Al Hoang

Peppermint Patty never looked so good…

As of Dec 15, 2007 22:58 JST the blog link
http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36/archive/2007/12/13/microsoft-com-what-s-the-story.aspx is so completely hosed (Thanks Slashdot) that I have to use a Google cached version to read about it.

Although in general, it’s merely a listing of stats without too much details although it’s more details than I’ve ever heard.

I do give kudos to M$ for eating their own dogfood and trying to make sure they have an understanding of how to make their products withstand the onslaught of the web. I’m quite sure their web site has traffic issues that many Web 2.0 companies could only dream about.

Quite amusing

So I’ve been slowly re-initiating myself into the Church of Mac with a new Macbook however not all is well in Mac-land…

It seems the Macbook can have an unresponsive keyboard if you sleep it and wake it up (Also here).

Needless to say I find this bug extremely irritating and it really hurts the one of the primary raisons d’etre for owning a Mac (ultra-slick Sleep functionality that still is pretty rotten in Linux and Windows imo)

p.s. One workaround is to jam a key for 10 seconds or more when the unresponsiveness is happening. Just make sure you don’t jam something that can alter data badly like the… delete button?

References

• Original Blog Post I Googled for
• Apple Discussion Thread 1
• Apple Discussion Thread 2