Posted by nathan on 13 May 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Stuff., my life.
This week, I’ve been working on bring back to life a couple of older office computer to turn into day care ‘play’ computers.
I had three old computers, purchased in 2001 (I actually have one computer identical to these still in use), before Windows XP was released, so they all came with Windows 98se installed on [...]
Posted by nathan on 21 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Stuff., polls
In keeping with last week’s question of the week (which Operating System is better-built), we continue this polling this week with:
Posted by nathan on 17 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Stuff., polls
Given what you know, which do you believe is the better-built Operating System, Windows Vista or Mac OSX (Leopard)?
Is there a particular reason you feel that way? (No bashing please, just honest opinions wanted).
Posted by nathan on 26 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
So far this week, I have had to restart my Windows computer (A higher-end 18-month old Dell machine) twice. Twice in two days. Twice in a 30-hour time span–and I haven’t even done anything intensive!
Every time (at least once a week) I have to restart due to performance issues, I make a wish:
I wish I [...]
Posted by nathan on 24 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: New Hope stuff., Tech Stuff., my life.
This afternoon I spent some time testing my MacBook Pro on the New Hope network. With the whole Vista thing (resource hog), I’ve been debating for months if I should:
1. Migrate to Vista
2. Stock up on XP and stick with XP until Vista SP3 comes out.
3. Switch to Ubuntu/Linux.
4. Slow (3-4 year) migration to Mac.
Option [...]