Vista Sucks
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Paul Watson wrote:
Funnily enough though I just got some Objective C and Cocoa books to see what I can do on the iPhone.
Yes, objective C and Cocoa look kind of interesting...I might mess around with them if I can find some spare time. Are you still in Ireland? Can you get the iPhone there? I'm heading to France and have to cancel my mobile phone service in Switzerland. I was curious about the iPhone... I haven't found a provider in France and wonder how widespread it is in Europe.
73Zeppelin wrote:
Can you get the iPhone there? I'm heading to France and have to cancel my mobile phone service in Switzerland. I was curious about the iPhone... I haven't found a provider in France and wonder how widespread it is in Europe.
It isn't officially available outside of the USA though if you buy one in the US and activate it there you can roam with AT&T in Europe. Saying that though just today I saw an iPhone working on O2 Ireland's network. I should have my iPhone working on O2 Ireland in the next few days too using the TurboSIM hack. It won't do the "visual voicemail" though as that requires carrier changes.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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I used vista for about 3 hours, I didn't like it much either. Functionally, and as you said, the 'eye candy crap.' I still use the oldschool windows 98 theme. I don't really care for pretty colors, and all the other bells and whistles.
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Douglas Troy wrote:
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista[^]
Does that actually fix the problem? It's still listed under "known issues" on the page discussing the VSSP1UWV. It's not clear (to my eyes) whether this continues to be an issue or whether it fixes the issue. Marc
I had been informed that this resolved the Admin problem with VS2005 under Vista. When I get into the office in the AM, I'll ask around and see what the new technology R&D guys have to say about it ... well, after I get them past the cussing and swearing about Vista in general ...
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Got that already. And I figured out how to "run as administrator", but vs2005 still tells me I need to run as administrator.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Hey John ... what about creating a manifest file on the VS2005 exe that requests elevated privileges? You'll still be prompted to "allow", but it's easier than right-click, "run as admin", then clicking "allow"... elevate execution level :..::. Douglas H. Troy ::.. Bad Astronomy |VCF|wxWidgets|WTL
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Well, they put Vista on my box at my new job, and I gotta say I don't like it much. How do I turn off the cheesey eye candy animation crap?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001It is possible to install VS2003 on Vista?
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Anton Afanasyev wrote:
On a side note, my main beef with Vista has been that it tends to "forget" the view settings that I set for folders, and keeps trying to guess them - which in turn shows me my folder full of code files with large thumbnails of them, and columns like "rating", "length", "artist", "year" and some such.
Yeah! WTF is that doing in a folder containing only source code? I've found that quite annoying. Thanks for the tip. I'm going to add that to my Vista section blog, if you don't mind. Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
I'm going to add that to my Vista section blog, if you don't mind.
Of course, go ahead! It sure is nice to have a compilation of useful Vista tips all in one place, such as you do.
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More to the point... Can you do anything with the UAC turned on?
Ninja (the Nerd)
Confused? You will be...Last I heard, the Shutdown option does work.
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73Zeppelin wrote:
Can you get the iPhone there? I'm heading to France and have to cancel my mobile phone service in Switzerland. I was curious about the iPhone... I haven't found a provider in France and wonder how widespread it is in Europe.
It isn't officially available outside of the USA though if you buy one in the US and activate it there you can roam with AT&T in Europe. Saying that though just today I saw an iPhone working on O2 Ireland's network. I should have my iPhone working on O2 Ireland in the next few days too using the TurboSIM hack. It won't do the "visual voicemail" though as that requires carrier changes.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
Paul Watson wrote:
It isn't officially available outside of the USA though if you buy one in the US and activate it there you can roam with AT&T in Europe. Saying that though just today I saw an iPhone working on O2 Ireland's network. I should have my iPhone working on O2 Ireland in the next few days too using the TurboSIM hack. It won't do the "visual voicemail" though as that requires carrier changes.
Ah, but the roaming charges will kill me... Is O2 just in the UK? I'll be moving from Switzerland to France, and France has a lot of discount carriers. I don't know of too many major carriers there (I have talked to K(a)rl about this). Hopefully there will be expanded support for the iPhone in Europe in the next year or so. I have to admit that Apple's products are quite innovative and easy to use (even though based on BSD). I didn't expect that. Unfortunately most of the software I use for work/research isn't available for Mac OS X so for now the Mac is only a home computer. I'm still impressed with Mr. Jobs' company...
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Paul Watson wrote:
It isn't officially available outside of the USA though if you buy one in the US and activate it there you can roam with AT&T in Europe. Saying that though just today I saw an iPhone working on O2 Ireland's network. I should have my iPhone working on O2 Ireland in the next few days too using the TurboSIM hack. It won't do the "visual voicemail" though as that requires carrier changes.
Ah, but the roaming charges will kill me... Is O2 just in the UK? I'll be moving from Switzerland to France, and France has a lot of discount carriers. I don't know of too many major carriers there (I have talked to K(a)rl about this). Hopefully there will be expanded support for the iPhone in Europe in the next year or so. I have to admit that Apple's products are quite innovative and easy to use (even though based on BSD). I didn't expect that. Unfortunately most of the software I use for work/research isn't available for Mac OS X so for now the Mac is only a home computer. I'm still impressed with Mr. Jobs' company...
The TurboSIM should work with most carriers. So you can try it in Switzerland with whatever carrier you choose.
73Zeppelin wrote:
Unfortunately most of the software I use for work/research isn't available for Mac OS X so for now the Mac is only a home computer
Have you tried VMWare Fusion or Parallels? It runs Windows XP/Vista as VMs very well. I have a Windows XP VM open most of the time.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Well, they put Vista on my box at my new job, and I gotta say I don't like it much. How do I turn off the cheesey eye candy animation crap?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Being you, I would disable UAE immediately, via msconfig, last tab, scroll down, run, reboot.
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Well, they put Vista on my box at my new job, and I gotta say I don't like it much. How do I turn off the cheesey eye candy animation crap?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Man what a bunch of cry baby's. VISTA is the best OS Microsoft has released to date. Its version one so there are going to be problems. I use VS2005 with no problems of course I have the service pack. Don't get me wrong there are lots of things I don't like about Microsoft policies (Vista wont support VB6 IDE etc.)but Vista is a very good operating system.
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The TurboSIM should work with most carriers. So you can try it in Switzerland with whatever carrier you choose.
73Zeppelin wrote:
Unfortunately most of the software I use for work/research isn't available for Mac OS X so for now the Mac is only a home computer
Have you tried VMWare Fusion or Parallels? It runs Windows XP/Vista as VMs very well. I have a Windows XP VM open most of the time.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
Paul Watson wrote:
Have you tried VMWare Fusion or Parallels? It runs Windows XP/Vista as VMs very well. I have a Windows XP VM open most of the time.
Heh. No - I've only had the Mac for about 3 days now. I've just managed to migrate my mail and photos from my laptop to it (my laptop is about 5 years old). Aside for these 3 days, I have ZERO Apple experience! I haven't been running VMWare because all my work has been under XP (I'm a Vista hold-out) so there's been no real need for it at the moment
Paul Watson wrote:
The TurboSIM should work with most carriers. So you can try it in Switzerland with whatever carrier you choose.
I'll look into that. Thanks.
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Justin Perez wrote:
I don't really care for pretty colors, and all the other bells and whistles.
I bet you don't really care for for anything that makes you feel good do you?
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Getting work done makes me feel good, not watching Windows Animation.
Tanks for your support
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Justin Perez wrote:
I don't really care for pretty colors, and all the other bells and whistles.
I bet you don't really care for for anything that makes you feel good do you?
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>I bet you don't really care for for anything that makes you feel good do you What are we, Apple users now? :) I personally don't expect my computer to make me feel good. If I did. I'd buy a Mac. But on the other hand, being able to play the newest computer games does make me feel good so I guess I would be torn... Vista is great for my home PC, but the new computer I am getting for work will run XP. And I don't think you can run VS2003 on Vista at all. (Which I unfortunatly have to) Unless someone has some information I don't.
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Well, they put Vista on my box at my new job, and I gotta say I don't like it much. How do I turn off the cheesey eye candy animation crap?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Sorry. I hate vista with a passion (I won't even capitalize the first letter). I hate the idea that at least 80% of my software doesn't run on vista. I hate the idea that I have to give every little process specific permission to run. I can't stand the fact that the software I wrote for Windows now has to be meticulously re-written for vista. And I don't care what anyone says, my benchmarks say it's slower than XP. The fact that vista crashes more often than it's predecessor is a strong testimonial for XP and against vista. And in place of the extra security, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give me a virus!!! I could go on but I'll just suggest the following link that will help you keep XP alive for another 10 years (about the time it will take for vista to become a viable OS): http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9026940[^] As an alternative to going back to XP, turn off DEP, always log on as administrator, write a script to go throuh all your exe's / dll's / assemblies and give them full permissions, turn off all eye candy, turn off all gadgets, then get a quad-core CPU with 6 GB of RAM and a 10,500 RPM hard drive. Just because we can doesn't mean we should.
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Patrick Sears wrote:
Once in awhile, we get bitten in the ass for it
Indeed. I got bitten with that just last month. Where do you work Patrick?
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
Paul Watson wrote:
Where do you work Patrick?
I work in Virginia
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Hey John ... what about creating a manifest file on the VS2005 exe that requests elevated privileges? You'll still be prompted to "allow", but it's easier than right-click, "run as admin", then clicking "allow"... elevate execution level :..::. Douglas H. Troy ::.. Bad Astronomy |VCF|wxWidgets|WTL
Nice. But their is much easier way, just right click the icon, >> Properties >> Compatibility tab >> check 'always run as administrator'.. and walah... -- Awais
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How do you run VS2005 elevated (so I can actually get some work done)?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
