Windows XP didn't really start to shine as an operating system until Service Pack 1 arrived on the scene to correct many of the flaws present in the RTM version.
Since we're so close to seeing SP1 for Vista, I thought it time to install it and evaluate it to see if/how it meets my needs.
As much as I diss Microsoft, I actually like their Windows XP Operating System quite a bit. It's stable enough for my needs. It's fast enough for my needs. It needs to be a bit more secure but, other than that, it fits the bill quite nicely.
Tester Background
It should be noted that my experience goes back to the days of the Sinclair ZX 80 and the Tandy Ti-99/4a. I have been building my own PC-compatible computers and over clocking them since the days when you had to replace the clock crystal on the motherboard. My first IBM-Compatible PC was an AMD 286-16Mhz and was blazingly fast for its time.
Installation Method
Using Microsoft Windows Vista Premium Upgrade 32bit, boot from DVD and install to chosen Hard Drive without entering Product Key. Once loaded, start the OS from hard drive and place upgrade DVD into DVD drive and perform an upgrade to that operating system. This results in a clean installation of the operating system with none of the leftover crap from a previous installation to take up space, resources, or cause any problems.
Testing Platform
eVGA nForce 780i Tri-SLI capable motherboard Intel Q6600 2.4 Ghz quad core processor 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 PC 10000 RAM (2) eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 640Mb Cards in SLI Creative Labs Audigy 2 (2) Seagate 300GB HDDs in RAID 0 (Windows XP Pro 64 bit) Lite On SATA DVD+-RW Seagate 500GB PATA HDD - This is where I installed Vista 1400VA TrippLite UPS
I was recently able to buy Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium for a paltry $85 so I took the plunge and here's what happened:
System 1 - Results
Attempt 1 - Would not install. I got a BSOD during the installation. I understand it may have something to do with either having 4 DIMMS installed or 4GB installed. I removed 2 DIMMS and restarted the install.
Attempt 2 -After removing the 2 DIMMS, leaving me with reduced performance, I installed Vista again. The installation process started relatively smoothly. Note that I did NOT press F6 and specify my RAID drivers during installation because I didn't want the Operating system to see my RAID drives. I was installing the OS to a PATA IDE Drive, not my RAID. Boot order was set to PATA Drive first, then CD/DVD, then RAID Array.
When I reached the section of the Vista installation process where you choose the Hard Drive location where you want to install Vista, it did not list an entry for my RAID array. This was a good thing(!) because I didn't want to upgrade my Windows XP 64 bit installation or wipe the RAID array. My RAID drives contain my current Windows XP Pro 64bit installation that I use for running Everquest II and my other games so, without knowing that a RAID array even existed, I shouldn't have any problems.
Windows Vista installed very smoothly to my 500GB PATA drive....then it proceeded to over-write the MBR of the RAID array, even though it neither saw nor displayed the drive array during the install process. This resulted in a complete reinstall of the XP64bit OS and a reload of my games on my RAID array... This was the second unsuccessful installation attempt. Since I'm a glutton for punishment I'll try it again.
Attempt 3 - I disconnected my RAID Drives from the SATA Connectors. I unplugged their power cables. I was left with a single PATA 500GB Drive and a SATA DVD+-RW.
I installed Vista to the 500GB PATA seemingly without incident. Upon first boot, my HDD started making a racket. It was thrashing like crazy and I chalked it up to the indexing feature for that new search feature that Microsoft is bragging about. I put the DVD in the drive and proceeded to upgrade the operating system. I set the Admin password, created my user account l
"He wasn't married. The woman claiming to be his wife according to TFA was according to the guy just his girlfriend. Also according to TFA no one has been able to contact her and it's believed she moved away. I imagine his kid is already in custody of the state, or if he's lucky relatives."
Where he will, unfortunately, be molested and raped, most likely...
One of the biggest problems with Megan's Law databases is the information they selectively withhold from search results to maximize the amount of post-release scorn the people listed on it face in their daily lives. Take someone who's listed as having been convicted of "aggravated child abuse and rape of a child between 12 and 15". Scum, right? Unless, of course, you found out it was a 15 year old babysitter who had sex with a horny 12 year old, it was entirely consensual, and the charges were all statutory (in other words, by definition it would be considered aggravated abuse and rape regardless of consent). But you'll never find that out from a Megan's Law database. See, the Powers that Be don't WANT you to decide that what someone did is "OK" (or at least something not worth destroying their life over). So they do their best to make sure everyone on the list looks like an evil monster.
I have a friend who'll be in prison for 10 years for having sex with a minor, and a registered sex criminal for life when he finally gets out. What he did was wrong, and he's the first to admit it. But so are the circumstances under which he was prosecuted. He met a 14 year old online, who claimed to be 18. They eventually met up, and my friend admits he knew the kid was lying (but insists he thought the kid was at least 16 or 17... which is entirely plausible to anyone who sees the kid's picture). The kid's parents found out and tried to have my friend prosecuted... but failed, because the alleged victim refused to cooperate. With no witness, the DA had no case. At least, not until the kid was arrested for possession of marijuana a few months later. The DA's office found the paperwork to the original case, and threatened to seek the maximum penalties for conviction (6 months in jail) unless the kid cooperated and testified against my friend. Obviously, the DA got his conviction, and another notch on his bedpost. In the process, the DA f**ked the kid worse than any adult ever could. Quit your whining. The prosecutor simply used a bit of leverage to get a child rapist in jail. Nowhere do you say he violated state laws or committed ethics violations to get her testimony. You do say, however, that your friend knowingly had sex with a 14 year old. The prosecutor simpy looked at the crime she committed and went easy on her for her cooperation in another case.
Your "friend" deserves every second in prison and all the anal raping he can take for having sex with a 14 year old. He should be made to wear a shirt that reads "Child Rapist" once he's released.
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Ya know, SCO used the safe and secure ROT26 encoding WordPad provides to ensure those linux zealots couldnt see it's (err...Novell's) precious eye pee...
My Opteron 185 uses the stock Heatsink/Fan combo and temps are Low 30's C at 3055Mhz. The stockers aren't all that bad on the AMD side...
However, even at stock speed for my E6700, the Intel Heatsink/Fan combo couldn't keep the hi-temp alarms off. We're talking over 63C here...
I'm running my E6700 at 3350 with a Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme now, which added another $70 to the total system price while my AMD purrs away at 3055Mhz with stock heatsink and lower temps
Yes I know the C2D is clocked higher, hence the temp difference. Point I'm making is that I could not get the STOCK 2.66Ghz out of my intel with factory heatsink while I can overclock pretty darned well on my AMD with stock heatsink.
Milk left at room temperature goes bad on page 298. That's fucking HUGE you insensitive clod. Nobody realizes that Volders drinks that milk after having a delicious cookie and later comes down with food poisoning, giving him a dangerous case of the shits while in a wizarding duel with Potter. Hence the term Mud-Butt..
"The Big Flirt" followed by "The Big Pitcher of Marguritas" followed by "The Big Grind on the Dancefloor" followed by "The Big Cab Ride to Her Place" followed by "The Big Petting Session" followed by, of course, "The Big Bang" and, subsequently "The Big Lie" that he'd call her...
Ya freeloaders and file sharers need to stop stealing the movies with your so-called "back-ups"!
I pay for every single movie I have and I have yet to encounter a situation where I would need to use a "backed up" a movie. Every DVD I've ever broken has been broken on purpose for being such a crappy flick.
And don't throw out that tired old, "Well I have small children and they can scratch a DVD so I need to use backups" argument. That's BS and you know it. If they're too young to handle the media properly you shouldnt be irresponsible enough to let them! Poor parenting on your part is not a fair use issue. It's just poor parenting.
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As long as situation #2 happens before situation #1 I'm okay...of course if #1 happens first I may go #2...
Windows XP didn't really start to shine as an operating system until Service Pack 1 arrived on the scene to correct many of the flaws present in the RTM version.
Since we're so close to seeing SP1 for Vista, I thought it time to install it and evaluate it to see if/how it meets my needs.
As much as I diss Microsoft, I actually like their Windows XP Operating System quite a bit. It's stable enough for my needs. It's fast enough for my needs. It needs to be a bit more secure but, other than that, it fits the bill quite nicely.
Tester Background
It should be noted that my experience goes back to the days of the Sinclair ZX 80 and the Tandy Ti-99/4a. I have been building my own PC-compatible computers and over clocking them since the days when you had to replace the clock crystal on the motherboard. My first IBM-Compatible PC was an AMD 286-16Mhz and was blazingly fast for its time.
Installation Method
Using Microsoft Windows Vista Premium Upgrade 32bit, boot from DVD and install to chosen Hard Drive without entering Product Key. Once loaded, start the OS from hard drive and place upgrade DVD into DVD drive and perform an upgrade to that operating system. This results in a clean installation of the operating system with none of the leftover crap from a previous installation to take up space, resources, or cause any problems.
Testing Platform
eVGA nForce 780i Tri-SLI capable motherboard
Intel Q6600 2.4 Ghz quad core processor
4GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 PC 10000 RAM
(2) eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 640Mb Cards in SLI
Creative Labs Audigy 2
(2) Seagate 300GB HDDs in RAID 0 (Windows XP Pro 64 bit)
Lite On SATA DVD+-RW
Seagate 500GB PATA HDD - This is where I installed Vista
1400VA TrippLite UPS
I was recently able to buy Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium for a paltry $85 so I took the plunge and here's what happened:
System 1 - Results
Attempt 1 - Would not install. I got a BSOD during the installation. I understand it may have something to do with either having 4 DIMMS installed or 4GB installed. I removed 2 DIMMS and restarted the install.
Attempt 2 -After removing the 2 DIMMS, leaving me with reduced performance, I installed Vista again. The installation process started relatively smoothly. Note that I did NOT press F6 and specify my RAID drivers during installation because I didn't want the Operating system to see my RAID drives. I was installing the OS to a PATA IDE Drive, not my RAID. Boot order was set to PATA Drive first, then CD/DVD, then RAID Array.
When I reached the section of the Vista installation process where you choose the Hard Drive location where you want to install Vista, it did not list an entry for my RAID array. This was a good thing(!) because I didn't want to upgrade my Windows XP 64 bit installation or wipe the RAID array. My RAID drives contain my current Windows XP Pro 64bit installation that I use for running Everquest II and my other games so, without knowing that a RAID array even existed, I shouldn't have any problems.
Windows Vista installed very smoothly to my 500GB PATA drive....then it proceeded to over-write the MBR of the RAID array, even though it neither saw nor displayed the drive array during the install process. This resulted in a complete reinstall of the XP64bit OS and a reload of my games on my RAID array... This was the second unsuccessful installation attempt. Since I'm a glutton for punishment I'll try it again.
Attempt 3 - I disconnected my RAID Drives from the SATA Connectors. I unplugged their power cables. I was left with a single PATA 500GB Drive and a SATA DVD+-RW.
I installed Vista to the 500GB PATA seemingly without incident. Upon first boot, my HDD started making a racket. It was thrashing like crazy and I chalked it up to the indexing feature for that new search feature that Microsoft is bragging about. I put the DVD in the drive and proceeded to upgrade the operating system. I set the Admin password, created my user account l
SCO had no I P
They sued others for billions
darl, fukkin retard
I, for one, welcome
Our dupe posting overlords
Now see sig below
In soviet russia, they mount an 83,000lb airplane to a frikkin laser.
That close enough?
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for the dupe that will be posted in the future on this subject
What do the frikkin Germans have to do with this?!?!
welcome our dupe posting overlords
But it makes up for it by being expensive, less secure, and less compatible!
Jeeze none of you ever look to the bright side of things...
that carried this thing on its back!
90% of Microsoft employees want you to buy Vista so they can stay employed. Film at 11.
And now, here's a duck wearing hip waders
that the supplier kept the $400k in bribes as well just to deny the funds to MS to bribe someone else
I LOL'd in RL. Someone mod parent up, please :)
I'm just delaying it...I tried to put my payment in the mailbox and there were other letters there so I waited until it was less congested....
Ya know, SCO used the safe and secure ROT26 encoding WordPad provides to ensure those linux zealots couldnt see it's (err...Novell's) precious eye pee...
My Opteron 185 uses the stock Heatsink/Fan combo and temps are Low 30's C at 3055Mhz. The stockers aren't all that bad on the AMD side...
However, even at stock speed for my E6700, the Intel Heatsink/Fan combo couldn't keep the hi-temp alarms off. We're talking over 63C here...
I'm running my E6700 at 3350 with a Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme now, which added another $70 to the total system price while my AMD purrs away at 3055Mhz with stock heatsink and lower temps
Yes I know the C2D is clocked higher, hence the temp difference. Point I'm making is that I could not get the STOCK 2.66Ghz out of my intel with factory heatsink while I can overclock pretty darned well on my AMD with stock heatsink.
That, in turn, refutes the poster above
Is that if you'd downloaded your music from Kazaa you'd not have gotten the rootkit in the first place
"The Big Flirt" followed by "The Big Pitcher of Marguritas" followed by "The Big Grind on the Dancefloor" followed by "The Big Cab Ride to Her Place" followed by "The Big Petting Session" followed by, of course, "The Big Bang" and, subsequently "The Big Lie" that he'd call her...
Ya freeloaders and file sharers need to stop stealing the movies with your so-called "back-ups"!
I pay for every single movie I have and I have yet to encounter a situation where I would need to use a "backed up" a movie. Every DVD I've ever broken has been broken on purpose for being such a crappy flick.
And don't throw out that tired old, "Well I have small children and they can scratch a DVD so I need to use backups" argument. That's BS and you know it. If they're too young to handle the media properly you shouldnt be irresponsible enough to let them! Poor parenting on your part is not a fair use issue. It's just poor parenting.
I'm secretly cloning an army of Jar Jar Binks' to combat them. Rest safe, people. Jar Jar has your back.
Because no one and I mean "not one single solitary person in existance" wants to use a desktop...