Comments on: Windows 7 restore: damn, it works http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/semantic-web/windows-7-restore-damn-it-works/ Defining the necessary skills for future software professionals Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ebwolf http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/semantic-web/windows-7-restore-damn-it-works/#comment-11 Ebwolf Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:12:17 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/semantic-web/?p=227#comment-11 Fortunately Microsoft hasn’t (entirely) rested on it’s laurels (and billion$ in the bank). I’ve been using (ghast) Vista on my home workstation for about three years. It’s had a couple revisions of Visual Studio installed, Oracle Enterprise, a couple revision of Xammp and at least three revisions of the ESRI ArcGIS suite installed (and uninstalled). Right now, I am using Minefield (love that TabCandy) with about 30 tabs open, Microsoft Word, EndNote X3, Adobe Acrobat and TweetDeck. My machine hasn’t been rebooted in about a month and a half (when I shut it down while I was gone on vacation).

As for the dev environment creep, just be careful you don’t step to far outside the OS/X box. If you do, you’ll find all kinds of crazy dependencies that are missing from Apple’s flavor of *nix.

My next box will focus more on virtual machines so I can partition off all my projects and keep the core OS cleaner longer. Who knows, that box may even be a Mac since I can fire up ArcGIS or Visual Studio in a Windows VM.

FYI: TweetDeck uses more memory than Oracle Enterprise. Quite the statement about social media!

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