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Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives
tlhIngan writes "From a developer's blog, Windows Vista will no longer support DVD-ROM drives that do not handle region coding in hardware (RPC1 drives) - thus preventing playback of DVDs that are region/CSS encoded with those drives. Not a big problem, as RPC1 drives haven't been officially manufactured since 2000 (and Microsoft claims their drives are all broken), but for those with hacked drives (RPC2 with RPC1 firmware), or move the RPC1 drive to new computers, well, no more DVD movies for you!"
...DVDs play YOU!
Some examples of why Ubuntu got tossed back off the HD
1: It would not reset the screen resolution. Trying to use it with an older monitor that only did 800x600 and it kept resetting to 1024x768. Worse, if I managed to get logged in, it would re-sync AGAIN once the user space loaded.
2: I needed to reset my IP address so I could connect directly to my router (special subnet needed). Ubuntu, at first, wouldnt let me get into the network configuration because it didnt supply me with a root password. Once I found the work around that, it wouldnt change IP addresses until I did a reboot, and then had to deal with the screen resolution problem again.
3. After loading the OS, Ubuntu TRIED to download GIGS of updates to installed software without first checking the connection. As I live in a *VERY* rural area, my connect speed is usually around 21Kbps. When it told me it would take 3 weeks to load updates, the drive got wiped.
There are more problems, but linux is finally starting to be usable as an OS. At least now, the newer versions can recognize my network without a bunch of voodoo even if they still have a hard time sharing files properly (for me). I just hope linux is more useful by the time XP is dropped. My next computer will probably run MacOS *IF* I can find all the software I need to run.
Kevin
Translation:
MacOS's DVD player is just as useless as Windows in this regard. So you should all buy Macintoshes, because they've, like, got really cool logos and shit.
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
I LOVE this way people try to wriggle out of the fact that they're freeloaders.
I would love it if people who bitched about "freeloaders" considered how much consumer debt the average "freeloader" probably has, because downloading stuff online is only free if your time is worthless.
P2P isn't about "free", it's about convienience. It's more convienient to download stuff over bittorrent than it is to work 100 hours a week to actually pay for all the stuff you are getting.