The morning after the night before
Jul. 11th, 2006 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
narcasseThis morning Amazon recommended to me a manga called Under the Full Moon, a random volume of Saiyuki Reload, the Compendium Maleficarum and a book on nationalism, and that more than anything warns me that I am become some sort of parody again. Exactly what sort of parody I don’t quite know yet but at least as far as I know all my friends are of legitimate birth.
In other news, today is the day after the final day that Microsoft will support Windows 98. Both the initial release and the second edition are no longer supported as well as that Millennium Edition thing too.
The idea of such support sounding all well and good if 98 hadn’t crashed at the drop of a hat and hadn’t proved to be high point of instability in Microsoft OS’. 95 wasn’t so unstable, though it looked a little strange but 3.11 was a damn sight better at the not crashing at random business. 3.1 and 3.0 were just overall far more reliable operating systems and far more customisable too, though of course the trick was to look at the list of credits for 95 or 98 and by then you’d notice that Bill Gates was only fourth on the list of programmers. When he was coding himself he made some reliable software after all. And apparently Microsoft were wanting to cease support for 98 by 2003 but people yelled and so that’s why they kept it going for this long.
I suppose I should go dig out a copy of Vista and load it on something now really. I have far too many copies of the damn thing already.
Also, Social Network Analysis: Introduction and Resources and an Introduction to Social Network Theory (pdf file) because social network analysis is the topic of the ISN special issue of the month.
In other news, today is the day after the final day that Microsoft will support Windows 98. Both the initial release and the second edition are no longer supported as well as that Millennium Edition thing too.
The idea of such support sounding all well and good if 98 hadn’t crashed at the drop of a hat and hadn’t proved to be high point of instability in Microsoft OS’. 95 wasn’t so unstable, though it looked a little strange but 3.11 was a damn sight better at the not crashing at random business. 3.1 and 3.0 were just overall far more reliable operating systems and far more customisable too, though of course the trick was to look at the list of credits for 95 or 98 and by then you’d notice that Bill Gates was only fourth on the list of programmers. When he was coding himself he made some reliable software after all. And apparently Microsoft were wanting to cease support for 98 by 2003 but people yelled and so that’s why they kept it going for this long.
I suppose I should go dig out a copy of Vista and load it on something now really. I have far too many copies of the damn thing already.
Also, Social Network Analysis: Introduction and Resources and an Introduction to Social Network Theory (pdf file) because social network analysis is the topic of the ISN special issue of the month.
