Maybe because the XP drivers were insecure and could be used to hack the system? I know XP is easily hacked, but the device drivers running as root/administrator all the time is something that microsoft was trying to get rid of.
Driver backwards compatible? 2000 driver working in XP that worked most of the time. NT4 drivers working in 2000, didn't work for the stuff I tried. 98 to 2000 (or XP) totally different. If microsoft made a new OS (not just a face lift on the old one) having new device drivers for that OS makes sense.
I still think microsoft should have said no to backwards compatibility for apps as well as drivers. New OS, new apps and drivers for that OS. They have a free VM use that VM to install the older OS to run those mission critical older apps. Then they could have made one 64 bit version and move forward. Instead they made 6 (or 8 or 9 if you count all of the 32 bit and 64 bit) different versions and confused the people they want to buy their stuff.
But that saying "He's my..." can only be said if you are black. If you are white you will be beaten (at best). While it is true that race and gender should not have played a part in the election. Those two things did play a part in the election. Which is sad, really really sad.
Did anyone else hear that some someone went into Harlem. Asked people if who they were voting for and if they said Obama: used McCain's talking points and said to people do you agree. They said yes. They also did the reverse, if the person said McCain, Obama's talking points were used. And again, they agreed with the talking points. It proves the point that not everyone (more likely most) have no idea what Obama or McCain stand for. Which again falls under the sad category.
I thought a few people took apart the Dell 20 inch LCD and the Apple 20 inch LCD and they each had the same samsung screen. I don't remember seeing a check on the 24 inch ones.
Closing the tax loop holes sounds like a good idea. Lets close the ones that the people in the senate and house have been using for years first.
The biggest problems with the government giving money to the people who make less are: 1. A lot of people will expect it to continue and not work to better themselves. 2. Where do you think this money comes from in the first place? It comes from taxes. So we are paying ourselves.
I am all for a flat tax rate. The fact that people who make more pay less in percentage of their income in taxes then people makes less is ridiculous. I said percentage. That is what a lot of rich people forget. The rich pay more in raw dollars, but those dollars are a much smaller percentage of their income.
Then why is the OSX 10.5 slower then OSX 10.4 on the three Apple machines I got here? Then again these are all power PC cpus not the Intel ones. Which is the issue, Apple is (has?) dropped support for the power PC CPU so the older machines will not be getting new OS versions. Which means I will not be upgrading the OS version on these machines any time soon. We will have to replace the entire machine. Good for Apple bad for us, but that is the way things go. The older machines will soon not be able to take the new software forcing us to either switch software or but new machines. I am just used to using a computer until it actually breaks beyond repair, or the cost of fixing it is higher then replacing it.
2GB of memory was not an issue with XP. 4GB of memory usually shows up as 3.2-3.5GB unless you do the PAE switch. I always found it was better install XP with 4GB then add it later. Same goes with Server 2003 32 bit. You want 4GB+ of memory use a 64bit OS. XP has not had an issue with 2-3GB of memory. The older motherboards (back in 2001) may have that is a hardware issue not a software issue.
As for the actual core count, XP home supports one actual processor. If that processor is a dual core it shows up as a dual core processor unless my laptop is lying to me. I have not tested XP Home with a quad core I cannot speak for that. XP pro support to actual processor CPUs. Those CPUs can have 1 core each or 2 cores each or 4 cores each and all will be seen. So yes you can have an 8 way XP pro box. We have a few desktops set up like this at work. Wrong OS at first SP Pro 32 bit. It worked but could use all 16GB of RAM. Switched to XP Pro 64 bit to use all the RAM.
As for gaming, if you want all the eye candy that DX10 gives you should be on vista. If the eye candy is not an issue go XP. That is until they start making vista only games. Who knows when that will happen.
Everyone should be turning off things that they do not use in their OS.
Wouldn't those massive cached systems help? DEC, er, Compaq, now HP used to sell an external hard drive array. Each shelf could hold 8 hard drives or power supplies and the box could hold six shelves. We usually set them up with six drives per shelf and two power supplies per shelf for fail over. There were two controllers at the bottom. SCSI or fiber (depending on which controller you ordered). I remember added 2GB of memory for cache for each controller. The controllers had a total of 4GB of memory. This was back in 1999. I would not be surprised (if these are still sold) to see 8-16+ GB of memory on those controllers today.
If you add a lot of cache on the controllers shouldn't that help with the write speed for the drives?
Better off with a attic fan(s) or whole house fan. By lowering the heat load in the attic, your house will feel cooler. If the temp drops a little bit in the evening, a whole house fan is great. It sucks the air out of the house into the attic (the out) and cooler air is drawn in.
Those are a lot cheaper the a heat pump. Heat pump vs normal AC (or normal heater) heat pump is a lot more expansive to run VS ac. No contest here in Virginia. Even though the winters are no whee near as cold as places north, a regular gas/oil forced hot air furnace costs less to run then the heat pumps do. I know this cause there is a new housing development. Same construction in the homes (2X6 in exterior walls with more insulation), different heating/cooling systems. The heat pump based houses have the highest heating and cooling bills. The best (lowest bills) are the homes that use the water/slurry geothermal heating based system. Almost free AC. The temp is average 68 degrees from the ground year round here. And heating from 68 degrees is a lot cheaper then from 30 (or lower) degrees.
I have set up a few people with a ghost image of their computer so that they can go back to a clean working computer. This way if the game DRM screws up their machine they can get it working again. It works but no one should have to go that far to play computer games. This is on a computer that ONLY plays games. No surfing, no email, games only. So far only single video card setups, so the whole sli/crossfire thing is not an issue.
It is like the game companies do not want you to have more then one game or more then game company's software on your computer. Stick with all company ABC's game your fine. Put company ABC and company abc123's games on and you have issues.
You're looking at the price of RAM from the Apple store, right? It's a ripoff, buy it from somewhere else and put it in yourself. Most Apple-fanboy forums will even give this advice, and it's easy enough that non-technical people don't have problems following the directions to upgrade their own RAM.
Microsoft should count all the versions of windows that were released: 1: windows 1 2: windows 2 3: windows 3 4: windows 95 5: windows 98 6: windows 2000, server 2000, ME 7: windows xp, server 2003 8: windows vista, server 2008 9: windows (the one being released now vista 1.1)
then we have the one that I fear the most: 10: windows X (with the solid metal frame, lots of weapons, and the liquid metal outer shell to hide all the evil on the inside)
They do not need men for that. Just need one male to make the sperm. Bottle that sperm up and you covered for years.... Wait...
On second thought Kill that computer! Format it's hard drives! Throw it in an ocean abyss!
That is assuming those computers can fix them selves or other computers. If not, we are good. Though I am getting tired of girls I would love to date only talking to me when their computer breaks. Then going back to their SO (usually their girlfriend).
I have been forced to use vista (since beta) on my machine at work. UAC comes up: when you install software when you are getting to the management section (users, groups,etc) when you run regedit If you add new desktop to the wallpapers folder If you run a program that is accessing the 'protected' sections of the computer
That is it for me. When you first get a computer, you set it up the way you want it. You ARE accessing the protected sections. UAC is doing what is was written to do. Once you are finished setting up the computer how often does UAC come up? It comes up for me now when I am remotely managing someone else's computer or I am putting some new software on. That is it. I have 5 people here that think they are using XP since I change the UI to classic. Which is really sad if you think about it. I had to tell the VP as he was complaining how vista sucked and XP on his desktop worked that his machine that we replaced 7 months ago was vista with the classic UI turned on. I think I might be looking for a new jobs soon.....
If you look at some of the images the creators have rough edges while others look really smooth. Almost like the planet was softer during some impacts and harder for others. Either way for the smallest planet, it sure has a lot of impacts on it. Makes me think how violent the solar system was in the past.
Not cars but there are boats that are drive by wire now. The throttle and steering are wired to the back of the boat. The steering has a hydraulic pump in the rear while the throttle and shift are totally wired to the engine. This is how mercury verados are connected.
I mean, if we cut off EVERY black mans left arm when they where born, wouldn't that trickle down genetically eventually (honest question, only using blaq mang as a word, not racially.... Change it to chinese, Japanese, American, Caucasian, etc to suit your needs).
--Toll_Free
No. It would just suck for those people who were born a 'lefty'. Removing an arm after one is born is not the same as changing the genetics of that person from having the arm in the first place.
Now if you had said start giving each baby male a genetic disorder that affected the development of the arms, then maybe over time an arm may not develop in newborn babies.
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You also have to turn on disk access on the ipod through itunes. Otherwise the OS knows something is attached but cannot access it.
Maybe because the XP drivers were insecure and could be used to hack the system? I know XP is easily hacked, but the device drivers running as root/administrator all the time is something that microsoft was trying to get rid of.
Driver backwards compatible? 2000 driver working in XP that worked most of the time. NT4 drivers working in 2000, didn't work for the stuff I tried. 98 to 2000 (or XP) totally different. If microsoft made a new OS (not just a face lift on the old one) having new device drivers for that OS makes sense.
I still think microsoft should have said no to backwards compatibility for apps as well as drivers. New OS, new apps and drivers for that OS. They have a free VM use that VM to install the older OS to run those mission critical older apps. Then they could have made one 64 bit version and move forward. Instead they made 6 (or 8 or 9 if you count all of the 32 bit and 64 bit) different versions and confused the people they want to buy their stuff.
So if Obama does stuff that countries do not like we screwed up?
Do we (the people of the US) tell you (the people of other countries) to not screw up when you change your leaders?
But that saying "He's my..." can only be said if you are black. If you are white you will be beaten (at best). While it is true that race and gender should not have played a part in the election. Those two things did play a part in the election. Which is sad, really really sad.
Did anyone else hear that some someone went into Harlem. Asked people if who they were voting for and if they said Obama: used McCain's talking points and said to people do you agree. They said yes. They also did the reverse, if the person said McCain, Obama's talking points were used. And again, they agreed with the talking points. It proves the point that not everyone (more likely most) have no idea what Obama or McCain stand for. Which again falls under the sad category.
I thought a few people took apart the Dell 20 inch LCD and the Apple 20 inch LCD and they each had the same samsung screen. I don't remember seeing a check on the 24 inch ones.
Closing the tax loop holes sounds like a good idea. Lets close the ones that the people in the senate and house have been using for years first.
The biggest problems with the government giving money to the people who make less are:
1. A lot of people will expect it to continue and not work to better themselves.
2. Where do you think this money comes from in the first place? It comes from taxes. So we are paying ourselves.
I am all for a flat tax rate. The fact that people who make more pay less in percentage of their income in taxes then people makes less is ridiculous. I said percentage. That is what a lot of rich people forget. The rich pay more in raw dollars, but those dollars are a much smaller percentage of their income.
Then why is the OSX 10.5 slower then OSX 10.4 on the three Apple machines I got here? Then again these are all power PC cpus not the Intel ones. Which is the issue, Apple is (has?) dropped support for the power PC CPU so the older machines will not be getting new OS versions. Which means I will not be upgrading the OS version on these machines any time soon. We will have to replace the entire machine. Good for Apple bad for us, but that is the way things go. The older machines will soon not be able to take the new software forcing us to either switch software or but new machines. I am just used to using a computer until it actually breaks beyond repair, or the cost of fixing it is higher then replacing it.
2GB of memory was not an issue with XP. 4GB of memory usually shows up as 3.2-3.5GB unless you do the PAE switch. I always found it was better install XP with 4GB then add it later. Same goes with Server 2003 32 bit. You want 4GB+ of memory use a 64bit OS. XP has not had an issue with 2-3GB of memory. The older motherboards (back in 2001) may have that is a hardware issue not a software issue.
As for the actual core count, XP home supports one actual processor. If that processor is a dual core it shows up as a dual core processor unless my laptop is lying to me. I have not tested XP Home with a quad core I cannot speak for that. XP pro support to actual processor CPUs. Those CPUs can have 1 core each or 2 cores each or 4 cores each and all will be seen. So yes you can have an 8 way XP pro box. We have a few desktops set up like this at work. Wrong OS at first SP Pro 32 bit. It worked but could use all 16GB of RAM. Switched to XP Pro 64 bit to use all the RAM.
As for gaming, if you want all the eye candy that DX10 gives you should be on vista. If the eye candy is not an issue go XP. That is until they start making vista only games. Who knows when that will happen.
Everyone should be turning off things that they do not use in their OS.
Wouldn't those massive cached systems help? DEC, er, Compaq, now HP used to sell an external hard drive array. Each shelf could hold 8 hard drives or power supplies and the box could hold six shelves. We usually set them up with six drives per shelf and two power supplies per shelf for fail over. There were two controllers at the bottom. SCSI or fiber (depending on which controller you ordered). I remember added 2GB of memory for cache for each controller. The controllers had a total of 4GB of memory. This was back in 1999. I would not be surprised (if these are still sold) to see 8-16+ GB of memory on those controllers today.
If you add a lot of cache on the controllers shouldn't that help with the write speed for the drives?
Better off with a attic fan(s) or whole house fan. By lowering the heat load in the attic, your house will feel cooler. If the temp drops a little bit in the evening, a whole house fan is great. It sucks the air out of the house into the attic (the out) and cooler air is drawn in.
Those are a lot cheaper the a heat pump. Heat pump vs normal AC (or normal heater) heat pump is a lot more expansive to run VS ac. No contest here in Virginia. Even though the winters are no whee near as cold as places north, a regular gas/oil forced hot air furnace costs less to run then the heat pumps do. I know this cause there is a new housing development. Same construction in the homes (2X6 in exterior walls with more insulation), different heating/cooling systems. The heat pump based houses have the highest heating and cooling bills. The best (lowest bills) are the homes that use the water/slurry geothermal heating based system. Almost free AC. The temp is average 68 degrees from the ground year round here. And heating from 68 degrees is a lot cheaper then from 30 (or lower) degrees.
I have set up a few people with a ghost image of their computer so that they can go back to a clean working computer. This way if the game DRM screws up their machine they can get it working again. It works but no one should have to go that far to play computer games. This is on a computer that ONLY plays games. No surfing, no email, games only. So far only single video card setups, so the whole sli/crossfire thing is not an issue.
It is like the game companies do not want you to have more then one game or more then game company's software on your computer. Stick with all company ABC's game your fine. Put company ABC and company abc123's games on and you have issues.
You're looking at the price of RAM from the Apple store, right? It's a ripoff, buy it from somewhere else and put it in yourself. Most Apple-fanboy forums will even give this advice, and it's easy enough that non-technical people don't have problems following the directions to upgrade their own RAM.
And void your warranty in the process.
That coal and oil used to be plants and animals (a long time ago). The plants got buried, add pressure and time and we have coal.
So the solution might be get more plants to take out more CO2 from the air. And put more O2 in the air.
Microsoft should count all the versions of windows that were released:
1: windows 1
2: windows 2
3: windows 3
4: windows 95
5: windows 98
6: windows 2000, server 2000, ME
7: windows xp, server 2003
8: windows vista, server 2008
9: windows (the one being released now vista 1.1)
then we have the one that I fear the most:
10: windows X (with the solid metal frame, lots of weapons, and the liquid metal outer shell to hide all the evil on the inside)
And for those who have their own water well in the backyard...
They do not need men for that. Just need one male to make the sperm. Bottle that sperm up and you covered for years. ... Wait...
On second thought Kill that computer! Format it's hard drives! Throw it in an ocean abyss!
That is assuming those computers can fix them selves or other computers. If not, we are good. Though I am getting tired of girls I would love to date only talking to me when their computer breaks. Then going back to their SO (usually their girlfriend).
Well if the 'big one' ever happens. Part of the state becomes an island. That might help with the air pollution.
I have been forced to use vista (since beta) on my machine at work. UAC comes up:
when you install software
when you are getting to the management section (users, groups,etc)
when you run regedit
If you add new desktop to the wallpapers folder
If you run a program that is accessing the 'protected' sections of the computer
That is it for me. When you first get a computer, you set it up the way you want it. You ARE accessing the protected sections. UAC is doing what is was written to do. Once you are finished setting up the computer how often does UAC come up? It comes up for me now when I am remotely managing someone else's computer or I am putting some new software on. That is it. I have 5 people here that think they are using XP since I change the UI to classic. Which is really sad if you think about it. I had to tell the VP as he was complaining how vista sucked and XP on his desktop worked that his machine that we replaced 7 months ago was vista with the classic UI turned on. I think I might be looking for a new jobs soon.....
Either it is turned off or you haven't installed anything that wanted to write to windows system directories.
Try right clicking on computer, then selecting 'manage'. That should bring up UAC every time, unless it is turned off.
If you look at some of the images the creators have rough edges while others look really smooth. Almost like the planet was softer during some impacts and harder for others. Either way for the smallest planet, it sure has a lot of impacts on it. Makes me think how violent the solar system was in the past.
Not cars but there are boats that are drive by wire now. The throttle and steering are wired to the back of the boat. The steering has a hydraulic pump in the rear while the throttle and shift are totally wired to the engine. This is how mercury verados are connected.
Gallium bonds to aluminum, it doesn't attack it. But the gallium-aluminum alloy does allow H2 gas to be released when water is added.
I mean, if we cut off EVERY black mans left arm when they where born, wouldn't that trickle down genetically eventually (honest question, only using blaq mang as a word, not racially.... Change it to chinese, Japanese, American, Caucasian, etc to suit your needs).
--Toll_Free
No. It would just suck for those people who were born a 'lefty'. Removing an arm after one is born is not the same as changing the genetics of that person from having the arm in the first place.
Now if you had said start giving each baby male a genetic disorder that affected the development of the arms, then maybe over time an arm may not develop in newborn babies.
Psst.. come on man wake up
I expect that in a couple of days the news will be that evolution is slowly reversing..
Q: Are we not men? A: We are DEVO!
(put on funny red plastic hat)
So whip it, whip it good!!