Joke or not this mofo is COMPLETELY correct >:( WPA under Ubuntu specifically is a bastard, it's meant to work out of the box as per like 2 fucking versions ago (yes my THREE wifi chipsets are supported)
Ergh.
Re:Slightly offtopic but re: XP, Vista and Linux U
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I realised mapped drives, cd-drives with discs and floppys slow down the UI - the question is not only WHY but why from version to version? Fix it! Why do I need to wait? Why not give me the UI, THEN poll the stuff? It's simple logic! My pal showed me his Amiga 1200 15 YEARS ago which was (in some ways) more responsive than Windows now!
As for Linux being 'laggy' - I have not found that with Ubuntu and I've definately not found it with MacOSx. (and no, I'm not pro-linux or mac, I run XP primarily)
Slightly offtopic but re: XP, Vista and Linux UI's
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Gents,
Sorry to branch off topic but this is one of the better places to ask and ever so mildly on topic.
I have a relatively simple and odd question. What's with Vista and XP's UI?
See the thing is, I keep upgrading machines, 1ghz, 2ghz, 3ghz, 3ghz dual core, 512mb, 1gb, 2gb - etc The user interface is laggy EVER so slightly laggy but laggy, there's this 'engine' underneath the hood, since the days of 95 (yes 95) where it just feels wrong! It's a ridiculous claim, have no doubt, I realise that but god-damnit it just seems that way.
Here's an example You open a copy of Windows Explorer under Windows 95 with a floppy in the drive, 2 networked drives mapped and a cdrom in the drive. It pauses for X amount of time, then it kind of starts to move, then suddenly bam it's done. Do the same thing in XP. It seems to behave identically - I mean the entire thing feels like the same chunk of code.
I was under the impression 95 / XP and Vista were all very very different under the hood, am I incorrect? Has the primary 'engine' changed, has the kernel drastically changed but the Explorer UI remained similar?
It's not just opening Explorer, it's the start menu, it's alt tabbing, it's maximising it's the 'feel' - I'm well I'm sick of it! It feels the same from version to version!
I don't need a slick graphical UI and well in all honesty I don't NEED to learn Mac OSX but the fact it is more responsive in some ways is great, I just want an OS which I feel in control of.
Sorry to make such a vague post but what am I doing wrong? Is there some magical tweaks out there which make Windows behave ultra reliably and snappily? I know about the tweak ui power tool and I know about changing the figures to 0ms delays but even then things don't feel 'right'
Will a quad core help? On this note, somewhat on topic (to my post) - I recall the 'bitboys' claiming they were going to release their 'glaze 3d' card with drivers which sync'd windows native 'frame rate' to the refresh rate of a monitor. It sounds like nothing but it was going to create the illusion of an incredibly smooth scrolling Window for 2D - just moving windows around It sounds like nothing but it would create the IMPRESSION of slickness, of responsiveness - no more tearing. Such a small thing but from an end user perspective it might make things better.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Any answers or sadly flames? When oh when, if ever will Microsofts interface and 'back end' truely be something special and new, if ever?
Microsoft are likely not stupid - they have a small limited amount of time to lock Windows in place tighter than ever. They need to right now, what with internet based applications (docs.google) or free software starting to rival office (oo)
I beleive that Microsoft are going to basically make peoples perception of Windows and media change. Right now, people purchase a DVD player in order to play a DVD They purchase a CD player or mp3 player for music. They purchase these items to perform a function - to make their stuff 'work' They don't purchase a DVD player just to have one, it's just a tool to access the real product, the media.
Now Microsoft don't make media but the least they can do is provide a device each home needs to access media. Hence DRM really.
People purchase a device to perform a function and in Microsofts case I beleive they want media to be tied to Microsoft, I beleive infact specifically HD media they want tied to themselves (or rather Vista or Vista's successor) MS want Windows to become a 'media delivery device' or rather, the only choice for playing or working with certain types of media.
Vista is the first real introduction of DRM - in 5-7 years when Vista is long in the tooth and docs.google, open office and linux are even more mature, Microsoft will need to be EVEN MORE entrenched than they are now in peoples homes and business's
I recall people going in a frenzy to buy 95, 98 and XP - of course there's always whiners and naysayers but this time around I certainly beleive the MAJORITY of the press on Vista is negative. Hence if Microsoft is smart or evil (or both) they will entrench themselves cleverly in as a 'requirement' - much like they have now. Even if the margins drop, even if they drop significantly, if their hardware and software continues to sell because it's the 'only solution' for certain functionality, that's going to be a lot of money in their pockets.
Imagine in 7 years if Microsoft don't have a strong grip of the market with Vista, do you think 'Vista 2' will launch successfully? Shit.no! Trust me they are going to lock themselves in good and tight this round in order to survive and I'd be willing to bet good money that they will succeed too.
"Luna itself isn't that bad, you can reduce the size of the titlebar down to original size and disable all the sliding scrolling and fading. It is cleaner and takes up no extra space."
I'd love to know what you've done in order to achieve this, I'm sure there's some tricky ways but is there a simple and convenient one?
WARNING: Windows classic under Vista is well,... ugly
The explorer interface specifically just doesn't look right, it doesn't look usable. There's no guiding lines in some sections, there's no boxes defining which object is which.
It's hard to explain but yeah it's just not 'neat' for a bland view - whereas XP 'basic' mode is quite nice and simple.
Really frustrated about that part - it makes Vista even more useless to me.
Menu latency = ugh! It's that exact kind of stuff which makes an OS feel sluggish even if the OS itself could be faster! >:(
It's un-necessarily slowing things down, I don't mind graphical stuff being on or off (ideal: off) as long as they do not hinder me in ANY way. I'm a 'high speed' keyboard using kind of guy, I alt tab, copy past, control tab, control shift tab, alt tab, windows&e, control esc, up up across kind of guy - I do not have time for some silly animation slowing me down.
Example of not slowing me down
I hit start, it pops up easily but perhaps as my mouse moves over it, a water effect trail comes BEHIND the mouse pointer? - it's still slick but I get to see the menu instantly!
I need a responsive and nice OS - I know most of the/. crowd don't like Windows but honestly, XP in basic mode is quite a snappy OS which does all of what I need - I'd be happy to use Vista if it offered me more
My desk, right now definately represents me to the full extent.
I am either spotless or filthy.
Since I have an L shaped desk, the part I'm sitting at right now is clean, the other half of the desk is covered in a pile of crap which I "need to address" but haven't - I know it's there and I've been meaning to do it but I just don't need to as much - it's a lower priority.
It's much like my file system sadly
All 3 drives are very very neat and simple/movies//data/ and/music/ for example on each drive too but also each drive has a/!sort/ directory on them - oh it's NASTY in there, just don't look.
Also my house - loungeroom and kitchen - surprisingly at the moment, spotless but you go into the study? good lord, it's a disaster.
Christ I hate to jump in on this whole circle jerk of slobbery but count me in too.
My place is either absoloutely hospital grade spotless or filthy to the N'th degree - there is no inbetween. and I HATE it when friends lend me stuff because I need to find a new place kind of like a temp directory to store it - it's always a spot which I have to be aware it's there or i'll forget to give it to them but it's also always bugging me that it's there and doesn't belong there:(
It's terrifying how many idiot friends of mine will download something and burn it on the cheapest media they can find at 97x and not tick the goddamn "verify" option in the burning package.
It's a few extra minutes to know that you can DEFINATELY delete that old data.
Sigh
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Oh well........ gee.. that's surprising.
Your numbers match what I'd expect of ESata- I mistook your post as claiming ESATA is as "slow as" firewire - those are fantastic figures for firewire.
Very shocked to see FW800 capable of that (specs be damned, I'm talking real world figures)
Don't know about CPU overhead, I know USB2 totally sucks but yeah those figures are quite good then.
Firewire and USB might CLAIM all kinds of speeds but in real world performance they are capable of approximately 25mbytes per second sustained.
E-sata however is like a real normal sata port on the motherboard hanging out the back of the PC - depending on the drive you should comfortably see 50mbytes a second sustained.
I have six SATA devices and honestly it begins to become just as messy as PATA cables!
6 individual cables which are difficult to bend / shape since they are quite a thick cable - all from the board to 6 independant devices. OR 3 ribbon cables just stopping at 2 points on the way (PATA) ?:(
Also you can't darn well put them in by feel anymore - which really sucks a lot. I loved being able to put in a PATA cable just by feel - in awkward spots. Also the connectors are more delicate on the drives, admitedly if you're not an idiot it should be ok but accidents happen - whereas with PATA you might crack the plastic sorrounding the pins but it's fine. SATA you can break off the entire sata connector.
Finally yes, some of them do #$^T!ing well simply 'fall off' - I happen to use gigabyte cables they supply with their boards, they come with a small metal clip which clicks and locks them in luckily.
I would like to comment that I agree with this guy and that this would be a SMART move by Microsoft, because they pissed a HELL of a lot of people off with the 4 year lifespan _and_ complete abandonment of the Xbox 1 like a red headed step child.
Seriously, 7 years would go a long way to making consumers feel comfortable with buying the new model - if they can get that kind of value for money. (plus, normally the old model lasts at least a year after the new one is out)
I made a mistake - I meant to say instead of 54/8 (whoops, not 10!) I generally find that a good average is/10
100mbit ethernet is extremely rarely 12mbit or 11 or 10.5 - it's about 10mbit 10mbit is generally 1mb a second instead of 1.2mbit You get the idea, anyhow 54mbit as they "claim" you'd figure hell at WORST case 4mbytes a second.
I've never seen anything over 2.8 and that's with about 5 diff wireless cards 6 or 7 AP's I've worked with - it just doesn't do over 2.8mbit.
Talk about bullshit figures:(
Sorry, I didn't write that initial post too well, much haste.
54mbits be damned! even if you do the "pessimistic" network calculator equation, trying to weigh in overhead (54/10, not 54/10) that's still 5.4mb a second.
Does ANYONE get 5.4mb/sec sustained? Seriously, I get at best abuot 2.8mbytes a second on a really good day, sitting next to the router and I've tried 3 different models.
That's 28mbits a second (allowing for overhead) or 22.4mbits a second without. Come the heck on!
It's based on this exact formula and general bullshit from the industry (specifically to wireless) that I figure 802.11n with it's "300mbit" (iirc) speeds that I'll MAYBE get 10mbytes a second (same as 100mb ethernet)
We'll see in the long run, but to summarise, 54mbits is bullshit and sometimes, for those of us with multiple machines - it's nasty.
"1. Some wireless managers do something stupid every 30 or 60 seconds that causes lost packets and delays. The MS XP SP2 manager is one of these. I use the linksys manager that came with my card now."
OMFG please provide more information on this AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
I've had nothing short of nightmares with XP SP2 wireless over the past 2 years, drop outs, random "shit" - it's just been incredibly intermittant and difficult to diagnose (and I've been doing hardware for years)
I did try the Intel and Ralink "proprietry" drivers rather than the native XP control tool for wireless and still I suffer some issues, none the less I'd love to hear more as you clearly know something I don't.
I find it difficult to respond to this article, there's 2 angles I can take.
Basically, living in Australia, we're accustomed to limited use infact some ISP's have an "AUP" (acceptable use policy) specifically the unlimited ones. There's no specific limit but I guess common sense is meant to prevail, if you leech 300gb in a month on an Aussie ISP, it's extremely likely you'll get kicked off.
Now, both the US and Australia shouldn't have companies falsley advertising unlimited.
That being said, I have to honestly ask, who the hell can be downloading over 2 or 300gb a month LEGITIMATELY? Seriously!? and no guys, please don't respond with "well this distro X and there's free legal torrent Y!" - you can be sure that if only a fraction of a % of internet users are downloading "un-acceptable" amounts of data,.. well only a fraction of a % of those downloaders would be legally doing it, I'd almost be comfortable enough to say not one of these guys being kicked off is downloading legitimate data.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in Australia! I'll be damned if I'll wait 36 months for a T.V show, a hell of a lot of people do it. None the less "leech addicts" can't help themselves, I know one he pulls in quite literally 500gb per month and burns it and NEVER uses it. The ISP shouldn't be advertising it but common sense should also kick in, making a fuss over being kicked off because you can't steal HD TV rips, DVD movies, PS2 and Xbox games seems somewhat,.. well retarded.
On a related but offtopic note, back in the dot com boom, I worked for a very stupid company which was new to being an ISP, management had advertised "unlimited plans" with no "kick off" periods. Since it was the dot com boom and everything was, well ridiculous - this customer called and abused the jesus out of us if he got disconnected during the month at ANY PERIOD OF TIME. Management eventually setup a dedicated line / modem for this chap and changed his sessions on the server to simply not drop, common sense did not prevail.
PC gaming has been easing off for ages, the PS3 only just came out, the X360 has only been out a bit over a year, yet in the past 2 / 3 years PC gaming has been declining, despite the fact we had 'only the old gen' from Xb1, PS2 and GC around.
It's not just about the graphics, it's about the simplicity and ease of use of a console - plus the graphics on them now is really more than acceptable overall (XB1, PS2 and GC that is)
Since you're already +5 it's pointless to moderate you further.
Basically, you're absoloutely on the money - the HD is there PRECISELY for the reasons you say! I questioned myself for about 1/10'th of a second before realising it's just dumb speak - PNG can do all that stuff now and a plethora of other formats.
Jesus Microsoft, cmon you don't want people to hate you but for christs sakes work on important things - this is just a waste of manhours.
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Joke or not this mofo is COMPLETELY correct >:( WPA under Ubuntu specifically is a bastard, it's meant to work out of the box as per like 2 fucking versions ago (yes my THREE wifi chipsets are supported)
Ergh.
I realised mapped drives, cd-drives with discs and floppys slow down the UI - the question is not only WHY but why from version to version? Fix it!
Why do I need to wait? Why not give me the UI, THEN poll the stuff? It's simple logic!
My pal showed me his Amiga 1200 15 YEARS ago which was (in some ways) more responsive than Windows now!
As for Linux being 'laggy' - I have not found that with Ubuntu and I've definately not found it with MacOSx.
(and no, I'm not pro-linux or mac, I run XP primarily)
Gents,
Sorry to branch off topic but this is one of the better places to ask and ever so mildly on topic.
I have a relatively simple and odd question.
What's with Vista and XP's UI?
See the thing is, I keep upgrading machines, 1ghz, 2ghz, 3ghz, 3ghz dual core, 512mb, 1gb, 2gb - etc
The user interface is laggy
EVER so slightly laggy but laggy, there's this 'engine' underneath the hood, since the days of 95 (yes 95) where it just feels wrong!
It's a ridiculous claim, have no doubt, I realise that but god-damnit it just seems that way.
Here's an example
You open a copy of Windows Explorer under Windows 95 with a floppy in the drive, 2 networked drives mapped and a cdrom in the drive.
It pauses for X amount of time, then it kind of starts to move, then suddenly bam it's done.
Do the same thing in XP.
It seems to behave identically - I mean the entire thing feels like the same chunk of code.
I was under the impression 95 / XP and Vista were all very very different under the hood, am I incorrect?
Has the primary 'engine' changed, has the kernel drastically changed but the Explorer UI remained similar?
It's not just opening Explorer, it's the start menu, it's alt tabbing, it's maximising it's the 'feel' - I'm well I'm sick of it!
It feels the same from version to version!
I don't need a slick graphical UI and well in all honesty I don't NEED to learn Mac OSX but the fact it is more responsive in some ways is great, I just want an OS which I feel in control of.
Sorry to make such a vague post but what am I doing wrong? Is there some magical tweaks out there which make Windows behave ultra reliably and snappily?
I know about the tweak ui power tool and I know about changing the figures to 0ms delays but even then things don't feel 'right'
Will a quad core help?
On this note, somewhat on topic (to my post) - I recall the 'bitboys' claiming they were going to release their 'glaze 3d' card with drivers which sync'd windows native 'frame rate' to the refresh rate of a monitor.
It sounds like nothing but it was going to create the illusion of an incredibly smooth scrolling Window for 2D - just moving windows around
It sounds like nothing but it would create the IMPRESSION of slickness, of responsiveness - no more tearing.
Such a small thing but from an end user perspective it might make things better.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Any answers or sadly flames?
When oh when, if ever will Microsofts interface and 'back end' truely be something special and new, if ever?
Yes Media,..
Microsoft are likely not stupid - they have a small limited amount of time to lock Windows in place tighter than ever.
They need to right now, what with internet based applications (docs.google) or free software starting to rival office (oo)
I beleive that Microsoft are going to basically make peoples perception of Windows and media change.
Right now, people purchase a DVD player in order to play a DVD
They purchase a CD player or mp3 player for music.
They purchase these items to perform a function - to make their stuff 'work'
They don't purchase a DVD player just to have one, it's just a tool to access the real product, the media.
Now Microsoft don't make media but the least they can do is provide a device each home needs to access media.
Hence DRM really.
People purchase a device to perform a function and in Microsofts case I beleive they want media to be tied to Microsoft, I beleive infact specifically HD media they want tied to themselves (or rather Vista or Vista's successor)
MS want Windows to become a 'media delivery device' or rather, the only choice for playing or working with certain types of media.
Vista is the first real introduction of DRM - in 5-7 years when Vista is long in the tooth and docs.google, open office and linux are even more mature, Microsoft will need to be EVEN MORE entrenched than they are now in peoples homes and business's
I recall people going in a frenzy to buy 95, 98 and XP - of course there's always whiners and naysayers but this time around I certainly beleive the MAJORITY of the press on Vista is negative.
Hence if Microsoft is smart or evil (or both) they will entrench themselves cleverly in as a 'requirement' - much like they have now.
Even if the margins drop, even if they drop significantly, if their hardware and software continues to sell because it's the 'only solution' for certain functionality, that's going to be a lot of money in their pockets.
Imagine in 7 years if Microsoft don't have a strong grip of the market with Vista, do you think 'Vista 2' will launch successfully?
Shit.no! Trust me they are going to lock themselves in good and tight this round in order to survive and I'd be willing to bet good money that they will succeed too.
"Luna itself isn't that bad, you can reduce the size of the titlebar down to original size and disable all the sliding scrolling and fading.
It is cleaner and takes up no extra space."
I'd love to know what you've done in order to achieve this, I'm sure there's some tricky ways but is there a simple and convenient one?
WARNING: Windows classic under Vista is well,... ugly
The explorer interface specifically just doesn't look right, it doesn't look usable.
There's no guiding lines in some sections, there's no boxes defining which object is which.
It's hard to explain but yeah it's just not 'neat' for a bland view - whereas XP 'basic' mode is quite nice and simple.
Really frustrated about that part - it makes Vista even more useless to me.
Menu latency = ugh! It's that exact kind of stuff which makes an OS feel sluggish even if the OS itself could be faster! >:(
/. crowd don't like Windows but honestly, XP in basic mode is quite a snappy OS which does all of what I need - I'd be happy to use Vista if it offered me more
It's un-necessarily slowing things down, I don't mind graphical stuff being on or off (ideal: off) as long as they do not hinder me in ANY way.
I'm a 'high speed' keyboard using kind of guy, I alt tab, copy past, control tab, control shift tab, alt tab, windows&e, control esc, up up across kind of guy - I do not have time for some silly animation slowing me down.
Example of not slowing me down
I hit start, it pops up easily but perhaps as my mouse moves over it, a water effect trail comes BEHIND the mouse pointer? - it's still slick but I get to see the menu instantly!
I need a responsive and nice OS - I know most of the
It doesn't.
I don't want the Wii.
I don't want a motion controller
I do want an Xbox 360.
I'd say they still have a target market.
Perhaps so but if your password is not a standard dictionary word and exceeds around 12 or more digits, it's pretty much secure for life.
My desk, right now definately represents me to the full extent.
/movies/ /data/ and /music/ for example on each drive too but also each drive has a /!sort/ directory on them - oh it's NASTY in there, just don't look.
I am either spotless or filthy.
Since I have an L shaped desk, the part I'm sitting at right now is clean, the other half of the desk is covered in a pile of crap which I "need to address" but haven't - I know it's there and I've been meaning to do it but I just don't need to as much - it's a lower priority.
It's much like my file system sadly
All 3 drives are very very neat and simple
Also my house - loungeroom and kitchen - surprisingly at the moment, spotless but you go into the study? good lord, it's a disaster.
Christ I hate to jump in on this whole circle jerk of slobbery but count me in too.
:(
My place is either absoloutely hospital grade spotless or filthy to the N'th degree - there is no inbetween.
and I HATE it when friends lend me stuff because I need to find a new place kind of like a temp directory to store it - it's always a spot which I have to be aware it's there or i'll forget to give it to them but it's also always bugging me that it's there and doesn't belong there
I am very very broken, I'm sure of it.
Yeah I used to think how awesome it is to not be one of those lonely slashdot guys who has a redundant penis.
Then I hit the 3'rd year of being with my girlfriend, anyone want a redundant penis?
It's terrifying how many idiot friends of mine will download something and burn it on the cheapest media they can find at 97x and not tick the goddamn "verify" option in the burning package.
It's a few extra minutes to know that you can DEFINATELY delete that old data.
Sigh
Oh well........ gee.. that's surprising.
Your numbers match what I'd expect of ESata- I mistook your post as claiming ESATA is as "slow as" firewire - those are fantastic figures for firewire.
Very shocked to see FW800 capable of that (specs be damned, I'm talking real world figures)
Don't know about CPU overhead, I know USB2 totally sucks but yeah those figures are quite good then.
I find that very hard to beleive.
Firewire and USB might CLAIM all kinds of speeds but in real world performance they are capable of approximately 25mbytes per second sustained.
E-sata however is like a real normal sata port on the motherboard hanging out the back of the PC - depending on the drive you should comfortably see 50mbytes a second sustained.
I have six SATA devices and honestly it begins to become just as messy as PATA cables!
:(
6 individual cables which are difficult to bend / shape since they are quite a thick cable - all from the board to 6 independant devices.
OR 3 ribbon cables just stopping at 2 points on the way (PATA) ?
Also you can't darn well put them in by feel anymore - which really sucks a lot.
I loved being able to put in a PATA cable just by feel - in awkward spots.
Also the connectors are more delicate on the drives, admitedly if you're not an idiot it should be ok but accidents happen - whereas with PATA you might crack the plastic sorrounding the pins but it's fine.
SATA you can break off the entire sata connector.
Finally yes, some of them do #$^T!ing well simply 'fall off' - I happen to use gigabyte cables they supply with their boards, they come with a small metal clip which clicks and locks them in luckily.
I would like to comment that I agree with this guy and that this would be a SMART move by Microsoft, because they pissed a HELL of a lot of people off with the 4 year lifespan _and_ complete abandonment of the Xbox 1 like a red headed step child.
Seriously, 7 years would go a long way to making consumers feel comfortable with buying the new model - if they can get that kind of value for money.
(plus, normally the old model lasts at least a year after the new one is out)
I made a mistake - I meant to say instead of 54/8 (whoops, not 10!) I generally find that a good average is /10
:(
100mbit ethernet is extremely rarely 12mbit or 11 or 10.5 - it's about 10mbit
10mbit is generally 1mb a second instead of 1.2mbit
You get the idea, anyhow 54mbit as they "claim" you'd figure hell at WORST case 4mbytes a second.
I've never seen anything over 2.8 and that's with about 5 diff wireless cards 6 or 7 AP's I've worked with - it just doesn't do over 2.8mbit.
Talk about bullshit figures
Sorry, I didn't write that initial post too well, much haste.
I think we all know what he'll have to so say.
"The CGI is weak in this one, move along,... move along"
Mod this fellow up!
54mbits be damned! even if you do the "pessimistic" network calculator equation, trying to weigh in overhead (54/10, not 54/10) that's still 5.4mb a second.
Does ANYONE get 5.4mb/sec sustained?
Seriously, I get at best abuot 2.8mbytes a second on a really good day, sitting next to the router and I've tried 3 different models.
That's 28mbits a second (allowing for overhead) or 22.4mbits a second without.
Come the heck on!
It's based on this exact formula and general bullshit from the industry (specifically to wireless) that I figure 802.11n with it's "300mbit" (iirc) speeds that I'll MAYBE get 10mbytes a second (same as 100mb ethernet)
We'll see in the long run, but to summarise, 54mbits is bullshit and sometimes, for those of us with multiple machines - it's nasty.
"1. Some wireless managers do something stupid every 30 or 60 seconds that causes lost packets and delays. The MS XP SP2 manager is one of these. I use the linksys manager that came with my card now."
OMFG please provide more information on this AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
I've had nothing short of nightmares with XP SP2 wireless over the past 2 years, drop outs, random "shit" - it's just been incredibly intermittant and difficult to diagnose (and I've been doing hardware for years)
I did try the Intel and Ralink "proprietry" drivers rather than the native XP control tool for wireless and still I suffer some issues, none the less I'd love to hear more as you clearly know something I don't.
Thanks for the info.
I find it difficult to respond to this article, there's 2 angles I can take.
Basically, living in Australia, we're accustomed to limited use infact some ISP's have an "AUP" (acceptable use policy) specifically the unlimited ones.
There's no specific limit but I guess common sense is meant to prevail, if you leech 300gb in a month on an Aussie ISP, it's extremely likely you'll get kicked off.
Now, both the US and Australia shouldn't have companies falsley advertising unlimited.
That being said, I have to honestly ask, who the hell can be downloading over 2 or 300gb a month LEGITIMATELY?
Seriously!? and no guys, please don't respond with "well this distro X and there's free legal torrent Y!" - you can be sure that if only a fraction of a % of internet users are downloading "un-acceptable" amounts of data,.. well only a fraction of a % of those downloaders would be legally doing it, I'd almost be comfortable enough to say not one of these guys being kicked off is downloading legitimate data.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in Australia! I'll be damned if I'll wait 36 months for a T.V show, a hell of a lot of people do it.
None the less "leech addicts" can't help themselves, I know one he pulls in quite literally 500gb per month and burns it and NEVER uses it.
The ISP shouldn't be advertising it but common sense should also kick in, making a fuss over being kicked off because you can't steal HD TV rips, DVD movies, PS2 and Xbox games seems somewhat,.. well retarded.
On a related but offtopic note, back in the dot com boom, I worked for a very stupid company which was new to being an ISP, management had advertised "unlimited plans" with no "kick off" periods.
Since it was the dot com boom and everything was, well ridiculous - this customer called and abused the jesus out of us if he got disconnected during the month at ANY PERIOD OF TIME.
Management eventually setup a dedicated line / modem for this chap and changed his sessions on the server to simply not drop, common sense did not prevail.
Informative?
PC gaming has been easing off for ages, the PS3 only just came out, the X360 has only been out a bit over a year, yet in the past 2 / 3 years PC gaming has been declining, despite the fact we had 'only the old gen' from Xb1, PS2 and GC around.
It's not just about the graphics, it's about the simplicity and ease of use of a console - plus the graphics on them now is really more than acceptable overall (XB1, PS2 and GC that is)
I've been hearing speculation like this since I first built my first PC when I was 13.
That was 16 years ago.
Magnetic will always beat flash for physical amount of space and size, despite the unfortunate noise / heat / reliability issues.
Since you're already +5 it's pointless to moderate you further.
Basically, you're absoloutely on the money - the HD is there PRECISELY for the reasons you say!
I questioned myself for about 1/10'th of a second before realising it's just dumb speak - PNG can do all that stuff now and a plethora of other formats.
Jesus Microsoft, cmon you don't want people to hate you but for christs sakes work on important things - this is just a waste of manhours.