Animal Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2007/01/six_reasons_to_.html Numbers 7 & 9 are quite worrying... There's a new version of Linux out soon, I might investigate that; I've been thinking of giving it a go for a while, just not got round to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Stuff Vista. What's that XP thing they mention? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Complete crap I installed Vista in 20mins, got 4+ out of 5 for my hardware I didn't pay silly money for it etc etc etc Scaremongering Oh and when you say a new linux 'version', are you talking about an unknown distro or what? I can release a new version in 10minutes by making some minor changes to the kernel and releasing it?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Same sort of scaremongering that accompanied the release of XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pot Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 I actually do really want to get into Vista, although I work in IT, I work with Linux/UNIX, which I really don't enjoy as much as I enjoy using Windows... I will admit to being a bit concerned about the DRM crap, and when I tried the Beta, being asked if if I was sure I wanted to do was what I wanted to do pissed me off, but I'm sure that in the 'Pro' versions (Whatever they're called), there's options to limit that... I had planned on getting it when it came out, but I don't think my PC's entirely up to scratch, I wanted to upgrade the memory and graphics card just on my XP setup anyway... So at the moment, I'm a potential buyer, but I'm not going to be going mental to get it ASAP... I want to get my own PC in order first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 RedM sucks monkey nuts! http://mkivsupra.net/vbb/attachment.php?attachmentid=51147&stc=1&d=1170455171 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Sweet - just noticed that the screenshot took a snap of both screens Good job I shut the porn down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 It's not worth an upgrade to, but well worth it on a new PC as you get it cheap as OEM. It's a step in the right direction and is helping to reduce software piracy. If you're all legal you've nothing to worry about. When Win95 came out nothing worked properly. When XP came out things didn't work well. So why such a shock that Vista has apps that require patching? Only thing I've had trouble with is Quicktime, Nero6 (7 is fine) and WinRAR shell integration. Everything else works ok. As with all such drastic changes, it'll take time before it matures. I know people now who refuse to move from Windows 2000 because it works fine, and are just considering the move to XP/2003. However, I too feel the time is absolutely ripe for Apple to sell more units. If you're going to learn a whole new OS that doesn't support a lot of your software, why not make it OS-X? I'm loving my OSx86 at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASHTHEBISHOP Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 The company i work for is saying 2009 for a vista upgrade(1200 users approx). We have been testing versions now and 1 main prob other than the hardware issues is it doesnt work with Sun Java yet. Sun also doesnt have a date to sort out compatability issues. Our EDMS software utilises Sun Java for some functionality so thats us stuffed for now. Microsoft monopoly will def continue - just look at the way its hitting the market already. I do like the GUI but why dont they debug stuff before release...grrrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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johnnyknox Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 RedM sucks monkey nuts! [qimg]http://mkivsupra.net/vbb/attachment.php?attachmentid=51147&stc=1&d=1170455171[/qimg] Your clock's wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 huh? No it isn't lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pot Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 You must all love my sig to keep posting pics of it... (But cheers, I just noticed it's out of date now!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 removed by request Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pabs Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 1 reason, and 1 reason only. Its sh*te. If it aint broke don't fix it. (Lets face it, XP is pretty stable/solid now) I for one won't be changing for a long time, and companies like the one i work for only rolled out XP about 1.5yrs ago - will take another 2-3yrs before they consider Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Pete, I don't get your screenshot. Are you having a dig at Vista because some of it's selling points have been enjoyed on the Mac for years? .....and Lewis, why do I suck monkey nuts? It's not like my avatar still has a Xmas hat on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Pete, I don't get your screenshot. Are you having a dig at Vista because some of it's selling points have been enjoyed on the Mac for years? Not really (although parallels must be drawn). Lewis posted a screenshot, so I thought it would be amusing to post one of my PC (yes, PC - not Apple) running at that moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 What are you running to get what looks like an OSX desktop? Windowblinds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 He is running OSX for x86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 He is running OSX for x86 Interesting. Being that Macs are less likely to attacked than PCs does using OSX for x86 make them (PCs) less prone or would it make no difference as the machine is still a PC with it's inherent faults etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Interesting. Being that Macs are less likely to attacked than PCs does using OSX for x86 make them (PCs) less prone or would it make no difference as the machine is still a PC with it's inherent faults etc? Indeed. It runs on BSD, a unix OS. Very stable, much more secure (generally being less targetted helps of course as well) Start reading - http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=18 http://macgeek.freeflux.net/blog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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