Fighting against Windows Vista

Last week Leandra bought a new notebook... of course, by default it cames with Windows, moreover, the Vista version.

It seems almost impossible to get into this new operating system.

1. One is used to use a bunch of different programs in, let's say XP... but they don't work in this new plataform. Ex.: Real Audio. Furthermore, WMP is not allowed to play such a format.
2. If you wanna install a free antivirus... that's an Odyssey (at least for me).
3. Vista is felt to be slower than its antecedent XP.
4. Among others...

But at the end I could install (after a lot of work) AVAST's antivirus, JAVA, MIKTEX, TEXMAKER, GV, and certain programs I use frequently.

Nevertheless, Vista has an advantage over XP, it has all the needed installation `codex' for the printers, USB, et cetera.

New reading

I've been quit for a long time in the reading matter. Nonetheless, from time to time I get warmed up again and start to read.

Last 4 weeks I read my first whole book in English, The Godfather by Mario Puzo... incredibly, I spent just 3 weeks on read it. Also, last week I read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Finally, last night I began to read A gift of winds by Richard Bach.

It's been nice enough to re-meet our old friends... books.

Oscar.