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Title: Introduction
Post by: BROCK on September 13, 2007, 11:12:41 AM: Howdy from Wyoming, Just wanted to introduce myself. I am Brad and I am a service tech. Hopefully in this forum I can get some pointers and also help everyone else with my knowledge base.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: BizB on September 13, 2007, 11:49:06 AM: I don't need help. I already bring the funny.

Welcome abroad.

BizB: eats, shoots and leaves.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: pickled kitten on September 13, 2007, 12:43:57 PM: Quote from: BizB on September 13, 2007, 11:49:06 AM
I don't need help. I already bring the funny.

WITH YOUR FACE!

Oh yeah, Welcome!
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: xolik on September 13, 2007, 02:24:51 PM: I don't use Vista on account of it sucking hard.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: Anyanka_was_framed on September 13, 2007, 04:38:25 PM: Quote from: xolik on September 13, 2007, 02:24:51 PM
I don't use Vista on account of it sucking hard.

Concur.

Welcome!
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: dcrog on September 13, 2007, 04:46:19 PM: Welcome new one.

Up until yesterday I had never used Vista either. Company gave me a new laptop with guess what? Vista business installed.

Today hasn't went well.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: d_money on September 14, 2007, 02:37:06 PM: I'm still stuck on xp. Welcome.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: jeee on September 14, 2007, 02:40:35 PM: Welcome Brock.

I am on vista for 3 months now. The first month was the hardest but now I prefer it above XP. There's hope Socrates.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: pickled kitten on September 14, 2007, 03:54:47 PM: I'll switch to Vista when it's no longer incomplete. Saying you shipped a "complete" product and then requiring 7gigs for the SP1 doesn't sound very complete to me. :roll:
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: xolik on September 14, 2007, 04:00:58 PM: Quote from: pickled kitten on September 14, 2007, 03:54:47 PM
requiring 7gigs for the SP1

What? SP1 is going to soak up 7GB of disk space? No way.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: dcrog on September 14, 2007, 04:19:32 PM: Hell you have to have a gig of ram just to run it.

But I did get my printer functional today. Monday I'll see what else doesn't work.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: Paladin on September 14, 2007, 04:22:50 PM: Ha! And i was hoping the SP1 would decrease the bloatware...

I really had problems with Vista, so much so that i've come to downgrade to XP on some laptops that were only sold with Vista.

Vista will probably be an ok OS when the processors will reach frequencies around 10 GHz and there would be more than 8 GB RAM in a standard system, but of course by then there will be a new and bloatier MS OS, and we'll compare that one with the old and fast Vista.

Who said that "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster"?
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: pickled kitten on September 14, 2007, 04:25:38 PM: Quote from: xolik on September 14, 2007, 04:00:58 PM
What? SP1 is going to soak up 7GB of disk space? No way.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9768026-7.html?tag=nl.e433 (http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9768026-7.html?tag=nl.e433)

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Microsoft's planned Vista Service Pack 1 may not be adding many features, but it sure does take up a lot of space.

Based on current test versions, the operating system update will be a 1GB file when uncompressed. By way of comparison, Windows XP--the whole thing--shipped on a CD, which only holds about three quarters of a gigabyte. On the plus side, systems that already have the latest Vista patches can be brought up to the Service Pack 1 level with only a 50MB compressed file through Microsoft's online Windows Update utility.

Also notable, installing the OS will require 7GB of free hard drive space, though much of that will be returned to the user once the megapatch is applied.

That's still pretty hefty either way you turn the cookie.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: d_money on September 15, 2007, 03:55:14 PM: I guess if I ever want vista I need to upgrade from my 5GB HD, and 128mb ram? :-(
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: Novice on September 15, 2007, 07:51:29 PM: dmw.exe, the program that makes all those cool Windows Aero effects in Vista, takes up about 50 - 70 k of my memory. It has my little blinking orange light working overtime. You can fix that by changing the theme though. The other thing I've had trouble with is I have to convince Vista to restart windows explorer beacuse my display drivers or something in that area have troubles sometimes.

After learning about it in my systems class, I might be inclined to install Linux Fedora on a desktop. However, Vista was already on my laptop and that's the only computer I have so I have to work with it.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: Paladin on September 16, 2007, 07:13:55 AM: I wouldn't recommend Fedora for a desktop, but that's more from "ideological" reasons. Try dual boot on the laptop, see how it works.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: jeee on September 16, 2007, 07:24:02 AM: But then you need a dual core.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: Paladin on September 16, 2007, 07:57:11 AM: Quad is better, you could try BeOS too.
Title: Re: Introduction
Post by: Novice on September 16, 2007, 09:17:22 PM: Hm. Actually, maybe I will mess around with some dual booting. It might help freshen up my knowledge. Oh, and I do have a dual core.