hwood007

Not Everyone Likes Windows 7

I like this advise, when I worked, there were over 20,000 PCs connecting to company mid size servers, where I was a system manager. We never bought anything during the first six months of it's life, we waited to read what happened to others, we could not afford to take down so many computers due to a new upgrade.

One of the anti-virus software firms took us down with a weekend upgrade, that was pushed out from our servers to our PCs. what fun that was, took all day for us to back it out, so it is not just OS upgrades that can kill your computer. There are several virus that tell you that an infection has gotten into your PC and suggest you down load their system (virus). I have seen that one at home and use PC tools to remove it. I use routers and firewalls at home and still the bad stuff fines a way in. I wonder if firms using apple have such problems??


On Oct 26 11:00 AM Mad Hedge Fund Trader wrote:

> nns Microsoft (seekingalpha.com/symbo...) is about to hit
> you with a massive marketing effort to buy its new Windows 7 operating
> system, which will be officially released on October 22. I have been
> an early adopter of technology for most of my life, and have been
> doing my own tech support for 25 years (remember Evelyn?) Do yourself
> a huge favor and skip it. A number of beta testers have told me that
> this is the upgrade from Hell. Windows 7 doesn’t explode in your
> face when you first turn it on, but it comes close to it. If you
> have the 32 bit version of Vista, which most of you do, then you
> will only be able to install the 32 bit version of Windows 7, unless
> you want to go through a tortuous custom install. I shudder at the
> prospect of hunting down my lost original installation disks, web
> addresses of download sites, and long forgotten product keys. That
> defeats the purpose of the upgrade right there, as the 64 bit system
> was the main oomph behind the new version, enabling you to use more
> than 3 gb of memory at once. You will need 20 gigs of free disk space
> for the upgrade, which will put it out of reach of many laptops.
> If you do somehow get the 64 bit version installed, then many of
> your peripherals won’t work. If you are one of millions who were
> too terrified to take on Vista and are still using the antiquated
> XP operating system, forget it. There is no upgrade. Better to save
> yourself $120, and wait a year until you buy a new PC with Windows
> 7 preinstalled on it, with enough extra RAM to take full advantage
> of its real power. That gives Mr. Softy another year to debug it
> and come up with a product that really works.

Not Everyone Likes Windows 7

"Usually setting a new PC does not require loading the OS, it comes pre loaded. So after that statement, everything else he says makes me wonder if this really happened.

Cramer's Mad Money - Anatomy of a Tech Rally (3/26/09)

I heard Cramer give his opinion of J&J last night and as an owner myself, I did not believe his story on selling all and J&J last and buying it back at half price. I may have misheard him, but the math did not add up for me.

Dividend Paying Stocks: You Only Have to Be Lucky Once

I like the dividend stocks and a good time to buy them can be the x-dividend date, when the price might drop the amount of the dividend.. Some traders make a game of buying and selling the same stocks just to keep the dividend,s. I do not want to put myslef through that, and just buy them when they are low, and reinvest the dividends. Dividends have really grown my twealth.

Overall, Fundamentals Are Still Deteriorating

The market will not like "all stock dividends" being put on hold for a year and such an act could cause more harm than good. I surley would not buy a stock without a dividend although I own two which have recently suspended their dividend. I am thinking over my options on these two.