I stumbled upon this guy's YouTube videos thanks to Phil Plait. Here he is taking on a few creationist claims, mainly from the damn evolution vs. creationism video that's been floating around for ages on many internet video websites, it's the one with the annoying host, with far too much money wasted on flashy graphics, yes that one, the one set in studio, made up to look like a court room.

Great stuff, he says completely bogus exactly like me. He's also done an episode on astrology (another favourite topic of mine) and the Moon hoax.

Is it me or does his bogosity machine look like a Game Boy?

Jeff Jones has thrown up a report (available in PDF on his web page) on Windows Vista's 6 months security record and compared it to some competitors.

Like the 90 day results I posted up a while back, Windows Vista is still leading the field at this milestone too.

Looks similar to the 90 day report, Windows Vista having just half the number of vulnerabilities as the supposedly "secure" Mac OS, somebody should really do them for false advertising.

It's nice to see Microsoft leading the field in support for 64-bit operating systems.

Windows Home Server Connector, which is the little application installed on the clients which handles backups and opens the Home Server Console, doesn't install on x64.

Officially the team says they don't have the resources to support x64 and so there will be no support at this time.

What I want to know is why Microsoft isn't putting the money into the team to support x64. I don't know about you, but I want the transition to 64-bit completed as fast as possible, that means all vendors pulling their weight writing compatible software. We're running out of RAM fast, there's games around now which chew up over 2GB quite happily, we need to migrate soon. Having Microsoft, who was among the first (with AMD) in the x86 space to start pushing 64-bit dragging their feet with Home Server is somewhat annoying.

You can force the install of the Connector software on x64 by using the following on an elevated command prompt:

msiexec /i \path\to\whsconnector.msi WHSMSI="RUNSETUP"

But backups simply won't function properly, and it is not officially supported. What I would like to see a few months down the road after release is x64 support.

I'd also like to see a stripped down Exchange plug-in for Home Server, with a web front end hooked in to the Home Server web page too.

The iPhone lacks the following commonly found features:

Songs as ringtones
Games
Any flash support
Instant Messaging
MMS support (picture and video messages)
Video recording
Voice recognition or voice dialing
Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Streaming (A2DP)
3G
A real keyboard
Removable battery
Expandable Storage

Talk about a version 0.1 product, way to release an engineering sample Apple. Why the hype? My dinosaur phone from the 17th century could do half of that stuff, for an 8th the cost.

It also lacks things found on Windows Mobile devices, like voice recognition, so things like asking the phone what track is currently playing and it speaking back to you (using something like Voice Command) is out of the question, being able to copy and paste text, being able to install 3rd party applications. Oh and the operating system uses a whopping 700MB of the hard drive.

All hype, no substance.