December 14, 2006

Windows Vista

Updated – I tried the Vista Easy Transfer tool (migwiz) and it works great. Transferred all of my music and email settings over without having to fool with importing and exporting from five or six different damn programs. Very cool. I still have to reinstall a few programs, but it seems to have kept the settings for the few I have messed with so far.

Originally Posted at 3:18pm on 12/14/2006

I managed to get Vista back up and running on here, but on a separate partition so that I could dual boot. I will end up slowly moving all of my apps over to it, but will probably cut out all of the extras from XP (what I am running now) and continue to use it for gaming. Most of the games that I play seem to have issues under Vista, at least right now.

It’s still the last RC release, I think it time bombs next summer at some point. By then I will either have upgraded or bought a new PC (I can wish anyway) that will be faster than what I have now. I am having some problems with the hardware that I am using for my HTPC so really need to put mine back over there, which is where it was in the first place. I had to completely do away with my home automation software and am basically just using it to watch TV and DVDs and listen to music.

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There goes my Internet Connection

Apparently starting today we are supposed to have very strong geomagnetic storming (solar flares). Sometimes it will knock out Satellites, Cable, even power grids. Since my network connection is still up, I suppose I am OK right now, but with the crappy level of service that I get from Charter, I expect an outage anytime now. Then they can blame it on Solar Flares. That was always a good excuse when I was in tech support and couldn’t think of any other reason why.

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Diaz took 34 minutes too die…

…when he was executed yesterday in Florida for a 1979 murder. His family members and anti-death penalty folks are up in arms about the cruelty and how he was executed “twice” because it took two shots.

A spokesman for the group Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty called it a botched execution and said that “They had to execute him twice. If Floridians could witness the pain and the agony of the executed man’s family, they would end the death penalty.”

I don’t know about all that, but if everyone had the chance to witness an execution, they would probably start supporting more use of birth control.


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Hopefully this Gentleman Will Die in Prison…

…even if it does mean more terrorist attacks.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/14/rahman.health/index.html


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