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General Software Discussion / Re: To Vista or not to Vista that is the ?
« Last post by f0dder on May 06, 2007, 07:15 AM »Heh, that's insane 
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- when I use shift+del to get rid of files instead of moving to recycle bin, every once in a while I would get 3-5 of the "are you sure?" messageboxes. Of course clicking *one* of them would delete the file, so saying yes to any of the others gives weird errors about the file not being there.hey, is there some code you can put in a shortcut of a program's target line that will do that? like the -w or -r NxN that might work, but I don't know of any, Ill have to go look.-nite_monkey (May 04, 2007, 05:02 PM)
There's always vLite, but I have never touched it....Which is NuHi's, the author of nLite, new program to tweak vista-justice (May 03, 2007, 07:15 AM)
The 3rd scenario is what MS calls "Supreme OEMs" (or something like that). In order to avoid processing... whatever, 5 million activation requests they allow the very large OEMs (Dell, HP, Sony, Toshiba, etc.) to install Vista without activating.Those are pretty interesting, actually.-Hirudin
,I called Microsoft Support and asked about licensing when I upgrade my CPU chip later this year, and was told I'd need to buy another copy of Vista if I did.Just the CPU? That single little item, and not the whole box? New Vista license for that? Christ.-zridling
) - and that's on 15+ widely different machines.Everything is just like it would be with a standard install. Straight away, you will have read access to all of your data on your NTFS partitions, and the Wubi Guide gives instructions for enabling write access.Humm, how well does it work, then, when your boot partition is NTFS (as it should be)? Will no changes persist by default until you enabled NTFS write?
What impressed me the most was it was able to install and work with a range of nVidia Video and nForce LAN drivers without me lifting a finger. On Windows XP on the same hardware I need to manually install these drivers from the CD that comes with the Motherboard.Only because Vista is more recent than XP, so those drivers have been added to the default install - for other hardware, you'll still need to load drivers during setup (though those can, finally!, be loaded from USB drives and whatnot, not limited to floppies). With 2k and XP you can fortunately make a slipstreamed and driver-integrated install CD, so you don't need to use floppies. And with something like www.nliteos.com , this isn't just limited to über-geeks, but also in the realm of the power users that would usually do an install themselves.
Vista has a very attractive new User Interface called Aero which I think looks great.And it's the first thing a lot of us are going to turn off as the first thing after installing... there goes one sales argument
however from what I now know after doing the work to updating our software products for Vista, is that there are some quite fundamental areas which must be addressed for software to work correctly on Vista.Many of the "new requirements" for vista compatible software is actually just about writing clean and well-behaving applications; a lot of the "omfg vista breaks this!" would already be broken on NT4 if run from a non-administrator account...
, and the 32bit part is in his HLA syntax that I'm not too fond of (it's interesting because it's different, though). I've never taken a formal course in this stuff, so I don't have any references, sorry. Or well, I bought "Silberschatz/Galvin/Gagne: operating system concepts" which seems to be decent, but that's only part of it - more OS than machine architecture.
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When was the last time that anyone ran World of Warcraft or Grand Theft Auto on Ubuntu?Both should run pretty well with the (commercial-Renegade
) Cedega, although I wouldn't risk The Warden getting me banned from WOW (fascist blizzard fscks).