Wayne's Old Computer Gets Vista
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| Opinion: Will a 2-year-old, but high-end, workstation run Microsoft's new
| operating system?
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| [...]
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| Jan. 31, 9 a.m.: I tried to investigate video cards again, and this time
| the NVidia site worked, so I downloaded the list of cards that would work.
| Then I called HP to find out which one I should use in my xw8000.
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| [...]
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| (Feb. 8) 9 a.m.: IE7 still is speaking in Chinese. I check the language
| settings. English is the only one selected.
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| [...]
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| Later that Day: Promises of help arrive from Microsoft and from
| Symantec. Actual help, however, does not. At least NAV will
| run for 72 more days, and it tells me I'm virus-free. Time to
| set my Chinese speaking, virus-free, workstation aside and let
| the news editor know that I'm alive and will be writing today.
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| Will the Vista problems be solved? Probably not before next
| week.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2092974,00.asp
Linux should only take minutes to install. It usually comes with all the
necessary software and rarely requires hardware upgrades.
A simple 'upgrade' of Windows sounds like a long journey judging by this
story from a guy who pretty much knows what he's doing. This makes you
woonder if Windows is an O/S for people who like to tinker and handle
complexity.
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