Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: The Business of Walking Away discusses the current mortgage crisis and what's going to happen as individual families, and the banks involved, start walking away from the properties that cannot sell.
It's scary what happens when megacorps walk into bad investments with their eyes open, and consumers follow along.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Some Vista Advice
We've been working with Vista at work since mid-summer, since Dell really hates selling XP to businesses now. I have a couple of tips for those who are going to be trapped into an upgrade to Vista and Office 2007:
I'll chime in wtih more as we find it.
- Don't order the PC with anything less than 2GB of RAM. If they insist, refuse the upgrade and stay on whatever POS machine you're on now. Vista at less than 2GB is slower than anything I've ever seen. Grass growing is lightning quick in comparison.
- Make sure you turn OFF encryption between Outlook 2007 and the server. It's ungodly slow if you're on an office network. If you're on the road, I might reconsider this suggestion. I went from about 2 minutes to about 20 seconds for Outlook to start with this one change.
- We found a network setting to turn off dynamic speed negotiations with the network. Changing this setting helped the speed of network copies, and fixed some issues with TAPI drivers on Vista. To change the setting, right Click Command Prompt --> Choose Run As Administrator and then type the following:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
I'll chime in wtih more as we find it.
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