sat 14-apr-07
The 2004 Tax Sheets.
I lost enough sleep over Carlton's 2004 taxes. So much sleep that I decided to retire a set of sheets and get all new ones. Right up to new pillowshams. Ralph Lauren Sheets. From the Final Sale Table. But, still - mighty fine sheets.
OK - On to the computer. For the record. Like the computer. Don't like Vista. DO NOT GET VISTA unless you don't have any software or anything hard or soft that needs drivers. Vista smells a whole lot like Windows ME to me. It might seem that lots of stuff works. Notice that most of the stuff that works is free.
| Works | But |
| Kaspersky AV | Do we know if any AV really works. |
| Thunderbird | Web links fail sometimes. Free |
| Firefox | Some plugin funkiness. Free |
| BP Diary | It is a cute little japanese freeware thing for tracking blood pressure reading. Works fine. |
| Open Office | Works fine. Open Source. Free |
| The Gimp | Works fine. Open Source. Free |
| EverNote | Seems to work. Freeware. |
| Roboform | Worked fine. Needed to get latest version. |
| Google Earth | Works great. It loves the big fast machine. Free |
| Dreamweaver 8 | There are two updates to this. I could install the first one but not the second. And - the install process kills off windows help. Fortunately, I blundered into a Register Hack to repair the damage. And FTP doesn't work. |
| WS-FTP | Have to download a patch. And, Vista insists that the program will not work. Put, it doesn't. If it didn't you wouldn't be reading this. |
| iTunes | It installs. But, it will not burn a CD and no way will I trust plugging my iPod into the machine. Free. |
| IFranView | You have to fight to get it to install. Free. |
