Sophia

I finally have all my music, artwork, and photos transfered off of Omoikane (the Mac) to Sophia (the XP lappy). Picasa 2 is a nice little alternative to iPhoto, and even imported all the rolls correctly. I only had to re-orient (landscape or portrait), but now all my pictures are sorted in their full sizes. And, of course, iTunes took my music library and playlists flawlessly. It took an asston of time over wifi, but it's done. ^_^ Sophia is running great; my only complaints are the lack of media controls (fixed with iTunesKeys) and USB 2.0 ports. Other than that, for a 3 1/2 year old lappy, she's in great shape!

Sophia is Her Name

So, as some of you know, I have always paid homage to the proud, if geeky, tradition of naming my computers. For the most part, I've stuck with Omoikane (the ship's computer from Nadesico), as I've always replaced the older model with an upgrade. But I'm now faced with a 1st time issue: I own 2 computers that I use on a regular basis. My PowerBook and my Pavilion lappy. It would be confusing, at least to me, to have 2 Omoikanes (and not really fair to the PowerBook as she came first; yes, they DO have their own personalities!). So I've named the Pavilion Sophia. I really like the name, aside from listening to the Cruxshadows song a lot lately, and since Jill and I have pretty much decided on Abigail if we have a girl, I have the option of using it. The other name I liked was Viola (I've always thought it a beautiful name for an instrument, if not a person). Anyways, over the weekend, I slapped another 512 Megs of RAM in Sophia as well as a Draft N card for wireless (figured it wouldn't hurt to future-date a bit). She's running very smoothly, and I plan on giving her another 512 with the next paycheck. I am looking towards Vista in the not so distant future. Who of you has Vista? What has been your experience? I'll just be getting Home Basic (the on-board card in Sophia is only 64 Megs falling short of supporting Aero). I usually make it a rule to wait until SP1 is out to upgrade OSes, but I really like what Vista offers. So, thoughts?

P2P

So my job has necessitated that I have a Windows machine. I got my mom's old laptop (like 3 years old...) and I've done a lot of work on it software-wise (upgraded to XP Pro, added Office 2003, completely reworked the interface to make it look, act, and sound like Vista, etc). But it's been a while since I've seriously played with a WinBox (or WinBook as it were). What is a good file share program that can hit the LimeWire network? I use Acquisition on the Mac, and I love it; it's light on system resources, no adware or spyware, good results, etc. I'm looking for something similar for this lappy. Any ideas?