Installing Vista SP1

[Liar]

Really (asked the Apple user) Like what?

I honestly have no fucking idea what you're talking about. Sometimes I have to use Firefox rather than Safari on a website, but I've yet to be totally fucked and unable to do what I want to do on my Mac--be it watching videos, movies, tv shows, playing music, writing, surfing the internet, creating spread sheets, art, slideshows....So. What "slightly" out of the ordinary and "unapproved" Apple thing would you "slightly" want to do that you'd be fucked if you were using an MacOS? You've really got me curious as I can't recall the last time my computer wouldn't let me do something I wanted to do.

I'm using Leopard. It took me all of 15 minutes to install and it has worked flawlessly and elegantly ever since.

Well, (answers a Win and Apple user). Like this:

CAD conversion, large database re-hashing, frequent hardware changes (and handling the driver redundancy from such adventures), codec management, data recovery from crashes (yes, even Macs crash, if nothing else when you cut the power in the middle of file writing), running poorly written 3rd pt programs, attaching old peripherals with outdated protocols, configuring unconventional video modes for projectors...

Those kinda things.

When MacOS is good, it's great.
When Windows is good, it's merely that - good.

But...

When MacOS runs into something it can't handle, it's a solid wall of "no-can-do".
When Windows gets into the same problem, there's always a way to negotiate the system. Re-name a driver, manually edit the registry, allocate a manual port, tweak the knobs, kick it in the nuts, save a little prayer, and most of the time there's an ugly, but workable solution.


Now if you excuse me, I'll have to go wash my brain with white rum and black metal, posting all this made me feel all geeky and stuff.

 

[DesertPirate]

shamelessly pilfered from slashdot.org (/.)


University of Penn. Recommends Against Vista SP1
Journal written by twitter (104583) and posted by kdawson on Sunday March 23, @03:49PM
from the windows-me-plus-seven dept.
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At least one university liberal enough to accept the deeply flawed and mostly rejected Vista OS is recommending faculty and students stay away from SP1. "University of Pennsylvania tech staffers are advising faculty and students not to upgrade their computers to the new service pack for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. The school's Information Systems & Computing department said it will support Vista SP1 on new systems where it's pre-installed, but added that it 'strongly recommends that all other users adopt a "wait and see" attitude,' according to a newly published department bulletin." And CIO magazine doesn't quite go so far as to call on Microsoft to throw away Vista, but it does ask its readers to weigh in on that topic.
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[Oblimo]

As Liar says: When OSX is good it is very, very good. But when it is bad, it is horrid. (OSX does not play nice with the Brides of Frankenstein corporate IT environments have become, but maybe they got that way because of all the Wintel "flexibility" in the first place).

 

[Edward Teach]

As Bill Gates reportedly told Steve Jobs, "You just don't get it do you Steve? Being good doesn't matter."

 

[jomar]

Jobs did not steal it!

Xerox left it lying around having no idea what to do with it. Jobs picked it up and ran with it.

So far as I know Xerox didn't even realize it was missing for a while and never reported it stolen.

The Xerox dinosaurs didn't understand what they had. Jobs did and borrowed it without permission. But it's more fun to say he stole it.