I didn't even bother to do the de-authorize, as I was already part-way through the upgrade and it's the only currently-licensed machine out of the allowed 5. Unless I missed it, everything remained authorized after the upgrade, as the DRM files I have still play fine. They're admittedly all free ones from Single Of The Week, because I'll only pay for download content if it's iTunes Plus now, but that shouldn't affect the test.
Just like on Vista, pressing Backspace goes back to the previous directory the window was displaying. If you're drilling down that's the same thing, but if you either type in or use the Explorer pane to shift somewhere completely different then that won't move you up. Instead, what you need to do is click the name of the directory above in the location bar. Best of both worlds, if you ask me.
All the personal data in the documents and settings folders are safely backed up, because the enhanced user permissions stuff (so that user A can't see user B's stuff by default, etc) would all be reset otherwise.
That's a clean install, not an upgrade. As the article documents, a fair proportion of the total time taken to upgrade Vista to 7 is the amount of copying done as it safely backs up all your personal data before starting, then puts it all back with the new user permissions afterwards.
Out of sheer laziness, and because the last time I did it was for 98 to 98SE, I ran through the upgrade from Vista, instead of a fresh install. From what I could see, it was backing up all my personal data and then restoring it anyway; a fair proportion of the total install time was just moving umpty-thrumpty GB of photos back and forth so everything was safe.
Really? When I upgraded my 64-bit Vista machine to 7 recently, it did all the drivers as well. A quick Windows Update once it finished got me the latest versions, too. All in, about 2.5 hours including the recommended uninstall/reinstall of VMWare to put in the new virtual network drivers that needed.
7's upgrade process is insanely well designed; it's an absolute Godsend compared to previous ones. Before starting, it did a full scan of my system, confirmed all the hardware would be fine, told me which pieces of software needed manual work to cope (the VMWare drivers and a re-license of my DRMed iTunes content) and the URLs to the one beta driver it didn't have on Windows Update already, then dumped the results to a html file on the desktop.
Not just the GPU, but some support for external hardware, too. The PS3's internal drive is RPC-2 locked to the DVD region they ship on. Which wouldn't be a problem if it recognised an external USB DVD drive, but it doesn't - so VLC can't play imports under Linux. Which is a bit of a bind.
Just as requested, nobody talk about college football on the Internet. At all. Sure, talk about other sports that interest you, or indeed anything else, but just don't give this particular commercial enterprise any publicity. It'll soon go away, and hopefully be replaced by something better.
Polyphony's argument that the companies won't let them break cars seems rather spurious, however, when most of them are fully wreckable in both the Project Gotham and Forza Motorsport series. Even on the PS3 there's GRID with full car deformation.
Since I was going to have to buy a PS3 to get the game (and yes, I'm such an utter WipEout addict that I was seriously considering doing so; as I've got a 360 and a Blu-ray player already it's about the only exclusive that tempts me), then yes, this is the final straw to tip me away again. I've held out this long, I can continue to do so until the ads get removed again.
The raw achievements number is indeed just a mark of how much time you've spent playing games. What I do look at, however, is the list of individual achievements on a game my friends have in comparison to me - being able to get some difficult achievement is a handy high-score proxy.
Which is one reason why gamerscore hacking is so utterly pointless - the idiots that do this just grant themselves 100% on the games, so it's pretty obvious what's up.
You are mistaken. The achievements don't unlock anything except a big number beside your gamercard and a list of difficult things you've supposedly managed to do in various games. Unlocked bits of games that you're missing out on are stored in the save files instead.
There's something wrong with spending over a million pounds on a Veyron when a £40k Caterham R500 Superlight will beat it round the track, however. If that's not good enough, a £235k Caparo T1 will absolutely demolish it.
The Veyron is an ugly display of brute horsepower, and represents everything I dislike about the German attitude to fast car building usually seen courtesy of AMG. They may be building and selling the Bugatti in France, but their paymasters at VW certainly look to be in charge.
Yes - there was an article in this month's Top Gear about the race; between putting Richard Hammond in the Veyron with no launch control and the decreased ability of the four turbochargers to compress air in the heat it was thought the race might be a bit closer.
If they had been racing with some actual corners in, then the 2-tonne monster would have had to slow down and conditions would have been even closer; there are a load of cars that beat the Veyron around the Top Gear Test Track, although they haven't put an F1 round.
Which is just as well, as an actual Formula 1 car can get 0-60 in under 2 seconds. They don't have the theoretical top speed of the Veyron, but there isn't an F1 track on the calendar with a straight long enough for Bugatti's piece of silliness to get up to 240 anyway.
For comparison, the Veyron's time around the Top Gear Test Track is 1:18.3. When they had Renault's F1 car on a few years back, it set a (not even dry) time of 59 seconds dead. Meanwhile, the Caparo T1 and the Ferrari FXX did 1:10.6 and 1:10.7 respectively, if you're comparing stupidly fast cars once corners enter the equation.
Yes, but the (rather lovely) roads of the Isle of Man include sufficient twistyness that you won't be doing 140mph for more than a few seconds - so I'd argue that "cruising" at that speed is strictly Autobahn time.
If you don't want to distribute and store others' warez, I suggest not carrying the relevant alt.binaries subgroups, then.
They do indeed make up a massive proportion of Usenet's bandwidth, for a purpose completely different to what it was originally designed for. But they're nowhere near as bad as spammers, since they (usually) keep to their alloted group. As a Usenet provider it's reasonably simple to only carry those groups you think appropriate.
On a boringly practical basis, I'd have thought all that "leeching" happening on a single server you can control the downstream demand on was a lot less hassle for an ISP than having bittorrent saturate your users upload bandwidth all the time, mind you.
Microsoft don't want Joe User locked out of his content when he shouldn't be. Joe User obviously doesn't want to be locked out either, that's why he would complain.
So they're both happy about the fix. The only people unhappy are those sitting on the sidelines cheering on the fact that others are suffering. I'm not particularly sure I _want_ this outside set of people happy, if that's their attitude.
Well, without knowing the detail of that, it might well be a good thing. Most obviously, if it's fixing one of the bugs where your TV path is failing the content protection checks when it really shouldn't.
Yes, DRM is evil, bad and wrong. But stopping it from going off when it shouldn't has to be good, right?
For a single-threaded task, though, an E8400 will be a fair bit faster than a Q6600. I just saved myself a shedload of cash and dropped down to the E7300. Sure, I now find I'm blocked from using XP mode in Windows 7 on it, but I've still got a perfectly good copy of VMWare for the rare times I need XP stuff, and don't entirely trust that XP mode not to make a hideous mess of things anyway.
At least you made some colour changes. I handed it the thumbnail version of a photo and got dramatically better results than from the high-res version of the same image...
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I didn't even bother to do the de-authorize, as I was already part-way through the upgrade and it's the only currently-licensed machine out of the allowed 5. Unless I missed it, everything remained authorized after the upgrade, as the DRM files I have still play fine. They're admittedly all free ones from Single Of The Week, because I'll only pay for download content if it's iTunes Plus now, but that shouldn't affect the test.
Just like on Vista, pressing Backspace goes back to the previous directory the window was displaying. If you're drilling down that's the same thing, but if you either type in or use the Explorer pane to shift somewhere completely different then that won't move you up. Instead, what you need to do is click the name of the directory above in the location bar. Best of both worlds, if you ask me.
Given his stunning photographs of orchids, I suppose daffodils aren't out of the question, either...
All the personal data in the documents and settings folders are safely backed up, because the enhanced user permissions stuff (so that user A can't see user B's stuff by default, etc) would all be reset otherwise.
That's a clean install, not an upgrade. As the article documents, a fair proportion of the total time taken to upgrade Vista to 7 is the amount of copying done as it safely backs up all your personal data before starting, then puts it all back with the new user permissions afterwards.
Out of sheer laziness, and because the last time I did it was for 98 to 98SE, I ran through the upgrade from Vista, instead of a fresh install. From what I could see, it was backing up all my personal data and then restoring it anyway; a fair proportion of the total install time was just moving umpty-thrumpty GB of photos back and forth so everything was safe.
And yes, it's a beautifully smooth process.
Really? When I upgraded my 64-bit Vista machine to 7 recently, it did all the drivers as well. A quick Windows Update once it finished got me the latest versions, too. All in, about 2.5 hours including the recommended uninstall/reinstall of VMWare to put in the new virtual network drivers that needed.
7's upgrade process is insanely well designed; it's an absolute Godsend compared to previous ones. Before starting, it did a full scan of my system, confirmed all the hardware would be fine, told me which pieces of software needed manual work to cope (the VMWare drivers and a re-license of my DRMed iTunes content) and the URLs to the one beta driver it didn't have on Windows Update already, then dumped the results to a html file on the desktop.
Here's an even better one. Get a real life, and drive a racing car instead.
Not just the GPU, but some support for external hardware, too. The PS3's internal drive is RPC-2 locked to the DVD region they ship on. Which wouldn't be a problem if it recognised an external USB DVD drive, but it doesn't - so VLC can't play imports under Linux. Which is a bit of a bind.
Just as requested, nobody talk about college football on the Internet. At all. Sure, talk about other sports that interest you, or indeed anything else, but just don't give this particular commercial enterprise any publicity. It'll soon go away, and hopefully be replaced by something better.
Even the number-one badass on the server is going to find it difficult with 99 cops after him in a single instance.
Polyphony's argument that the companies won't let them break cars seems rather spurious, however, when most of them are fully wreckable in both the Project Gotham and Forza Motorsport series. Even on the PS3 there's GRID with full car deformation.
Since I was going to have to buy a PS3 to get the game (and yes, I'm such an utter WipEout addict that I was seriously considering doing so; as I've got a 360 and a Blu-ray player already it's about the only exclusive that tempts me), then yes, this is the final straw to tip me away again. I've held out this long, I can continue to do so until the ads get removed again.
The raw achievements number is indeed just a mark of how much time you've spent playing games. What I do look at, however, is the list of individual achievements on a game my friends have in comparison to me - being able to get some difficult achievement is a handy high-score proxy.
Which is one reason why gamerscore hacking is so utterly pointless - the idiots that do this just grant themselves 100% on the games, so it's pretty obvious what's up.
You are mistaken. The achievements don't unlock anything except a big number beside your gamercard and a list of difficult things you've supposedly managed to do in various games. Unlocked bits of games that you're missing out on are stored in the save files instead.
There's something wrong with spending over a million pounds on a Veyron when a £40k Caterham R500 Superlight will beat it round the track, however. If that's not good enough, a £235k Caparo T1 will absolutely demolish it.
The Veyron is an ugly display of brute horsepower, and represents everything I dislike about the German attitude to fast car building usually seen courtesy of AMG. They may be building and selling the Bugatti in France, but their paymasters at VW certainly look to be in charge.
Yes - there was an article in this month's Top Gear about the race; between putting Richard Hammond in the Veyron with no launch control and the decreased ability of the four turbochargers to compress air in the heat it was thought the race might be a bit closer.
If they had been racing with some actual corners in, then the 2-tonne monster would have had to slow down and conditions would have been even closer; there are a load of cars that beat the Veyron around the Top Gear Test Track, although they haven't put an F1 round.
Which is just as well, as an actual Formula 1 car can get 0-60 in under 2 seconds. They don't have the theoretical top speed of the Veyron, but there isn't an F1 track on the calendar with a straight long enough for Bugatti's piece of silliness to get up to 240 anyway.
For comparison, the Veyron's time around the Top Gear Test Track is 1:18.3. When they had Renault's F1 car on a few years back, it set a (not even dry) time of 59 seconds dead. Meanwhile, the Caparo T1 and the Ferrari FXX did 1:10.6 and 1:10.7 respectively, if you're comparing stupidly fast cars once corners enter the equation.
Yes, but the (rather lovely) roads of the Isle of Man include sufficient twistyness that you won't be doing 140mph for more than a few seconds - so I'd argue that "cruising" at that speed is strictly Autobahn time.
If you don't want to distribute and store others' warez, I suggest not carrying the relevant alt.binaries subgroups, then.
They do indeed make up a massive proportion of Usenet's bandwidth, for a purpose completely different to what it was originally designed for. But they're nowhere near as bad as spammers, since they (usually) keep to their alloted group. As a Usenet provider it's reasonably simple to only carry those groups you think appropriate.
On a boringly practical basis, I'd have thought all that "leeching" happening on a single server you can control the downstream demand on was a lot less hassle for an ISP than having bittorrent saturate your users upload bandwidth all the time, mind you.
Microsoft don't want Joe User locked out of his content when he shouldn't be. Joe User obviously doesn't want to be locked out either, that's why he would complain.
So they're both happy about the fix. The only people unhappy are those sitting on the sidelines cheering on the fact that others are suffering. I'm not particularly sure I _want_ this outside set of people happy, if that's their attitude.
Well, without knowing the detail of that, it might well be a good thing. Most obviously, if it's fixing one of the bugs where your TV path is failing the content protection checks when it really shouldn't.
Yes, DRM is evil, bad and wrong. But stopping it from going off when it shouldn't has to be good, right?
For a single-threaded task, though, an E8400 will be a fair bit faster than a Q6600. I just saved myself a shedload of cash and dropped down to the E7300. Sure, I now find I'm blocked from using XP mode in Windows 7 on it, but I've still got a perfectly good copy of VMWare for the rare times I need XP stuff, and don't entirely trust that XP mode not to make a hideous mess of things anyway.
At least you made some colour changes. I handed it the thumbnail version of a photo and got dramatically better results than from the high-res version of the same image...
While on vacation to visit an air display for the public? Yes.