Windows Media Center must be the most inapt name ever given a product: it should be Windows Media Preventer. Anyone know of an app that will run on Vista, play my torrented files and not give me grief?
In my defense, I inherited said shit (we were a mixed marriage: he was PC and I was Mac) and when he passed over he had the newer rig.
I'll be just as happy to free up the space that it occupies on my C drive. I think it was a conspiracy to drive people back to books.
Think Vista is bad? Just think of these poor people who'll be getting Windows 7 pre-installed this Xmas!! Wait 'til the W7 hype has died down, then you'll see that Vista is pretty good compared to W7.
That's not just my opinion either, I know of at least one other person who like me on this board, reverted back to Vista.
And BTW, Chris Jude is right. VLV is the media player to get, cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux.)
The husband, who was wise in the ways of such things, recommended that one should never upgrade to the first version of any new OS, so I'll let System 7 age a bit before I try it. I don't get the thrill I used to to be on the bleeding edge.
Vista and I usually get along (my dear husband would drive it into the wall regularly because getting it up again was fun to him - his version of demolition derby, I think) but they shouldn't let Microsoft do products for entertainment - they haven't the faintest idea how to go about it.
It's simple, it's minimal, it's compliant, it lets me watch that hilarious Jonathan Ross show (pull the torrent - it's worth it). Mr. Gates don't know what he's missing.
I was thinking of d/l a copy of windows 7 to give it a try,is it any good?
Regarding XP v Vista i like both as i use XP on the Laptop here at home and Vista on a newer Laptop in work and both are handy to get around.
Regarding XP v Vista i like both as i use XP on the Laptop here at home and Vista on a newer Laptop in work and both are handy to get around.
I do the same, but the opposite way around. My PC at work is XP and my laptop at home is Vista. I don't have any problems with either.
My old laptop, now used by my youngest daughter, is XP, as is my son's laptop.
My eldest daughter has a laptop with Vista and a notebook (supplied to all schoolkids in her year by the Federal Government) with Windows 7. She swears by it.
LOL!! Windows 7 was only released last week and you trust your daughters opinion on it already??? I swear, I would love you to install Windows 7 on your Fischer-Price contraption.
"The laptops, weighing little more than 1kg, have been loaded up with a suite of programs including, in another first, the yet-to-be-released Windows 7 operating system."
That was nearly two months ago.
Yes the first commercially available copy of Windows 7 was released last week, and the first copy in the world to be sold was sold in Sydney, but some people have had it for a while, for free. Obviously that's normal people, not junkie psycopaths.
The point of your post is? I seem to have missed it. Do the phrases RC1, RC2, Beta, mean anything to you? I get the stuff before you do, so I think I know a bit more about PC O/S certainly, than you or your family does.
But yes, your 14yo daughter knows more about Windows 7 and swears by it, so you'll follow her advice!! Did she advise you to buy your daft T-Shirt?
The point of my post is that you implied that she couldn't possibly know anything about it because it only came out last week. The point of my post is that I proved that she's actually had it for two months.
Do the phrases RC1, RC2, Beta, mean anything to you?
Yes of course they do. I've been working in IT since 1982. That's "w-o-r-k-i-n-g". In something called a "j-o-b". It's not sitting in a council flat playing with a computer in-between hits of booze or drugs.
You remind me of a three frame cartoon in the NME from about 1987:
Bowie: 'The woman obviously has a fertile imagination.
NME: No reply.
Bowie: 'A bit like I did before my previous three albums.
You obviously have a fertile imagination, but it's illogical. You obviously don't know why I decided today to reply to your posts and as a result, you're more or less typing like a headless chicken.
Hint: Nobody to back you up, nor you to kiss ass to.
CLOWN!!
IT? I'm surprised you can even put these letters together. Do you want to play until I get bored? I know a lot more Aussie IT guys than you do, so let's start, if you want. They'll think you're a twat as soon as they know your name and company, Stuart and BTW, they'll give me loads of info on you.
Never heard of it. Since you come from Niddrie, the most crime/heroin-riddled area of Scotland, I'm wondering if it's somewhere that you go into with a ski mask and a toy gun?
According to Google and Wiki (my favourites) Compubank appears to have been some kind of online bank about ten years ago. WTF has that got to with anything? I've never worked in the financuial sector.
Oh, wait, it's the usual Mist tangent, isn't it? You're (once again) being shown up for the psycho idiot that you are, so you go off on some irrelevant tangent and start talking (more) gibberish (than usual).
I was right aboutyour tabs being BWW, Wikipedia and Google.
Yes, you were right! Two of the most popular websites in the world. What are the odds?
Use them to find Alan Gilbert and Tony Lewty.
See what comes up.
Alan Gilbert appears to be Music Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.. Either that or he's a Professor at the Department of Geography, University College London.
There are numerous Tony Lewtys. If only I had a clue as to why I'm looking for them I might be able to narrow it down.
If they're supposed to be something to do with IT in Australia then a search at google.com.au for "Tony Lewty" comes back with No results found for "Tony Lewty".
The same search for "Alan Gilbert" reveals that one was Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne before leaving to take up a post at University College London. Same bloke? Relevance?
There don't seem to be any Aussie IT gurus that I'm supposed to live in fear and trepidation of. Or am I getting the wrong end of the tangent? (Wiki provides much the same results, BTW).
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I know a lot more Aussie IT guys than you do, so let's start, if you want. They'll think you're a twat as soon as they know your name and company, Stuart and BTW, they'll give me loads of info on you.
So what's this "info" then? And who are these Aussie IT guys? Do they know that you're a psycho junkie?
Aha! Wikipedia to the rescue again! Problem is, that it's very outdated. You'd be very scared to walk down the main street,
All 13 Yo kids here were given F.O.C laptops, all loaded with Windows 7 from Semptember this year. This programme has been in force since 2004. Your daughter has had one just over a week and she 'swears by it' and you believe her???
You've been in 'IT' since 1982?
Do the fucking math, dopey. Who knows more? You or your 14yo daughter?
Either you're very slow, or your daughter is the offspring of the milkman.
All 13 Yo kids here were given F.O.C laptops, all loaded with Windows 7 from Semptember this year. This programme has been in force since 2004. Your daughter has had one just over a week and she 'swears by it' and you believe her???
And as I've pointed out, my daughter was given a laptop, loaded with Windows 7 in Semptember (sic), not a week ago. What's your problem, had so much smack tonight that you can't read properly? Or is it just the booze? Or is it just your profound stupidity?
Windows 98 SE was very good, as was Windows 2000. People moaned and whined about XP when that first came out but now, most people would revert to XP, given the choice between Vista and Windows 7.
People who write that Windows 7 is shit hot and all that, don't really have a clue about how any PC or operating system works which is fine. All I want from any computer is for it to do what I want it to do at any given time. What else would anyone want a computer for?
That's the ancient complaint of the programmer: "The derned thing does what I tell it to, but not what I want".
The Windows way in general is too complicated by half. I've never figured out how to log on as an administrator - I think it involves some sort of animal sacrifice.
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