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25. April 2008 by Rob.
A new version of AVG free has come out. It now has built in Spyware:
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17. April 2008 by Rob.
After a year of running Vista on my Sony Dual core laptop, I am about to reinstall it and put Microsoft Windows XP back on the laptop. I have had more issues with crashes and software not doing what I wanted so I am removing Vista. What most people forget is Windows XP Pro is now a mature operating system that has been around a long time. The bugs are long out and the security is working real well.
Vista still has bugs even after SP1 and a lot of drivers seem unstable. Their does not seem to be an end to this coming soon.
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17. April 2008 by Rob.
Well over the last year I have been playing with Microsoft’s one note at work and at home. I have decided the product just does not work for me. I will be converting all my work files from one note to pdf files so I have them. I have already converted all my home files.
The product is really robust. It allows you to store email info, web pages, notes and many other objects all in the same area. The problem I have is that it just seems to take way too much time to setup and maintain this system for me. Unfortunately these days I do not have that much free time to maintain things.
I am switching to a pdf based filling system which is bound to make my life easier.
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12. April 2008 by Rob.
In the last week, Microsoft has come out and said they will make their takeover of Yahoo a hostile one if need be. Yahoo is a sitting duck - it is just a matter of time. The question is who and when not if.
The reality is the Yahoo board needs to get as much money for the takeover for it’s shareholders. Yahoo as a Internet portal is no longer an inovator and has long been surpassed by Google in that department.
Their has been talk of AOL or even Google taking over Yahoo. The Google rumour I do not seem happening because I can see Anti-trust issues all over again. The AOL rumour just hope does not not happen because AOL has a habbit of running things(see Netscape/ICQ etc).
This all said Microsoft is the only likely winner in this battle.
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4. April 2008 by Rob.
As many of you know I decided to back out Windows Vista on my home desktop. As a result, I have not be en posting much this week since I have not had much spare time. The good news is my home pc is running great.
I ran into more vista issues this week. I have a Sony Viao laptop that I use for work. On it I had Windows Vista Service Pack 1 running as well as my works remote client for VPN (Aventail). Well it turns out that our version of Aventail is not compatible with Vista Service Pack 1. It is only compatible with native Vista.
I had to run system restore and take my laptop back before Vista Service Pack 1 then reinstall SP1. I have decided to run Vista on a XP Virtual machine.
Total time to fix this mess - 2hours of troubleshooting plus 3.5 hours to undo changes and reisntall.
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