Posts by Rob Lightbody

NIS & Vista

Norton Internet Security is an evil, awful piece of unnecessary badly written bloat-ware. Uninstall it immediately. I suspect Microsoft would tell you to uninstall it too, and tell you why, if it wouldn't bring on a lawsuit.

Vista for me has been completely stable for 12 months. I love it. The search stuff. The explorer windows. the smoothness of it.

I was proud to be 100414,3126

I joined in around 1992 or 93 with my 286/1mb PC and my 14.4k modem. It was absolutely fabulous. Chatrooms, news photos and early online banking via TSB spring to mind immediately. A whole world opened up to me from my teenage bedroom via DosCIM and later WinCIM. I made friends that I still have in America and Canada and I made my way onto the internet via their Mosaic browser in 1995. They even had early internet user homepages via ourworld.compuserve.com and I had one also in 1995.

Sad to see it go.

Signing off,

- 100414,3126

Another vote for Hibernate

Hibernate works fine on every PC I've ever used it on (XP or Vista). It takes my 3gb PC a maximum of 1 minute to be back where it was when it was hibernated. I only shutdown/reboot when an update forces me to. Both my laptop and desktop run happily for weeks like this.