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Windows Vista Dilema

I am currently looking at new laptops again. While in most stores I have found that most sales people will release very little information of what the problems are for this OS, that leads me to believe that they know there is a problem and are not willing to admit it. I am sort of flustered as I sort of need this to happen in the next week or at the most 2, will Vista do what most of my clients need at a reasonable price and reasonable calls into MicroSoft? I don't know, but I do believe that I know the answer.... NO! Why would this corporation make it to where if you upgrade from XP to Vista your XP key is no longer valid? Do they have something to hide? I think maybe. I have worked with Windows for quite sometime now, and don't know where to stand with it, do I tell my clients I no longer support it as the makers don't care enough to make sure that it works before it is released? Or do I continue supporting something that will cost my clients what I feel to be way too much in the way of time and money? I would preffer it if Microsoft would pay the people that have paid for it already and say thank you for being a beta tester, here is a copy of XP as we are pulling it until it is ready for production. That would make the most sense to me, if a distro if Linux did that, it would flop so hard you would never see it again. What makes Microsoft so special? Money, money and more, you got it, money! I will buy Vista only to be able yo provide a proper sense of I know what I am doing, but I will not allow this OS in my home on ANY of my home systems until they can show me that yes we have fixed the driver issues, and program compatibilities.

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Broadcom Wireless FC6

I now have my Broadcom 4318 Air Force One working on Fedora Core 6, it took ndiswrapper and a whole lot of patience on my part. Right at this point I am not sure if it works with AP's that have no encryption, that s the problem that I had before. I will post more as I find more out

Gimp

While working within Moving to Free Software by Marcel Gagne, I cam across working with Gimp. I have always found this to be a little confusing to me because I am too lazy to look things up on the net. I am going to try and write a how to for several different things within The Gimp and we will see what all happens with it. Like right now I need a logo for my site, lets just see if I can get something that I may want to appear in the banner of my site shall we? The above banner was created in basically 5 minutes with this program, and I will recommend it to all whom I know. I will keep expanding this blog as I feel it is a way of getting to the masses w/o much cost except for a few brain cells.
I have also designed a button for my blog, I have yet to be able to get it to link to my site. I will get this done right. Maybe not right now, but I will. As you all know, I don't say give that easily.

Y'all Come Back Now Ya Here?

Thank You

I must thank WFTL AKA Marcel, and moldor AKA Jon for thier incredible gifts in getting www.kevinspcrepair.ca on the go. I am learning a whole lot in a very small amount of time. As it currently sits, I have had to bug wftl much more than I want to or probably need to, but as you all may or may not know, I am completely erm how should I say "not smart" when it comes to domains. I will get better as time goes by and I read more on Drupal. This is going to happen as I want it to be my main source of income within the next 3 years and would like to take the time now to thank some of the people who have helped me along the way.
So in short. Thanx EVERYONE

The Captain must post an I'm Sorry!

I must say that I am sorry for letting my best friend Charles down, you see I was supposed to be down helping him and the organization he works for. I was to help him move the work areas over to another building, and for some dumb reason I keep waking up with one bad headache. This is not the first time this has happened when I was to help him, but I am doing what needs to be done to make sure it is the last time.