Tag Archives: Vista

Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part II

By Kirk M | Published November 14, 2007

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...]

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Vista-Irate Mother and XP SP3-My personal concerns about XP’s fate.

By Kirk M | Published October 11, 2007

One of the things that has been percolating in the back of my mind of late is the question "What’s going to happen my poor XP PRO OS in 8 months when all support for this version of XP is dropped? I happen to be one of those old(er) computer techs who has no problem [...]

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Upgrading Old Reliable

By Kirk M | Published July 19, 2007

And “Old Reliable” is a 2003 HP Pavilion a645c desktop computer, mid-tower type, 200gb HDD, 512mb ram (not shared!), AMD 3400+, standard DVD drive plus a DVD Burner and a 9 in 1 media reader thrown in just for fun. The display is a 17″ HP flat panel display that came with the original system. [...]

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Where Have All The Young Folk Gone?

By Kirk M | Published April 28, 2007

Brain Drain in Vermont
In a recent article in Vermont’s local WCAX News website, much was made about a report that stated the fact that the majority of Vermont’s young people are leaving the state after college or a year or two after their graduation and half of those are leaving due to the the lack [...]

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Random Thoughts Part I

By Kirk M | Published February 8, 2007

Just a few things that have been meandering about my head of late:
Upgrade to Vista?
I think not actually. With all I’ve read on the subject since the first article Paul Thurrot ever wrote on the subject up to the most recent, not-so-shining articles from various tech sites to blog posts, I find myself asking the [...]

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Laptops from Microsoft

By Kirk M | Published January 2, 2007

Hey now…wait a minute….
(So it's old news…so what?)
I want one of those things too!
In Microsoft's latest attempt to reach out to bloggers, the company recently gave away expensive laptops loaded with its new Windows Vista operating system.
But the gifts generated controversy as well as goodwill, as many in that community accused Microsoft of bribery [...]

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Bits and Bytes

By Kirk M | Published October 12, 2006

Just some short observations after reading this weeks PC/software news.
On patch Tuesday: Record number of patches for XP. Over 2 dozen I believe split between the various parts of the Windows OS and MS office 2002 and XP and 1 for .net framework. The Windows bashers are having a heyday this week however…
Think about this: [...]

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Switching to Mac? (I don’t know about that)

By Kirk M | Published August 14, 2006

The more I read the (tech) news these days, the more I hear about the Microsoft’s latest doing’s and the less I like what I’m reading.
I have been an MS user from the PC’s “BW” era (Before Windows). I did have my choice at one time though. My Sound [...]

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