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Re:What a solution.
Before, the installer installed individual files from the disc which cause among other things pretty bad seek times.
With Vista, the installer now simply decompress an image file to your hard drive.
One can read on about WIM here and how to create and manipulate such images yourself: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa 905070.aspx
A less technical article here: http://www.apcstart.com/3834/inside_vistas_new_ima ge_based_install -
low on content ..
"That website is pretty low on content and for the heck of it I read the links on the right as well. The 25 shortcomings one is pretty ludicrous. You should read it."
I'm confused. How can it be and still have 25 shortcomings spread over two web pages.
"Most home users don't give a shit about SMB2. Most users are going to get Vista with new hardware, so their needing new hardware point is moot and really is it a shortcoming of Vista that it won't run on old hardware or is it a shortcoming of the hardware."
Why, in your opinion, is breaking SMB support in Linux not a problem. Considering that MS is all about inter-operability. Did the MS Linux Lab not even test it with the current Linux distros. If not why not?
I don't understand that you speak for the vast majority of home users. But isn't it true that they won't actually have a choice as to what to get with their next round of Windows/Vista upgrade. So what the home users give a shit about is a little moot.
It's also a demonstration in circular logic: To get Vista, 'home users' have to get new hardware. Since they don't have any choice the point is moot.
"The 2 gigs of ram to run Vista is bollocks - these guys havent even booted upto the RCs have they"
Do you think a PC running XP on 1GB will run faster or slower on Vista.
"He complains about a lack of driver support from the hardware manufacturer - how can you spin a hardware manufacturers problem into a shortcoming of vista?"
The trolls round have always criticized Linux for lack of hardware support. Why isn't that also a problem for Vista.
"They talk about lack of compatibility with AV products but do fail to mention a lot of things M$ is doing better with security"
Like locking out the AV companies from the kernel. And most of the new security feetures have been broken already.
"I run Debian in lab and Zenwalk at home"
I like Linux and really want it to be better.
"By the time he gets to 20 he isn't he making grammatical sentences and he actually claims that theres bound to be bugs in 50 million lines of code and a five year beta test period - I'd agree but it isn't because theres 50 million lines of code because dear lod Linux also has a lot of lines of code"
Criticise the form of the msg. Why wouldn't 50 million lines of nearly new code be the cause of some bugs slipping through.
"I'm not going to go on bashing the article"
As he goes about bashing the article
"Heres my list of things that are Bad with Vista"
"1) DRM
His billness has already criticised this. Is msDRM already in the works?
"2) UAC - this is a great idea in principle but the last I checked in implementation it was too goddamn annoying and I'm sure most people will just turn it off"
You mean it didn't work as there were so many thing a user had to do as root, sorry administrator. Sudo seems to work OK under Linux.
"I had no driver issues. If I did I don't think I'd be blaming MS and rather my shitty hardware manufacturer"
You must be the only one. The HW manufacturers write to the specs. How is it the shitty fault of the manufacturers when the driver don't work on Vista. The drivers would have been certify by a MS test suite, else they wouldn't have made it into Vista.
was bad article- my list for BadVista. (Score:5, Astroturfing)
http://www.ubersoft.net/
http://www.apcstart.com/site/jbannan/2006/09/1330/ vistas-user-account-control-one-click-and-its-gone
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 615936 -
Is Vista $751 better than XP?
Even if Vista is better than XP, is it $751 better (Australian dollars, Vista Ultimate edition, US$595)? *That's* the real question. OK, to be generous, Vista Home Premium which is $455 (US$360). Then factor in the costs of upgrading your hardware, time lost reconfiguring things etc. etc.
Prices here: http://www.apcstart.com/node/4035 -
Novell Suse prefers Ext3/Ext4 over ReiserFS 3 / 4
Other Reiser issues aside, the SuSE folks at Novell are looking to leave the nearly unsupported reiserfs3 (in maintenance support, which isn't enough for them) and move to ext3 as their default FS. Why? They feel ext3 is a lot more mature & better/wider supported then reiserfs4, is an easier migration, and appreciate that there is a solid roadmap from ext3 to ext4.
Of course this would also be the week that (coincidentally) Andrew Morton gives reiserfs4 the green light for eventual mainline kernel inclusion.
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The Microsoft exec at TechEd Australia "misspoke"Microsoft now says:
The real deal is that no version of Windows Vista will make a determination as to whether any given piece of content should play back or not. The individual ISV providing the playback solutions will choose whether the playback environment, including environments that use 32-bit processors, meet the performance requirements for playback of protected High Definition content.
Read more:
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,200 8357,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://www.apcstart.com/site/dwarne/2006/08/1147/w e-were-wrong-about-hd-playback-in-vista-microsoft -
Re:Studios! Studios! Studios!Actually, you have to wonder about this.
Look at the history of DVD. Originally, the DVD Alliance didn't want to allow any software players, because they thought the keys would leak. People complained like mad, so they changed the policy. Then someone disassembled the Xing DVD player, and a key did leak.
Now fast forward to HD content - Blue ray and HDDVD. If I were HDDVD Alliance or whoever decides on licensing, I'd probably want some measure like this.
And Microsoft have only done this for pressed disks - as they point out
http://www.apcstart.com/site/dwarne/2006/08/1139/m icrosoft-cuts-another-feature-full-hd-playback-in- 32bit-vista
In an interview hastily organised by Microsoft public relations staff after they learned APC was planning to run this story, Riley was at pains to point out that Blu Ray and HD-DVD were storage media and you could put an MPEG-4 movie on them and play them on a 32bit Vista PC just fine.
But he conceded that a commercially-produced BluRay or HD-DVD movie with next-generation high definition protected content wouldnt play on a 32 bit PC.
So by 'asked' they mean 'it was a condition of licensing the intellectual property, which we must do to make a legal software player'
I.e. it's the fault of the studios, Microsoft could either have no playback, or playback on a DRM'd system.
Actually, current unlicensed DVD players don't rely on the Xing key, as described here
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DVDCCA_case/20011128_t ouretzky_decl.html
But I'd guess the fact that a key leaked from a DVD software player would cause the people licensing HDDVD and BlueRay software players do demand draconian DRM like this. Also, if you're Microsoft, a company famous for having vast cash reserves, you don't want to get sued for leaking keys, so you'd probably want to DRM your player to some extent just for self preservation. -
Seagate's self-encrypting hard-drive
Seagate recently released a self-encrypting hard-drive... does hardware level encryption at S-ATA link speed, or so they claim. More info: http://www.apcstart.com/site/dwarne/2006/06/263/s
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Re:Whatever...
too bad windows vista is GPU bound
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HDCP support?
Aren't we supposed to be doing our duty and demanding HDCP on our monitors? I mean who wants to spend $6000+ on a monitor that would not let Windows Vista display HD content on?
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I call bullshit.
The article is BULLSHIT! Take a look at the requirements for the previous versions of Windows. At the time XP came out the minimum requirements as far as CPU were only 1/3 as fast as the top processors of the time, or less. There is NO WAY that Microsoft will release Vista next year with requirements that outpace the top machines on the market today. They want as many people to buy or upgrade as possible, they're not going to make it so that only 5% of the computer users can buy their new OS. Would that make any sense? According to the original article Vista would "work best" on those system specs. The article posted on Slashdot is totally misleading. This is a hardware wish list for optimal performance, not a list of requirements. For example according to the original article the graphics cards running Vista "need to have 128MB of RAM on it. If they've only got 64 don't panic" which gets turned into "GPU requires an awful lot of memory to do optimally - 256MB is a happy medium". The Bit-tech article was pulled entirely out of someone's ass.
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Re:256mb?
No, Mr Tech Strategist has been misinterpreted, and then misinterpreted again. Please read TFOA (the fine original article):
"The GPU will need a plenty of room to operate in Vista. The more memory you put on a video card the better really. We want the least dumping back to main memory because that's slower than graphics. If you have 128MB that's good, if you have 256MB that's better, but I expect that video card memory will go up a lot when Longhorn is released.
"Thirdly, the graphics card and system bus is essential. PCI x16 is going to be very important. Any of today's 3D GPUs will be fine... we're not waiting for some mystical monster that may or may not come out. But they need to have 128MB of RAM on it. If they've only got 64 don't panic.
"We acknowledge that many corporate notebooks have fairly low-end integrated graphics chips. They're not exactly high performance graphics systems. For those users, we will provide a classic UI that looks like XP, and then we will have Aero that will start to make use of the GPU, and then there's Aero Glass that will demand the higher level.
And about RAM and HDD:
"In a 32 bit environment, half a gig of RAM is heaps. It's going to fly. For 64 bit you're going to want 2 gigs of DDR3 RAM.
"In terms of disks, you're really going to want S-ATA 2hard drives with NCQ capability because it gives the OS the ability to get on with stuff while disk tasks complete. All the tier 1 and tier 2 vendors can provide this capability today. -
Consumer Beware...
The original source was the original source was APCStart as noted in the article. From the article:
"Amusingly, Page admits that there are no monitors out there that will do HDCP, and that this is a problem. Frankly, it's the consumer's problem, however, according to him. "It's up to you [the users] to say, 'Where's my HDCP?'"
I'm more inclined to say to Hollywood 'Hey, STFU' to be honest.
One of the major problems is that Hollywood knows that Microsoft dominates the operating system sphere, and so it can arm-wrestle MS into working with it. If there was more competition, Hollywood would have to be a little more cautious about what it tries to get away with."
No Page, it's up to me, as a consumer, to say if I want that to be a requirement and not simply something optional, not the all-knowing all-seeing industry. This is a classic example of industry telling the consumer to play by their rules with a requirement of using their technology for their benefit...not for the consumer. This also shows the industry's arrogance in tabbing on needless requirements for their personal gain. Not all consumers can afford buying a brand new monitor just to see HD-DVD or Blu-Ray content on their PC because the software maker says so. I have a hard time seeing how this requirement only hurts pirates. For example, WPA in Windows XP affects pirate and consumer alike.
This isn't really Microsoft's fault - HDCP is something that content makers, in their eternal wisdom, have decided is necessary to stop us all watching pirated movies. Yay.
Finally something we can't blame MS for -
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