Someday when I become a ninja I think I’m going to need an electionic weapon set. I have heard these are much better than the inferior electronic weapon sets.
November 2007
Monthly Archive
Fri 30 Nov 2007
Thu 29 Nov 2007
I decided to take the plunge to try out Vista. Because the system I’m using has 4GB of memory I also decided to use the 64 bit version to take full advantage of the hardware I’m using. Everything has worked pretty well so far. The main problem I’ve ran into is the lack of a Cisco VPN client for the 64 bit version of Windows Vista and the 32 bit version won’t even install. This is unfortunate that a huge company making billions of dollars can’t dedicate resources to let their existing customers use an updated operating system. This is especially true when it is likely the majority of customers who use this type of VPN system have service contracts with them. Just goes to show that commercial software doesn’t really mean better support.
The closest I came to any type of solution was by following the discussion at Bill Evjen’s Blog. Even after tinkering though the best pseudo solution I came up with was running XP inside of a VM. It isn’t really a solution, but it gets me by for the few things I absolutely need the VPN for. Hopefully these types of issues will get resolved over time. Unfortunately, I’m pretty certain this isn’t the last issue I’ll run into with 64 bit Vista.
Tue 20 Nov 2007
We definitaly have
a problem with the current state copyright laws in the US. Yearly liability for the professor at the U of U that wrote the article is estimated at $4.5B. Thats B for Billion. I don’t think very many people can afford that.
This article does a great job of pointing out how pervasive the problems an average person encounters every day are. People violate copyright in one way or another all the time and don’t even realize it. How should we fix it?
