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As many uvs ya know, I work with both MSoft and Apple stuff, and each have their pos n neg aspects. Today's lil' expose is dedicated to the lovely and talented... Vista. ;P (as Charlie Brown used to say to Lucy, "That's Sarcasm!!") :D

Any of you working with this thing yet?
arrgh... It's got some annoyances that I'm surprised they haven't solved yet.. you seen these?.....

1. JUNCTIONS! .. blecch.. these are probably the biggest issue. They cause Vista to lie a LOT, and say things are a place they really aren't. Therefore one has to use Search a lot more to locate items that a dialog says was saved to a place where it really isn't. Which leads to...

2. SEARCH. geeeeeze.... this really suxxorz. it's Sooooooooooo slow (like at least 10 to 30 seconds for most things, even longer in many cases), AND, often it doesn't eeeeeeeven find things you KNOW are there, if you don't get the balance of asterisks and indexing right. Even Apple's old System Eight FIND was blaaaaaaazingly faster than this (AND XP too), but this is even slower and less accurate than XP (which Spotlight in Tiger can also be in some cases).

3. FILE ASSOCIATIONS. This one just seems like the Twilight Zone (unless this is also related to Junctions.. not sure). In some cases a dialog will say it's gonna open a file with one program, and it flat-out opens in another. Sometimes it will even say it's going to open it with some convoluted 'process' which is rather odd also.

No major issues yet though, just these oddities.

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In other Windozian news, I'm starting to have doubts about the ole standard Symantec Norton GoBack, which I advocated for years since it was more powerful than standard restore. It says it is fine with XP, and I have it installed on my XP machine, but after over two years of running that jes' fyne, the registry got corrupted yesterday, and GoBack didn't fix it (luckily restore worked fairly well though).
Also, GoBack (for the first time I've ever seen it happen) fairly well hosed oen client's computer last month, on XP. True, their HD was going on them, but I would've thought GoBack shouldn't make matters worse (which it did).
Last consistently effective performance from GoBack I've seen was on WIN2k machines, so I may have to adopt that policy for the time being, unless I hear different. It's $50.. it should work right. grrr.

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And in furrrther news, one of our catz was sick for a few days... just wanted to stay outside in my car and not eat. After 3 days in the hospital, he's back (was a gum infection), so hopefully he'll be his fluffy self again shortly.

Finally, in the techno-goodness realm... a great big *wag and flap and hug* THANKS to