Hundreds of online diary authors keep weblogs. And thousands of people use weblog sites and software to keep journals. So what’s the difference? Plenty.
That is to say, journals and weblogs come from very different places, even though today they have collided — or should I be trendy and say “converged”? — and are indistinguishable to the untrained eye.
Not thrilled about spending a bundle on Vista–and dealing with potential bugs and hardware upgrades? Stick with XP, and use these tools to emulate the Vista experience.
The Hassle: I’m trying to resist moving to Vista. How can I make XP perform like the new Windows OS?
The Fix(es): You can be a holdout (like me) and use a few XP-based freebies that do a surprisingly good job of emulating some of Vista’s fancy graphical features. The first three apps listed below are my favorites. You can find all of the free tools and more online at “Add Vista Features to XP.”
If you could tell Dell which flavor of Linux you’d be most likely to buy pre-installed on one of its machines, what would you say?The PC manufacturer recently polled its user base (both current and potential) to find out which factory-installed software options it found most desirable. Not surprisingly, pre-installed Linux came out on top, followed by pre-installed OpenOffice and pre-installed Firefox.
Not thrilled about spending a bundle on Vista–and dealing with potential bugs and hardware upgrades? Stick with XP, and use these tools to emulate the Vista experience.
The Hassle: I’m trying to resist moving to Vista. How can I make XP perform like the new Windows OS?
Windows Vista’s been out for a few days, and people all over the Internet are alternately singing its praises and berating all who even dream of installing it; you could probably spend a sleepless month reading the content that’s been coughed up by major publishers, not to mention that of armies of bloggers and message board posters.
In a recent article, we kicked around the idea of dropping a Vista upgrade over an existing Windows XP installation. Windows Vista’s Setup program—the multitude of code that installs the operating system—doesn’t copy files and wriggle the new operating system atop the old one, resulting in a mishmash of both, as was more or less the case with prior Microsoft OSes. Vista’s compartmentalized installation routine actually copies an image of Vista onto the hard drive and then plows through things like hardware detection and configuration.
