I keep an older but suitably-well-performing Windows XP machine in the house for my ham radio and general radio stuff. But, it looks like MS is finally going to pull the plug on XP support one year from now: read.
**sigh** Looks like I’ll either need to really crank down its security or, if I want regular updates, look into a Win 7 license for the machine.
Spotted at Borepatch: booting an Altair. Damn, this brings back memories…
After thinking about it a bit — and seeing what Google is doing to its freebies — I decided I’m going to start exploring my options of moving from Blogger to WordPress.
If anyone wants to test it out, try here: blog.esthermofet.com
If everything works out well enough, I’ll just update DNS to point away from the Google version and over to my own.
Watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RABZq5IoaQ
Ladies and gentlemen: any time you find yourself out this way and want to learn about effective tools to defend yourselves, just let me know. I’ll gladly give you as much of my knowledge as I can muster.
Two dogs, a banjo, and a mandolin:
the rest of me 