Comcast Upgrade

Comcast upgraded our lines the other day. I am very happy with the speed.

When I test against some servers, I get up to 20Mb/sec!

Leopard -vs- Vista

So, I've been running Vista and Leopard side by side for a couple of months. I've endured the betas of Vista and now I've endured the betas of Leopard. I have to say that I've had many less headaches in my beta testing of Leopard than I had with any Windows beta ever.

Now that the final release is out and I can fairly compare the two as final products, I officially declare Leopard as the winner. It's stable, full featured, and I'm having a hard time finding anything that doesn't work with it that worked with previous versions. This is a mirror opposite of my experiences with Vista.

CNet is down?

I've tried cnet.com, news.com, and download.com and can't connect to any of them! Wonder who tripped on the chord.

Windows 2003 ADVANCED server?

I have an HP xw8400 workstation in my office that I'm attempting to make into a host for virtual machines.

I can install the 64 bit Ubuntu Fiesty on it with no problems and it operates great as a VMWare host. I wanted to test performance differences so I decided to install Windows 2003 64bit server on it.

I am greeted with the pictured stop error in the early stages of Windows 2003 setup. I thought that it was just because it was not able to see the SATA controller so I downloaded a driver, put it on a floppy, hung a floppy drive off the workstation, and ran setup with the F6 option.

No dice. It still crashes the same. How is it that Windows 2003 R2 can still not install to a computer with SATA drives and new hardware while the open source Ubuntu can?

Things are looking very sad for Microsoft.