N.B.: Regular readers will know/remember that I'm an Ubuntu user. In the spirit of Linux install reports, I'm offering this post, trying to compare and contrast my experiences installing Ubuntu and Windows Vista Home BasicI am pleased to report that "Project Wintendo"--my Windows Vista Home Basic installation--was a success. A few impresions, ( Read more... )

I'm waiting for rsync to cook through another backup of my /home directory, then I'll power down and install Vista Home Basic.

Not gonna lie: I am filled with a great sense of foreboding.

I never thought I would be writing this.

I think I'm going to install Windows Vista on sputnik, my current box ( Read more... )

In a triumph of new-media synergy, Slate, the Microsoft-owned online magazine, has posted a glowing review of Windows Vista. Surprise, surprise! [In fairness to Slate, I actually like their culture and politics coverage--they tend to have decent writers ( Read more... )

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An anonymous informant who works in the IT industry submitted this e-mail, which he received from his IT Service Desk.:

From: Service Desk ( Read more... )

I feel so dirty. I booted into my Windows partition for the first time in maybe six months this weekend.

The reason? I got Civ 4, finally. I know that it can run fine in Linux under Cedega, but since my / and /home partitions are reiserfs instead of ext3, there are still some known issues. (very un-Ubuntu to run Reiser, I know...my next clean ( Read more... )

Note: I first posted a version of the following on the Ubuntu Forums

Ubuntu Bug No. 1 takes down another household.
It is with no great joy that I report the beginning of the end of my family’s experiment with non-Microsoft operating systems. The next computer that attaches to the family network will run Windows exclusively ( Read more... )

My office just migrated to WindowsXP. It's really fun watching a whole bunch of 12:00 users being confronted with new software.

Basic functionality has not changed; all that has changed, for most users, is the look...and yet people are utterly baffled. Considering the amount of confusion this is generating, I wonder if it might not be equally ( Read more... )

Here's one of my first posts about getting hit by the sobig worm back in the summer of 2003--in the middle of thesis-writing. Given that, it's not surprising that I was ready to go to Linux when I did.