HP: 900,000 notebooks may be buggy
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HP says 900,000 notebooks buggy
HP says 900,000 notebooks buggy
06/25/2004 03:32 PMCNET Jun 25 2004 7:24PM GMT
HP says as many as 900,000 notebooks
buggy
HP says as many as 900,000 notebooks
buggy
06/25/2004 03:16 PMA faulty memory module can freeze systems. HP has free replacement
parts at the ready.
Bug Bug Buggy
Bug Bug Buggy
03/19/2003 10:28 PM Bug Bug
Buggy - Electronic bugging devices have been found at offices used
by French and German delegations at European Union headquarters in
Brussels.
I think I can guess where fingers will get pointed....
It’s Not Hip to Be Square – Widescreen
Notebooks Fastest Growing Segment in
Retail Notebook Sales -Widescreen
notebooks now account for 48% of all
notebook sales-
It’s Not Hip to Be Square – Widescreen
Notebooks Fastest Growing Segment in
Retail Notebook Sales -Widescreen
notebooks now account for 48% of all
notebook sales-
08/01/2004 03:30 AMAccording to a recent study by Current Analysis, unit sales of
notebooks equipped with a widescreen 15.4-inch display have steadily
continued to climb throughout the first half of 2004. As of June 30,
the widescreen market accounted for 48% of all notebooks sold,
compared to only 15% in December 2003. The growth represents the
highest share yet for the widescreen models since its introduction in
the spring of 2003 and demonstrates widescreen systems are selling in
greater numbers than its traditional square counterparts. [PRWEB Aug
1, 2004]
A Buggy Solution
A Buggy Solution
03/13/2003 10:16 AMWhen deliberately introducing a bug actually fixes a faulty system.
Blackout Cause: Buggy Code
Blackout Cause: Buggy Code
02/12/2004 10:11 AMEconomist: Buggy whipped
Economist: Buggy whipped
07/04/2002 02:19 AMThe problem, as they saw it, was the complexity of modern
software—especially operating systems and productivity suites.
“Twenty, or even ten, years ago, software was actually reliable,” one
software developer admitted. That was because the cryptic operating
systems on desktop computers at the time (CP/M and MS-DOS) were far
smaller and more tightly coded than today's graphical beasts. The
software written for bigger machines used to be more reliable, too.
Before IBM was forced to “unbundle” its software, computer makers
controlled both the program code and the hardware it ran on—and could
thus integrate them properly. That was one of the reasons why IBM's
mainframes and Digital Equipment's minicomputers had such a reputation
for reliability.
Readers had no trouble identifying the two leading culprits. One was
the practice of re-using chunks of old software for doing set things.
“Over time, code-reuse leads to massively complex and prodigiously
huge software programs, full of ‘magic code' that nobody understands
or wants to touch,” said another programmer. Analysing such programs
was more like archaeology than computer science. “They are full of
‘midden piles' and ‘rock strata' containing artefacts and fossils that
once had a clear purpose but whose function is now lost to history.”
"zeldman.hgr"
A terrible, buggy, monster.
A terrible, buggy, monster.
03/11/2003 09:43 AM
I found this very interesting read on the history of AWT, Swing, and
SWT fom an undisclosed source via Roller user
Jon Lipsky's blog. Here is a tasty excerpt:
Alan Williamson's mysterious "source close to IBM":
At IBM we hated Swing from day one. Big, buggy, and looks [like]
crap.
Initially our tools such as VisualAge for Java were all written in
Smalltalk ( which
used native widgets ) so when we started to migrate these to a Java
codebase we need a widget set. All of the IBM developers are the same
crowd who used to work with Smalltalk, and we reluctantly under
management
orders built our WebSphere Studio tools using Swing. It was a
terrible,
buggy, monster. In our initial previews when it was demo'd against
Microsoft Visual Studio products all our users hated it just because
of how
it looked, never mind what it let you do. Most shoppers don't like to
get
in car that looks and smells terrible, even if it does have a nice
engine.
UPDATE: Jon Lipsky was contacted by somebody at Sun who claims there are
many and major inaccuracies in the above story.
Buggy Racing for the Elderly (Reuters)
Buggy Racing for the Elderly (Reuters)
07/28/2004 08:04 AMReuters - A team led by an
82-year-old pensioner won the first Dutch championship for
battery-powered electric scooter racing.
New Galactic Heroes Dune Buggy
New Galactic Heroes Dune Buggy
04/02/2005 06:21 PMIt's a dune buggy! It's an X-wing! It's two, two, two ships in one!
This new Galactic Heroes styled vehicle is due out in June and
includes the Luke X-wing action figure. More information is available
at
EntertainmentEarth.com.
Apple Winds Down Buggy Panther OS
Apple Winds Down Buggy Panther OS
05/27/2004 05:08 PMProblems continue to plague the 10.3x family.
Drunk Horse-And-Buggy Driver Causes
Crash (AP)
Drunk Horse-And-Buggy Driver Causes
Crash (AP)
08/18/2004 08:38 PMAP - Police in eastern Latvia were trying to determine Wednesday what
charges to bring against a drunken horse-and-buggy driver who caused a
drunken motorist to crash into a ditch, flipping his car.
Vodafone defends buggy content filter
Vodafone defends buggy content filter
07/09/2004 08:10 AMThe Register Jul 9 2004 12:19PM GMT
Yahoo's Anti-Spy toolbar feature buggy
Yahoo's Anti-Spy toolbar feature buggy
08/06/2004 10:01 PMWeb portal admits error in newly released product billed as protection
against invasive online marketers.
Microsoft Patches Buggy Windows SSL
Patch
Microsoft Patches Buggy Windows SSL
Patch
04/29/2004 01:22 PMWorkarounds issued for bugs found in a recently issued Windows
security patch that could cause systems to freeze or lead to system
usage overload.
PC-Powered Buggy, Motorcycle Compete In
DARPA Challenge
PC-Powered Buggy, Motorcycle Compete In
DARPA Challenge
03/06/2004 02:01 AMWe talk to two of the twenty-five teams designing vehicles for the
DARPA Grand Challenge: a driverless car race across the desert for a
$1 million prize.
Dutch launch buggy racing for the
elderly (Reuters)
Dutch launch buggy racing for the
elderly (Reuters)
07/27/2004 05:58 PMReuters - A team
led by an 82-year-old pensioner has won the
first Dutch championship for battery-powered
electric scooter racing.
Bot Attacks Vulnerable Windows Systems;
Microsoft Patch Buggy
Bot Attacks Vulnerable Windows Systems;
Microsoft Patch Buggy
05/02/2004 02:01 PMTech test drive: Web page design service
is buggy, but holds promise
Tech test drive: Web page design service
is buggy, but holds promise
06/05/2005 10:57 PMSiliconValley.com May 30 2005 4:49PM GMT
Joy of Notebooks
Joy of Notebooks
08/10/2004 04:56 AM
Writing Joy of Typing reminded me of the Moleskine
phenomenon. I haven't used
a Moleskine notebook yet but I am fascinated by all the raving
going on. I don't
particularly care whether Van Gogh and Matisse used it or
not. But I do think
think there is something there beyond vanity and word-of-mouth
marketing. Maybe
it's in the texture of the paper, maybe it's the right size or
shape. Maybe
it's the rubberband. If it is the paper, then I wonder which
type of pen or
pencil goes best with the notebook.
BTW, I don't understand the pricing on the Moleskine
notebooks. Why does the
diaries with 380 pages cost less than non-diaries which haves far
less pages?
Do they use different papers? Obviously the sketch book must
use higher quality
paper than others, but I wonder if the diaries use thinner pages to
keep the thickness
down. Heh. I guess I got moleskined.
I'll admit that all this is kind of silly if one takes a step back,
but then life
itself is silly if you take enough steps back.
Notebooks For Gamers?
Notebooks For Gamers?
02/11/2004 11:07 PMEvery time I wonder why anyone would buy a desktop machine again, when
notebooks are quite powerful and much more useful when portable,
someone reminds me of the gamers. The gamers always want more
powerful and customizable desktop machines so they can do more with
their machines. However, the notebook makers are realizing that the
desktop market may be a dying one, and thus are trying their best to
create notebook
computers for gamers. Of course, as someone points out in the
article, the price difference will still make this a very small
market. I also wonder if it wouldn't help to make these gaming
notebooks more easily customizable, since part of the appeal of
desktops seems to be the ability to modify them.
HP Recall on 900,000 Notebooks
HP Recall on 900,000 Notebooks
06/27/2004 11:36 AMDec. 23: Rugged Notebooks
Dec. 23: Rugged Notebooks
12/23/2003 11:34 PMPopular Mechanics Dec 23 2003 10:41PM ET
How Can We Help Patrons with their
Notebooks?
How Can We Help Patrons with their
Notebooks?
07/14/2004 01:32 AMWeblogs and Wikis as Work Arounds
"The Internet really has become my notebook in a big way. Used to
be a pretty much just a research tool, but now it's the warehousing
and organizing tool as well. I can almost picture what a personal,
interactive portal on the Internet might look and feel like...almost.
Tom quotes Tim Berners-Lee whose original vision for the Internet was
'to connect every person to every other person.' We're getting
there..." [Weblogg-ed
News]
Notebooks ramping up for PCI Express
Notebooks ramping up for PCI Express
05/17/2004 05:47 PMNvidia, a leading designer of graphics chips, announced Monday that it
has widespread support from the major manufacturers of notebooks for
its proposed MXM graphics standard for add-on modules that will be
using Intel's new PCI Express bus.
nVidia Announces MXM for Notebooks
nVidia Announces MXM for Notebooks
05/17/2004 01:14 PMPhotos: Notebooks pump up with gas
Photos: Notebooks pump up with gas
04/11/2005 11:29 AMIBM and Sanyo Electric have developed a prototype of a methanol-based
fuel cell system for IBM ThinkPads.
DaVinci's notebooks, a page a day
DaVinci's notebooks, a page a day
05/31/2004 04:03 AMMatt Webb is a real Renaissance geek, and as such he's too busy to
actually read the great and defining works fo the Renaissance, such as
DaVinci's imposing 1,565-page Notebooks. At least not all in one gulp.
So Matt's poured all of the Notebooks (scarfed from the Project
Gutenberg site) into a script that sends out one page a day as RSS.
This is not unlike Phil Gyford's
Page-a-Day-Pepys'-Diary thing.
Link
(
via Kottke)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
05/31/2004 04:06 AMDay-by-day Da Vinci
interconnected.org/home/more/davinci
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"The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci"
"The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci"
05/31/2004 09:53 PMNew Notebooks Get Down to Business (PC
World)
New Notebooks Get Down to Business (PC
World)
06/16/2004 01:03 PMPC World - Fujitsu, HP, Toshiba debut new notebooks aimed at corporate
buyers.
Acer dresses up new notebooks
Acer dresses up new notebooks
06/01/2004 11:58 AMTAIPEI, Taiwan -- In an announcement on Monday that was heavy on style
but light on technical details, Taiwan's Acer Inc. introduced the
latest additions to its notebook computer lines, the Aspire 1800 and
TravelMate 3200.
New notebooks for PC peak time
New notebooks for PC peak time
07/29/2004 06:42 AMComputer Weekly Jul 29 2004 11:05AM GMT
Acer launches new notebooks
Acer launches new notebooks
06/01/2004 03:41 PMLogitech Quick Cam for Notebooks Pro
Logitech Quick Cam for Notebooks Pro
07/28/2004 04:05 AMToshiba launches new notebooks
Toshiba launches new notebooks
06/14/2004 03:02 PMAll three models feature built-in Wi-Fi and are designed for
budget-conscious businesses.
Dell, HP introduce new notebooks
Dell, HP introduce new notebooks
07/28/2004 04:42 PMThe top two PC vendors worldwide, Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.
(HP), released this week new notebooks designed to be attractive for
mobile users such as business travelers and students, as the vendors
compete for the attention of buyers heading into the most important
selling seasons of the year for PC companies.
Toshiba Notebooks Get a Fix From UPS (PC
World)
Toshiba Notebooks Get a Fix From UPS (PC
World)
04/28/2004 09:50 PMPC World - Familiar brown trucks now also deliver notebooks to central
UPS site for quicker repairs.
Pureview to launch 30K Notebooks
Pureview to launch 30K Notebooks
08/11/2004 08:12 AMTechTree Aug 11 2004 12:20PM GMT
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