I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Microsoft supposedly gives XP another 6 months of life
October 3, 2008
In the form of an extension to the Vista “downgrade” option for OEMs. Admittedly, this falls under the category of “rumour,” but the word on the blogs is that the new deadline for when OEMs can no longer make the option to downgrade Windows Vista to Windows XP has been bumped back to July 31, 2009, from January 31.
I can understand why they’d want to do this. I’ve encountered a most amusing problem with Vista on my sister-in-law’s laptop. She somehow got herself a MyWebSearch infection, and I’ve been trying to clean it up. I think I’ve killed it…finally. But I’m doing sweeps with AdAware, Spybot, Malwarebytes‘ Anti-Malware, and NOD32 just to be sure.
Normally, under XP, this wouldn’t have been that much of a problem: SpyBot, for example can swat the infection easily, but it does need to be allowed to “run on startup” in order to kill a couple of registry entries that are otherwise protected.
Vista, however, prevents programs from running on startup in that kind of prioritized fashion…which is a most absurd thing: Vista’s own security features actually worked against the killing of this infection.
So yeah…it’s not hard to understand why Microsoft keeps letting XP tag along.
