Unsought Input

This video has been unleashed on the general public recently. It was a internal promotional video for Microsoft’s sales staff to pump them up for selling Windows Vista. It features “Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band” singing about how rockin’ the new service pack update 1 is. They don’t mention all of the bugs that Vista had when it shipped and how vastly inferior it is to Windows XP in every regard, but hey they have a bad parody rock band. I enjoy the fact that they are spoofing a video from almost 20 years ago. Maybe the reason Windows Vista isn’t selling is because Microsoft is completely out of touch secluded in its fortress of doom in the Pacific North West. Seriously what ever PR firm made this turd should be banned from making any type of promotional material in any media ever.

A lot of people who bought the new windows Vista have been having trouble installing it on their computers. Here’s Anthony from the Opie and Anthony radio program showing you how to properly install it.

Is your blog starting to bog down? Getting nasty emails from your ISP about overloading the database server? Since most blogs are read far more often than they are updated, caching your pages can result in a real performance improvement.

Wordpress has some very basic object caching, but you really need to be able to cache whole pages to see a big benefit. Luckily there is a very good page-caching plugin, WP-Cache.

If you are on a Linux or Unix host, installation is pretty straightforward.

Now, what if you are on a Windows/ IIS host and using ‘date and name based’, almost-pretty permalinks? No sweat. Okay, a little bit of sweat.

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