Over at ZD-Net, writer Christopher Dawson, wrote an article in which he trashed XP in favor of Windows Vista. OK Not a trashing, but an observation as to why we should not downgrade to XP. After all, XP is old. It’s going on 7 years old. If you buy a new PC and keep it […]
I was surprised when I received an email asking the question about whether to do an upgrade or clean install of Vista over XP. The answer is simple. The next time you get the oil changed in your car tell the mechanic to only drain out 3 quarts and leave 2 dirty quarts in the […]
Windows Vista has changed many of the standard ways of doing things from 2000 or XP, i,e, the changes in Control Panel, and some folks who are new to Vista are stumbling around. So when you get a question from a friend, family member or client, how do you handle the problem? In days of […]
For those of you who have installed SP1 for Microsoft Windows Vista, you may have noticed a large quantity of unwanted files left behind after the installation completes. These files are left behind in case a user wishes to uninstall SP1. But if you are satisfied with SP1 and plan on not uninstalling it, you […]
Linus Torvald who is the founder of the Linux kernel, took on the security folks calling the bug pluggers a bunch of ‘masturbating monkeys’. In a statement Torvalds also states that security has become a circus in which the security folks claim accolades when they discover a hole in software.
He also states that:
“one reason I […]
My wife and I recently meet with a group of folks to organize a social gathering and during the conversation I get hit with the Windows question concerning XP. But during the conversation this person makes a statement that they would not use Vista since all they have heard about the new operating system has […]
Over at the Black Hat convention being held in Las Vegas two researches have hacked though the security features that Microsoft had put in place for Windows Vista. It is unfortunate that the Redmond giant is going to be embarrassed once again, but heh people, what did we really expect? Did anyone with half a […]
At a press conference yesterday at LinuxWorld, IBM announced that it has partnered with Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical to offer “Microsoft-free” personal computers. IBM’s main goal is to offer Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony software as an alternative to Microsoft office. So why is IBM making this move now?
Well it seems that Big Blue […]
Here is a controversial article in which the writer poses his opinion and those of others, to debunk some of the more popular performance myths that surround the Windows operating system. The article is well written and a definite read for anyone who is considering putting down their hard earned bucks for what he calls […]
On Sunday I was reading our local newspaper, which includes a computer column, when I read this. Seems that a reader was complaining about Vista [they even used the word ‘hate’] to describe their frustration and asked about doing a downgrade to XP. Seemed like a fairly straight forward question. But the answer kind of […]
