Windows XP

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Is Windows 7 Actually Faster than XP or Vista?

By Tanner ⋅ October 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Thinking of upgrading to Windows 7 when it comes out?  If you’re considering upgrading from XP because you’d like a performance boost, think again.  New testing shows that Windows 7 is equal to or slower than XP in most benchmarks.

10 Things I Don’t Miss About Windows XP

By Tanner ⋅ April 9, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Six months ago I moved from XP to Ubuntu, and I can honestly say that my relationship with my PC has never been better. To celebrate six months of freedom, here is my top ten list of “reasons I’m glad I switched from XP to Ubuntu.”

New external SATA hard drive not working? Try this.

By Tanner ⋅ December 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Sometimes I love Google, and sometimes I hate it.
I recently purchased a Playstation 3 (GTA4 is superb, btw) and it didn’t take me long to realize that upgrading the 80gb hard drive would be worth a bit of time and spare change.  As such, I picked up a new hard drive and swapped it into [...]

So you want to upgrade from Windows XP…

By Tanner ⋅ October 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

It was a Friday:
REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 24, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release of Microsoft® Windows® XP, the highly anticipated next major version of the Windows operating system, to computer manufacturers around the world. With development of the software now complete, Windows XP is on schedule for widespread availability on Oct. [...]

R.I.P. – Windows XP, Part 2

By Tanner ⋅ October 19, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

This article is a follow-up to the original R.I.P. – Windows XP article.
I hate Digg – not the site itself so much, but the Digg premise.  This notion of “popularity = noteworthiness” is the reason I have to tolerate endless news stories about Paris Hilton and the reason Janet Jackson canceled her latest tour, as [...]

R.I.P. – Windows XP

By Tanner ⋅ October 17, 2008 ⋅ 26 comments

(There is now a follow-up article to this post: R.I.P. – Windows XP, Part 2)
I have now spent two weeks using Ubuntu 8.04 exclusively on my home PC.  I have booted to XP only once, and that was to check a Photoshop 6 quirk I was getting in WINE.  (As it turned out, it was [...]