Here are a few more of the comments,reviews,and general suggestions that I have located concerning Vista and the chore of updating. Now keep in mind these are quotes of professionals and not my quotes folks. Here are some of the drawbacks.
Gratuitous UI changes. I love the user interface, but I have a lot invested in [...]
Not that I want to say I told you so about the resounding thud that the release of Vista was gonna have on the computer world, like I would do that to poor Billy but here are a few of the links that I found today and some of the opinions of those folks about [...]
SALEM, New Hampshire — In this town just a few minutes over the Massachusetts state line, shopping is a way of life. Massachusetts residents regularly make the crossing into New Hampshire to go on tax-free buying sprees.
Late Monday night, however, few residents of either state had come out for the launch of Microsoft’s much-ballyhooed operating [...]
Most server administrators know that the MySQL relational data base management system (RDBMS) is a highly flexible piece of software and comes with a wide range of startup options that can be used to modify its behavior. What most don’t know, however, is that the standard MySQL client comes with an equally large number of [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could access your Writer documents from any computer connected to the Internet and work with them as if they were on your local machine — especially if this could be done transparently with just a couple of mouse clicks? To be able to do this, you don’t have to [...]
Migrating user accounts is not an easy task especially if you are a new admin. You need to make sure that file ownership, and password and group membership remains the same. The article does a good job of explaining the steps required to migrate from old Linux/UNIX server to news fresh installation. It’s a short [...]
Elive is a live CD Linux distribution based on Debian that uses the Enlightenment window manager. Elive aims to provide an aesthetically pleasing environment with a full suite of desktop applications that runs efficiently on older systems. Its developers aren’t finished yet, but they’ve come a long way with Elive since the release of 0.3 [...]
Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled. You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more. Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to [...]
Some TomTom satellite navigation systems installed in cars might actually be steering drivers in the wrong direction — at least when it comes to navigating their PCs. That is because a “small number” of TomTom Go 910 satellite navigation devices were shipped last year with two Windows viruses preinstalled, the company has disclosed. The [...]
An Australian psychologist charged with indecently assaulting a patient told a court on Tuesday that forcing his female patient to wear a dog collar and call him master was within a psychologist’s ethical guidelines.
Almost makes you wonder who should be see a psychologist, Baldy
Source: Psychologist makes patient wear dog collar
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