Yeah, those Apple guys. Real farmers, they are.
Posted on 08/18/2007 6:28:28 PM PDT by sionnsar
MacNN caught this incredible defection and loss of faith by a former Vista booster, PC Magazine editor-in-chief Jim Louderback, as he steps down from his position.
"I've been a big proponent of the new OS over the past few months, even going so far as loading it onto most of my computers and spending hours tweaking and optimizing it. So why, nine months after launch, am I so frustrated? The litany of what doesn't work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly. The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain't cutting it. I definitely gave Microsoft too much of a free pass on this operating system: I expected it to get the kinks worked out more quickly. Boy, was I fooled! If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux."
Vista will get better eventually. So will Muslim culture and alzheimers. I only have around 40 years left to wait.
Count me among the millions who are looking for a new way. I am thinking about a MAC. No Vista for this boy.
Thank you for your informative post. I did not know this. Thanks.
You seem to have forgotten that Vista 64 NEEDS a minimum of 2GB of Ram to make all the pretty stuff stay pretty and work fast. My brother has his with 4GB or Ram and it smokes my XP system for speed and loading of programs.
thanks.
i used dos about 5 years ago, but it’s not on xp.
you’re right, i did not format the hard disk. i answered xp’s questions for a reinstall, resulting in these problems.
Yeah, those Apple guys. Real farmers, they are.
I am a hobbyist and linux is great for tinkering but if I needed to do my taxes or any work in the fastest time possible, I would do it in Windows.
Linux is like a bbq. You have more control over the food and the only way to get that nice smoky flavor but it takes a lot more work, time and fidgeting. Most of the time it pays to cook indoors with a gas oven. That’s windows
The other big question: is the mac a microwave oven or a convection gas oven?
The name Linux was not coined by Linus himself, strange though that may seem to people familiar with his self-esteem. It was coined by Ari Lemmke, the administrator at ftp.funet.fi who first made Linux available for FTP. Ari had to coin a name since Linus had failed to give a proper one, so Ari invented one and it stuck.
Actually, you're wrong. Windows XP (32 bit) WILL recognize 4GB of RAM, however I suspect that you've got 2 different problems here...
First off, I suspect that your boot.ini file has the /3GB switch in it. You need to delete that, and replace it with the /PAE switch. If the /3GB switch isn't there, just add the /PAE switch.
Secondly, I believe that the reason that you're NOT seeing 3.0GB, but 2.75 GB is that many BIOS and Chipset manufacturers thought nobody would ever need more than 2GB of RAM in a system, so they mapped and reserved the address space below 3GB for their own use. Check to see if the BIOS has a setting that will allow you to move the reserved address space above 4GB. If not, check to see if there's a BIOS update that will allow you to do so. If not, you will lose some RAM, but you should still be able to see at least 3.25GB of usable RAM. The reason for this is that WinXP patched with SP1 or later doesn't seem to "see" about 512MB of RAM that's installed.
But the biggest culprit IS the hardware "reservations." Sometimes even with PAE (which maps around the reserved areas) you still won't be able to use it all, or see it all.
Mark
For any work, no. Depends on what the work is. I would not recommend Windows desktop operating systems for server work. Even for ordinary web browsing and document preparation, I prefer Linux ... more stable and less vulnerable to the common malware. I just flip to Windows for Quicken and Tax Cut and games.
heh, yea, I was kinda curious too...
Computer journalists, in most cases, are little more than whores.
This sounds to me like a misdiagnosis. I am willing to believe that something went wrong, and that after zapping the partition table and mbr, things went better. But I doubt that that step was the essential step.
As I stated in my response, it sounds like he just tried installing WinXP over the old OS, and that's where the problem started up. However I also stated that without wiping the partition table and mbr, that problems will crop up down the road. I've worked as a field service tech since MS-DOS v2.x though Windows Server 2003, and while I'm not privy to the exact structure of the different versions of partition tables and mbrs, it's been my experience (from supporting the same clients over 10 or more years) that if you just wipe the system disks using the updated partitioning utility (for instance, going from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Pro, or Win98 to WinXP - not upgrading, but a fresh install), that unexplainable boot problems tend to show up a year or two down the road, and those problems go away with reloading the OS, after recreating the partitions. Those problems haven't shown up on systems that I've wiped the disk. Completely anecdotal evidence, however the debug script takes the time to boot to a floppy plus 5 seconds to run, or KillDisk takes just a short time to run. Put another way, it doesn't hurt.
Mark
Hmmm, well, Linus didn’t give it a proper name, so there may be more to the story. If I had created it, I would have given it a name, and made sure it wasn’t mine. But, that’s just me. Thus anecdote doesn’t conclusively indicate it wasn’t his idea to me.
To be honest I do look a lot like the hairy fella on the right. :o)
XP Pro works like a charm.
Linus had originally intended to call the new kernel "Freax". According to Wikipedia, the name Linux was actually invented by Ari Lemmke who maintained the ftp.funet.fi FTP server from which the kernel was originally distributed.
The initial post that Linus made about Linux was to the comp.os.minix Usenet group titled, "What would you like to see most in minix". It began:
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things)."
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