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Flipping Windows...
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23/03/2010 11:39
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just made the nerd in me smile, simple things. http://www.[censored]-windows.com/you'll have to change to f_ _ king in the link
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Re: Flipping Windows...
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23/03/2010 17:57
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yer that link is not working mate!!
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Re: Flipping Windows...
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23/03/2010 19:12
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Re: Flipping Windows...
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23/03/2010 21:21
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Evolve or die?
There is a definitive amount of PC's to install your OS on, although this is increasing incrementally MS have to produce a new OS to keep there revenue stream active.
As much as I hate pointless release cycles for the sake of it (Autocad is by a country mile the biggest offender here) its a necessity for software company's to keep alive. Good software devs will give new original developments in there products. Others will rehash old ideas and force obsolescence.
Microsoft biggest downfall was XP, The best OS they have made, and ironicly the one that will cause them the most pain for future earnings. Its got its problems, security being one of them but for the most part, I have no real need to upgrade, just like I have no reason to move to the new Autocad 2011 or Revit 2011 or BA. Least MS haven't forced me to do it!
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Re: Flipping Windows...
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24/03/2010 00:29
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Out of interest Neil, what apps are you having problems with? I can see me needing to replace my laptop very very soon as I stupidly picked a Intel chip with out hardware visualization. I'm now in a situation where I have to dual boot xp32 bit instead of just loading a VM box Can you not just load up a Sun VB box and just accept the annoyance? Or are you in the same boat as me?
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Re: Flipping Windows...
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24/03/2010 11:06
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The one that's giving me grief so far is Cuneiform OCR 6.0 - works fine on 2000 and XP and crashes without recovery from one of its dlls (themselves a bloody stupid idea which should have been strangled at birth).
Something of a pain since (a) it's a legal paid-for copy, (b) it can handle all the graphics formats I need, (c) it has a very useful batch mode that I need, (d) it has an excellent layout analysis, (e) it's lightning fast (sixty thousand words recognised a minute) and (f) my thesis is based on it... I'm currently evaluating Abbyy FineRead but that has a different set of issues.
Firing up a virtual machine presumably requires a legal winxp tp stick in it? Of course, the version of W7 that comes with every laptop doesn't include the XP-mode, even if the chips do (and why the hell an XP-mode should even be necessary I DO NOT KNOW!)
Oh, and while I'm at it - I tested the startrek console version in VC2008, works fine... left the computer for a few minutes and went into standby. Firing up again, the app still works, but it's lost contact with the USB port, and now it won't shut down. Even the task mangler can't close it, and doesn't even seem to notice the fact... if this is the best that a company supplying 80% of the market can do, I worry for the future of computing.
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Re: Flipping Windows...
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24/03/2010 12:11
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Yep. It does require an additional license of XP, or reuse an existing key from a PC thats been removed from live service. Hey, you could even pick up a copy of windows 2000 now for next to nothing. there esentualy the same core. Windows tax rings true here but there is no point fighting it, I love most Linux distos but I have apps that need windows to run on My last solution with my old laptop was a stable build of ubuntu with a install of windows 7 and windows XP running in sun VB. This was great allowing me to save states and have 0 day builds of windows with out the rubbish that seems to accumulate. With my new laptop hardware visualization is off the table leaving me dual boot with my old XP license, a less than elegant solution
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Re: Flipping Windows...
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24/03/2010 12:31
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VB link You can set up shared folders which act as a go between on the VM machine and real laptop HDD. Make sure once you have a install and windows booting that you install the additions that sun provide Other than that, it worked fine with me, my network, files servers and all the apps I needed. It was actually quite quick as well. I think it was approaching 90% of the speed you could expect windows to be running on the same hardware
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Re: Flipping Windows...
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24/03/2010 13:48
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Re: Flipping Windows...
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24/03/2010 16:14
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Have you installed the Sun VB additions in your W2k? Once you have you can drag the window corners to resize the W2k desktop. Neat.
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