~Rubidot

Whatever you may say, I don't think Vista is worse than XP, but still, Mac is much better than both.

Transitioning to Vista has been nice relative to XP, but there's things that Windows just doesn't have that I really appreciate in OS X.

Right now I'm thinking about iChat, Address Book, and Mail. I really like iChat, especially with its integration with Address Book. I'm got a chat client called Pidgin for Windows, and it seems pretty nice, but I still lose the integration and I have to see everyones' silly SNs instead of their real names (who is that again?) and they're back in those stupid groups I made all those years ago.

I don't know what I'm going to do about my Address Book info. I can export it to a vCard, and Vista has a contact database thing that actually looks promising, but it can only import individual vCards - so I'd have to import my contacts one by one.

I haven't even looked at what to do about Mail yet. I doubt that I can export the file structure so I could use it in Thunderbird or anything...


After a quick review of Windows Media Player and Songbird, it doesn't look like either will manage my music the way I like it, so I'm still using iTunes, and I managed to import everything from my music to the ratings to my new computer, so that's good.

Another thing that's going well is VirtualBox. Look it up, it's a great FOSS dektop virtualization program. Oh, and since I don't have my network stuff for this computer yet, I'm using Internet Sharing via ethernet on my Mac to get internet on this comp. I have full access to the network and everything, it's awesome; I didn't think it would work.