Well my Vista Ultimate joke of an operating system installed a necessary update this morning. I had no idea it was Haraikiri.exe as the machine promptly committed suicide!

Well that gave me the excuse I was looking for to install the Windows 7 Ultimate Release Candidate system I have had sitting around. The installer took two tries to work, but once the OS was installed my machine is a new animal! It is much faster and has not crashed since I finished the install.

I usually HATE Microsoft so the software I installed is

Open Office 3.1
Gimp2 (photoshop clone)
Dia (Visio clone)
putty and filezilla for Unix server access
Cygwin for X windows emulation
Trillian Astra chat client
and Firefox

As you can see all the above is FREE software.
It all works fine!

Oh and a real test was our time sheet software that WOULD NOT work under Vista no matter what. Well it runs just fine under W7

WOO HOO!

And I even have more disk space! I am now going to dual boot Solaris and VMware on this laptop.

Bill Gates got something right!

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Current
Monika '74 450 SL
BrownHilda '79 280SL
FoxyCleopatra '99 Chevy Suburban
Scarlett 2014 Jeep Cherokee
Krystal 2004 Volvo S60
Gone
'74 Jeep CJ5
'97 Jeep ZJ Laredo
Rudolf ‘86 300SDL
Bruno '81 300SD
Fritzi '84 BMW
'92 Subaru
'96 Impala SS
'71 Buick GS conv
'67 GTO conv
'63 Corvair conv
'57 Nomad