1) Allow me to run it in a virtual machine for the first 12-18 months, inside Win XP
2) Allow me to use the same install on my main machine when I decide everything works well. (Deleting the VM beforehand.)
I'm not buying Vista twice. I'm not buying a version of Vista only to discover it won't run in a VM. I'm not going to install Vista now because I just finished reinstalling XP, apps and games (again) after a clean install last October. Three days messing around with no computer once a year is plenty, thanks.
Right now a few of my customers are running Vista, but that's their lookout. My software works on it, and that's all they care about.
95% of the time I use Buy-it-now, especially for consumables and cheapo stuff (which is why I'm reading this Slashdot story in the first place) It's just not worth the effort to bid on $5 or $10 items only to wait 7-10 days and get knocked off by someone else. (And if you bid $15 or $17 or $21 someone will still beat you by 50c) I'd rather pay the $15 up front and secure the item.
Same here. I have a nice monitor (ViewSonic 20") which also has a high-intensity blue LED on the forward-facing power switch. First thing I did was cover it up.
All those LEDS are designed to look cool in tech reviews and hardware stores. Unfortunately, 99.99% of the time they're a pain in the eyes.
What happens if the ISP you're with keeps getting their mail servers blocked for so-called spamming? That's why I use my own server on a dynamic IP - I occasionally get a returned mail from a couple of major US ISPs telling me my email didn't get through, but the alternative is NO mail getting through for several days at a time.
To help my users I've listed the ISPs I know won't accept mail from me on my contact page, and advised people trying to get in touch to set up a gmail or hotmail account instead. (They're usually after support for free software, so I have no concerns about driving away customers.)
I have a large collection of Sinclair gear, from a bare ZX80 though a number of ZX81s (with and without Rampacks) to most models of the ZX Spectrum, from the original 16K to the +3 with built-in 3" disk drive. Microdrives, tapes, ZX and Alphacom printers, light guns, Currah u-speech and on and on.
It's purely nostalgia, not a money-making venture. My first computer was a ZX81, saved up for and bought new 24 years ago, and I still remember it like it was yesterday. (In fact, I still have it.)
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What happens if MS starts refusing WPA requests on XP? "Sorry, that software is no longer supported. Please install Vista and call back." Or if they send through a compulsory update which starts popping up more and more aggressive reminders to 'upgrade' to Vista, telling us XP has 10, 9, 8... days left until EOL?
I'm perfectly happy on XP, but I'm much more nervous about the future than I was when I kept using Win 98 for the first two or three years after XP came out. I'm not anti-Vista, I just see no need to endure an upgrade. It's not like it's going to trouble my hardware either: E6700, 2gb ram, oodles of HD space and an Nvidia 7600GT.
Youngest is 9, oldest is 12, both girls. They loved Morrowind a couple of years back, they're Oblivion fanatics and are currently working their way through the Shivering Isles expansion... faster than me. They spend a lot of time in the construction kit, and are always downloading and installing extra content. The oldest doesn't like the headless zombies so she gets her younger sister to come and eliminate them for her. (They each have their own PC.)
Other games: They really like C&C Renegade multiplayer, but don't like UT or Half Life. When the eldest turned 12 I let her play GTA3 (following 18 months solid nagging), but she gave up after less than a day - didn't like it after all. They're not getting Doom 3 because that thing almost gives ME the creeps (I'm 39), and they laughed aloud at the 'cheesy' graphics in Doom 1, 2 and in Daggerfall.
They express dislike for simple platform games, although they have played and enjoyed Snow Bros and they like the Pokemon games on their GBAs. Spyro was a fave on the PS1, and they enjoyed Eye-toy and Singstar on the PS2.
I don't particularly like them playing Oblivion when there are hanging corpses and all kinds of blood-drenched rooms, torture chambers and so on to be found in the game, and I suspect the reason neither of them have completed the main quest is because the world behind the oblivion gates is much more gory than Tamriel. On the other hand, they might have found the Gates boring and repetitive - I know I struggled to do them all. I do know they adore the free-form nature of the game.
Agreed. I completed GTA3 and Vice City, but have yet to get far in San Andreas. Vice City was stylish, with a seedy underbelly, and there was a lot of unexpected humour. San Andreas was just seedy, and the foul language was the last straw.
I still load VC up from time to time, but SA has been consigned to the shelves.
I got a DMCA take-down notice from youtube about 2 videos I posted, claiming copyright infringement. The problem? I shot those videos myself, and they were just a pair of F/A-18 fly-bys with no added music or other sounds.
Now, after receiving the notice I felt aggrieved, then pissed off, and then discouraged when I discovered the hoops I'd have to clamber through to get my vids reinstated. It just wasn't worth it, so I deleted the emails and have sworn off posting anything else to Youtube.
I'm still writing VB6 code. In fact, I earn my keep with a VB6 app which is up there with the best programs of its kind available worldwide.
I'm making tentative steps towards dotnet, but to do so I first have to convert my underlying libraries of useful code. Many of them will probably become wrappers for new dotnet commands, but I know that while I'm converting it all I certainly won't want to be making changes to the older stuff.
Right now I'm writing a VB6 project simplifier which will help - it'll save out a new copy of a project with only the subs, functions and properties that are actually used. Then I can just run the converter on that.
Meanwhile I have another Hal Spacejock novel to write. It's the fourth in the series, so I'm starting to get issues with backwards compatibility there too.
"have you ever suffered collateral damage from AV false positives?"
Yes indeed - two of my freeware apps have been mis-diagnosed as trojan-bearers in the past. I contacted the AV vendors (who demanded the usual proof, mother's maiden name, left nut) and they eventually sorted the problem out. In the meantime I had to deal with angry emails from users accusing me of corrupting their machines, raping their bank accounts and stealing their wives. Or something along those lines... I didn't read all the threats that closely.
Thing is, these are freeware apps. A novel-writing tool, an ebook reading program, an email client, that kind of thing. They don't have ads or spyware, and they certainly don't include trojans. I wrote them for my own use and I give them away (just like the XNews guy does) and it's a bit much when I also have to go and prove my good intentions.
The final straw is a cliche, but the camel's back just broke. I have zero confidence that I will never need to reinstall Vista, whatever Microsoft says about their new ultra-reliable OS, so what this means is that I will have to reinstall XP first. Sorry, but that's ludicrous. No thanks.
I help to run web filtering at a small primary school, and while I realise a TLD like this won't shift all the crud into an easily-blocked area of the net, it's a good start. Of course, the downside is that nanny-state governments can then instruct ISPs to block the TLD, thus protecting their good citizens. Protecting primary school kids is one thing, but 'protecting' adults is a whole different ball game.
I guess I just argued for both sides of the equation. I think I'm getting fence splinters.
I have two daughtersm, and as I type this I can hear them discussing their current project. They're debating whether to build an add-on island for Morrowind or Oblivion - they know the Morrowind construction set fairly well, but Oblivion has more features. (They've already built caves, houses, AI characters, you-name-it for Morrowind, and it's one of their favourite pasttimes.)
I keep my change in the same pocket, and have done for decades. If a single coin turned up in any of my other pockets I'd know for certain I hadn't put it there. I go ask my kids if it was theirs, they'd say yes, and the bug-ees would get several days of Pokemon nonsense to listen to.
I joined LibraryThing recently, and it was interesting to see that they've included the option to link to your profile on many other social network sites - Myspace, LJ, Blogger... and Slashdot. I set up a squidoo as well, and they pull out the RSS for my blog and display summaries.
I guess all this has a logical conclusion, where someone sets up a meta-site that pulls together all your online profiles into one 'ME' page. When they do that, it'll be quite something. Imagine all your Myspace friends without the Myspace baggage...
Why hasn't anyone commented on the obvious? It's not people talking on cellphones which will drive me nuts - it's 350+ different ringtones & SMS alerts going off at random times throughout the flight. Any international flight longer than 6 or 7 hours - you know, where I might actually be trying to get some sleep - is going to become something like Murder on the Orient Express.
Oh, I've disabled it all right. I was just pointing out why I don't see hybernation as the ideal solution for fast boot-up - or at least, not in my case.
The downside is that you lose a gig of hard drive space (I have 1 gig of ram and maintain a 15gb C: partition JUST for Windows and Program files) and that gig is present in every partition image I take of the drive. Since the compressed partition images are only 7gigs, it's a substantial percentage. And yes, I keep multiple partition images, stored by date. I carry a 100gb 2.5" drive in a belt pouch everywhere, and it's stuffed to the gills.
I realise it seems crazy to complain about 1 gig of space these days, but couldn't they have made the hiberfil.sys locateable on another drive or partition?
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1) Allow me to run it in a virtual machine for the first 12-18 months, inside Win XP
2) Allow me to use the same install on my main machine when I decide everything works well. (Deleting the VM beforehand.)
I'm not buying Vista twice. I'm not buying a version of Vista only to discover it won't run in a VM. I'm not going to install Vista now because I just finished reinstalling XP, apps and games (again) after a clean install last October. Three days messing around with no computer once a year is plenty, thanks.
Right now a few of my customers are running Vista, but that's their lookout. My software works on it, and that's all they care about.
95% of the time I use Buy-it-now, especially for consumables and cheapo stuff (which is why I'm reading this Slashdot story in the first place) It's just not worth the effort to bid on $5 or $10 items only to wait 7-10 days and get knocked off by someone else. (And if you bid $15 or $17 or $21 someone will still beat you by 50c) I'd rather pay the $15 up front and secure the item.
Same here. I have a nice monitor (ViewSonic 20") which also has a high-intensity blue LED on the forward-facing power switch. First thing I did was cover it up.
All those LEDS are designed to look cool in tech reviews and hardware stores. Unfortunately, 99.99% of the time they're a pain in the eyes.
What happens if the ISP you're with keeps getting their mail servers blocked for so-called spamming? That's why I use my own server on a dynamic IP - I occasionally get a returned mail from a couple of major US ISPs telling me my email didn't get through, but the alternative is NO mail getting through for several days at a time.
To help my users I've listed the ISPs I know won't accept mail from me on my contact page, and advised people trying to get in touch to set up a gmail or hotmail account instead. (They're usually after support for free software, so I have no concerns about driving away customers.)
I have a large collection of Sinclair gear, from a bare ZX80 though a number of ZX81s (with and without Rampacks) to most models of the ZX Spectrum, from the original 16K to the +3 with built-in 3" disk drive. Microdrives, tapes, ZX and Alphacom printers, light guns, Currah u-speech and on and on.
It's purely nostalgia, not a money-making venture. My first computer was a ZX81, saved up for and bought new 24 years ago, and I still remember it like it was yesterday. (In fact, I still have it.)
What happens if MS starts refusing WPA requests on XP? "Sorry, that software is no longer supported. Please install Vista and call back." Or if they send through a compulsory update which starts popping up more and more aggressive reminders to 'upgrade' to Vista, telling us XP has 10, 9, 8 ... days left until EOL?
I'm perfectly happy on XP, but I'm much more nervous about the future than I was when I kept using Win 98 for the first two or three years after XP came out. I'm not anti-Vista, I just see no need to endure an upgrade. It's not like it's going to trouble my hardware either: E6700, 2gb ram, oodles of HD space and an Nvidia 7600GT.
Youngest is 9, oldest is 12, both girls. They loved Morrowind a couple of years back, they're Oblivion fanatics and are currently working their way through the Shivering Isles expansion ... faster than me. They spend a lot of time in the construction kit, and are always downloading and installing extra content. The oldest doesn't like the headless zombies so she gets her younger sister to come and eliminate them for her. (They each have their own PC.)
Other games: They really like C&C Renegade multiplayer, but don't like UT or Half Life. When the eldest turned 12 I let her play GTA3 (following 18 months solid nagging), but she gave up after less than a day - didn't like it after all. They're not getting Doom 3 because that thing almost gives ME the creeps (I'm 39), and they laughed aloud at the 'cheesy' graphics in Doom 1, 2 and in Daggerfall.
They express dislike for simple platform games, although they have played and enjoyed Snow Bros and they like the Pokemon games on their GBAs. Spyro was a fave on the PS1, and they enjoyed Eye-toy and Singstar on the PS2.
I don't particularly like them playing Oblivion when there are hanging corpses and all kinds of blood-drenched rooms, torture chambers and so on to be found in the game, and I suspect the reason neither of them have completed the main quest is because the world behind the oblivion gates is much more gory than Tamriel. On the other hand, they might have found the Gates boring and repetitive - I know I struggled to do them all. I do know they adore the free-form nature of the game.
Maybe someone could sue themselves for not winning the lottery, despite the fact they never bought a ticket. That'd come close.
Agreed. I completed GTA3 and Vice City, but have yet to get far in San Andreas. Vice City was stylish, with a seedy underbelly, and there was a lot of unexpected humour. San Andreas was just seedy, and the foul language was the last straw.
I still load VC up from time to time, but SA has been consigned to the shelves.
Audience participation - I supply the Huzzahs and Hoorahs myself.
I got a DMCA take-down notice from youtube about 2 videos I posted, claiming copyright infringement. The problem? I shot those videos myself, and they were just a pair of F/A-18 fly-bys with no added music or other sounds.
Now, after receiving the notice I felt aggrieved, then pissed off, and then discouraged when I discovered the hoops I'd have to clamber through to get my vids reinstated. It just wasn't worth it, so I deleted the emails and have sworn off posting anything else to Youtube.
I'm still writing VB6 code. In fact, I earn my keep with a VB6 app which is up there with the best programs of its kind available worldwide.
I'm making tentative steps towards dotnet, but to do so I first have to convert my underlying libraries of useful code. Many of them will probably become wrappers for new dotnet commands, but I know that while I'm converting it all I certainly won't want to be making changes to the older stuff.
Right now I'm writing a VB6 project simplifier which will help - it'll save out a new copy of a project with only the subs, functions and properties that are actually used. Then I can just run the converter on that.
Meanwhile I have another Hal Spacejock novel to write. It's the fourth in the series, so I'm starting to get issues with backwards compatibility there too.
"have you ever suffered collateral damage from AV false positives?"
... I didn't read all the threats that closely.
Yes indeed - two of my freeware apps have been mis-diagnosed as trojan-bearers in the past. I contacted the AV vendors (who demanded the usual proof, mother's maiden name, left nut) and they eventually sorted the problem out. In the meantime I had to deal with angry emails from users accusing me of corrupting their machines, raping their bank accounts and stealing their wives. Or something along those lines
Thing is, these are freeware apps. A novel-writing tool, an ebook reading program, an email client, that kind of thing. They don't have ads or spyware, and they certainly don't include trojans. I wrote them for my own use and I give them away (just like the XNews guy does) and it's a bit much when I also have to go and prove my good intentions.
... all your problems start AFTER your balls drop.
The final straw is a cliche, but the camel's back just broke. I have zero confidence that I will never need to reinstall Vista, whatever Microsoft says about their new ultra-reliable OS, so what this means is that I will have to reinstall XP first. Sorry, but that's ludicrous. No thanks.
I help to run web filtering at a small primary school, and while I realise a TLD like this won't shift all the crud into an easily-blocked area of the net, it's a good start. Of course, the downside is that nanny-state governments can then instruct ISPs to block the TLD, thus protecting their good citizens. Protecting primary school kids is one thing, but 'protecting' adults is a whole different ball game.
I guess I just argued for both sides of the equation. I think I'm getting fence splinters.
I have two daughtersm, and as I type this I can hear them discussing their current project. They're debating whether to build an add-on island for Morrowind or Oblivion - they know the Morrowind construction set fairly well, but Oblivion has more features. (They've already built caves, houses, AI characters, you-name-it for Morrowind, and it's one of their favourite pasttimes.)
Oh yes, and they're nine and twelve years old.
And if someone wants to send me a "feature rich" email, they should just send me a link to a page on their website instead.
I keep my change in the same pocket, and have done for decades. If a single coin turned up in any of my other pockets I'd know for certain I hadn't put it there. I go ask my kids if it was theirs, they'd say yes, and the bug-ees would get several days of Pokemon nonsense to listen to.
The best solution is to install spell checking in the brain. You can get a grammar checker, too.
The downside is that they take ages to install and don't run with computer-like efficiency.
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This post IS long enough for Slashdot. Read it. Enjoy it. See?
I joined LibraryThing recently, and it was interesting to see that they've included the option to link to your profile on many other social network sites - Myspace, LJ, Blogger ... and Slashdot. I set up a squidoo as well, and they pull out the RSS for my blog and display summaries.
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I guess all this has a logical conclusion, where someone sets up a meta-site that pulls together all your online profiles into one 'ME' page. When they do that, it'll be quite something. Imagine all your Myspace friends without the Myspace baggage
Why hasn't anyone commented on the obvious? It's not people talking on cellphones which will drive me nuts - it's 350+ different ringtones & SMS alerts going off at random times throughout the flight. Any international flight longer than 6 or 7 hours - you know, where I might actually be trying to get some sleep - is going to become something like Murder on the Orient Express.
Oh, I've disabled it all right. I was just pointing out why I don't see hybernation as the ideal solution for fast boot-up - or at least, not in my case.
The downside is that you lose a gig of hard drive space (I have 1 gig of ram and maintain a 15gb C: partition JUST for Windows and Program files) and that gig is present in every partition image I take of the drive. Since the compressed partition images are only 7gigs, it's a substantial percentage. And yes, I keep multiple partition images, stored by date. I carry a 100gb 2.5" drive in a belt pouch everywhere, and it's stuffed to the gills.
I realise it seems crazy to complain about 1 gig of space these days, but couldn't they have made the hiberfil.sys locateable on another drive or partition?