No, Vista got slapped with the reputation for being a worthless piece of shite by, hmm, let's see, being a worthless piece of shite
You can't drag me back to XP. Vista is, by far, superior to XP.
Sorry, I'm happy running a x64 OS, where I can run all my developer tools and virtual machines and games and office on the same computer without having to dual boot or spend a week configuring things.
The only thing full of crap is the people who spout 'vista is bad' without actually using it.
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
I had to learn on a TRS-80. Every day at 6am we would have to power up the computer room by walking out in the snow and gathering the wood for the generator.
If you're really paranoid, you create a hidden os partition in truecrypt, then create a VM in the hidden os, then inside the vm in the hidden os you create a truecrypt volume and inside that you create a hidden volume.
If you're running Windows 32 and you have 4GB of RAM in the system, you don't really need a swap file. You can't go over 4GB of memory on a 32 bit system (with some exceptions that you most likely won't ever see at home), a swap file would just be for debugging. So, if all you're doing is playing games & browsing, why bother with a swap file?
Microsoft releases Vista/2008 SP2 AND Windows 7 RC AND Windows 2008 R2 RC AND Virtual PC RC AND the Windows 7 SDK on the same day and they don't expect to have bandwidth problems?
Geez, what were they thinking? SP2 should have come out on RTM day, that would at least cut a few hundred mb downloads out of the picture.
I'm mixed on my laptop. I had XP, installed Vista and used it for a while, and it was fine, but occasionally sluggish. Readyboost helped slightly.
After my HDD died, I went and installed XP again, and I'll be honest. I missed some things in Vista, but you're right, nothing was compelling me to upgrade.
When Windows 7 Beta came out, I tried it on the laptop, and it was about equal to XP, so it's staying for now. I honestly think this laptop will die with Windows 7 on it (it's now 4+ years old) and not XP.
Connections that haven't been upgraded in a DECADE is not a problem of "OMG, but America is soooo BIG!".
You're pretty much right. The problem is that it's not amazingly profitable to upgrade a connection. Which is pretty much what most big companies want at all times.
Small profit is not worth it, must be huge amounts of money. Monoplies like TWC should be earning a profit of a few pennies over cost, they're not.
Why are they deliberately fucking up their OS? Don't they have enough competition? If so, bring in the anti-trust people, or fire the department responsible for this kind of brain-damage.
When you find out that this edition costs under $25 (heck, they might even make it free) you'll understand that this is marketing brilliance.
Requires a special packet sent from within that LAN. Not something that can be pulled off from home, unless you have a second computer running 24/7 sitting in the same network as the first one with a utility that you can run remotely just to turn your computer on.
WRT54GL router & custom firmware (dd-wrt).
You're not turning your router off, and you can WOL your computers.
When WOL works, it's amazing, when it doesn't, it's amazing ly full of suck.
I had my media center set to sleep after an hour, until I found out that the extender won't wake it up. (Way to go linksys). Current system throttles down, goes into away mode, but can't quite make that last step to sleep, at least it's a start.
But this can quite easily be replaced to use something other than DNS, and hopefully, it will be done.
The problem is the replacment system has to be fair and open, and DNS is pretty much that, which is why it's still here. I personally HATE DNS as a web directory tool, it's far too limited. Opening more TLDs might improve that, but I doubt it, it's more likely to generate more confusion.
I do wish you the best of luck in your journey to recovery.
Hidden troll is hiding.
Wine is well on its way to being that solution.
And in another 6 or so years it might actually be worth using, or even out of beta. Here's a hint, just incrementing the number doesn't mean it's out of beta.
Things like Crossover are leading the way...
...right off a cliff. It has zero chance in the next 5 years of making it into the average house. Sorry, it's still firmly located in your mom's basement, next to you and your stuff.
I do wish you the best of luck in your journey to living above ground.
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No, Vista got slapped with the reputation for being a worthless piece of shite by, hmm, let's see, being a worthless piece of shite
You can't drag me back to XP. Vista is, by far, superior to XP.
Sorry, I'm happy running a x64 OS, where I can run all my developer tools and virtual machines and games and office on the same computer without having to dual boot or spend a week configuring things.
The only thing full of crap is the people who spout 'vista is bad' without actually using it.
Artic station? Pure luxury.
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
And that's how I learned COBOL.
You had Apple Basic and Turbo Pascal? Luxury!
I had to learn on a TRS-80. Every day at 6am we would have to power up the computer room by walking out in the snow and gathering the wood for the generator.
Before someone jumps in, I should clarify my above statement. Unless you were working on the mainframe that week, you used MicroFocus on the PC.
Yeah, you didn't learn development during the 90s. All COBOL, all Micro Focus.
Employees can quit or be terminated at any time, for pretty much any reason.
There are dozens of limits on that. Most of them involve violating other labor laws though.
If you're really paranoid, you create a hidden os partition in truecrypt, then create a VM in the hidden os, then inside the vm in the hidden os you create a truecrypt volume and inside that you create a hidden volume.
Don't make all the passwords 'l33t h@x0r'.
Just going off topic for a second:
If you're running Windows 32 and you have 4GB of RAM in the system, you don't really need a swap file. You can't go over 4GB of memory on a 32 bit system (with some exceptions that you most likely won't ever see at home), a swap file would just be for debugging. So, if all you're doing is playing games & browsing, why bother with a swap file?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx?PV=36:350:DVD:en:x64
SHA1: FC867FE1AB2E0A9796F9E4D155B44EA6998F4874
If you ignore the zillions of warning messages you get between now and next year, you deserve to have a disabled OS.
Which, by the way won't be disabled, you'll still be able to boot up to copy files.
And your non-virtual OS's swap file? You can turn it off, but that'd raise big suspicions.
Like what? Having 4GB of RAM? I have no swap on some systems, don't need it, why should I thrash my HDD?
Does your XP disc dissolve at some point in the next 13 months?
If you're smart enough to get the RC running, you know how to re-install XP.
Because it's what 80% of the world will be running in about a year?
Microsoft releases Vista/2008 SP2 AND Windows 7 RC AND Windows 2008 R2 RC AND Virtual PC RC AND the Windows 7 SDK on the same day and they don't expect to have bandwidth problems?
Geez, what were they thinking? SP2 should have come out on RTM day, that would at least cut a few hundred mb downloads out of the picture.
I'm mixed on my laptop. I had XP, installed Vista and used it for a while, and it was fine, but occasionally sluggish. Readyboost helped slightly.
After my HDD died, I went and installed XP again, and I'll be honest. I missed some things in Vista, but you're right, nothing was compelling me to upgrade.
When Windows 7 Beta came out, I tried it on the laptop, and it was about equal to XP, so it's staying for now. I honestly think this laptop will die with Windows 7 on it (it's now 4+ years old) and not XP.
Your life up until this accident has sounded fairly idyllic and easy.
Except for the brain tumor and intensive radiation treatment. Yeah, that's a fucking idyllic and easy walk in the park there.
Did you bother to read past the first paragraph?
Connections that haven't been upgraded in a DECADE is not a problem of "OMG, but America is soooo BIG!".
You're pretty much right. The problem is that it's not amazingly profitable to upgrade a connection. Which is pretty much what most big companies want at all times.
Small profit is not worth it, must be huge amounts of money. Monoplies like TWC should be earning a profit of a few pennies over cost, they're not.
Why are they deliberately fucking up their OS? Don't they have enough competition? If so, bring in the anti-trust people, or fire the department responsible for this kind of brain-damage.
When you find out that this edition costs under $25 (heck, they might even make it free) you'll understand that this is marketing brilliance.
Requires a special packet sent from within that LAN. Not something that can be pulled off from home, unless you have a second computer running 24/7 sitting in the same network as the first one with a utility that you can run remotely just to turn your computer on.
WRT54GL router & custom firmware (dd-wrt).
You're not turning your router off, and you can WOL your computers.
When WOL works, it's amazing, when it doesn't, it's amazing ly full of suck.
I had my media center set to sleep after an hour, until I found out that the extender won't wake it up. (Way to go linksys). Current system throttles down, goes into away mode, but can't quite make that last step to sleep, at least it's a start.
Given that they made them world readable and writable, I'd argue they did.
Set up accounts and moderate entries if you want to reduce spam (which this is).
Fine, the box says 'everyone use me' on the side.
An open wiki is the equivilant of putting a big open box on your front lawn by the sidewalk that anyone can toss stuff into or take stuff out of.
Getting mad that people aren't tossing the stuff you wanted into it isn't the best excuse.
But this can quite easily be replaced to use something other than DNS, and hopefully, it will be done.
The problem is the replacment system has to be fair and open, and DNS is pretty much that, which is why it's still here. I personally HATE DNS as a web directory tool, it's far too limited. Opening more TLDs might improve that, but I doubt it, it's more likely to generate more confusion.
I do wish you the best of luck in your journey to recovery.
Hidden troll is hiding.
Wine is well on its way to being that solution.
And in another 6 or so years it might actually be worth using, or even out of beta. Here's a hint, just incrementing the number doesn't mean it's out of beta.
Things like Crossover are leading the way...
...right off a cliff. It has zero chance in the next 5 years of making it into the average house. Sorry, it's still firmly located in your mom's basement, next to you and your stuff.
I do wish you the best of luck in your journey to living above ground.
(Obvious troll is obvious)