As previously noted, I will not do an extensive review of pre-RC1 (build 5536) as RC1 (labeled build 5600) has been released. I don’t have a copy of it yet, but I’ll be receiving one soon. This review of Vista pre-RC1 will cover the basics and point out some key notes of interest.
Test Environment
Dell Inspiron [...]

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I saw this .sig in a Slashdot comment. If you’ve ever used Gentoo, you’ll find this quite halarious:
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy “girlfriend” have been masked.
!!! possible candidates are:
- jan/girlfriend-1.1.3-r5 (masked by: ~taken)
- mary/girlfriend-1.1.3-r5 (masked by: ~uninterested)
- karen/girlfriend-1.1.3-r5 (masked by: ~uninterested)
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
Geek humor..gotta love it.
~Jaker
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your eyes.
I come to bury this past week, not to praise it.
This past week was rather bizarre and quite long. It started off on Sunday/Monday with doing math. What an excellent way to start off the week. I should note though that I’m done with my second quarter at ITT [...]

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