I’m still running Windows Vista RC2 at home - and I decided to upgrade to the final version of Vista.

So, I go copy all the files I’ll need to keep onto another drive - no problems.

Now, Where do I find my MCE Schedule so I can back that up? It’s fairly large - about 22 different recurring schedules. I’m sure others have larger lists. 

Well, after a whole bunch of searching online - noone seems to have written about it - so I did some digging. Turns out, it’s all stored in %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\All Users\Microsoft\eHome\Logs- under Vista. I presume for XP it’d be under Documents & Settings in a similar space.

I’m going to copy out \Recording\Recordings.xml and see how it goes.

Wired has an article this month from Lawrence Lessig on “Net Neutrality” - I Blew It on Microsoft.  (via Slashdot)

It’s an interesting article, and Lessig goes into a lot of detail.  Good read.

Thankfully, someone (ActiveWin) has finally gone out and done a review of USB Drives that are capable of being used by ReadyBoost.  (via Neowin)

The performance specs they quote may not seem like much (wow, a 8 second saving in booting Vista - wow!) - it’s actual app performance that makes a huge difference.

I used a 1GB Sandisk Extreme III Compact Flash card as a ReadyBoost cache last year, and it actually makes things much faster. Of course, I’m using a fairly decent system (Core 2 Duo 6600, with 2GB DDR2 in Dual Channel) - but application start performance, and general responsiveness were improved significantly.

Looks like I’m not the only one who sees the iPhone as a pretty bad idea all-round (but damn, it’s generated a lot of commentary!).  Paul talks about the iPhone’s impact on the clueless fashion-nuts in Australia, as well as the Trademark issue.

Cory Doctrow points out a rather scathing article in the New York Times, and Cory makes some good points too.

Interestingly, despite Apple’s “I’m a Mac - I’m a PC” ads, they didn’t exactly get the most err… “Dynamic” person they could, to give Cingular’s side of the story at the Keynote. Well, I guess it’s not Apple’s fault - but I’m sure the Apple PR guys could have called up the Cingular PR guys and said “hey, get someone who doesn’t wear a grey suit to come up and give the presentation”, or atleast “Get your CEO to read from an autoprompter.”

Stan Sigman (Cingular CEO) sounds so like the stereotypical boring middle-management person. Heck, you can even play Buzz Word Bingo - try this on for size, in the first two minutes of being on stage: ”Contractual Agreement”, “deliver on the vision”, “exceeded my expectations”, “Partnering”.   He’s also got a very thick south-american accent. Nuu, Getin’, Bringin’, etc.  The guy really has very little presentation skills. I could do a better job, ffs.  If you want to torture yourself, go watch it here.

Now, enough about Apple.  I need to go shower.

Tomorrow: How Oracle really pisses me off.

Edit 8:30am: One last thing (honestly) - Gizmodo UK is reporting that the iPhone is set to cost between €899 and €999 Euros in Europe according to Amazon Germany - however it will have 3G support - When it launches next year .  (Via Neowin)
Anyone else thinking that AUD$1,600 or so is a tad too much to be paying for a phone with a fancy interface?