Out of Beta and More!

It has been several months since I have posted in this blog but it has been because I have been very busy. Those of you who have seen some of my work elsewhere then you know that I am a pretty busy guy but I have to give shout out to Google and Blogger for this consolidation. This combination will make it easier for me to blog more regularly.

As a follow up from my last blog...I have to say that I am pretty happy with Vista. I would not go out an buy it just to upgrade my PC (XP is just fine). I some cases I am still running 2000 and will not change but since I have MSDN/Technet and a new SUN Ultra 20 with a dual core Opteron (next gen) Processor, (Which I won at the Open Solaris Conference BTW) I have to say that it is pretty slick.

It is not perfect and seems like XP on steroids but I do like the new AERO engine. I have also installed it on one of my test laptops (AMD Athlon64 3200) and the performance is not that stellar but do-able.

I am not more convinced than ever that the Software companies are in cahoots with the Hardware companies to keep you buying more stuff. My machines today do no more than my old and favorite IBM Microchannel 386 Server (Geez I miss that machine!)

The same is with the web. Back in the days of DARPA the web was a wonderful thing but with all of the extra media and junk that graces our web pages, you have to buy more bandwidth!

On a more serious note, I would like to hear from any of you who would be interested in pulling together to form a techie/engineering group for the purpose of competing for some of the X Prizes!

Chow for now!

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