Actually it pretty much confirms the theory that Sears Holdings is a real estate holding company masquerading as a retail store.

VIA chipsets working correctly are the exception it seems. Too many nightmares of 4-in-1 drivers, and OS lockups.

Ironically I have an i740 AGP card in a Super Socket 7 Motherboard with the Ali Aladdin V chipset. It works fine, never had a problem. The i740 landed up in quite a few SS7 builds since it was a low priced card.

What really gave Excel a boost was the fact that it was a "user friendly" GUI application that ran under multitasking Windows and OS/2. DOS versions of Lotus 1-2-3 wouldn't even run under Windows due to its non-standard DOS extender (it ran under natively OS/2 since it was a "family application").

I thought SAP was the ultimate Turing Tarpit.... does it do groupware yet?

Thales?

I'd say the vast majority of Notes installs are just for workgroup e-mail and calender/scheduling. Most of the installs pre-date Exchange as a mature product.

I remember configuring the Notes client for a family member. The procedure given by her office was two pages long! The program screams Windows 3.1x era underpinnings (.INI files everywhere) and UI design still. As much as Outlook is bloated these days, the most one usually has to do is point it to an Exchange server and give it log-in credentials to get it up and running.

AIM 7.5 can link your Facebook and Google accounts and show them on the buddy list. Hopefully Google doesn't break the link, it actually works quite well if you like the AIM style interface.

Just as long as the GTalk support in AIM still works. Its better than Google's crappy GTalk windows client, doesn't run in a web browser, and yes I still have family using ye olde AIM.

Actually it does not. I have a YouTube account, but no Google+.

Google has shown that it doesn't have programmers that know a damn thing about human-computer interaction time and time again (see YouTube). NIH also is alive and well at that place too. I thought Apple was bad! People tend to forget that the original Google+ rollout was a mess that looked like some random manager said "hey, looks good enough, get it live ASAP to make the CEO happy." Remember, just because you have a Ph. D. (or any random assortment of important looking letters after your name) doesn't mean you are qualified.

This would explain why my chat list is missing a few regulars. I knew something was up when my phone was bugging me about updating to Hangouts this morning (never EVER set your phone to autoupdate anything!) Whats funny is none of those people show up as blocked in the GMail Talk client like that forum post says, I'm likely blocked on their side and the distribution of people seems random. Funny that back in the day if AOL (remember them?) tried this crap with AIM, people would be howling. Google does this crap on a regular basis and people go "meh". Some of us just want a simple chat client with a list of contacts that works. I wonder how this will effect people who don't use Google clients or contact Google Talk clients via AIM or other IM services via their "gateway".

They used to have their own system. Sister sites CNN and Money used to too, but they switched to Facebook and later to Disqus (no reason was given why they dumped Facebook).. Someone must have seen some "savings" in outsourcing vs. keeping it in-house.

You may be able to activate it on Verizon by dialing *228 and selecting "activate phone" from the voice prompts which should program the phone over the air with an existing account. Some people had success activating non-VZW phones that way in the past. Prior to mid 2005, you used to be able to convince CSRs to activate non-VZW phones (thats how I got an unbranded/uncrippled Nokia 6255i on their network), but that loophole was closed.