I got a new laptop a month ago, a real workhorse with ATI's X1900 video card. It came with Vista and during the time I decided not to let it as it was and focus on my work.
Unfortunately I couldn't. I had networking problems and I located them to the incompatibility of my router to windows vista. Yes, routers can be incompatible to vista.
I really didn't have the time to upgrade to XP so I started moving files with my USB flash. But the system was slow and when I ran 3dmark2001 and found that I was getting 15000 marks only I decided that I would either stick with my old laptop or remove Vista.
I spend an hour formatting the system, installing a clean XP system with slipstreamed SP2+post SP2 updates pack+raid drivers and suddently the laptop became the monster I paid for. Network problems were a history, everything felt snappy, boot time was 1/3 to vista and I got 23000 3d marks.
I keep the windows update feature disabled since it first appeared. My Kerio firewall never reported Microsoft trying to call home.
The best way to have a clean, updated and (relatively) secure system is to slipstream Service Pack 2, SATA/SCSI drivers and RyanVM's updates into a nice small package with nLite. You can also clean useless stuff such as the Tour, old drivers, the Wimp etc.
There is also Xable's update pack at http://udp.xable.net/ which is more regularly updated and smaller but contains only critical fixes.
Thanks for clarifying up -- but I wonder, if I removed the possibility of hardware failure and dismiss your argument as pure FUD (which considering the success of Word in non-Microsoft-native environments such as Mac OS should have been the safest route), how many options would your questionnaire had?
And yes, I did notice that you have now included the possibility of OS failure. I think this is an amoeba argument and it just sprang a new leg.
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I think you have an entirely different kind of software in your mind; the are still people working on Freedos and they achieve even lower memory footprints than DOS 5, using modern programming techniques with all the benefits you describe.
You probably have business applications in your mind, that's different.
``MS-Word crash every five minutes, 24 hours before the deadline of your 50+ page document,,
You either have a hardware problem, or spreading FUD.
I've been working with Word since version 2 on Windows 3 with rather long documents (more than 400 pages) and macros on a lowly 486SX-25 with 4 MB memory and everything is a pleasant memory -- stability, power and excellent documentation.
Sorry for being off-topic but I am really interested in knowing which is the free antivirus that ``was taking whole CPU cycles trying to "scan" gigabyte level raw videos while it was asked to ignore them,,
2) LitePC has managed to produce working installations of Windows (ok 9x only but still you can run most modern Windows apps) at 9MB flash cards (http://www.litepc.com/eos.html)
It's relatively easy to compress 2K to fit into 512MB and still leave space for apps.
> Every new version of Windows is considered bloated compared to the previous one
With one exception: MS DOS 5 (which was leaner than DOS 4) and Windows 2000 Server. Win2k, with the exception of Internet Explorer, was quite lean.
In fact, ~is~ quite lean. You can still use it for every application that runs on XP. The only deficiencies (from my point of view) is the slower boot and hibernation, lack of Cleartype no software network bridges.
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``Unisys probably outsourced...,,
Did you take some time before speculating? Because it's obvious you don't even know the basics:
``just another tech dinosaur that never made it out of the seventies,,
Unisys was formed in 86. As always, the least one can do before posting on Slashdot is to glance at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisys
I got a new laptop a month ago, a real workhorse with ATI's X1900 video card. It came with Vista and during the time I decided not to let it as it was and focus on my work.
Unfortunately I couldn't. I had networking problems and I located them to the incompatibility of my router to windows vista. Yes, routers can be incompatible to vista.
I really didn't have the time to upgrade to XP so I started moving files with my USB flash. But the system was slow and when I ran 3dmark2001 and found that I was getting 15000 marks only I decided that I would either stick with my old laptop or remove Vista.
I spend an hour formatting the system, installing a clean XP system with slipstreamed SP2+post SP2 updates pack+raid drivers and suddently the laptop became the monster I paid for. Network problems were a history, everything felt snappy, boot time was 1/3 to vista and I got 23000 3d marks.
Well, then do.
I agree and I don't think that's funny.
Luckily most victims of the first bubble have their lessons learned.
The parent is quite interesting, and not a troll.
Did the audience protest?
spend hundreds of dollars on [homeopathic therapy]
Hundreds!? I know of many people doing homeopathetic therapy and their drugs cost pennies.
I keep the windows update feature disabled since it first appeared. My Kerio firewall never reported Microsoft trying to call home.
The best way to have a clean, updated and (relatively) secure system is to slipstream Service Pack 2, SATA/SCSI drivers and RyanVM's updates into a nice small package with nLite. You can also clean useless stuff such as the Tour, old drivers, the Wimp etc.
There is also Xable's update pack at http://udp.xable.net/ which is more regularly updated and smaller but contains only critical fixes.
Thanks for clarifying up -- but I wonder, if I removed the possibility of hardware failure and dismiss your argument as pure FUD (which considering the success of Word in non-Microsoft-native environments such as Mac OS should have been the safest route), how many options would your questionnaire had?
And yes, I did notice that you have now included the possibility of OS failure. I think this is an amoeba argument and it just sprang a new leg.
I think you have an entirely different kind of software in your mind; the are still people working on Freedos and they achieve even lower memory footprints than DOS 5, using modern programming techniques with all the benefits you describe.
You probably have business applications in your mind, that's different.
``you,, as in argumentum ad hominem?
``... you've read the source code for every MS-Word version since the dawn of (Unix) time and there are absolutely no bugs in there?,,
What are you talking about?
What do you mean "barely" ?
And what would you do if paragraph background color ~was~ part of the desired style attributes?
tools > options > view > style area width (say 2.5 cm)
and then
view > normal or outline (it's not meant for 100% WYSIWYG editing)
``MS-Word crash every five minutes, 24 hours before the deadline of your 50+ page document,,
You either have a hardware problem, or spreading FUD.
I've been working with Word since version 2 on Windows 3 with rather long documents (more than 400 pages) and macros on a lowly 486SX-25 with 4 MB memory and everything is a pleasant memory -- stability, power and excellent documentation.
Sorry for being off-topic but I am really interested in knowing which is the free antivirus that ``was taking whole CPU cycles trying to "scan" gigabyte level raw videos while it was asked to ignore them,,
If you need privacy use www.speakfreely.org/
I agree with the moderation, the title is overrated (and syntactically wrong).
Apologies to OOo developers as I rephrase to "Why Mozilla is so great and OOo not so great?"
Mozilla's essentially started from scratch.
OOo's code derived from StarOffice
If OOo hopes to compete with MS Office the way Mozilla competes with IE, OOo needs to start from scratch.
Consider these unofficial tools:
1) nLite can minimize the storage requirements
2) LitePC has managed to produce working installations of Windows (ok 9x only but still you can run most modern Windows apps) at 9MB flash cards (http://www.litepc.com/eos.html)
It's relatively easy to compress 2K to fit into 512MB and still leave space for apps.
Interesting.
You would recommend basic ActionScript instead of LOGO for schools, right?
Could you post a small piece of ActionScript code that could be learned in 1 hour of teaching?
> Every new version of Windows is considered bloated compared to the previous one
With one exception: MS DOS 5 (which was leaner than DOS 4) and Windows 2000 Server. Win2k, with the exception of Internet Explorer, was quite lean.
In fact, ~is~ quite lean. You can still use it for every application that runs on XP. The only deficiencies (from my point of view) is the slower boot and hibernation, lack of Cleartype no software network bridges.
> Support the artists....not the pirates!
You can instead support a broader sharing culture by supporting pirates and not artists.
> That is how affairs are conducted [in Russia] ... it is worse than hell on Earth!
And how do you know that?
I wonder why the parent was moderated as "reduntant".
How come that China is a threat to anyone in this planet?
Have the nuked anyone?
Have they attacked defenseless poor countries?
Have they messed up other countries causing civil wars?