Here is a shot on my way in to work today. An elevated railroad has been burning since 5:45pm yesterday. The news is reporting the wood is chemically treated and that’s why the smoke is so black. The smoke yesterday was crazy so this is very mild compared to the scene last night.
You can read the Sacramento Bee’s coverage here.
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I took the plunge and bought Vista last week. I purchased the Home Premium Upgrade edition because I already had a legitimate copy of XP. The CompUSA near me is going out of business and they were offering 10% off all software. I also found a great trick to perform a clean install using the upgrade version. For some ridiculous reason, Microsoft removed the option to perform a clean install with an upgrade version. In previous releases you could pop in your previous OS disk to prove you were worthy of the upgrade. Not so anymore. I won’t cover the process since it’s already documented all over the internet.
Using the above mentioned install process took a little over an hour. However, the basic Vista install only takes about 20 minutes. I already backed up all of our old data using this tool. Getting our user accounts and documents back on Vista was extremely easy. This theme of “it just works” is something Mac enthusiasts have enjoyed for years. This is due in large part to the fact that Mac operating systems have always been tied to specific hardware. However, every function in Vista is amazingly intuitive. With only a few days under my belt, here are my thoughts. Read the rest of this entry »
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