Has nothing to do with John merely how crappy microjunk is becoming. I obviously have to keep up with Windows to service clients but for mt personal use I'm headed well away from it. ->-----Original Message----- ->From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ->[mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Eric C. Vogel ->Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 1:07 PM ->To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ->Subject: [CTS] Re: Vista PC Downgrade to XP -> -> ->Stop padding John's brain :-P -> -> ->Thank you, ->Eric Vogel ~Windows Live! MVP~ ->http://www.msmvps.com/shelluser ->http://shelluser.mvps.org ->http://msn.mvps.org ->----- Original Message ----- ->From: "Hal Brown" <hal.brown@xxxxxxxx> ->To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ->Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 1:30 PM ->Subject: [CTS] Re: Vista PC Downgrade to XP -> -> ->> I'm working toward only using Linux. There are programs I use a ->lot that I ->> can't run on Linux, and there are no alternatives for them. Gimp is not ->> PhotoShop by any stretch, and personally I don't even like it. ->So I keep a ->> PC ->> for Windows XP with a few things that just won't work for me on Linux. ->> ->> As a matter of fact lots of days I wouldn't even start Windows ->if not for ->> my ->> PDA. I like the calendar/sync etc and there is no way I know to ->get around ->> that. I wish there was. Otherwise there would be no need most ->of the day. ->> ->> I have even installed Office XP and every program in works ->pretty much the ->> same as Windows. Quite a few Windows apps work, but not enough yet. ->> ->> In less than two years I hope to be completely free of Windows. My next ->> project is to get it on my laptop. ->> ->> On 03/05/2007 12:56 pm, Russ Blakeman wrote: ->>> ->>> Experimenting on a serious scale now with Linux now that excellent ->>> projects ->>> like Open Office.org, Joomla!, Firefox 2 and other open source ->items are ->>> becoming very good products. Yeah I have to keep a boot partition with ->>> W2k ->>> for Quickbooks but that's it. Even AVG has a Linux version out. ->>> ->>> ->>> ->>> ->-----Original Message----- ->>> ->From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ->>> ->[mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Hal Brown ->>> ->Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 8:00 AM ->>> ->To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ->>> ->Subject: [CTS] Re: Vista PC Downgrade to XP ->>> -> ->>> -> ->>> ->Maybe Windows XP is an upgrade for Vista. ->>> -> ->> ->> ->> -- ->> Hal Brown ->> Email: hal.brown@xxxxxxxx ->> ** YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED ** ->> DONATE to Hurricane Katrina victims: http://www.redcross.org/ ->> DONATE Housing (Spare room, shelter) http://www.hurricanehousing.org/ ->> ->> ->------------------------------------------------------------------ ->--------- ->> Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com ->> Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm ->> ->> List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm ->> ->> To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: ->> http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ->> ->------------------------------------------------------------------ ->--------- ->> -> -> -> ** YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED ** ->DONATE to Hurricane Katrina victims: http://www.redcross.org/ ->DONATE Housing (Spare room, shelter) http://www.hurricanehousing.org/ -> ->------------------------------------------------------------------ ->--------- ->Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com ->Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm -> ->List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm -> ->To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: ->http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ->------------------------------------------------------------------ ->--------- -> ** YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED ** DONATE to Hurricane Katrina victims: http://www.redcross.org/ DONATE Housing (Spare room, shelter) http://www.hurricanehousing.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------