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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8 Requests
« Last post by f0dder on April 06, 2010, 02:40 AM »- More flexibility in unattended setups
- Modular install/ISO creation (think nLite/vLite but without the bugs and slowness)
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if you do want to upgrade from 4gb then you have no choice but to upgrade to x64. You simply cannot access more then 4gb on 32bit windows.You can, but only if you install a server edition-mouser (April 03, 2010, 08:13 AM)
Yeah but is there a program that would make the reinstallment easier? Because it would be a pain to reinstall everything.Microsoft has had a "transfer user settings" wizard for a while - never used it myself, though, so dunno how well it works. Nothing will save you from reinstalling all your applications, though. You can make this less painful if you sit down and take inventory of exactly what you have on your system and write yourself a little setup document. In my experience it's about a day's worth of work doing this and then doing a clean reinstall with all your apps and settings.-Musubi (April 03, 2010, 08:50 AM)
As an answer to another question, most of your well programmed software *SHOULD* work on the 64bit OS as Microsoft has built in a program to allow conversion. That said not ALL software works and even those that do, may exhibit peculiar and/or unexpected results. Moreover, since it is going through emulation, most software will actually function slower on 64bit if it is designed for 32bit operation.32bit on 64bit isn't really emulation, the CPU has native support for running 32bit code while in 64bit mode. There's WoW64, but it really isn't "emulation"-steeladept (April 03, 2010, 07:44 AM)
Eww... Microsoftisms... ugly.Oh hai thar, fanboi!-SingingBoyo (April 01, 2010, 04:13 PM)
PHP is awesome for websites, but I'll never use it for anything else.Since that's why it's designed for, why would you? Raw PHP is bothersome anyway - too low-level, and not having a running server process is annoying (having to do database persistance or relying on a non-php backend, ick).-SingingBoyo (April 01, 2010, 04:13 PM)
@f0dder: You mentioned OOXML in your sucky diatribe there.Yup, and I mentioned that it's even suckier than ODF - didn't claim it was better-IainB (April 01, 2010, 12:42 PM)
There's an interesting and very recent reference to Micro$oft and its commercial behaviours in regards to OOXML here: Microsoft Fails the Standards TestNot much new there - and why did the article have to be that long?-IainB (April 01, 2010, 12:42 PM)
And on the software side, it runs Linux. Woohoo!This is why we're all going to die.-zridling (March 31, 2010, 11:32 PM)
Yes, but is OpenAL accelerated? And what exactly, 3D audio aside, would an audio card accelerate (but isn't doing for onboard audio, and thus requiring it to be done in the driver, using CPU cycles)?Dunno about support for 3D audio, since Microsoft axed hardware acceleration of it with VistaThere's still 3D audio, but since DirectSound was deemed obsolete by Microsoft everyone has moved to OpenAL to fill the void.-f0dder (March 28, 2010, 04:06 PM)-Innuendo (April 01, 2010, 09:09 AM)
Had Jesse posted it, it would have been more believable ;-)+1-Josh (March 31, 2010, 09:10 PM)
Hold on a minute, is this an issue with a poorly coded app installer (in which case I'd report it as a bug to the developer), or does MS's installer (MSI handler) actually put installer/uninstaller files in the temp folder by default!? If so, terrible behavior!Badly coded app - I assume the proper way is %WinDir%\Installer . Don't like the size of that folder, pretty ludicrous to keep the .msi files around imho...-JavaJones (March 31, 2010, 11:59 AM)
I imagine the new hard drives (EARS) would be a pain in the yahoo to someone trying to throw it into their OEM Windows Home Server machine which is based on Server 2003. Luckily I knew about the issue and was able to find some EADS drives. It's not stated anywhere on WD's website about this OS. The tech support guy I called to find out about it just drooled at the mouthWhy? Simply align partitions or use the lame jumper-hack-Subsailor (March 31, 2010, 02:53 PM)
@f0dder: Well, I did preface my comment with "I could be wrong, of course...". However, it does seem that the modern AdBlock does download the crap, display it momentarily (in Chrome) and then remove it from the display. (This has been mentioned by someone else in this discussion thread, above.) As far as I am aware, JunkBuster did not do this.I don't have Chrome installed, so dunno - but is AdBlock for chrome the same as AdBlock for firefox? Addon support for Chrome was added rather late, so it's possible it doesn't have all the capabilities of FF adblock.-IainB (March 30, 2010, 11:20 AM)
Yes - they can see that some graphics (stuff-we-want) are being requested, and others (crappy-ad-crap) isn't, hence "selectively". This is in no way different from how things work with AdBlockPlus (I'm ignoring the part about cookies, since I honestly don't care much about them).Can web sites tell that I'm using the Internet Junkbuster?
With the default options the proxy doesn't announce itself. Obvious indications such as Keep-Alive headers are deleted, but sites might notice that you can cancel cookies faster than any human could possibly click on a mouse. (If you want to provide a plausible explanation for this, change the User Agent header to a cookie-free or cookie-crunching browser).
But when certain options are used they could figure out something's going on, even if they're not pushing cookies. If you use blocking they can tell from their logs that the graphics in their pages are not being requested selectively. The add-forwarded-header option explicitly announces to the server that a proxy is present, and sending them wafers [a kind of dummy cookie] is of course a dead giveaway.
The key words there are, "are not being requested selectively".-IainB (March 30, 2010, 11:20 AM)
Well, it turned out to be user error that wasn't letting me use the license. I just ran it and it took 15-20 minutes to do a defrag on my 250 GB SSD. It seems that it helped speed up the loading of programs, etc. I'll restart and edit it after its done in case the booting process is faster because of it.Defragging a SSD? Bad idea. Unless the SSD sucks, you aren't going to get big benefits from it, and you'll be wasting your precious limited erase-cycles for no good. Speeding up the loading of programs? Perhaps because the defrag caused stuff to be loaded to the filesystem cache-Zero3K (March 29, 2010, 03:52 PM)
EDIT: It has sped up the boot process by a couple of seconds.Quantifiable or gut feeling?-Zero3K (March 29, 2010, 03:52 PM)
There were various other JunkBuster features, but the above would give you some idea of the scope of it.Huh?
The JunkBuster site is no longer maintained, and JunkBuster was largely superseded by GuideScope, and that was later superseded by NoScript and AdBlock - which do not send requests to the server to NOT send specific advertising-related material. That is, they don't help your bandwidth any.-IainB (March 29, 2010, 04:44 PM)
I have the solution! The ad-blockers should download the ads, pleasing the site, and not display them, pleasing the viewer!Interesting idea - but would still waste your bandwidth-TomTrottier (March 28, 2010, 10:37 PM)
Are these onboard cards use the cpu or they generally have their own processors?Dunno about support for 3D audio, since Microsoft axed hardware acceleration of it with Vista - but if you're just doing normal playback, what exactly would the CPU be used for, anyway? Is there more to sound playback than DMA and DAC?-kartal (March 28, 2010, 01:11 PM)
