To Vista or not to Vista? that is the question?

[HTRegz]

This is the best take on Vista that I've seen - brilliant article!

I hate to be rude but I have to say this... The fact that you find it brilliant explains to me why you aren't actually in IT..

There's a conversation discussion something technical and you pull it off with a completely useless opinion post that is full of technical inaccuracies. This is why allowing just anyone to have an internet presence is a bad thing.. The fact that the author is allowed the free speech that let's him say such useless drivel is a bad thing... It's the type of thing that makes me want to sometimes question free speech.

For example... changing/viewing the resolution on Windows XP:

Right Click on Desktop --> Properties --> Settings.

It displays the Monitor and Display Adapter and the resolution and allows you to change it.

Changing/viewing the resolution on Windows Vista:

Right Click on Desktop --> Personalize --> Display Settings.

It displays the Monitor and Display Adapter and the resolution and allows you to change it... Oh yeah... and UAC doesn't kick in when you change it..

So some names that you click on have changed... big deal... If you want to knock something knock it for legitimate reasons, not because you're an idiot who can't realize that the name of something has changed.

[nihil]

Errrrrrrrrrrr....................I assume that we read the same article. It looks like a Luddite attempt at tech humour to me?

If it isn't, all I can say is: "Inkeeper, I will have a pint of whatever he has been drinking"

[brokencrow]

I hate to be rude...

And how long have you been feeling this way?

[nihil]

Aw C'mon guys & gals that article just cannot be serious.

I remember seeing something similar from an AppleMac guy back in the days of Win95

To cut across country a bit, I do see that there will be older kit going at knockdown prices. That could be useful for students? hey you only need one machine for safe surfing and whatever, and you can use old stuff for educational and experimental purposes.

Talking of which, I have just installed a security camera system for a couple of small guest houses............ PII/333 384Mb PC133 and running Win98SE. Dirt cheap and it does the job

HT~ is right when he says you cannot expect drivers for old kit.......... you wouldn't really want to be using it with a new and revolutionary OS like Vista would you?.

If you have a fancy piece of old kit like a plotter or whatever, just hook it up to an old PC that will run it, and transfer whatever from your Vista box?

This isn't new.............when XP was released a lot of resource and compatibility issues were found. I had a box the other day PIII/667 with 64 Mb of RAM. Someone had put XP pro on it, and the thing was sharing RAM for the onboard video

Like it had about 48Mb to play with?............ stuff didn't happen in a hurry

[Moira]

I hate to be rude but I have to say this... The fact that you find it brilliant explains to me why you aren't actually in IT..

No, you don't hate to be rude, you're loving it - if you really hated being rude you wouldn't have tried to start a flame war.

There's a conversation discussion something technical and you pull it off with a completely useless opinion post that is full of technical inaccuracies. This is why allowing just anyone to have an internet presence is a bad thing.. The fact that the author is allowed the free speech that let's him say such useless drivel is a bad thing... It's the type of thing that makes me want to sometimes question free speech.

Good grief and you reckon you should be allowed on the internet with freedom of speech ?!? That in your world, your contributions are so valuable that you should be one of the "chosen few" and people like me, or the author of that article wouldn't be allowed anywhere near a computer or the internet? As you may have noticed I'm not the only person to have found that article good in its own way. When I said brilliant I wasn't necessarily commenting on the technical accuracies, more the fact that the author could be a professional writer if he chose.

I know there were technical inaccuracies and I'm not the idiot you seem to be implying. And I know one thing - I'm not the big headed, arrogant jerk you are, who goes around insulting people beyond what is reasonable, and who is so full of himself and his 1337 sk1lz that he thinks he's God!

I've often thought someone responding to a thread I'm involving is making a useless, inaccurate comment. But I'd say something like "I don't think that was particularly appropriate" etc etc, there's no need to launch into such an insulting post aren't you a moderator as well?

I came here because I found a lot of interesting people and have enjoyed being involved in some very good threads where I've learned a lot and enjoyed debating many things. However, this sort of flaming is not what I look for in a forum and I doubt I'll be visiting much in the future, which is a pity, but no doubt excellent news as far as you're concerned because I won't be expressing my opinions here. My useless opinions.

I'm sorry - you had no need to get personal. You have no idea why I'm involved or not involved in IT and you don't know me at all.

[dopeydadwarf]

To be or not to be, that is the question.

Then you have to decide between the three versions.

I have always thought they need to send the pc with the software, and a fresh format. If you can't install and configure the system then you have not business having one. This of course would reduce a great majority of the profits for this market. It would how ever force users into learning a bit of something. It has always been easier to appreciate something when you have to earn it anyway.

/2 cents

[HTRegz]

Moira: you have an odd idea of what constitutes a flame war... This was a single comment.. which you actually responded to with multiple personal attacks. As for me being a moderator... I'm also a member, which gives me the right to speak my mind... just as you spoke yours in result..

Allow me to explain my comment...

A) The article you posted had no technical merit... This is a technical discussion (as it is in a Technology Forum)...

B) The author of said article was an idiot... He admitted it took him a while to find display settings (I use a computer on a day to day basis that could easily find display settings and change the resolution... I tested this with my fiance)

C) The article was (as nihil pointed out) an attempt at humour, and would belong then in either humour or even GCC... maybe even addicts... posting it here implies you think it's serious.. as does the fact that you called it "brilliant" and not say "humourous". Although writing technically inaccurate information doesn't make something funny... otherwise "Linux runs every Windows binary" would be just as funny and as accurate as that entry was.

The conversation got technical... I replied to your posts with technical comments... you chose to divert the post along non-technical lines instead of responding...

[NukEvil2]

K, before this thread gets way out of hand, I will point you all to this board's future if something isn't rectified immediately:

http://boards.swirve.com/board.cgi?b...ardid=alliance


About 8 years ago, it was an online utopia. Everything was on game-topic, and anyone who stepped out of line was given a time-out. Today, off-topic posts run rampant, the moderators and the Admins do not care, and flame wars happen so often they're literally boring.

[nihil]

Hmmmm.............are you not sure that you have't been visiting the Microsoft support site?

About 8 years ago...............no I won't even go there............. and moderators do care

Errrr...............joined December.............. how many posts?

ack phtt!

As Bill the cat would say...................