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  1. Re:I hate Vista by Some_Llama · · Score: 1 · on Steam Survey Takes PC Gaming's Pulse
    Opps, properly formatted it looks like this:

    1) Performance! The darn thing gobs up 600MB of RAM when it has nothing open, and even more when you open up applications. It's called precaching, it does this to make apps more responsive, XP had the same type of feature, Vista's implementation is more aggressive BUT it is actually a good use of memory, since you have nothing open, why does it matter if the ram is preloaded? this will only decrease the time to open any app that is cached?

    The bootup time is slow and the whole system feels very slow. This is unacceptable. This is bloated code to hell. Hard to argue with you here.. as you aren't saying anything that can be verified one way or another.

    2) Lock-Ins Want to disable the stupid Windows indexing search thing? You can't! Want to uninstall all the stupid apps that are bundled in with Windows? You can't do that either. My first search for "vista uninstall indexing" found 3 ways to do this: http://help.wugnet.com/vista/disable-Vista-indexing-ftopict43619.html [wugnet.com] Use add/remove programs fro the rest. we have a full vista installer here at work for developer stations.. i'm not actually sure to what bundled apps you refer.. possibly bundled by the (HP/DELL/alienware?) OEM?

    3) The look I don't understand how Aero is supposed to be revolutionary. The interface is unbelievably distracting. The semi-transparent and blurry window borders look like a joke. Aswell, most programs will use that old-school rectangular look. It feels like I'd be running Wine. Something else you can disable?

    the rest of your problems it doesn't seem like you have really given vista a chance.. but whatever, it's your preference obviously to use XP instead.. I don't use vista myself but if you want to get rid of your media i'd be happy to try it out...

    It's a pathetic operating system while Leopard is kicking everyone's asses. ah here it is, the apple OS that came out last week is already kicking "everybody's" asses? I see that you aren't really trying to give your "experience" with vista but rather a dig at the evil M$ and pop in a pro apple statement while you have the chance...
  2. Re:I hate Vista by Some_Llama · · Score: 1 · on Steam Survey Takes PC Gaming's Pulse

    [quote] 1) Performance!
    The darn thing gobs up 600MB of RAM when it has nothing open, and even more when you open up applications.[/quote]
    It's called precaching, it does this to make apps more responsive, XP had the same type of feature, Vista's implementation is more aggressive BUT it is actually a good use of memory, since you have nothing open, why does it matter if the ram is preloaded? this will only decrease the time to open any app that is cached?

    [quote] The bootup time is slow and the whole system feels very slow. This is unacceptable. This is bloated code to hell.[/quote]
    Hard to argue with you here.. as you aren't saying anything that can be verified one way or another.

    [quote]2) Lock-Ins
    Want to disable the stupid Windows indexing search thing? You can't! Want to uninstall all the stupid apps that are bundled in with Windows? You can't do that either.[/quote]

    My first search for "vista uninstall indexing" found 3 ways to do this:
    http://help.wugnet.com/vista/disable-Vista-indexing-ftopict43619.html

    Use add/remove programs fro the rest. we have a full vista installer here at work for developer stations.. i'm not actually sure to what bundled apps you refer.. possibly bundled by the (HP/DELL/alienware?) OEM?

    [quote]3) The look
    I don't understand how Aero is supposed to be revolutionary. The interface is unbelievably distracting. The semi-transparent and blurry window borders look like a joke. Aswell, most programs will use that old-school rectangular look. It feels like I'd be running Wine.[/quote]

    Something else you can disable?

    [quote] the rest of your problems [/quote]
    it doesn't seem like you have really given vista a chance.. but whatever, it's your preference obviously to use XP instead.. I don't use vista myself but if you want to get rid of your media i'd be happy to try it out...

    [quote]It's a pathetic operating system while Leopard is kicking everyone's asses. [/quote] ah here it is.. you're a rabid MAC fanboi, the apple OS that came out last week is already kicking "everybody's" asses? Maybe when it comes to accidentally deleting your data, although i hear they have a fix for that?

  3. astroturf is pointless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Folly of Faking Fan Sites
    If the people who created a work that you admire/appreciate had their family/friends create fake "astroturf" support for it, does that reflect poorly on the work or on the creators?

    Here are some more things to consider:
    • Paul Thurrott's Wininfo: Either this guy really likes that sort of thing or there's something he's not telling us...
    • Obsessive Fan Sites: Does this site really point out which fan sites are silly wastes of bandwidth or does it get secret funding from fan site operators in exchange for linking to their pages? It's not terribly bad publicity, once you think about who these sites are trying to attract.
    • Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon fan pages: Are all of these really run by Sailormoon fans, or are some really run by friends and family of Takeuchi Naoko? For love and justice indeed!
    • slashdot.org: Is this really a geek-run open-source-friendly news site or is it a secret joint venture between Redhat/SUSE/Caldera (with additional help from the X10 "price slasher") to stir up buzz? The fact that it's not all about Linux could be an attempt to throw people off the trail and make /. look "genuine".


    To the best of my knowledge, the sites I discussed are not "astroturf" (with the possible exception of that Slashdot thing, you know all the comments on there are planted :)

    But why would anyone do such a thing, if there's already real grassroots support? I can understand the DIVX pages, but any movie is going to attract a rabid following, however few in number. I just can't see any possible benefit of fake TBWP fan sites. That doesn't mean that none of them are fake--if some of them are, the people responsible should get a smack upside the head--just that having fake ones is worthless given that there are bound to be some real ones.

    And who goes around believing everything that they read? This sentence is false.

    BTW: is this post fake? :)
  4. WinInfo is not getting as cheesy as I thought! by bpdlr · · Score: 1 · on Gates: "Linux Can't Compete"

    Apologies to WinInfo, the Linux URL is still up, at http://www.wugnet.com/wininfo/win2000/not_nt/defau lt.asp.

    So, Paul, when's LinuxInfo launching? ;-)
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