Dear unixers & lispers, i've been using Mac for the past 19 years, and been a professional sys admin or web app developers on the unix platform, since 1998 (maily Solaris, Apache, Perl, Java, SQL, PHP). In june, i bought a PC (not for the first time though), and made a switch to Windows, for the first time, in the sense as a developer instead of just a casual PC user i've been.
In the past month, i've spend about 5 hours a day digging into MS Windows tech, in particluar, read over 200 Wikipedia articles in detail related to Windows technology. (192 of them linked) Here's a write up of the whole story, my experiences, including some tech introduction to MS Windows from a sys admin or programer point of view. • Switching from Mac/Unix To PC/Windows http://xahlee.org/mswin/switch_to_windows.html Some slightly noteworthy subsections are: • Removing HP/Compaq Software http://xahlee.org/mswin/hp_bundled_apps.html • Installing Cygwin Tutorial http://xahlee.org/mswin/installing_cygwin.html • Mac and Windows File Conversion http://xahlee.org/mswin/mac_windows_file_conv.html • Unix And Windows File Permission Systems http://xahlee.org/mswin/file_perm_systems.html • Introduction to Windows Scripting http://xahlee.org/mswin/windows_scripting.html Some articles (not shown above) are still work in progress, such as VBScript tutorial and PowerShell tutorial. Hoping to complete in the coming months or years. comment & feedback welcome, esp if you are a Windows expert and answer some of my unanswered questions on the page. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list