Archive for May, 2008

SP3 Windows XP Service Pack 3

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

I am amazed at the immediate performance improvement after installing SP3. Usually, I am reluctant to move so quickly to a major upgrade. This time, it looked like Microsoft had few problems and so I took the plunge. The benefits are immediate with noticeable speed up of the environment across the board. It’s almost as if I had put in a new processor or extra RAM.

It’s been a while but I can say ” Thank YOU Microsoft”. This is the real thing.

PS. I have returned to  say. Wow.  The performance boost is just so apparent that I can hardly believe it. Just the thing to lift spirits after a tough day.

Have some fun.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

I have been working on 3 new Technical posts. One is a piece about remote systems management, another about outside joins in MSAccess and the last one about irritating uninvited advertising in your Blog and that  notice that you need to update to a new version of WordPress. Talk about heavy. Why not have some fun?

I thought I would start by saying, I like this.

But, do you notice how ….