I have been running VISTA Ultimate Windows operating system for about a month. I am not retracting anything I have said or written so far. It is still a beast to upgrade even year old machines. The good news is that it can be done if you are very experienced and are willing to replace or upgrade most of your driver and user software. VISTA is a prime example of, “If it (your old OS) ain’t broke,...
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PC Security
The new (what I call) “built for the unwashed masses of computer users” operating system (Vista) is driving me nuts. That’s because XP has now started double checking everything I want to do with my system. MS just forced me to install a sofware verificaion tool in XP before I can get any more upgrades. I think the update also added a few more security measures. Times must be tough at MS. Their view just has to...
Continue reading...New URL for THMS
The Hobbyist’s Machine Shop has been assigned (by me) a new additional URL. You can reach it with http://TheHobbyistMachineShop.com. Note there is no apostrophy s after the inline word “hobbyist”. URL’s do not like apostrophies. The capital letters are also not necessary. This is an additional URL so you do not need to change your existing link if you have it bookmarked. Dan’l
Continue reading...THMS Web Site Problems?
I received a report that the THMS (The hobbyist’s Machine Shop) web site seemed to be down. I did some reorganization last weekend and moved all of my sites into more properly organized sub domains of tedatum.com. The correct link is http://thms.tedatum.com. Please make changes or bookmark this URL link. This has always been the “correct” link but some folks may have an old link to a sub directory under …\tedatum\thms\ Update: Http://TheHobbyistMachineShop.com also works!...
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