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to: Robert Comer
from: Richard B.
date: 2007-04-03 11:52:04
subject: Re: `Your upgrade may take several hours to complete`

From: Richard B. 

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:20:35 -0400, Robert Comer
 wrote:

>Welcome to Vista! 

Sometimes I'd just like for stuff to work.

>For you guys, I totally agree, for me, still not in the foreseeable
>future, 5 to 10 years at least. (but it'll come eventually, if only
>for the OS.)

I'd say sooner than later.  But if web based apps/thinner clients do
succeed, I'd think it would delay the acceptance longer.


>>I will be do that soon, I think, on the server.  Probably my next book
>>later this summer.

Book?  I meant box.  Jeese.

>I've run a mirror for Barktopus in a VM for the last couple of years
>at home. (Win2000 pro in the VM running in a Virtual Server VM and the
>host has been either Vista or XP MCE)  It really doesn't even effect
>my main use of the PC at all, I don't even shut it down to play games
>on the PC.  Before I needed a separate PC to do the mirror, now I save
>the power.  I'm down from 5 powered on computers in my computer room
>to 2 powered on, and a third that doesn't run all the time...

That sounds great!  I am definitely wanting to end server creep.  I figure
I should need 4 machines tops.

- Richard

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