Things, Stuff & Such

I have been testing Vista Business on a spare pc at work for about a week now. Over all I like it and plan to upgrade to it on my home pc. First I want to upgrade my hardware. My current rig will handle Vista fine but I have been wanting a Dual Core system since before they hit the retail market. Now prices are reasonable so once I sell my rig I’ll do the upgrade. I wouldn’t mind keeping my current system but I already have more computers than I need and this one will get me the best price.

One of the differences between Vista and XP is security. Vista comes much more “locked down” than XP. The first thing you will notice is the “nag box” that will pop up every time you want to perform an administrative task. Even if you are the system admin. This is a feature I have also seen in Linux (and it was annoying there also). XP was more trusting in that if you were logged in as admin it assumed you knew what you were doing and allowed you to perform your tasks unhindered. You have probably seen the very funny Mac commercial spoofing this feature:

That series of Mac commercials are some of the best I have seen for selling a computer to consumers. You can see the rest on YouTube if you have not already caught them on TV. As for the “annoying” feature, I found this article by Deb Shinder on TechRepublic.com showing how to turn this feature off.

The boys got another snow day today.  Their mother said they got 2-5 inches of snow… lucky.  I talked to the boys last night and they had an idea that they may have the day off.  Actually, Scott said it would snow and Aaron was adamant that it would not snow.  They actually argued about it while I was on the phone with Scott.  I told him to just wait and see and then they would know who was right. 

…and now we do

There is some new construction going on in the Government complex where I work.  They are taking down part of the Court House building to make way for a new eight story building.  I got to watch a guy use a huge bucket loader to knock down the walls today.  It was very impressive to watch them use that huge machine with such precision.

Tomorrow I am going to bring my good camera to work and try to get some better pictures and vidoe of the process.  I took this one with my camera phone which doesn’t have a very good camera.