March Departs and so does Vista
Before abandoning Vista completely I decided to do a memory upgrade on my Toshiba laptop from 1GB to 2GB. Memory for this machine is pretty cheap right now and I had a few dollars left in my budget for entertainment. Replacing the memory chips was surprisingly easy. I did put on my reading glasses to see the tiny screws on the case. There was some improvement in performance but the machine was still far below my expectations. The next improvement would be to install Vista Service Pack 1. The installation went smoothly but took over an hour during which time the machine rebooted a number of times. Again a slight performance increase but not really impressive. The machine will now boot to a usable state fairly quickly but the start-up disk access continues for 5 minutes or more! What in the world is the OS doing for so long??? Indexing??? Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) had progressed from alpha versions to an installable beta version with a release scheduled for April 24. I had previously ins...