Tuesday, February 12, 2008
I was just reading a column (http://70.125.157.216/index.html) written by a friend of mine and his topic hit close to home for me. He was discussing the current dilemma of 'do I upgrade or not' and his advise on the topic. To relieve your already overflowing concern and suspense he is advising against upgrading unless you have some compelling reason.
I've purchased a Dell laptop recently and it's about everything that I could want in a laptop, duo core 2.0 GHz processor and 4 GB of RAM. (I know I know it won't use it all YET) Vista came on the laptop and I'm using it. For my job (computer security) I need to understand how the OS works and responds but I haven't been happy with it. It crashes frequently due to driver problems -- mostly from the built in web cam from Logitech. I am pretty happy with the problem advisor, since it keeps track of the issues that I am having and lets me know when there is a new driver or version to apply. I get pretty angry at the power saving feature, I set my laptop to 'do nothing' when the top is closed -- which makes it easy to walk around and collect information on a network -- and for some reason Vista shuts down the video but several of my apps hang and then crash when that happens.
That isn't really the reason that this topic hits close to home for me however. I am working on a major software product release where I work and while the app works, there is a lot of opportunity for it to improve. Seeing it from the inside of the effort my thought is we couldn't make the product any better without releasing it to the general population. Of course with that there's a lot of negative feedback because there are still a lot of rough edges on it.
Guess I'm getting more reasonable in myold age, you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you get what you need.
Thanks.
I've purchased a Dell laptop recently and it's about everything that I could want in a laptop, duo core 2.0 GHz processor and 4 GB of RAM. (I know I know it won't use it all YET) Vista came on the laptop and I'm using it. For my job (computer security) I need to understand how the OS works and responds but I haven't been happy with it. It crashes frequently due to driver problems -- mostly from the built in web cam from Logitech. I am pretty happy with the problem advisor, since it keeps track of the issues that I am having and lets me know when there is a new driver or version to apply. I get pretty angry at the power saving feature, I set my laptop to 'do nothing' when the top is closed -- which makes it easy to walk around and collect information on a network -- and for some reason Vista shuts down the video but several of my apps hang and then crash when that happens.
That isn't really the reason that this topic hits close to home for me however. I am working on a major software product release where I work and while the app works, there is a lot of opportunity for it to improve. Seeing it from the inside of the effort my thought is we couldn't make the product any better without releasing it to the general population. Of course with that there's a lot of negative feedback because there are still a lot of rough edges on it.
Guess I'm getting more reasonable in myold age, you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you get what you need.
Thanks.
