Posts by FreeTard 291 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jul 2008
I'm writing this on a dell inspiron 1501 (1GB) which has just had vista basic wiped from it harddrive.
It was utterly woeful with vista _basic_, constantly flashy flashy harddisk, utterly useless for anything other than web browsing, forget anti-virus etc, that just slows it right down. I even stopped the workstation service along with 90% of apps / services. My sister asked me to "do something" and make it usable, and since I didn't have a legal copy of XP, I installed opensuse 11 on it.
No more flashy flashy hdd, everything works better including wifi -- amazingly -- and suspend to RAM as on OSX.
And to the OSX 1GB naysayers, I had a G4 with 512MB and OSX ran perfectly fine with tiger - a hell of a lot better than vista basic does with double the RAM. I did add an extra 1GB and it never swapped out after that, no matter how many apps I launched.
If you are a devellopper, then you will need a beefy machine, lots of RAM, processor and HDD speed. That goes for devellopping on any OS so you don't count Mr. Anonymouse Coward.
I no longer have a mac, and I've only started using linux on a desktop, I'm no OS advocate - any OS for that matter -- but please, vista really is shit, I know because I have a 2GB vista dual core and my 6 year old P4 is way faster.
40 minutes in race conditions will equate to about 41 on the road. You tend to use 100% of the throttle on the road if your on the motorway, as they only go so fast in a straight line.
They are not really designed as road bikes anyway, you put them on a trailer and take them to a track. After 40 minutes you'll be totally knackered anyway.
You get a ton of torque with leccy tech machines, not much horsepower, but for an offroader, high HP makes no sense, you need low down torque all the way.
Yes I'm a biker through and through.
It sure looks good from the outside, but there hasn't been a proper handling Merkin car ever, apart from very expensive ones that is. None of their "trucks" (4x4's) go offroad without falling off.
So yes, there will indeed be pessimism, especially from myself -- who is in the market for a new car this year. I'm definitely buying something mega efficient, but must look good and have a good price -- not an issue these days HA!
"....the complete cock-up that is Windows Vista."
Couldn't agree more, I had to unfortunately retire my 6 year old XP box due to hardware failure only last night. My HP pavillion dual core 2GB jobby replaced it, and it is ridiculously slow in direct comparison. Plus I've bloody well disabled almost all the services, including computer browser, spooler etc etc.
I may buy one of these as the missus is looking for a new lappy.
...you stop a bucket load of services.
Such as :
well, almost everything. Especially that ridiculous resource hog desktop themes. I mean, come on, 300 meg or sommat it uses.
Bloody useless. I actually got a decent speed out of my brothers 1GB vista premium box.
Might give Vista V2 a go though, maybe.
Sounds cool, but will it handle or be a dog? It will likely be a superscoot type thing, as weight is a big factor when bikers go upgrading.
Scooters don't count in this regard (or cruisers for that matter) but a sportsbike.... I just cannot see it. We sportsbike riders tend to do a lot of track days, and if its over 200kilo's then you can forget tracking it!
On the car side of things, those MPG figure don't sound too hot to me, my dad bought a KIA diesel "something or other" recently, and he gets those figures easily about town. Now we all hate his car but that's another matter.
... by their utter incompetence. Quite surprised at NASA though, although they are obviousy too busy with scientific boffenry to bother securing their own network with crazy stuff like passwords for admin users etc.
There is no way he caused all that damage though, any idiot can tell that. It's just to cover up their own incompentence and a way of deterring others.
He did find alien pics and stuff though didn't he, job done.
And linux / OSX / UNIX is any different how?
Take linux for example, if you have a new kernel, then you MUST reboot, you have no other choice.
Need to make a new initrd for a driver change -- said driver is your boot controller, well sonny Jim, you have to reboot.
GLIBC gets updated, no you don't have to reboot, but you won't be in the new environment until you do.
Yes it is ridiculous that MS require reboots for other things which are NOT in the kernel, but they are getting better. Who actually gives a shite about uptime anyway?
If you data is critical, then fail it over to another node in your cluster, coz you will have one.
Reboot that node, then patch the other.
As I didn't want the Jesus phone -- tied to O2 and all that rubbish.
My next player will be a walkman, just because it hooks into itunes -- very important to me as I buy most of my music on a whim -- the wife will say, oh get me such and such, I've no patience so itunes works well for me. The DRM pisses me off, but you can always burn to a CD.
Don't think it is an issue to be honest. Redhat always provide seperate kernels for different roles. i.e.: RHEL5 uses kernel-xen or kernel-smp or whatever.
If you don't use it, then install a different kernel. Just like running a server in runlevel 3 if you don't use or need xorg/x11. Remove all services you don't need etc etc.
GNU/Linux lets you do this very easily which is miles away from windows architecture.
All are designed to copy stuff. Just like P2P.
Sue all makers of recording devices if yer going to sue P2P creators.
Sue iTunes as well whiler yer at it, coz they have a feature to burn your purchased downloads to CD. This is copying music. Sue the bastards.
These bastards sold me cassettes/blank CD's etc etc which were _intended_ for copying music!
Sue the shop keepers that sold it to me, sue the government for taxing me too. Bastards!!!!!!
Brilliant. Especially since the 'repubs' let their supporters "accuse" Obama of being an Islamist.
I'll never understand how this type of electioneering is allowed under US law. or is it?
If not, then why is no-one ever prosecuted post election? For such a litigous nation, you'd think someone would want to question this in the courts (and make a few bucks).
Oh and please stop using liberal as a bad word, coz it's not anywhere else in the world...
Coz all they will notice are the girls tits, and not see anybody's hidden weapons / drugs.
As a man, I can tell you girls out there we never tire of looking at girls bodies.
Never, ever, ever.
My wife is well hot (I'm happy), and when going through security in Barcelona this summer, one of the lads dropped what he was doing to move across to the queue my wife was in - to "help her through". If they will do this, do you really believe they won't have a good look at her baps?
This was not the only time it happened either!
I have one strapped to my R6 for track use, and I came off at 170KPH right down onto it in a corner (too hot). I was more pissed off that the media had ejected from the impact (and not saving the crash for youtube) than I was about my smashed fairings. The camera also seriously eats batteries, so use lithium or you'll be sorry - a 20 minute session will totally drain it 2100mh rechargable batteries.
Other than that its a great camera, waterproof & certainly shock proof
A search for "hang on refugium" got zero results.
Do the same on google and you get millions of relevant results.
As Fianna Fail said in their manifesto "Lots done, more to do."
I'm sticking with them for a bit, give them some time to sort it out.
Pack of tossers with their free buscuit routine though, same goes for google though,
Oh its sooo coool (cuil) we can write ideas on the wall, or go asleep blah blah blah.
Just give me a pay rise and I'll be happy.
I would rather not be automagically treated as a criminal upon entry to any country.
If the US insists on taking fingerprints etc (as they do), then I will not be travelling there for holidays or business.
The EU should implement the same rules for US citizens travelling anywhere in the EU. When they (US gov) get pissed off with this, they may change their behaviour.
Until such time, I shall not be gioing there. There are plenty of other countries in the world which I have yet to visit, and which do not treat tourists as crims.
This seriously pisses me off.
Hi Chris,
I do agree that the hardware needs to be up to spec.
I have a vista media center box, came with only 1GB RAM (core duo procs)
So I updated to 2GB, and while I was at it, also updated my 5 year old P4 to 2GB.
The p4 has XP (and linux, but only use linux for server app testing -- don't do desktop linux (personal choice)).
The 5 year old machine _out performs_ the brand new (well 3 month old, came with vista premium). The only thing I use it for is playing vids on the HDTV, nothing else. Nothing!
I used the MS test to see if the P4 would be good for vista, and it gave me a score of 1.5. The real vista box reports 3 overall. Yet its crud. Why?
Vista crashed post last windowsupdate a few days ago, in fairness to MS, it recovered automagically (kinda) using the last restorepoint.
It did crash though... I have not seen XP do that since SP2.
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