Man I Love those new 1X Robots
Published Tue, Mar 20 2007 9:27 AM
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Downgrade complete.
"Oh Lord. He's made of wood."
The conversion from Windows Vista back to Windows XP SP2 was successful. The only thing I really lost was the email I kept in Windows Mail, and a few older programs that I stopped using years ago.
Most of my email was kept in Outlook's personal folders, but some of my newer email was in Windows Mail. The files are still there, and I might be able to recover some of it.
I've finished transferring all of my software. I've finished installing everything except for a few programs I don't use. I have a fresh full backup of the system to another machine running in the background. That's about 50% complete.
I won't be upgrading this machine to run on Windows Vista again. It's not worth the hassle for a few new features. Heck, some of those new features were more of an annoyance than they were worth.
Man, I Love those new 1X robots. The 1X robot is my friend.
I'm not sure I got that one right. My memory of the show is a bit vague... oh well.
The upgrade to Visual Studio 2005 was a success this time. That's not a surprise, since it was designed to work well with Windows XP. The upgrade to SQL Server 2005 was also a success.
I've copied the website's database from my host's SQL Server to my local SQL server. I never lost the web site source code, and I have a couple of backups of that on different machines and one in Visual Source Safe.
Tonight, I will try to recover my old email. I will also start converting the site code to run under ASP.NET 2.0.
We'll see how that goes. If it works, I may start using a few of the newer features built into ASP.NET 2.0 fairly soon. I've been using them at work for over a year now, so I'm not too worried about problems with that.
I've learned a few more things about CSS recently. I've also learned a few tricks to using javascript with different browsers.
Recently at work I've been spending some time with a few newer technologies that are available with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET framework version 3.0.
There's some fun stuff there that I'd like to explore here. I'm thinking of reworking some of the non-blog sections of the website using AJAX, and cleaning up the markup. We'll have to see.
I'm also thinking about doing some remote administration tools for the site using the Windows Communication Framework. Maybe a new service for posting and a new tool to do it with.
Now that the hassle with Vista is over, I can get back to working on upgrades to the site. And back to writing software instead of griping about it.
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