• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On August 3, 2007

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Friday Random 10: Getting back to it edition

Because I am woefully behind in my posting, and because it is Friday, and because I am listening to music:

Jeff Buckley, “Calling You” (Live at Sin-é)
Low, “Silver Rider” (The Great Destroyer)
David Byrne, “Don’t Fence Me In” (Red Hot + Blue)
U2, “Party Girl” (Under a Blood Red Sky)
Sonny Rollins, “Blue 7” (Saxophone Colossus)
Roy Orbison, “It’s Too [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On August 3, 2007

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End in sight to reboot hell?

I have been struggling with Windows Vista for a month or two. Regularly the system ran out of resources, regularly reboots were required to re-enable functionality. The symptoms were eerily reminiscent of classic GDI resource heap exhaustion: windows would refuse to open, pop-up menus stubbornly stayed closed, applications reported an inability to save to disk [...]