October 2006 – GeekTieGuy

IE 7 is back on my machine

23October2006GeekTieGuyMicrosoft

With some help from Peter Gurevich,Â one of the IE 7 Performance PMs,Â I tracked down what caused IE 7 to basically lock up on my machine. Turns out it were the IE Developer Toolbar and IE DOM Explorer add-ons that were to blame. I disabled all but these two add-ons and saw no lockups any more.

So much for IE 7

18October2006GeekTieGuy3 CommentsMicrosoft

I installedÂ the offical IE 7Â release a few minutes ago, ran it, and it immediately started consuming 50% CPU time. The part of the UI where the Tabs get rendered (and the address bar / stop / refresh / search) was frozen and I couldn’t get the Favorites area to pop up. Not good.Â Looks like I’m

My experience with offshore outsourcing software development

18October2006GeekTieGuy1 CommentOpinion

I’m testing the beta version of the New York Times Reader (which I have a few beefs with, but I’m sure lots of people are already finding the same problems, so there’s little point in elaborating on those here). Beta testing it forced me to open a free account at the nytimes.com site.Â During the last

The weasel way of doing Internet business

13October2006GeekTieGuyOpinion

This just dropped in my mailbox yesterday. Â I hate this tactic of attempting to get customers.Â I’m sure some unsuspecting people would think this is something they signed up for and have to pay. I know it says on there that it’s a solicitation, but making it look so much like an invoice is

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Monthly Archives: October 2006

IE 7 is back on my machine

So much for IE 7

My experience with offshore outsourcing software development

The weasel way of doing Internet business