And if you want to use Visual Studio then visit the main download page
http://www.vim.org/download.php and get:
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim72ole.zip
(OLE GUI executable, A GUI version with OLE support. This offers a few extra features, such as integration with Visual Developer Studio. But it uses quite a bit more memory.)
And you can safely disregard the more memory part, if you are already using visual studio
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Integrate_gvim_with_Visual_Studio for tips if you need help setting it up.
The was an article on him a few years ago which seemed to suggest that he was being a patent troll and his 'inventions' just a cover (though to be fair he is a real super genius... worked with Stephen Hawking, publications in Nature and Science and even a paper on paleontology !!! ):
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/07/10/8380798/
(Who's afraid of Nathan Myhrvold?
The giants of tech, that's who. And they have a nasty name for the former Microsoft honcho: "patent troll."
FORTUNE Magazine
By Nicholas Varchaver, FORTUNE senior writer
June 26 2006: 1:20 PM EDT)
Patent troll or not, I have to admit that kitchen would have any tech savy cook drooling
on Windows 7 (and vista) Win key and '+' together does exactly that.
The newer versions of Windows have a "Change the size of text and other items on the screen" that scales fonts and (most) icons up nicely. KDE has a font scaling option too (and I'm sure other window managers will have that as well).
I think using scaling is a much better option than buying a low dpi screen (for example anti-aliasing looks waaaay better)
Windows Storage Server 2003 (yes, yes I know its from Microsoft) shipped with this feature (that is called Single Instance Storage)
http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/01/02/the-basics-of-single-instance-storage-sis-in-wss-2003-r2-and-wudss-2003.a
Check out windows live mesh ( http://www.mesh.com/ ) . It works with Macs and windows mobile phones (no linux support
You will have many recoverable tape errors.