Windows Vista - Here I Go Again!
Blog So, after reading all of the recent posts about Vista SP1 being available "Real Soon Now" (which made me aware that there are some Vista updates that must be installed before SP1 will install), and reading David Long's good article about...
[February 19, 2008, 13:02]
Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog The Windows Experience Index is 3.4, which is quite good, especially for a laptop. I've read a couple of times that Fujitsu "squeezed" in a 14.1" display instead of the 13.3" in previous S-series models, but in comparing the size of this new laptop...
[December 27, 2007, 12:15]
I Will Blog, Despite Vista's Best Efforts
Blog I had several thoughts that I imagined might be interesting to share: about how, despite all the advances that have generated all the product upgrades from the 'Wintel' duopoly, I have this week discovered that an eight-year old Toshiba laptop...
[March 20, 2008, 20:56]
Vista Vs Ubuntu: This Time, It's Virtual
Blog So I decided to put Ubuntu on the Vista dual-core Centrino laptop. Of course, I can't just put a Windows OS on my Ubuntu machinery - don't have an unused Genuine Windows Advantage XP or Vista, and to reuse anything would be against the licence.
[October 23, 2007, 14:20]
Marketing Mush
Blog If Radio Shack could do it more than 15 years ago with the CMOS TRS80 model 2, why can't it be done now with the vastly superior laptop and netbook technology of today? I was a little dismayed to see that they think the best way to use Windows (any...
[October 17, 2008, 3:51]
Thoughts On Windows Driver Updates
Blog You buy a nice shiny new computer, perhaps even a laptop like I did. First, I was unusually lucky with the purchase of this laptop, Fujitsu didn't come out with a "better" one for at least seven months after I bought it (it's really irritating to...
[August 19, 2008, 13:42]
Vista Service Pack 1 (RC1 Refresh) Upgrade
Blog Having used Vista since release day and using this particular laptop for the last couple of weeks fairly intensively I've a fairly good idea of what sort of speed various tasks take so couldn't wait to see if SP1 made any difference.
[January 15, 2008, 15:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The worst offender by far is Windows XP: for reasons that thoroughly escape me, I can no longer shut down my laptop or my server without going through an entire morass of little clickies. That's one of the reasons that Windows has been such fertile...
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
XP Never Forced Me To Do That
Blog For some reason my laptop froze yesterday. An expensive, new, dead laptop. Well, I've installed Vista now, and the hell of having to reinstall XP and then its successor is fading from memory. Panicking, I did the only thing I could - something I've...
[March 29, 2007, 9:22]
Weekend Detour, Vista To XP
Blog Those plans got put on hold when my frustration level with Vista on this laptop finally reached the point that I gave up and made a tactical retreat to Windows XP Professional. Although this Fujitsu-Siemens laptop came preloaded with XP...
[November 26, 2007, 7:12]
Vista Vs. XP: The Final Retreat
Blog What precipitated the retreat, this time, was that I turned my laptop on this morning, after having done a normal "suspend" last night, and after several minutes of black screen and endless disk activity, Vista said "Improper shutdown detected...
[April 24, 2008, 20:19]
Do We Need A Campaign To Save XP?
Blog It's extremely Ironic that, while killing it off for business users with one hand, Microsoft is thinking of allowing XP to live on the OLPC XO - a laptop which originally chose Linux to bail out of Microsoft's expensive upgrade cycles.
[January 15, 2008, 11:51]
Status Update, Vista To XP Retreat (Advance?)
Blog That might be in large part because I never run Skype on this laptop, but I don't think that is the only reason. It has been two weeks since I switched from Windows Vista back to Windows XP Professional on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, and two months...
[January 25, 2008, 12:00]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog I won't mention the dead laptop at work that's dead because the Windows Genuine Advantage system has decided that its copy of Vista is illegitimate. The 6.06 computer is an ancient Compaq Armada with a 500 MHz PIII, a smear of memory, a shagged...
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment The first thing I did of course was turn almost all visual effects off (not that this has any noticeable effect on my new fast laptop, I just think it's utterly useless to do this - but lots of users WANT their systems to spend time doing useless...
[October 24, 2007, 6:45]
A Few Minor Windows XP Glitches
Blog As I expect Vista SP1 to be available soon, and XP SP3 not long after that, I suppose I will be playing "disc jokey" with my laptop again before long. These problems are occurring now, with the laptop running XP Professional.
[March 14, 2008, 15:03]
Vista Memory Leak?
Blog But I've started to notice a correlation between some odd behavior of the laptop and steadily increasing memory use, so before spending a lot of time trying to track this down, I'm hoping someone else has seen the same thing.
[April 17, 2008, 13:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Next week, I am meeting with one of my more recently acquired clients, who has a 2001-vintage laptop with Windows ME. Of course, I'd love to give Windows XP (and, one presumes, Vista) a fair crack of the whip, but that's illegal.
[June 2, 2006, 18:00]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I thought: new laptop, very powerful, it should work just fine. So, since I have been playing around with linux distros for a while but never really got the feeling that they would convince me to switch and never look back, I took my laptop to the...
[October 22, 2007, 3:25]
