basically ms can take over ur computer and delete whatever programs etc they dont want u to use or have, they can limit what media u can use and what u can transfer to and what u can replace in ur pc...
vista is shit and is basically xp with a nice backdoor for ms to come sexual intercourse with ur comp and ur life... boycott this shit and make sure noone buys this and get ms sexual intercourse for life...
if u still dont wanna upgrade to linux/mac then using vista for a couple days will very likely change that...
of course u can always stick with xp, but a big problem for gamers is the fact that directx 10 will be available only to vista users to try and force gamers onto their shit OS...
personally ill stick with xp a lil longer and hope to see vista in the fvckin trash.... where it belongs...
personally ill stick with xp a lil longer and hope to see vista in the fvckin trash.... where it belongs...
This pretty much sum's up my feelings towards Microshit as a whole, not to mention all those past company's and software, that pander to MS with their "MS Only Programs and Hardware" and the one's that will be coming in the future, due to the multimedia situation ie: games, movies, that's going to arise real soon with Vista.
One day Linux/BSD will have a fine Media infrastructure....
I just hope i'm still here when it arrives.
Tripled
PS: You know alexclaton, running XP in VMWare on linux is not such a bad thing, if you only need a few programs with XP. Not too mention having the ability to keep XP off the net with that setup.
The setup is actually quite easy. 2 GB of Memory would be more than enough. I myself have no problem's with 1.5 GB.
Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:34 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8185 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
I'd go with Win2k over XP for VMware. It will work better on less ram, the hardware is automatically installed for you through Linux, 2k is easier to pirate and update, etc.
Only thing I'm missing is Windows Movie Maker which crashed constantly anyway. Cinelerra would make a fine replacement but is a pain to get installed and keep working. Maybe with the upcoming Mubuntu it will change. There are other editors like Kdenlive, Avidemux, Kino.
Unfortunately VMware Windows doesn't work for everything. Total Video Converter (not free) will complain that flash isn't installed (VMware tools enables viewing of flash). The solution or alternative is Mediacoder which works better, is less trouble, is free, and works great through WINE.
Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:12 am
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false flag VIP
Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 444 Location: melbourne, Australia
Vista is a complete waste of time & money..to put it midly it's shit-house. Sure it looks pretty and everyone will ohhh and ahhh over it but who wants to let microshaft into their computer to snoop around. How many people will they bust who have cracked software on their computers, downloaded MP3's that didn't come from rip-off itunes, porn, DVD copying software not to mention people such as us lot who have files about 9/11, zionism and the like residing on their hard drives. Isn't it bad enough that we are being watched constantly wherever we go? now they want to watch our computers as well...microshaft can just go and get f%#ked!
Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:37 pm
Gunther VIP
Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 355 Location: You Already Know Where I Am!!!
They give themself away by telling you that you won't have to worry about anything... they'll do everything for you...
Sadly enuff there are those who prefer the control...
Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:59 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8185 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Content protection features in Windows Vista are preventing customers from playing high-quality video and audio and harming system performance, even as Microsoft neglects security programs that could protect users, computer researcher Peter Gutmann argued at the USENIX Security Symposium in Boston Wednesday.
"If there was any threat modeling at all, it was really badly done," Gutmann, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, said while giving a talk on Vista content protection. "Once the enemy is the user and not the attacker, standard security thinking falls apart."
Vista requires premium content like high-definition movies to be degraded in quality when sent to high-quality outputs, so users are seeing status codes that say "graphics OPM resolution too high." Gutmann calls this "probably the most bizarre status code ever."
While Microsoft's intent is to protect commercial content, home movies are increasingly being shot in high definition, Gutmann said. Many users are finding they can't play any content if it's considered "premium."
"This is not commercial HD content being blocked, this is the users' own content," Gutmann said. "The more premium content you have, the more output is disabled."
Gutmann, who wore a white T-shirt marked with a Windows Vista logo during his presentation, first issued his criticisms several months ago with a paper titled A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection.
Gutmann's paper called Vista's content protection rules "the longest suicide note in history."
Microsoft acknowledged that quality of premium content would be lowered if requested by copyright holders, the BBC reported. Microsoft defended its copyright protections after Gutmann's paper came out, saying they are common features of many playback devices, the BBC article says.
The protections allow copyright holders to prevent video from being played in high definition unless users have equipment that supports the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) digital rights management system developed by Intel. If PC users have graphics cards with video connections that don't support HDCP, they are out of luck.
High-definition audio is also blocked in many cases, Gutmann said Wednesday.
"It's taking this open architecture that IBM created 25 years ago and making it closed again," he said.
In a 132-slide PowerPoint presentation, Gutmann outlined numerous features of Vista that he says are frustrating customers and programmers. New functionality related to content protection makes it hard to develop new drivers, he said. When ATI was finally able to ship Vista drivers, they crashed Windows, and Dell and Gateway had to delay Vista upgrades because they couldn't get working drivers, he said.
Gutmann said hardware costs will increase because vendors can't provide Vista-approved security functionality unless Hollywood studios like MGM, 20th Century Fox and Disney grant written approval saying the content security meets their standards.
A Vista function known as "tilt bits" -- like the tilt sensor in pinball machines -- requires hardware and software drivers to report every minor glitch, even ones that cause no problems, Gutmann said.
"Every otherwise unnoticeable minor glitch is suddenly surfaced and turned into a showstopper," he said.
Separately, all the extra encryption required to meet Vista's content protection standards means some computer components can never enter power-saving mode, he said. Thus, when you play a movie your CPU keeps running at full steam, he said. The extra power demands make it hard to reduce electricity usage.
"It's a bit of an extreme claim, but you could say Windows Vista causes global warming, because it's burning so much power with all this nonsense," Gutmann said.
The encryption requirements render high-end graphics processing units less effective, he said, because the best of those products emphasize graphics performance over content protection. On Vista, US$100-video cards can thus outperform those that cost $1,000.
Gutmann argued that Microsoft placed content protection above all other priorities when building Vista, perhaps to gain favor and money from Hollywood. Microsoft should have instead focused this effort on security features that protect users, Gutmann said, such as encrypted paging to protect user secrets, protected content domains that keep out malware, and anti-debugging techniques to prevent rootkit hooking.
New Zealand's government, which has argued that digital rights management fails to address the rights of people and government, appears to be the only government worldwide to express public concern about Vista's content protection standards, Gutmann said.
