BRUCEB NEWS
The Claude Crisis: AI And The Presumption Of Regularity
It’s Anti-AI week! Protests and petitions and boycotts and resignations , oh my. OpenAI (ChatGPT) is the villain. Anthropic (Claude) is the hero, topping the download charts after a burst of headlines about AI and the Pentagon and are you kidding me,…
VISTA & SHADOW COPY
Windows Vista Business edition has one of those features that you might not need right away – but if you ever do need it, it will be a lifesaver. Vista Business (and Vista…
VIDEO MAY OVERWHELM INTERNET
Google is running more than 450,000 servers around the world. It’s building “Project 02,” which will be one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers,…
WINDOWS VISTA BUSINESS
Strange but true: it is not easy to purchase a new computer with Windows Vista Business installed on it. It’s virtually impossible to find Vista Business on any computer…
NEW IMAGE FORMAT – HD PHOTO
The .JPG format is ubiquitous – everything supports it, everything displays it. Microsoft has spent six years creating a new format intended to replace .JPG in the hearts…
WALMART, APPLE & DRM
WalMart announced a movie download service with the obligatory noncritical media coverage, focused on how darned exciting it is that all of the major studios have signed up to…
KODAK PRINTERS
Kodak has done so many things wrong in the last ten years that it’s hard to trust its judgment, but it may be redefining the printer market today and doing us all a favor….
GOODBYE PALM OS
The venerable Palm operating system is no more. It wasn’t long ago that the term “Palm” was the very definition of a handheld PDA, and the Palm operating system…
J RIVER MEDIA CENTER 12
J River Media Center 12 is a new version of my favorite music software. Try it! A thirty-day trial is free, and the program is well worth its modest cost. Many people use iTunes…
TIMESLIPS & VISTA COMPATIBILITY
Vista compatibility will be hit or miss for the next year. Some business-critical software won’t run on Windows Vista; I’ll be doing what I can to help businesses…
VISTA/XP COMPARISON
There’s no shortage of lists of Vista features but this is a particularly good one – with a minimum of fuss, the chart in the middle compares Windows Vista to Windows…
SMALL BUSINESS SERVER & IE7
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 includes wonderful tools for remote access – Remote Web Workplace provides access to office desktop computers, and Outlook Web Access…
WINDOWS VISTA BASICS
Windows Vista is here. After using it for two months and studying hard, here are some of the conclusions I’ve reached. Windows Vista is a wonderful operating system. There…
QUICKBOOKS AND VISTA
Here’s the latest word from Intuit about running Quickbooks under Vista, and it’s not pretty. Quickbooks 2007 will run correctly, or so they say. There’s no…
ONECARE UPDATES
Version 1.5 of Windows Live OneCare began to be rolled out a couple of days ago. If you are currently using OneCare, you will be updated automatically. When the process goes…
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 – MORE CHALLENGES AHEAD
Windows Vista will present a learning curve and some frustration when it begins shipping next week, but I’m wondering whether the new version of Microsoft Office might take…