So Lost re-premiered tonight with quite a bang. There was a guy on a table with an open back… who woke up during surgery and was conscious enough to still play the Others game of dirty pool. There was a gunfight/footrace through the jungle. There was brainwashing. There was a boat. There was love and loss. It had it all. Welcome back to Lost, the best show ever written for TV. I’m glad you’re back.
I’ve already been asked my opinion 3 times on Vista – once by a power user and twice by “typical home users” who are eying some low-cost computer out there with Vista running on 512mb of RAM.
No, that’s not a typo.
I’m going to start pointing people to this URL, where I heartily recommend they run screaming from Vista and get a Mac.
I will also note that since I will not be going Vista and I’m getting off the Windows bus, I will not be supporting friends and family who get Vista, then expect my help when it screws up. Sorry.
So the negative spin last night and this morning on Vista is Microsoft’s decision to enforce the notion of the “upgrade version.” You cannot install Windows Vista without Windows 2000 or XP already installed on the system. This bucks the previous process of installing Windows from scratch, but proving you own the prior version by inserting the disc for verification.
I’m going to go on record as saying I don’t like this – not one damn bit, but I saw it coming. Given the “smackdown” mentality Microsoft has gotten themselves into, this was just a natural evolution. They’re merely enforcing what the license terms say should happen. One item you might want to be aware of though – when reading the Vista EULA… once you install the Vista upgrade, the Vista rights/EULA completely supersedes all licensing agreements for the previous version. This means you essentially lose your rights to even install the prior version of Windows ever again.
If you thought your Exchange deployment ever made your life miserable, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. If you’re the Exchange admin of a small business deployment, you’re likely to strut around your office and just tell people to get over it.
If you’re an admin of a large enterprise, March is your Month of Suffering. Prepare to sob like a baby.
Congress enacted this little thing called Daylight Saving Time, right? Well, then they decided to make it happen three weeks sooner in the year 2007. They passed this law in 2005.
  don’t let kde scare you
   until aRTS gets involved
   once that package happens, it’s over
   seems like it has few dependencies
   good
   yeah, arts is scary
   arts isn’t just scary – it’s a deprecated pile of garbage
In other news, this is just what the doctor ordered to give Linux a swift kick in the arse.
So tomorrow starts Macworld. I for one am extremely excited. I wish I had a shot at going this year – perhaps next year I can head out there.
I think there will be wonderful things coming out of Cupertino. Can hardly wait 🙂
So, Aquatix pointed out (correctly) that the coffee-n-cream theme didn’t have a login button. File that one under WTF.
Part of the reason I keep changing these themes is because I keep finding little items missing. While I like Sapphire significantly, it takes out the blogroll. That sucks because I really want you to visit my friends and I find it pretty important to link to them. File that under Suck.
Had a further little email chat with Jennifer about Vista’s licensing. She pointed out this article on ZDNet, so I wanted to make sure I bring it to everyone’s attention.
It’s clear to both of us in our discussion, however… that these modifications just aren’t good enough. It doesn’t solve the “ick” factor of knowing that Microsoft is watching how you compute – every day, every night, every boot. To me, that makes it the ultimate deal killer. The general distrust is the nail in the coffin.
Here’s a good article on the Inquirer about why Microsoft Vista is not an option for at least 1 tech worker.
I’d imagine others are coming to the same realization. I already did several months ago.
