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What I Have Been Reading Lately

authoradmin | October 15, 2008

As I usually do, I have been hoarding away RSS feed links and other stories I come across as I browse the web.  Many of these I find interesting or want to explore more in depth later when more time is available – which actually seems very rare.

Anyway, what I tend to do with all these little tidbits is draft up a blog post and thrown the links here and leave it up to you to click on what might also interest you and go from there.

So with that being said – here is a list of things from my current collection:

And that is my inbox caught up with.  The latest stuff is down here on the bottom.  Enjoy!


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Making the move to Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit Edition

authoradmin | October 13, 2008

I posted a few weeks ago about installing Vista Ultimate x64 Edition on my desktop and how that experience went.  Since that time I have probably booted into Vista x64 less than 10 times and as for spending any amount of time in the OS – almost nothing – zip – zilch – nada.  Now that is certainly not a case of trying to convert to the 64 bit operating system.

Well I have decided today to make that move and really start using the 64 bit version of Vista to see if there is truly a difference in the reliability and use of the system.

x64system

I started with all my regular applications that I use and worked to get them installed.

What has worked so far:

  • Outlook 2007 (Outlook Connector as well)
  • Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate Edition
  • Windows Live Messenger
  • Windows Live Writer
  • Windows Home Server Connector Software
  • ActivClient Card Reader Software
  • Synctoy 2.0
  • Woopra Client
  • IE8 Beta 2
  • Twhirl (a Twitter client)

I did have an error after installing the most recent ATI/AMD drivers for my x1650 video card (yes I did use the 64 bit version).  Upon booting into the system after the installation Vista would not let the control center run.  I went ahead and just uninstalled the control center itself and left the drivers intact – so far I have not had any other errors.

I also think a power outage caused my computer to enter a strange sleep mode and I could not wake it up with the keyboard or mouse.  I think this is unrelated to X64 itself but I will keep an eye on it and update the blog with anything I discover about that.

So from today forward the default OS for my desktop system is the x64 bit version of Windows Vista Ultimate – hear we go into the wild blue yonder I guess!


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