to vista or not…

[AGAP]

checking out new computers, not sure about the new microsoft product Vista, heard of software compatability issues…printers not working, concessions made to the big movie execs, privacy issues

http://www.market-day.net/article_52591 … -rules.php

http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/175801

anyone upgrade yet, any tips, concerns

[Robert]

[img]http://www.thecanadiangeek.ca/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/green-apple-logo.jpg[/img]

seriously though, my experience is that it’s best to wait a wee while until they’ve fixed the first glitches etc.
If you get it, or try a computer with it installed, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

[lookitssam]

A friend of mine got an advanced copy. He says it’s pretty cool.

I fucking hate widgets though.

[AGAP]

considering a mac, I’m a soulseek girl though, whats your experience with the p2p madness on a mac…

thanks for you input lookitssam, it does have some wicked new tricks, just concerned about the bugs & software stuff..whats a widget

[jeremiah]

If you do go mac (and they say you never go back) – here is a way to get it cheaper than an educational discount –
http://digg.com/tech_deals/Want_a_MAC_at_a_cheaper_price_then_the_educational_discount_Here_s_how”>http://digg.com/tech_deals/Want_a_MAC_a … Here_s_how
I’m actually specking out a macbook now.

I am not upgrading switching any of my machines to vista. While the upgrades in office for 2007 were actually improvements (we use it at work), the vista stuff does not seem to be so much yet. If you ahve a 64 bit machine, they will make you pay $10 more to get a version for your box and apple has said it may corrupt itunes.
This review actually makes it look like XP was faster.

If you do upgrade, I would wait for just a bit.
** I have noticed some vista users showing up on the servers stats so if any of you want to chime in we would like to hear it
also – if you want to save some bucks, you can get the upgrade version and do a full install using this workaround.

Here are some good upgrade tips too – http://lifehacker.com/software/vista/geek-to-live-windows-vista-upgrade-power-tips-231922.php”>http://lifehacker.com/software/vista/ge … 231922.php

[wakeupnow]

I know someone who has a ‘trial’ version of Vista, he got off bittorrent. He cracked the ‘trial’, so now it thinks (always) that it has tens of thousands of hours left on the trial.

He raves about it.

[Anthony]

If you’re just looking for a computer that can get you on Freakscene (web browsing), EMAIL, ability to play music and video, and SoulSeek (NICOTINE) please look at UBUNTU or KUBUNTU
Both are Linux distributions, I personally use KUBUNTU, and both can be installed on your existing computer hardware.
And both are totally free.

Direct KUBUNTU download link from Chicago:
ftp://mirror.d-jacobs.com/ubuntu/kubuntu/edgy/kubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso”>ftp://mirror.d-jacobs.com/ubuntu/kubunt … p-i386.iso

Direct UBUNTU download link from Denver:
http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/ubuntu-cd/edgy/ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso”>http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/ubuntu-cd/ed … p-i386.iso

I will personally help ANYONE (over email or IM chat or telephone) who would like to install one of these.

Vista Shmista

[wakeupnow]

"Robert " wrote:

[img]http://www.thecanadiangeek.ca/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/green-apple-logo.jpg[/img]

seriously though, my experience is that it’s best to wait a wee while until they’ve fixed the first glitches etc.
If you get it, or try a computer with it installed, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

A well know glitch for *many* Vista users is the inability to get iTunes to work. They are currently incompatible for many users. A patch is expected to come out soon- but I haven’t heard anything yet.

[tonas]

I switched to a Mac about a month ago. Robert helped me get going, and now that I’m used to it, theres no way I’m going back to a PC. Seriously you should consider a Mac.

[lookitssam]

"Another Girl Another Planet " wrote:

considering a mac, I’m a soulseek girl though, whats your experience with the p2p madness on a mac…

thanks for you input lookitssam, it does have some wicked new tricks, just concerned about the bugs & software stuff..whats a widget

Widgets are those things you can put on your desktop…clocks, calenders, weather reports, stuff like that. It started on Macs but they’re putting it on Vista just to attempt to convert Mac users. Widgets just seem really gimmicky.

[AGAP]

widgets are annoying , thanks for the explanation

leaning more and more to the mac deal, thanks for all the suggestions

[Robert]

"Another Girl Another Planet " wrote:

considering a mac, I’m a soulseek girl though, whats your experience with the p2p madness on a mac…

Well Miss Soulseek, there’s a mutated version called nicotine that works fine on mac, so you’ll have no problem getting your daily fix.
+ a girl such as yourself should definetely have a mac.

[Anthony]

The "Freak Scene Junkies" Chat Room is alive on Soul Seek

[Robert]

Allison, have you bought a new computer yet ? Mac or Vista ?

[AGAP]

no time, unbelievable month, we both start a couple weeks off tomorrow so should be able to find some time…

Pretty much decided windows xp is the way to go, gonna do the powerbook thing later

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