How much time a week do you spend struggling with windows?
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AKA, what can I do to decrease the friction. I probably spend on average 2 to 3 hours of a 40 hour work week struggling with windows-b-crazy problems. Locked up software, processes taking far too long to start-up/shut down, interminable restarts, etc etc etc. In your experience is this average? I'm really feeling the frustration and if I can do something about it I would love to. I am running Windows XP sp2, and our company sysadmin is unlikely to let me go to anything else. Either way, I am a constant user of VS2008, VS2003 (usually have 2 or 3 of those open) and Toad so even if I switched I would have to have windows open in a virtual machine which I don't think would be of any real advantage. Also I could request a computer upgrade but I know little enough about hardware that I wouldn't know what to recommend, I've already got an Intel dual core with 2.66GHz and 2 gig of RAM and my mem/CPU usage is rarely at 100%. Any ideas?
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AKA, what can I do to decrease the friction. I probably spend on average 2 to 3 hours of a 40 hour work week struggling with windows-b-crazy problems. Locked up software, processes taking far too long to start-up/shut down, interminable restarts, etc etc etc. In your experience is this average? I'm really feeling the frustration and if I can do something about it I would love to. I am running Windows XP sp2, and our company sysadmin is unlikely to let me go to anything else. Either way, I am a constant user of VS2008, VS2003 (usually have 2 or 3 of those open) and Toad so even if I switched I would have to have windows open in a virtual machine which I don't think would be of any real advantage. Also I could request a computer upgrade but I know little enough about hardware that I wouldn't know what to recommend, I've already got an Intel dual core with 2.66GHz and 2 gig of RAM and my mem/CPU usage is rarely at 100%. Any ideas?
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Exactly 0. That's because i use a MAC. Get with the times! :laugh:
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
Are you running VS on your mac? I can certainly push for an exception to the PCs only rule to be made in my case. Also, is there any decent oracle clients for macs? As far as I know there is only toad and thats windows only. I have a friend who runs visual studio in an invisible virtual machine on his macbook but he doesn't use it anywhere near as often as I do so I'm still curious to hear from people if it still has all the same problems or even more
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AKA, what can I do to decrease the friction. I probably spend on average 2 to 3 hours of a 40 hour work week struggling with windows-b-crazy problems. Locked up software, processes taking far too long to start-up/shut down, interminable restarts, etc etc etc. In your experience is this average? I'm really feeling the frustration and if I can do something about it I would love to. I am running Windows XP sp2, and our company sysadmin is unlikely to let me go to anything else. Either way, I am a constant user of VS2008, VS2003 (usually have 2 or 3 of those open) and Toad so even if I switched I would have to have windows open in a virtual machine which I don't think would be of any real advantage. Also I could request a computer upgrade but I know little enough about hardware that I wouldn't know what to recommend, I've already got an Intel dual core with 2.66GHz and 2 gig of RAM and my mem/CPU usage is rarely at 100%. Any ideas?
I guess I am mostly alone on this. Does anyone have any advice for what requests I should be making so I can stop wasting my time ctrl-alt-deleting and rebooting?
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Are you running VS on your mac? I can certainly push for an exception to the PCs only rule to be made in my case. Also, is there any decent oracle clients for macs? As far as I know there is only toad and thats windows only. I have a friend who runs visual studio in an invisible virtual machine on his macbook but he doesn't use it anywhere near as often as I do so I'm still curious to hear from people if it still has all the same problems or even more
Togakangaroo wrote:
Are you running VS on your mac?
VS is only for windows.
Togakangaroo wrote:
Also, is there any decent oracle clients for macs? As far as I know there is only toad and thats windows only.
Not sure about that, i doubt it though.
Togakangaroo wrote:
I have a friend who runs visual studio in an invisible virtual machine on his macbook but he doesn't use it anywhere near as often as I do so I'm still curious to hear from people if it still has all the same problems or even more
I run windows xp 64bit through vmware. The only thing installed on my virtual machine is visual studio and some other microsoft products. Everything else i use with the mac. With Vmware there is a feature called Unity[^] where you can seamlessly host windows applications in a mac environment. I've ran windows, played video games, and work on my mac without any problems!
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
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I guess I am mostly alone on this. Does anyone have any advice for what requests I should be making so I can stop wasting my time ctrl-alt-deleting and rebooting?
format c:\ :-D Seriously, it will solve all your problems.
rotter
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Togakangaroo wrote:
Are you running VS on your mac?
VS is only for windows.
Togakangaroo wrote:
Also, is there any decent oracle clients for macs? As far as I know there is only toad and thats windows only.
Not sure about that, i doubt it though.
Togakangaroo wrote:
I have a friend who runs visual studio in an invisible virtual machine on his macbook but he doesn't use it anywhere near as often as I do so I'm still curious to hear from people if it still has all the same problems or even more
I run windows xp 64bit through vmware. The only thing installed on my virtual machine is visual studio and some other microsoft products. Everything else i use with the mac. With Vmware there is a feature called Unity[^] where you can seamlessly host windows applications in a mac environment. I've ran windows, played video games, and work on my mac without any problems!
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
teejayem wrote:
With Vmware there is a feature called Unity[^] where you can seamlessly host windows applications in a mac environment.
I've seen demos of that before. Does it really work as nicely as marketing would have you think, and does anyone know when it's going to be ported to the rest of their platforms?
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Are you running VS on your mac? I can certainly push for an exception to the PCs only rule to be made in my case. Also, is there any decent oracle clients for macs? As far as I know there is only toad and thats windows only. I have a friend who runs visual studio in an invisible virtual machine on his macbook but he doesn't use it anywhere near as often as I do so I'm still curious to hear from people if it still has all the same problems or even more
windows on my mac runs like a dream. I am considering a new Windows dev box, and it will be a mac
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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teejayem wrote:
With Vmware there is a feature called Unity[^] where you can seamlessly host windows applications in a mac environment.
I've seen demos of that before. Does it really work as nicely as marketing would have you think, and does anyone know when it's going to be ported to the rest of their platforms?
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
dan neely wrote:
I've seen demos of that before. Does it really work as nicely as marketing would have you think
It is very good for what it's doing really. Only "kink" is that if you move the window around really fast it won't repaint right away (like .5 sec delay maybe). But as far as typing, mouse movement, and responsiveness i think it is definitely a 9. Also, another issue is that you can't use vista's aero glass through the vm (but you can use full vista thru bootcamp). I believe the highest version of direct x vmware supports is v9. I really wasn't feeling the vista w/o aero and i really wanted to run both os's side by side. Like christian said below, it really is a dream how nice windows runs on a mac. It is very smooth and with minimal software installed in windows it runs so much faster.
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
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windows on my mac runs like a dream. I am considering a new Windows dev box, and it will be a mac
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
Christian Graus wrote:
sidering a new Windows dev box, and it will be a mac
I read about that. Before i bought a mac i was thinking about going that route. I read that it took a bit of "hackery" to get it working though, and when you click "About this mac" it thinks it is a mac pro. But if you don't wanna go through setting it up yourself Psystar's "Open Computer" will build one for you for $555!
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good