On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:49:52 GMT, "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
<veldy71.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Roger <GetValidAddress.RemoveThis@my.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>Odd ... I haven't had any issues doing ANYTHING that I want with multimedia on
>>>Vista. No problems with ANYTHING.
>>>
>> Your experiences are quite different than what the trade journals are
>> reporting.
>>
>
>Can you cite a link?
Sure although you'll have to go back a ways. I think you'll find
comments in ZD net (George Ou
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=402&tag=nl.e539 ), Computer World, Info
World (Check out Gripe Line), and I'm trying to remember the name of
one other. I picked George's complaints as I remembered that one and
I had to go back quite a ways to find it. The others would take some
searching, but tend to be along the lines of DRM complaints, Signed
drivers, or lack there of, and cost of Vista Ultimate. These would
more than likely be under editorials in said magazines.
>
>>>> I've used MS operating systems since MSDOS, but Vista finally got me
>>>> to seriously try something else.
>>>>
>>>
>>>That's too bad as I think you might be a little paranoid.
>>
>> Certainly I am. I'm also aware of what has been coming up in said
>> journals. I have little faith in Vista and currently XP and LINUX are
>> capable of doing every thing I want for a *lot* less money.
>>
>
>I have actually been using Vista. I guess that isn't as good as reading
>articles about Beta 2 in a magazine though.
I get gun shy after the one time reactivation try, DRM, and the
complaints I read.
>
>As far as alternative operating systems go, I run a machine [a
>gateway/firewall/router/jack-of-all-trades] machine hanging off of my cable
>modem that is running FreeBSD (amd64 ... just built the 6.2-RELEASE bits).
Likewise, modem, router, firewall, switch and individual firewalls on
each computer.
I currently have 5 machines. I'm just finishing up an AMD Athlon 64 FX
dual core with a base clock frequency of 2.8 Megs, large fans that are
high volume, low RPM and very low noise. I'm running XP Pro 64 on it
and have only found one app that wouldn't load. I stayed away from
Norton on that one. It easily over clocks by 15 % to 3 Gig basic core
frequency without a noticeable change in temperature with the stock
heat sink and is stable although I normally leave it at the stock 2.8
Gig.
I'm having to adapt a Silent Square cooler to the CPU. It's listed as
fitting the CPU and the Asus motherboard. Unfortunately although it
fits the processor it does not match up with the holes in the
motherboard, meaning I'm going to have to make a pair of adapter
plates. They are fairly simple. Two flat plates 3 3/8" X 1" with 3
holes to the cooler mount and two screw holes on each side to match
the heat sink retainer bracket.
The video card is a relatively simple Sapphire X1950XT with Video in
and video our (VIVO) as well as dual digital outputs. I probably
should have gone with better, but it's adequate for now.
>I dual-boot Gentoo on my desktop, but I don't do any development work
>targetting Linux. And of course, I am using XP Pro for my development needs.
As am I although I do have a project going to interface the computer
with packet radio and some existing software in LINUX. I'd like to
rewrite the existing program that works in DOS or LINUX for XP, but
I'm afraid it'd be huge and most of these are being set up on old,
slow, computers with little storage.
I dual boot with LINUX but Fedora is finding fault with the Asus BIOS.
I think there is a way around that by installing from the command line
with out doing some of the checks. It want's to use a clock function
for a delay and that is not available for the one function, nor is the
memory hole.
My other machine in the shop is also dual boot, but it's a 32 bit
machine. This one in the den is a3.4 Gig XP Plus, 64 bit, but not
dual boot as I have to change the C drive out for a larger one as XP
Pro needs to be "repaired" as it's getting a bit flaky. Although I
could put Fedora Core 6, 64 bit on a second drive which would probably
be a lot easier. I may just do that and change the case to a full
size ThermalTake VA8003BWS Black Full Tower Case w/ 25CM Fan in the
side cover. It's a big, *heavy* case with a set of useless doors on
the front, but it's roomy and quiet even when pushing a lot of air
through. BTW the 2.8 Gig FX 64 dual core is way faster than this 3.4
XP Plus and I'm getting spoiled..
I have all these flimsy mid size tower cases with noisy fans. The
ThermalTake VA800 series is a bit more expensive, but you could stand
on one and they have lots of room inside. Now if it weren't for those
useless doors on the front.
I would happily spend the money to put the two computers here in the
Den into those VA800s just to quiet them down even if they are
considerably larger.
I do a lot of AV work and photo processing/scanning/digital cameras
which takes a lot of storage on HD as well as DVDs for backup.
I find the new one works great with Photoshop although I may have to
scan on this one and process on that one as I seriously doubt Nikon
has any 64 bit drivers, but maybe. OTOH they aren't known for being
quite that forward. <sigh>
I've only had it up and partially loaded for two days and I'm already
spoiled.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com >> Stay informed about: Windows Vista x64 & Spyder2 
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