October 20, 2009
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What a difference a day makes!
By this time yesterday, I must've received at last 7 support calls and the BSOD on my PC. Today, I just now got my first call (and one walk-by). PC is working smoothly, no BSOD.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed things'll stay this way for the day . . . eh, for the week! Granted, it's another short week for me, my weekend will start tomorrow at 4pm! WooHoo!
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Yay for short week!!
You coming my way woman?
@seedsower - I'd love to, but the more we thought and talked about it, the more we agreed to stay home for now.
BSOD? My goodness, but it's been years since I've seen one of them. I take it your office is still running XP?
@MojadoGringo - yup, still on XP . . . . and Office 2003 even. We'll be making the move to Off'07 later this calendar year; no telling when we'll make the move to W7.
Well, the good news is that Windows7 appears to be everything that Vista wasn't. We have several users who have been in the beta program for almost a year and they love it.
The bad news is that you had better be prepared to upgrade all systems to 4Gbs of ram. It will load, but will quickly bog down with 2Gbs or less.
I'm still amazed that any non-profit organization would use commercial software in this day and age. Linux using the KDE or Gnome GUI is much faster, requires less memory and is easier to install and support. There are so many Free and Open Source Software packages out there, that there is no reason to spend millions each year on Micro$oft or Mac.
What can I say. I'm allergic to spending money.
@MojadoGringo - don't look at the larger non-prof as just non-prof . . . . they do business like a Fort500 company would, to many degrees; that's why Windows.
4Gb, huh? crap! I have Vista Home on this laptop w/2Gb and at times it crawls, am considering upgrading to W7, but don't want to upgrade . . . really, I bought this thing for $349, and it was cheap cuz it has only 2Gb and battery lasts about 5 minutes. It was all about being cheap w/this thing. Crap, crap, crap!
On October 29th, Kununtu will release the lastest 9.10 CD. That will have long-term support out until October of 2011. I'm going to update to it and will let you know how it goes. If it is stable and reliable as my current 8.04 release, it will be awesome.
BTW - I'm using Open Office, Firefox, GIMP (replacement for Photoshop), Audacity (audio post-production) and several dozen other Open Source programs for everything from games to non-linear video editing.
It will run just fine on your 2Gb laptop and you will still be able to read/write you .DOC, .XLS, .PPT and other Microsoft Office documents.
Just something to think about when you're tired of Vista.
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