I'm considering moving my laptop back to Vista because extended desktop support is about a billion times better in Windows world than it is in x11.
Running the latest Xorg-7.4, if I plug in a second monitor using XRandR support, I can clone desktop only. Sure, theoretically it's possible to do an extended desktop, but when I try I get a maximum screen size error. To get around that, I could set a virtual screen size in my xorg.conf file, but even then, what if I want a different resolution for my TV or my projector or my external monitor? XAA is a big kludge and right now is x11 is really holding Linux back.
For the record, to do all of the above in Vista, all I have to do is plug in a second monitor and then it all just works. Really, the only thing holding me back right now from switching is all of the work I put in to get my laptop fully functional on Gentoo.
I have two 30GB Zunes that are affected by this. The best theory I've heard is that it is having issues with this being the 366th day of the year. Maybe all will be well again tomorrow - we'll see.
No matter how many times I remove Google and Yahoo toolbars from my Dad's PC, it always gets reinstalled. Too many freeware apps come with it "pre-checked" during installation, and too many users just click "Yes" or "OK" on every prompt.
I've always wondered this too. Unless I'm trying to change a system setting or change a folder that I don't have permissions on, UAC never pops up for me. It's no different than having to give root privileges in GNOME or KDE, or sudo on the command line.
The only major gripe I have about the whole Windows UAC setup is the "All Users" profile. Applications love to install their shortcuts there (including Microsoft apps - my Zune update is an example), and you do require UAC to wipe that stuff off of your desktop.
I agree with you. Taxing corporations is stupid and is just a way of hiding money from taxpayers. But somehow the media and the government have convinced the masses that corporations are evil and bad and we should tax tax tax tax them.
Here, Here! I used Open Office for a week and was convinced that it was absolutely worth the money to pay for Microsoft Office. In the grand scheme of things, if you really need Office then you can afford the $200 or the $70/yr.
That being said, a lot of companies have worked out deals with Microsoft to allow employees to have an additional license to use on their home PCs for minimal cost. The caveat is that when you leave the company or if the company does not renew it's contract, you are supposed to uninstall the application. At my company, the cost was $20, which was for shipping, handling, and media costs and included all Office 2007 applications except Visio. Definitely something to look into if you work at a medium or large business and are just looking to do some work on your home PC.
Agreed, anti-virus, anti-malware and firewall software is more responsible for the "slowness" of Windows than anything else out there. I bought a Dell Laptop with 2GB of RAM, 1.66Ghz Core2 and I was surprised how quick Vista was on a clean install.
Installed Trend Micro antivirus and there went that speed. It's a Gentoo box now, but my Gentoo install, which is pretty minimal by design, isn't a whole heck of lot quicker than Vista was all things considered.
Other stupid things that slow Windows down are the "speed launchers" that apps silently install in the background. Adobe Acrobat and Sun Java, I'm looking at you!
You didn't buy it from eBay, why would you expect eBay to reimburse you? If the deal is too good to be true, then it's probably not. I've bought one fake item on eBay and the user eventually got pulled.I was out $50 and considered it a lesson learned.
eBay is not any more liable than a fake Craigslist ad, or the City of Los Angeles when people buy fakes on Santee Ave.
I downloaded it on my Gentoo laptop and it would hang trying to load the login.yahoo.com page. Oh well, back to Firefox 2.x waiting for the Gentoo team to deem FF3 to be stable.:)
Did Opera fix it's incompatibilities with Yahoo! yet? Yahoo's Javascript would bring Opera to it's knees in 9.27 so I gave up on it and went to IE7, before finally moving back to the Fox with 3.0 RC2.
I might have to check out Opera 9.5 again, although so far I'm enjoying FF3.0 with the FireGestures and Speed Dial add ons.
This is basically just incorporating StumbleUpon in their web searches. I wonder if StumbleUpon (an eBay company) has a patent on this technology? If nothing else, this will make the the already frigid relationship between Google and eBay a little more testy.
Code signing certificates are of trivial cost to any for-profit developer. Even if you don't code sign, your applications still install and run just fine - it's only drivers that won't run. DRM sucks, but in some regards Microsoft's hands were tied by the various laws of the world. Vista has a lot of flaws which are pointed on out this site over and over, but the DRM issue is a bit overblown in my opinion. I can still rip CDs, copy DVDs, and play all my DivX/Xvid files just fine on Vista x64.
It's VERY refreshing to be able to play a game from beginning to end in one sitting. If a game takes longer than 15-20 hours to finish, I usually take extended breaks away and forget what the heck I was doing a week later when I pick it up again. I don't know who made the "40 hour" game something to strive for - I sure can't believe it was the working adult.
1) Performance!
The darn thing gobs up 600MB of RAM when it has nothing open, and even more when you open up applications. The bootup time is slow and the whole system feels very slow. This is unacceptable. This is bloated code to hell.
Vista will generally use 40% of your PC's RAM regardless of how much you have in there, because it uses the RAM for an application pre-load cache. I went from 2GB to 4GB and my RAM usage stayed right around 40%.
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.
I thought that you could tell it not to index certain folders, but I don't know for certain. I would imagine almost all users benefit from indexed searches though...
3) The look
I don't understand how Aero is supposed to be revolutionary. The interface is unbelievably distracting.
This is your opinion - I won't try to argue it.
4) Lack of innovation
What does it offer more than than XP? XP is perfectly stable, it's fast and it WORKS. The features that Microsoft is touting are simply pathetic. An integrated Anti-Virus (I have a brain and AVG for that) and some other applications in the system.
Microsoft is so big and has so many customers, they can't really be innovative - they need to support too much legacy stuff. I would argue that Microsoft's stance on x64 in Vista is fairly innovative and is definitely a breath of fresh air for the desktop computing environment. Yes, I know that other OS's have had 64-bit for a long time, but only Vista will push it to be the norm.
My copy of Vista has been every bit as stable as XP was for me. There is no integrated Anti-Virus in Vista, so I'd like for you to explain how it's being touted by Microsoft. Vista IS more secure than any other copy of Windows before it thanks to it's rewritten driver model and the annoying popups (which, in my opinion, don't happen enough to be truly annoying).
It's a pathetic operating system while Leopard is kicking everyone's asses.
Uhh.... By everyone do you mean Gentoo? I don't have hard numbers, but I would guess Vista's install base is 10x as large as Leopard's...
I think the idea is that the flaw exists in Vista, but because Vista is quite a bit smarter about how hit handles itself, the code can't exploit the kernel.
That pretty much confirms that Sony will massively fail at even coming near their PS3 shipment forecasts for the fiscal year. They are forecasting 11 million shipped during the fiscal year, and have shipped 2 million in the first half. Surely you underestimate Sony! They can meet the 11 million shipped and then advertise that each Sony Style store had 300,000 units IN STOCK NOW!
(Yes, I have the 2% cash back executive card. And yes, it was all from personal purchases.) Is this a lame attempt to pat yourself on the back as being wealthy? I don't remember anyone asking you about your spending habits, but you are answering them.
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I'm considering moving my laptop back to Vista because extended desktop support is about a billion times better in Windows world than it is in x11. Running the latest Xorg-7.4, if I plug in a second monitor using XRandR support, I can clone desktop only. Sure, theoretically it's possible to do an extended desktop, but when I try I get a maximum screen size error. To get around that, I could set a virtual screen size in my xorg.conf file, but even then, what if I want a different resolution for my TV or my projector or my external monitor? XAA is a big kludge and right now is x11 is really holding Linux back. For the record, to do all of the above in Vista, all I have to do is plug in a second monitor and then it all just works. Really, the only thing holding me back right now from switching is all of the work I put in to get my laptop fully functional on Gentoo.
I have two 30GB Zunes that are affected by this. The best theory I've heard is that it is having issues with this being the 366th day of the year. Maybe all will be well again tomorrow - we'll see.
If you were really brave, you would also post your PayPal login ID along with your password.
No matter how many times I remove Google and Yahoo toolbars from my Dad's PC, it always gets reinstalled. Too many freeware apps come with it "pre-checked" during installation, and too many users just click "Yes" or "OK" on every prompt.
I've always wondered this too. Unless I'm trying to change a system setting or change a folder that I don't have permissions on, UAC never pops up for me. It's no different than having to give root privileges in GNOME or KDE, or sudo on the command line. The only major gripe I have about the whole Windows UAC setup is the "All Users" profile. Applications love to install their shortcuts there (including Microsoft apps - my Zune update is an example), and you do require UAC to wipe that stuff off of your desktop.
I agree with you. Taxing corporations is stupid and is just a way of hiding money from taxpayers. But somehow the media and the government have convinced the masses that corporations are evil and bad and we should tax tax tax tax them.
Skype has lots and lots of video phone users...
That being said, a lot of companies have worked out deals with Microsoft to allow employees to have an additional license to use on their home PCs for minimal cost. The caveat is that when you leave the company or if the company does not renew it's contract, you are supposed to uninstall the application. At my company, the cost was $20, which was for shipping, handling, and media costs and included all Office 2007 applications except Visio. Definitely something to look into if you work at a medium or large business and are just looking to do some work on your home PC.
Agreed, anti-virus, anti-malware and firewall software is more responsible for the "slowness" of Windows than anything else out there. I bought a Dell Laptop with 2GB of RAM, 1.66Ghz Core2 and I was surprised how quick Vista was on a clean install. Installed Trend Micro antivirus and there went that speed. It's a Gentoo box now, but my Gentoo install, which is pretty minimal by design, isn't a whole heck of lot quicker than Vista was all things considered. Other stupid things that slow Windows down are the "speed launchers" that apps silently install in the background. Adobe Acrobat and Sun Java, I'm looking at you!
You didn't buy it from eBay, why would you expect eBay to reimburse you? If the deal is too good to be true, then it's probably not. I've bought one fake item on eBay and the user eventually got pulled.I was out $50 and considered it a lesson learned. eBay is not any more liable than a fake Craigslist ad, or the City of Los Angeles when people buy fakes on Santee Ave.
I'm an existing user and I'd be GLAD to play $1.00 per additional profile to keep the feature. It's either that or drop Netflix - I let them know.
I downloaded it on my Gentoo laptop and it would hang trying to load the login.yahoo.com page. Oh well, back to Firefox 2.x waiting for the Gentoo team to deem FF3 to be stable. :)
Did Opera fix it's incompatibilities with Yahoo! yet? Yahoo's Javascript would bring Opera to it's knees in 9.27 so I gave up on it and went to IE7, before finally moving back to the Fox with 3.0 RC2. I might have to check out Opera 9.5 again, although so far I'm enjoying FF3.0 with the FireGestures and Speed Dial add ons.
I can't believe Slashdot would post an article that was unfairly biased against Microsoft!
This is basically just incorporating StumbleUpon in their web searches. I wonder if StumbleUpon (an eBay company) has a patent on this technology? If nothing else, this will make the the already frigid relationship between Google and eBay a little more testy.
Umm... I wouldn't describe calling around to stores and camping outside of them as "can be easily found."
Code signing certificates are of trivial cost to any for-profit developer. Even if you don't code sign, your applications still install and run just fine - it's only drivers that won't run. DRM sucks, but in some regards Microsoft's hands were tied by the various laws of the world. Vista has a lot of flaws which are pointed on out this site over and over, but the DRM issue is a bit overblown in my opinion. I can still rip CDs, copy DVDs, and play all my DivX/Xvid files just fine on Vista x64.
It's VERY refreshing to be able to play a game from beginning to end in one sitting. If a game takes longer than 15-20 hours to finish, I usually take extended breaks away and forget what the heck I was doing a week later when I pick it up again. I don't know who made the "40 hour" game something to strive for - I sure can't believe it was the working adult.
My copy of Vista has been every bit as stable as XP was for me. There is no integrated Anti-Virus in Vista, so I'd like for you to explain how it's being touted by Microsoft. Vista IS more secure than any other copy of Windows before it thanks to it's rewritten driver model and the annoying popups (which, in my opinion, don't happen enough to be truly annoying).
Uhh.... By everyone do you mean Gentoo? I don't have hard numbers, but I would guess Vista's install base is 10x as large as Leopard's...I think the idea is that the flaw exists in Vista, but because Vista is quite a bit smarter about how hit handles itself, the code can't exploit the kernel.
Who cares what you consider stealing - the law considers you stealing the intellectual property of Sega and Nintendo.
I agree, I too am a proud owner of AnyDVD. I don't use CloneDVD since DVD Shrink works well enough for me, but AnyDVD is a great piece of software.
The 8800GT is the best bang for your buck. Just because it's not cheap doesn't mean it's not a good bargain.