At the office, your IT guys probably back up your computer for you or force you to store critical files on a file server that they back up. I’ll write later about how the Institute does backup at a corporate level. The concern of this posting is backing up personal computers.
What are you [...]
It’s been a fun weekend.
I upgraded my Sony Vaio laptop to Windows Vista and my Dell home desktop to Fedora 8. Both upgrades were actually clean installs. Surprisingly (to me, at least), both went smoothly.
The key to the Vaio upgrade was reading the documentation Sony provided. They strongly recommend the “install as a [...]
And we’re back to XP. This morning was the last straw. Command line FTP was broken. I could open an ftp site, but typing “ls” caused it to think the remote host had disconnected. I disabled the Windows firewall, but that didn’t help. As usual, There were others on the ‘net [...]
As mentioned earlier, I upgraded XP to Vista. As I was cleaning up, I noticed that Windows Defender was on the list of installed programs. Reading that Defender is part of Vista, I uninstalled it. Now Vista has its shorts all in a bunch because it’s downloading updates for Defender but it’s not there. [...]
I upgraded my office desktop to Vista Business yesterday.
So far, I’ve found that the following programs had to be removed as they’re incompatible with Vista:
Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 10
Norton Ghost 9.0
Zone Alarm Pro
HP PSC printer utilities
Scansoft PDF Create Pro
The Aero interface is pretty, but I quickly turned off the slide out, fade in, fade [...]
