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 the old Windows experience, and some of the changes just make no sense to me. It also seems that, given the size of some of the targets you have to home in on with your cursor, Microsoft is hiring a lot of young workers who have great eyesight and use high-resolution monitors.

Performance. All this goodness comes at a price. While most features are enabled to some degree on stock PCs, older machines just won’t be up to snuff. If you want to run the latest and greatest with all UI features enabled, you’re going to need an upgrade. Older laptops in particular are unlikely to be able to run Vista well with all the UI stuff turned on.

Compatibility. This is not a new problem, but Vista will confront business users for the first time in a long while with major backward-compatibility issues. In general, drivers and low-level utilities will be the worst hit, but all critical applications will need to be tested carefully to see what works and what doesn’t.

The bad: Windows Vista Home Basic does not put Search on the desktop (it’s buried within applications, within the Start Menu); no Aero graphics system in Home Basic; no new software yet written exclusively for Windows Vista; optimized only for the Microsoft Windows ecosystem (for example, RSS feeds from IE7 get preferential treatment); and little reason to leave Windows XP.

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 the release of it. As you can see from the early post it was a real yawner over all, and while I hate to say I told you so, neener, neener. But the following are just a couple of them for you to check out and see for yourself.

Raining on Microsoft’s parade

Experts: Don’t buy Vista for the security

Vista steals the show

Okay the last one is about the Bill Gates appearance on the Daily Show and if you missed that one it was really funny with Bill trying to sell the world vista and Jon trying to steal the show. But the article does have a good point of view on the show.

And without rubbing it in there are hundreds more that I could have posted also but then I am on the type to say “I told you so”. So have a nice day and a better tomorrow.

 

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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 system, Windows Vista. At CompUSA, slightly more than a dozen people wandered the aisles waiting for the stroke of midnight, when the software giant’s latest system would go on sale.

For Len Marchant, a technology consultant from Windham, New Hampshire, coming out Monday night is all about being part of the event. He remembers the crazy launch of Windows 95, when people lined up to get Microsoft’s next operating system. He attended the launch of Windows XP, but far fewer people showed up. Six years later, he decided to come out again.

“I don’t really have a reason,” Marchant said. “It’s just something to do.”

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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 startup options, some of which are extremely useful in daily MySQL interaction. While these options are not “secret” per se, they remain largely unused, even though they can significantly ease the process of server interaction.

Source: 10 secret MySQL client startup options you should know

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 install a full-blown document management solution or use a third-party file storage service. All you need is an FTP server and an OOo Basic macro.

Source: OOo Basic crash course: Working with documents on an FTP server

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 and sweet tutorial and worth a read, especially for new admins to handle rescuing a dying server job. You can migrate users from old Linux server to new Linux sever with standard commands such as tar, awk, scp and others. This is also useful if you are using old Linux distribution such as Redhat 9 or Debian 2.x.

Source: Howto: Migrate user accounts and data from old Linux distribution to fresh installation

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 more than a year ago. This CD shows how beautiful distributions can become without being bloated.

Source: E is for elegant with Elive live CD

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 a Groklaw article. MyVarLinux.org readers posted the article,A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.

Source: Microsoft tries to patent a crippled baseline OS

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 infected systems were all manufactured during a one-week period around October 2006, TomTom says in a statement posted on its Web site. The affected systems are running version number 6.51 of the TomTom software.

Source: TomTom Steers Some Users Straight to Virus

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