedule, how are you planning for it?

Try here for a synopsis of the Gartner piece, and some linke to news about it are below.

NetworldWorld.com

Silicon.com

PCAdvisor.co.uk

ZDNet Asia


*Since their visions don’t seem to be coming true, Gartner is now in full (re)visionary mode, asking clients not to install Vista until 2008, in order, I guess, to make that prediction sorta come true. Thankfully for them, I am not a client; else the Word of the Day would be R-E-F-U-N-D!Angry


© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

McAfee

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In my post here, I remarked that we would revisit the McAfee 'open letter' to Microsoft regarding Vista if and when we got financial news.

Today, the president of McAfee got fired outright, and the CEO resigned. Over the options fraud that seems to be sweeping a lot of tech firms.

Well, while I do not work for Microsoft, I can imagine some of the troops gloating with thoughts like אין שמחה כשמחה לאיד

Not me!

© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Ray Noorda, R.I.P.

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Raymond J Noorda, former CEO of Novell, passed away yesterday.

He took a project, S-Net from a group of young programmers including Drew Major, and made it into the powerhouse Novell NetWare.

I made my first bones hawking Netware as my NOS of choice before we - thank God - moved to NT and the various flavors of Windows Server.

Ray Noorda was a true visionary, and had the best interests of partners at heart.

R.I.P. Ray.

Adiós

© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Messed-up sports weekend!

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First, my Yankees lost.

Then, Schumi's engine f*cked up at today's Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile Formula One race at the Suzuka International Racing Course in Japan.

To crown it all, those idiots at the NBA store messed up my order for the new KB24 gear, so I will only have the gold for the start of the preseason.

What is next?

© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Kaspersky: Microsoft is not blocking rivals

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Just as I thought!

Natalya Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of the eponymous Russian antivirus company, Kaspersky Lab, informed Reuters that Microsoft was still being as open as in the past with antivirus vendors.

This information completely and utterly derails the whining's of Symantec and McAfee.

After bungling all the goodwill established by past management regimes at their respective brands with the buying public, they now want the courts to assist them in competing.

Well, they have already lost in the Court of Public Opinion. Of course they may win in that farcical place called the EU Office of Competition - who knows WFT those tossers are about, anyways!

What a bunch of wussies!

Earlier posts here and here.