If you would rather keep XP...
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I have no problems with Vista and don't know what why people are having problems with it, cast your minds back remember when XP was first released, that too had problems which were addressed with a couple SPs.
norm .net wrote:
cast your minds back remember when XP was first released, that too had problems which were addressed with a couple SPs.
For me, this latest upgrade has been much rockier. When XP came out, I had already been using Windows 2000 as my main OS for quite some time... it was so superior to both NT and 9x in both stability and support that it was a no brainer. XP was not that different from 2000 in terms of compatibility, so it was a painless transition. So much so that I even wondered what the point of XP was at the time, other than new eye candy. I always believed ME was a mistake and that 2000 was ready to be the new home OS, and that XP was just 2000 with a facelift to make this the case. In that it was successful. The biggest mistake XP made at launch was not enabling the firewall by default, which would have prevented all of the early XP virus epidemics. I imagine those who were going from 9x or ME to XP had more painful transition issues, but even so I think it was mainly with legacy stuff... DOS and 16-bit apps. Going from XP to Vista, current versions of major software have issues (including software from Microsoft themselves). That was not the case when XP came out. The speed and UI issues people will adjust to as hardware catches up, but there are fundamental problems with Vista which mark a serious (and troubling) change in the way MS does upgrades, which seems to put some misguided sense of "purity" over the idea that people just want their stuff to work. I feel like Vista was Microsoft's way of saying to their critics, "Fine, you want a secure computing experience? This is the hell you have to pay for it!" And I actually (mostly) like UAC when running as a user account. So no, I don't think the complaints about Vista are the same that people had about XP.
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I only hope IE is a subscription based extra, then I can just avoid it forever.
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Home server has a major bug at present. If you're using the mirror data on two drives option and modify a file on the share (ie fiddling with mp3 tag info) instead of saving it locally and copying it back the two copies can become out of sync resulting in corrupted data. MS is working on a fix and IIRC it's undergoing testing but required changes at a very low level and so isn't being released until they're certain it hasn't broken anything else.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always get punched out when I reach 4.... -- El Corazon
All well, first of all if I was to try it out I'd need more hard-drive space. Quickly filling up my 2x500GB disks (one for backups and one for converting all the movies at home to DivX (you'd be amazed how quickly they get damaged through dog hair from 3 labradors)).
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No, you just assumed I didn't read it - I was commenting entirely on the viability of the petition. Shot first? I think not?
"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, 10/26/2001Liar: you said waste of YOUR time. You personalised it, made it that it was what I was promulgating. You were not specific enough. I reiterate what I said.
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Hmm, am I the only one who's had absolutely no problems with Vista? I was very suprised when even games performed perfectly on a 64-bit install of Vista Ultimate. The only issue so far has had nothing to do with Vista but Abit not producing a reliable driver for my wireless card (doesn't really matter since it's a desktop). Will have to see how games perform on my new laptop which has a 32 bit install. Wasn't intended as a gaming laptop though, just something portable for train journeys and uni.
well, no EA games perform correctly. I have a Dell XPS M1710 with a Geforce 7900 GS and some games will completely crash my computer, other games don't render correctly. Dell has a driver that is 2 years old, where as Microsoft and Nvidia have released upgraded drives for the card, which neither seem to help. I can play guild wars at maximum graphic settings and it runs fine. Go figure.
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I think this is a waste of your time. Microsoft isn't going to keep selling XP. They've even said as much. We can only hope that Windows 7 is better than Vista is, but I'm not holding out hope. It's going to be a subscription based model where you buy the core code, and then pay monthly subscriptions for the parts of the OS that you need beyond that core. I also read somewhere where they're not going to any heroic effort to remain backwards compatible with existing software. IMHO, that's a big mistake, because they suddenly thrust themselves into the same arena as Linux where people don't want to use it because of compatibility issues, never mind the fact that they will be offering a for-rent module that provides the needed backwards compatibility.
"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, 10/26/2001So all this time i've spent developing my .NET skills has been a waste of time and I should be learning how to develop for Linux is what you are saying?
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HELP SAVE XP Petition [^] Not so much that someone would bother to do this (good luck to them) but that Microsloth is steadfastly ignoring the (apparent) 100,000 consumers who have already signed it. I'm not one as I have learnt to live with the wonderfully quirky Vista and can't be asked to go to all the trouble of backgrading to the livelier XP.
While at it could you drop by the HELP SAVE ME Petition site? (And where is the HELP SAVE CPM site?)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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2003 is a delight to use, the majority of stuff is straight forward and easily accessed via the GUI. I've only had a dabble with 2008 but thankfully it seems to take this and just improve on it :D It was very easy to setup for my home network (very simple) and I've had no issues with it since, and thats running on a 1.2ghz Athlon XP.
originSH wrote:
2003 is a delight to use, the majority of stuff is straight forward and easily accessed via the GUI. I've only had a dabble with 2008 but thankfully it seems to take this and just improve on it It was very easy to setup for my home network (very simple) and I've had no issues with it since,
Isn't a server license rather expensive for a home network.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always get punched out when I reach 4.... -- El Corazon
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Very interesting. What are the programming languages used to develop it? Is it another flavor of Linux or a completely new OS? I several times was thinking about creating a new small OS kernel and recreating Win32, so that it could run windows apps, while keep it speedy, stable, secure and small rather than beautiful. I thought if some one stops thinking about compatibility issues from Dos to XP, it might be possible to create a small fast one. Better than them all, it's free and it can run all new Windows apps. Many times, I just forced my brain to stop dreaming! It would be a tough job. Now this one might be going to implement an idea like mine. Let's take closer look. Thanks for the link.
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cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
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Very interesting. What are the programming languages used to develop it? Is it another flavor of Linux or a completely new OS? I several times was thinking about creating a new small OS kernel and recreating Win32, so that it could run windows apps, while keep it speedy, stable, secure and small rather than beautiful. I thought if some one stops thinking about compatibility issues from Dos to XP, it might be possible to create a small fast one. Better than them all, it's free and it can run all new Windows apps. Many times, I just forced my brain to stop dreaming! It would be a tough job. Now this one might be going to implement an idea like mine. Let's take closer look. Thanks for the link.
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni while (I_am_alive)
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cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
}I don't know what language(s) it's written in, but yes...it'd be nice to get off the Microsoft drain train and have something clean and simple with no ulterior marketing motives built in. I have yet to install it but I've been watching it for over a year now...it slowly plods along and hasn't died yet, so there's hope for it :) I think that operating systems take a lot of credit for what the hardware actually does. You're welcome for the link :)
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You're not the only one, I much prefer Vista over XP, the killer feature is the Start search thingy. There are a few things which I run frequently: VS2008, Office (2007 which I much prefer, the new equation editor is the best bit), VMWare (for Windows 2000 with Delphi for Uni), Remote Desktop Connection (to access my 2003 box), WinSplit Revolutions (fantastic app), Firefox (enough said), and more and more Blend (thanks to some suggestions from you can probably guess who). Everything works well on Vista and has increased my productivity so I'm not complaining. Plus I really like the new management interface for IIS 7.
Ed.Poore wrote:
Plus I really like the new management interface for IIS 7.
Yes, it's sort of ironic that to get the really pretty stuff you have to work on a service.:)
Pits fall into Chuck Norris.
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Hmm, am I the only one who's had absolutely no problems with Vista? I was very suprised when even games performed perfectly on a 64-bit install of Vista Ultimate. The only issue so far has had nothing to do with Vista but Abit not producing a reliable driver for my wireless card (doesn't really matter since it's a desktop). Will have to see how games perform on my new laptop which has a 32 bit install. Wasn't intended as a gaming laptop though, just something portable for train journeys and uni.
I have no problems either, some games and applications required a bit of thought to fix after install, but so far everything except my memory card reader is solvable. TI simply refuses to make 64bit drivers and I don't feel like writing my own, so I use a non TI solution. I also run ultimate.
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HELP SAVE XP Petition [^] Not so much that someone would bother to do this (good luck to them) but that Microsloth is steadfastly ignoring the (apparent) 100,000 consumers who have already signed it. I'm not one as I have learnt to live with the wonderfully quirky Vista and can't be asked to go to all the trouble of backgrading to the livelier XP.
Eh, they'll just have to get with the times. I remember back when i was upgrading from win98 to XP. XP tacked on the new Playschool interface and I didn't like that eating up my precious cpu cycles. "My games ran faster/better on 98" I would say. Now when XP is the norm I got Vista with it's even shinier Playschool interface. I went right back to complaining that "My games ran faster/better on XP" I finally just came to grips with the fact that every 5 or 6 years Microsoft will dump out a spiffy new OS and I'll complain that "My games ran faster/better on [previous OS here]"
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HELP SAVE XP Petition [^] Not so much that someone would bother to do this (good luck to them) but that Microsloth is steadfastly ignoring the (apparent) 100,000 consumers who have already signed it. I'm not one as I have learnt to live with the wonderfully quirky Vista and can't be asked to go to all the trouble of backgrading to the livelier XP.
In a more serious vein, you might be taken more seriously if you used "Microsoft" and also realized that just because someone signed a petition means nothing--are they willing to actually make purchases? The reality is that if you want to keep using XP, nothing and nobody is stopping you. There are plenty of legitimate copies available. Casting aspersions at a company for simply following good business practices is rather lame.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Eh, they'll just have to get with the times. I remember back when i was upgrading from win98 to XP. XP tacked on the new Playschool interface and I didn't like that eating up my precious cpu cycles. "My games ran faster/better on 98" I would say. Now when XP is the norm I got Vista with it's even shinier Playschool interface. I went right back to complaining that "My games ran faster/better on XP" I finally just came to grips with the fact that every 5 or 6 years Microsoft will dump out a spiffy new OS and I'll complain that "My games ran faster/better on [previous OS here]"
I actually kept a Windows 98 SE system around since Need For Speed III wouldn't run on XP. A few other games also had problems, mostly due to weirdo CD copy protection schemes. The funny thing is that the Fat32 drive was constantly getting corrupting just by normal gaming usage.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Eh, they'll just have to get with the times. I remember back when i was upgrading from win98 to XP. XP tacked on the new Playschool interface and I didn't like that eating up my precious cpu cycles. "My games ran faster/better on 98" I would say. Now when XP is the norm I got Vista with it's even shinier Playschool interface. I went right back to complaining that "My games ran faster/better on XP" I finally just came to grips with the fact that every 5 or 6 years Microsoft will dump out a spiffy new OS and I'll complain that "My games ran faster/better on [previous OS here]"
Actually, Microsoft said they would never go another 5 years without a new OS version. You'll be complaining about your game speed/quality a little more frequently. :-D
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I have no problems with Vista and don't know what why people are having problems with it, cast your minds back remember when XP was first released, that too had problems which were addressed with a couple SPs.
I've often made the same point. Using the way back machine, NT 4 wasn't such a belly of laughs when it first came out--it was damn near unusable until SP3 or SP4 (was it NT4 or 3.51 that had an early service pack that corrupted the existing system?) That said, I do think there was a distinct lack of discipline in Vista development from the engineers and way to much interference from marketing. This latter claim has been supported by the recent release of court documents. The speed improvements in SP1 support the former claim, as does the bloat and instability of Office 2008 and VS 2005 and VS 2008. (If every engineer from the driver developer to the UI accepts just "a little" bloat and "a little" non-optimization, you end up with lots of bloat and poor performance. Add idiot management meddling and you have a mess.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Very interesting. What are the programming languages used to develop it? Is it another flavor of Linux or a completely new OS? I several times was thinking about creating a new small OS kernel and recreating Win32, so that it could run windows apps, while keep it speedy, stable, secure and small rather than beautiful. I thought if some one stops thinking about compatibility issues from Dos to XP, it might be possible to create a small fast one. Better than them all, it's free and it can run all new Windows apps. Many times, I just forced my brain to stop dreaming! It would be a tough job. Now this one might be going to implement an idea like mine. Let's take closer look. Thanks for the link.
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni while (I_am_alive)
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cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
}Doing so is far from a trivial task. Just look at the Wine Project. They've been doing a zenos paradox in versioning for several years as they run out of space between the current number and the mythical 1.0 where everything works. :doh:
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always get punched out when I reach 4.... -- El Corazon
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I've often made the same point. Using the way back machine, NT 4 wasn't such a belly of laughs when it first came out--it was damn near unusable until SP3 or SP4 (was it NT4 or 3.51 that had an early service pack that corrupted the existing system?) That said, I do think there was a distinct lack of discipline in Vista development from the engineers and way to much interference from marketing. This latter claim has been supported by the recent release of court documents. The speed improvements in SP1 support the former claim, as does the bloat and instability of Office 2008 and VS 2005 and VS 2008. (If every engineer from the driver developer to the UI accepts just "a little" bloat and "a little" non-optimization, you end up with lots of bloat and poor performance. Add idiot management meddling and you have a mess.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote:
That said, I do think there was a distinct lack of discipline in Vista development from the engineers and way to much interference from marketing. This latter claim has been supported by the recent release of court documents. The speed improvements in SP1 support the former claim,
If you're refering to the copy speed it's mainly optimization gone amuck with a side of being more truthful in reporting. The big hit was from optimizing for high latency networks (crappy wireless) at the expense of normal performance. This one really blows my mind since it's not as if one more service spattering an occasional packet to measure performance and choose which stack to use behind the scene would really made that much of a difference at this point. :doh: The second related part is that XP and prior used buffered IO for network copies. Buffered IO reports DONE when the last of the data is written to the in memory disk cache not the HD platter/flash chips. One of the changes for high latency network performance was to use unbuffered IO which doesn't report DONE until the data is written on the platter/flash chips. This meant that even if everything went perfectly (no packets arrived out of order) the reported time on the UI would be a few seconds longer even if performance was otherwise identical.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always get punched out when I reach 4.... -- El Corazon
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
That said, I do think there was a distinct lack of discipline in Vista development from the engineers and way to much interference from marketing. This latter claim has been supported by the recent release of court documents. The speed improvements in SP1 support the former claim,
If you're refering to the copy speed it's mainly optimization gone amuck with a side of being more truthful in reporting. The big hit was from optimizing for high latency networks (crappy wireless) at the expense of normal performance. This one really blows my mind since it's not as if one more service spattering an occasional packet to measure performance and choose which stack to use behind the scene would really made that much of a difference at this point. :doh: The second related part is that XP and prior used buffered IO for network copies. Buffered IO reports DONE when the last of the data is written to the in memory disk cache not the HD platter/flash chips. One of the changes for high latency network performance was to use unbuffered IO which doesn't report DONE until the data is written on the platter/flash chips. This meant that even if everything went perfectly (no packets arrived out of order) the reported time on the UI would be a few seconds longer even if performance was otherwise identical.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always get punched out when I reach 4.... -- El Corazon
I'm referring to the whole enchilada, as they say. Even XP could use some serious size and speed optimizations (though apparently, XP is now perfect.... :) )
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
