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Kill Bill? It will open new vistas.
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| Then I get this rude little message, which says this software is licensed to
| another user. What do you mean, you crappy little infantile pop-up. What are
| you talking about? It's me, for Gods sake! I'm that person!
|
| My mistake dawns with a horrible, gut-wrenching thunk. Windows doesn't
| recognise me, the impudent little pin-headed ignoramus. I needed to back-up
| my user details, but stupidly, all I did was back up My Documents.
|
| I can hear Bill in my brain now, like my old maths teacher, saying in a
| slightly superior, slightly all-knowing tone: " Didn't you read the simple
| directions, did you. You should have backed up your whole drive, shouldn't
| you? But you didn't, did you? You took the simple, easy route. You just used
| explorer to back up your documents. Well, now you pay the price, as you
| should because you are a lesser mortal with low intelligence."
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http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page662?oid=218533&sn=Blog%20detail
There are fewer article about Vista these days. Nobody cares about it.
Recent:
Vista: DOA in the Enterprise
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| The really bad news for Microsoft: the number of business PCs running Windows
| XP increased from 2007 to 2008—three times the increase in the percentage of
| PCs running Vista.
|
| Perhaps worse: The majority of businesses waiting for Vista—meaning those
| running older Windows versions—migrated to XP instead. Microsoft had counted
| on Windows 2000 and older versions to go to Vista. The newest Windows saw
| some conversion, but XP got much more.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/vista_doa_in_the_enterprise.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/5by7m4
Tasting Better With Linux
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| Enter Ubuntu. Using the 32-bit LiveCD, it immediately picked up the external
| adapter, and was able to connect to the hotel’s WiFi. I flattened Mepis and
| installed Ubuntu. I will give myself some time using the new system first,
| but I will probably flatten Vista and rid myself of that headache.
|
| [...]
|
| As a traveler who spends up to two-thirds of my time using hotel networks,
| Vista’s continuing wireless weaknesses make it entirely too unreliable for my
| uses. I cannot recommend Vista to anyone who connects to multiple networks.
| It is just not good enough.
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http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/tasting-better-with-linux/
Related:
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
|
| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
|
| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
Is Linux Getting the Shaft?
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| So I went and looked. Here is the description of the database used by the
| Market Share service that everyone seems to rely on:
|
|
| We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive
| on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from
| approximately 160 million visitors per month. The information published
| is an aggregate of the data from this network of hosted website
| statistics. The site unique visitor and referral information is
| summarized on a monthly basis.
|
| WTF?
|
| Is this supposed to be some kind of unbiased sample? But wait, there's
| more...
|
| [...]
|
| The complexity of this problem is actually rather large. But I can tell you
| one thing: If you were my graduate student and you came to me with this
| sampling strategy, I'd send you back to kindergarten. (If I had that power.)
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http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/07/is_linux_getting_the_shaft.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
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