Thursday, April 23, 2009

Promote It!

Search engines are smart… but why did it take me forever to figure out how to import a self signed cert in Internet Explorer? It’s a hard problem. I must have tried a million different permutations of that link in order to find the result, and it was right there, exactly what I wanted when I changed “install” to “import”. Shame.

Actually, the people I blame is MS… it may be an edge case, but either you disable the feature altogether or, better, improve the help. I worked on the IE team and I know how much they’ve gone out of their way to make things dead simple, but there’s still way too much exposed to the user that will never make any sense to them, and WORSE, that they can do nothing about. “Mixed Content” error, I’m pointing the stink eye at you…

posted by Iron Yuppie 4/23/2009 01:05:00 PM   0 Comments

Friday, April 03, 2009

Windows 7 Faster Than Android?

I know it's a bit of a ridiculous statement, there are about a billion variables and at the end of the day, you still come down to comparing a sky scraper to a blue whale, but I had an impromptu experiment today which was pretty cool.

At the exact same moment, for whatever reason, both Windows and my new G1 phone alerted me that at a system level they had updates to install. Both required rebooting during installation. And I started both at the exact same time (and then got up to have a cup of coffee). I got back and watched the progress - and to my amazement, Windows was back up first.

I don't think this is a measure of anything in particular, except it does come as some surprise - I could have run this test in the past with a patch the size of a thimble on Windows against a slug in the hundred yard dash and Windows would still lose. Bravo guys!

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posted by Iron Yuppie 4/03/2009 10:05:00 AM   0 Comments