Anyname Domain Services

Thiis isn’t going to kill off the venerable Windows XP in itself, but it will be a nail driven firmly into its coffin. Technology moves forward at an ever increasing pace, and so does hard-drive technology. Drives have been getting bigger and faster in the standard trend with processor speeds, and now the standard is SATA vs PATA. Behind all this is the way data is stored. An interesting article explains all this, and how by the end of 2011 Windows XP will have no ‘real’ hard drive support.

Apologies if anyone tried to contact me over the last 12hrs, or tried to access any of my sites including DACr. A major power/circuit failure caused a total outage at the datacentre.

The phrases ‘best laid plans of mice and men’ and ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’ both spring to mind. Both a result of ‘project overload’.

No, not some MI5 codeword, just a state of having too many fingers in too many pies, having too many projects on the go and getting none of them finished for jumping from one to the next.

This is a weird feature of photoshop CS (I’m still on CS2 but this still appears in CS3). When photoshop is open it hijacks the escape key functionality – i.e it stops it working for anything else that’s open!

I first saw this when I moved to a new development laptop using vista (it was ok in XP! surprise surprise) and finding that the escape key sporadically stopped working when using gVim. I thought I’d got a corrupted install so went throught the hastle of reinstalling this only to see the problem still there.

Phase2 of the DACr implementation is now finished. This is the finished front end interface. I’ve added some extra tweaks including the ‘dictionary & keyword’ sort and tidied up some code. The front-end is now done. I may add a ‘recently caught’ and ‘budget domains’ widget to the front page later time & inclination permitting.