Microsoft Vista

[Roddoss72]

Salutations cyberia

Hahahahahahahahahah.

Regards

Roddoss72

[Leatchy]

My new laptop came with a disc that allows me to reverse Vista back to XP. Vista must be great if Fujitsu supply a disc to allow customers to do that.

[McCoy]

I'm still usin' XP pro but when I finaly get to build a new hot PC I'll get Vista but that's only 'cos I want DX10. If it wasn't for DX10 I would continue with XP pro.

[McCoy]

Bill Gates tragically died in a car accident. Arriving at the
pearly gates, he finds himself being sized up by St. Peter.

"Well, Bill, I'm really confused on this call; I'm not sure
whether to send you to Heaven or Hell. After all, you
enormously helped society by putting a computer in almost every
home in America, yet you also created that ghastly Windows VISTA.
I'm going to do something I've never done before . . . I'm
going to let you decide where you want to go."

"So what's the difference between the two?" Bill asked. St.
Peter said, "I could let you visit both places briefly, if it
will help your decision."

"Fine! Where should I go first?" "You decide." "Okay then,"
said Bill, "Let's try Hell first."

So Bill Gates went to Hell. It was a beautiful, clean, sandy
beach with clear waters and lots of bikini-clad women running
around, playing in the water, laughing and frolicking about.
The sun was shining; the temperature perfect. He was very
pleased.

"This is great!" he told St. Peter. "If this is Hell, I'd
REALLY like to see Heaven!"

"Fine," said St. Peter, and off they went. Heaven was a place
high in the clouds, with angels drifting about, playing harps
and singing. It was nice, but nothing like Hell. It didn't take
long for Bill to reach his decision.

"I think I prefer Hell," he told St. Peter. So Bill Gates went
to Hell.

Two weeks later, St. Peter decided to check on the late
billionaire to see how he was doing in Hell. When he got there,
he found Bill, shackled to a wall, screaming among hot flames in
a dark cave, being burned and tortured by demons.

"How's everything going?" he asked Bill Gates. His voice filled
with anguish and disappointment, Bill responded, "This is awful!
This is nothing like the Hell I visited two weeks ago! I can't
believe this is happening! What happened to that other place,
with the beautiful beaches, the scantily-clad women playing in
the water?"

"Oh, that was a demo," replied St. Peter. "This is the release
version."

[Roddoss72]

Salutations McCoy

Absolutely briliant.

Regards

Roddoss72

[Mk1rceme]

Fell your pain on the Vista issue...Tried it for two days and went back to Linux.

[Jim O]

Originally Posted by Mk1rceme

Fell your pain on the Vista issue...Tried it for two days and went back to Linux.

I am seriously considering this as an option.

With much better virtualization software available nowadays from both Parallels (Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows & Linux) and VMware (VMware Workstation, Windows and Linux) running the few Windows programs that I absolutely need (like QuickBooks) in an XP virtual machine and using Linux for the rest of my needs is an option. Of course so is a Mac, which is just a Linux flavor anyway. I have a Mac notebook with Windows XP which runs in a virtual machine and it hums.

The web server for this site is on CentOS 5.2 and for the money (free) it can't be beat. I would never host a site on a Windows box.

[Freightshaker]

Originally Posted by cyberia

I can relate. When I bought my new system it came with Vista and what a mess. I'm planning to install XP but I will do so with the whole "Restore to factory settings" just to get rid of all the carp I don't want.

I'm just procrastinating for what's going to be a long and tedious process.

If it will let you. When I tried to remove Vista it wouldn't allow my XP disk to format the drive or set up files, XP set up couldn't find my hard drives. I created a partition to put XP on but it still wouldn't allow the XP disk to work and then jumbled my drive letter assignments. I tried to restore Vista with the 'restore partition' but that was corrupted and inaccessible. I took it to my computer tech and it took him a week to remove Vista and install XP. It's like a virus. Vista also embeds itself into you bios so wiping your drive might not work. When you boot, the bios will look for Vista startup files.

Make sure you can get XP drivers for all your hardware before you reformat. This can be a challenge.

Good luck my friend...

[cyberia]

Wow, thanks for the heads up Scott.

I noticed that I have the capability to operate two different windows systems on this rig with a feature that allows to swap between. Perhaps just load the XP as the second choice and work just off of that.

[MAGNA]

I am so glad all our machines here are Mac's.

(Not baiting or expecting anyone to carp about this either).