Moving to Windows Vista

Test my Own

2007-12-14T10:10:00.001-08:00

Websites, including both corporate sites and personal homepages, had and still often have "What's New" or "News" sections, often on the index page and sorted by date. One example of a news based "weblog" is the Drudge Report founded by the self-styled maverick reporter Matt Drudge, though apparently Drudge dislikes this classification. Another is the Institute for Public Accuracy which began posting news releases featuring several news-pegged one-paragraph quotes several times a week beginning in 1998. One noteworthy early precursor to a blog was the tongue-in-cheek personal website that was frequently updated by Usenet legend Kibo.

Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, such as WordPress, Movable Type, blogger or LiveJournal, or on regular web hosting services

Test my Own

2007-12-14T09:30:00.001-08:00

Other forms of journals kept online also existed. A notable example was game programmer John Carmack's widely read journal, published via the finger protocol. Some of the very earliest bloggers, like Steve Gibson of sCary's Quakeholio (now Shacknews) and Stephen Heaslip of Blue's News (still running since 1995 with online archives back to July 1996), evolved from the Quake scene and Carmack's .plan updates. Steve Gibson was hired to blog full-time by Ritual Entertainment on February 8, 1997 [7], possibly making him the first hired blogger.

Websites, including both corporate sites and personal homepages, had and still often have "What's New" or "News" sections, often on the index page and sorted by date. One example of a news based "weblog" is the Drudge Report founded by the self-styled maverick reporter Matt Drudge, though apparently Drudge dislikes this classification. Another is the Institute for Public Accuracy which began posting news releases featuring several news-pegged one-paragraph quotes several times a week beginning in 1998. One noteworthy early precursor to a blog was the tongue-in-cheek personal website that was frequently updated by Usenet legend Kibo.

Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, such as WordPress, Movable Type, blogger or LiveJournal, or on regular web hosting services

Vista Tweaks

2007-09-17T01:57:00.000-07:00

Just found an article on NotebookReview regarding few tweaks one can apply to Vista.

These are the tweaks:

Disable TMM
This tweak helps disabling a search for additional external monitors, and thus saving few seconds and blinking screen.
Use TuneXP 1.5 (TY and Rep Trebuin)
This little utility works great for XP and Vista as well. It allows to reorginize files on a hard drive to speed up and shorten boot time.
Disable Vista Search Indexing
As we did this with an XP, disabling indexing doesn't heart searching but saves a lot of system resources!
Get CCleaner, it Works with 32/64Bit
Cited, "CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space"
Turn Off User Account Control (UAC)
Make Vista more comfortable by disabling User Access Controls
Turn Off Unused Windows Features
Improve performance and save disk space
Windows Snipping Tool IS AMAZING!
One of the best screenshots tools :-)
Eliminate Unneeded Startup Programs
Remove programs you don't use and lighten and speed up your system doing so.

Enjoy
-A.

Hardware for Windows Vista

2007-05-28T08:16:00.000-07:00

The first important step in "moving to Vista" process is the hardware.

I've decided, that in order to use Windows Vista the best way I can, I should get the minimal (or a little more than minimal) configuration capable to run Vista Ultimate.

So, here's my list then:

1. CPU: any dual-core processor will do. I don't intend to get the fastest machine in the world, just one that will be enough for 80% of all computer tasks.
2. Memory: at least 1GB. I should get as fast memory as possible, but more that 2GB will probably not worth the expense: no Windows XP nor Vista will benefit much from it.
3. Motherboard: one which provides wide FSB or memory bus.
4. Hard Drive: doesn't matter. For the sake of my patience, I'll get one with at least 7200RPM and 16Mb cache.
5. Graphics card: the one that will hold Vista Ultimate edition. It means, probably, 256MB onboard memory and/or TurboCache feature.

In the next post I will cover my specific choices. Any comments are welcome.

Moving to Windows Vista

2007-05-27T05:31:00.000-07:00

This blog is all about moving to Windows Vista. I'm going to compare different aspects of using Vista compared to Windows XP, and also I will check and test compatibility of different applications with this version of Windows.

So wish me luck and God speed!

-A.