Apparently NewEgg.com now has OEM versions of Vista available for sale a few days ahead of the January 30 release date. Engadget has a little photo gallery and an article . I got curious and ran the Vista Upgrade Advisor on my laptop at work. There was one screen in particular that caught my eye (click for the version that’s big enough to actually read). This is the first side-by-side feature comparison that I’ve seen [...]

We had an interesting discussion in my web analytics class a few days ago. I was born in California, but grew up in Utah, which is culturally isolated by almost anyone’s standards, although that is beginning to change. With that little caveat, my intent is not to offend, but simply to explore some of what was said a little more. Our class notes can be found on the class website. One cause of increasing awareness [...]

A professor of mine shared this story and I had to pass it on: “Today I had to drop by a local computer store and get, of all things, a floppy drive. Anyway while I was standing in this long, very slow line I overheard the computer expert at the counter say that Vista should be good, “because it is Unix based.” Well there you have it, the evil empire has seen the light and [...]

Coupling & Cohesion are two terms often used in object-oriented software development. They sound rather similar, but have very different meetings. Coupling refers to one components unnecessary dependence on another components implementation. Cohesion refers to multiple components linked in logical and smart ways. Jeremy Leishman has shed a little more light on the topic. Coupling is the degree to which modules within a program rely on each other. If the modules interact through a stable [...]

So sometimes I do things just for the fun factor. As mentioned in a previous post, I like having Windows server, but I prefer Linux for web-hosting. I finally found the solution to do both at the same time on one machine. In the real world people have been doing this for years, but it’s a first for me. After doing all my installing, I then installed VMWare’s now free VMWare Server. I downloaded the [...]