Yesterday I wrote about some trouble a friend of me had registering a new domain and even I’ve tried to help we ended up in giving up yesterday.

Today now I had again a closer look and it was really interesting for me figuring out about the necessary info within all those French stuff on the registrars’ pages. Sadly me not speaking one word in French language, but with enough will and time there is a way through everything.

Now finally it even looks like I have to excuse the registrar as for it wasn’t their service causing us trouble. After nearly an hour looking in it, I found out about some tiny little differences between both nameservers of the hosting business and as the last and final main issue, a wrong set domain responsible email addy within the SOA information of the DNS.

It’s for sure some mystery how it comes that values you do not even have to specify and normally should get filled and pointing to your hosting provider can be wrong. Especially when the get set and some automatism. But with luck I was able to fix it within the reseller package of the hosting business myself and just a few minutes later the registrars’ pages accepted the change.

Things can turn out soooooooooooooo simple, when you finally have figure them out.

Lately I made effort to improve my mobile internet connection possibilities. Reading about some offered worldwide hotspot flatrate at 10 Euro/month I couldn’t resist anymore. Especially after I recognised that for example at Boston airport even internet friendly Americans insists in you having some additional carrier contract for sure.

Now travelling the last two day in trains I was for sure keen to test my new connection possibilities while travelling, but even I directly discovered an access point within the ICE my brand new login credentials got refused.

Ok then I thought and tried the good old UMTS card instead. But also no luck!
So we build spaceships, highspeed trains and stuff … and really are not able to provide some stable and working internet access while driving? Strange, isn’t it?

During the evening then my flatrate did work for the first time and later on in the hotel internet was for free anyway.
Today now back in a slower IC even the UMTS card works fine again. And it seems to be all about speed at the end.

So technique itself seems to work. It just depends on where you are and for sure on the several different contract it needs to have. At the end it seems to be all about money for sure.

Since a while my mind is spinning with some new business idea. The initial topic came up when talking with some friend. And immediately feeling convinced about, I really would have loved going on with my friend and working together on it.

But even I asked more than once, it looks like there is no real interest in a cooperation. And in case there is really one thing I’ve finally learned - in such situation there is no way forcing it. It has to fit and just to fit!

Though since hearing about, I wasn’t able to stop thinking about this plan anymore. My mind processed it again and again ….. until today when by coincidence it came up again during a conversation with the retiring "Tuning" philosopher I’ve already mentioned here recently.

A guy having lots of free time soon and nearly instantly agreed in helping me with setting it up and contributing to it.
Five minutes talking about the principal idea and we already started to make our own plan about how to go on with it.

Sure, the basic idea is still the same, but as for the background behind will be a totally new and different I’m not really feeling sad about borrowing a great idea of a friend. Now making it to my own.

The domain for the new project is already registered …. But for now the info about for sure will remain unveiled!

Now it got finally unveiled! The name of the new announce Vista successor is….. tatataaaaahhh Windows 7 - How impressive!!

I really do not like to know how many marketing guys, consultants and even high paid Microsoft folks were sitting about this decisions calling the new Operating System of Microsoft just and plainly Windows 7.

Back to the roots? Giving up all those tries to sell something mainly unsellable by giving it some fancy new name?

Hey!! My system is now running on sexy new Microsoft Vista SP1! And I really like it! It has this rather sexy and neat option scrolling through open windows and another million new features I can’t remember to find and I might never explore again, as for I’m only using it for searching the net, answering my emails, some chatting and really rarely burning some music CDs (for sure a backup copy of my prior bought original soundtrack) for the car…….

How many "Operation System" do we really need? Another 98 new features no one will ever use in daily business?

At a time companies are refusing to upgrade and the actual OS is just able to get sold bundled with some new hardware the question might be allowed. Do we need it? Do we need to upgrade? Why should we upgrade?

Just to figure out the OS does now need more resources and our System (bought last year) does urgently need a memory upgrade to be able to deal again with all those new animations and gimmicks clever Microsoft Developers have invented for us?

Ok, I’m just naming Microsoft here, which is unfair for sure as for other companies do the same …. It’s their job to write and invent new things and exactly the stuff they are making their money with. But thinking about that all, I really ask myself how to think about their actual approach calling their new Windows version just and simply Windows 7.

Perhaps being just honest and naming it purely by what it is? Just another new upgrade of this worldwide, well know and stable settled Microsoft OS for Personal Computer based on X86 architecture?

Will this give more trust to the customer? Will this now making them more wishing to upgrade to it?

Sooner or later we will see …. And I can’t prevent offering that I’m very interested in getting some feedback soon, on how the market will react on that.

Now used to SuperDuper on OSX, I’m was looking for something similar easy to use on PC since a while.

Not that I really would have expected to find something similiar, I was immediately impressed about a little backup tool I’ve found today by coincidence. A proggy called Personal Backup and offered for free is really one of the most neat backup utilities for PC I’ve seen in a while.

Offering an impressive range of options like backing up whatever you like with a well working exception list, even network folders or FTP Server can be used as backup destination. A fine working scheduling mechanism as also an easy to use Backup Assistant is build in and even Compression is there and works like a charm.   Does it need more?

Hm … indeed, I’m missing the startdisk cloning SuperDuper can do more … But Hey! It is Windows we are talking about. And keeping in mind this proggy here is offered as freeware, complaining about seems a bit strange! Especially when commercial tools offered on the market do not work half as easy and intuitive like it.