33 replies to this topic

[Raui]

You gotta hate Microsoft. I bet it blocks everything that connects to a network of any sort.

[Hawk]

I thought you were going to bitch about their hardware for a bit there.

Interesting read, I hope I never have to go through that.

[Mumei]

if you think vista's bad, lets all see how bad vienna will be LMAO
talk is that they are going to extent the DEP to a full sandbox approach, all unsigned applications will not be allowed to interact with any part of the OS layer (like what they've done with certain parts in vista - only more so apparently)
they are also taking away raw sockts, raw file accessing and raw access to all hardware (it's ALL going to be through the HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer)

they're even talking about removing the taskbar, start button and everything else that people recognise when they see a windows build LOL

yey - doesn't it all sound so wonderful

[ToxicS]

If you download (I'm allowed to speak of this since he has bought windows vista) a custom made version of windows vista (ultimate perhaps?), aka a lite version of it, you will not have these types of problems most likely. Usually they have taken out windows defender and all sorts of annoying privacy invading stuff.

[Cataliste]

Linuckz. Pwnz.

I jsut spent 4 hours of my life trying to get my PC to boot after removing a video card. BIOS was a breeze. But Windows kept crashing. Even after I removed the card.

I seriously had to:

Boot to the card I wanted removed. Uninstall it. Reboot. Disable it. Reboot Install drivers for my other card. Shutdown, remove the card. Reboot. Install my new drivers AGAIN. It took four hours because I was just planning to remove it etc. At one point my BIOS gave up and I had to pull the CMOS battery.

Just FYI. I had to do the same in Linux. Only it was:
Plug the monitor into the other Card. Watch XServer fail. "sudo nano -B /etc/X11/xorg.conf". Change driver to "vesa". Took 10 minutes.

Edited by Cataliste, 24 July 2007 - 01:04 PM.

[Jxo]

if you think vista's bad, lets all see how bad vienna will be LMAO
talk is that they are going to extent the DEP to a full sandbox approach, all unsigned applications will not be allowed to interact with any part of the OS layer (like what they've done with certain parts in vista - only more so apparently)
they are also taking away raw sockts, raw file accessing and raw access to all hardware (it's ALL going to be through the HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer)

they're even talking about removing the taskbar, start button and everything else that people recognise when they see a windows build LOL

yey - doesn't it all sound so wonderful

its called 7 now not vienna D:

and yea its pretty sweet, i cant wait.....to buy more ram xD

[wordballoon]

Well seeing as I got vista free I can assure you, that yes it sucks. But for anyone wanting to try it out yourselves heres a guide : http://www.desi-tek....?showtopic=1331

Its not a rival site so It shouldn't matter, right?

If its not allowed please delete or edit this post : )

Edited by wordballoon, 27 July 2007 - 11:18 AM.

[Greenstranger]

Vista sucks, their's absolutely no doubt about it. I takes a lot of memory, it makes it less convenient to use a computer that has it installed on, it makes your computer run slower, and it is made by microsoft.
I hate microsoft and I hate their annoying visual languages.

[Christopher Robin]

Vista sucks, their's absolutely no doubt about it. I takes a lot of memory, it makes it less convenient to use a computer that has it installed on, it makes your computer run slower, and it is made by microsoft.
I hate microsoft and I hate their annoying visual languages.

;o What's so annoying about Visual Basic?