Window Vapor!

With news that Vista will not be out this year, and the new Office Suite will be pushed to next year, things are not looking so bright for Microsoft. Here is a blog of a Microsoft insider about the recent concerns which contains many comments from others inside the company. This video of an interview with Ballmer (sorry will only work in IE) is quite interesting. Funny how he cannot admit that things are not going like they promised us not too long ago, even after all the innovative and useful features were stripped from the product. I got a projoect for ya Microsoft, how about making roaming profiles THAT ACTUALLY WORK! We have all this advanced replication between domain controllers, but a simple folder with profile settings and misc files is way to complex to sync with the server. In any case, I'm sure it will not effect them too greatly because we all know that consumers will eat Vista up as soon as it is released, whenever that may be. Well, maybe force-fed is a better term, at least for home users who get their OS pre-installed with their PC's.

In other breaking news, researchers have found that you should close any panels made of glass, especially when it is dark. I have confirmed this firsthand.

Yeah, glass is not fun to cleanup from carpet. I didn't even see it at all and ran right through it.

One Slick PC

Tom's Hardware Guide has an interesting article that I stumbled across showing an entire top of the line PC that is cooled passively by cooking oil (Submerged completely within it). They also did some trials with De-ionized water, but the PC crashed within 5 minutes. They had no problems with the oil once they got everything sealed up. A followup to the article can be found here, and contains several responses from PC enthusiasts who offer several suggestions that would improve the design.