Author Topic: Skuzzie's Vista post (Read 951 times)

IronDog · « **on:** November 12, 2006, 05:09:59 PM »

I was having a nice Sunday afternoon watching football.My Fantasy teams were getting whooped again,so for something better to do,I thought I'd check the BB to see if anyone had answered my upgrade question.I noticed Skuzzy had a post on Vista going gold so I dropped in,and Holy Mickeysoft,they've done it again and worse.People work hard to get their puters to run efficiently and streamlined.Now we are being force fed another of Bill's operating systems.Particuarily we gamers have to overcome many obstacles,and it's fun to accept these challenges,but this borders on being illegal.I really hope there is a long period before we absolutely have to switch over,like with Win98.
IronDog

RedDg · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2006, 05:15:25 PM »

I hear you IronDog. Personally, I will be upgrading when I'm flat unable to do what I need to with XP.

Kev367th · « **Reply #2 on:** November 12, 2006, 06:36:26 PM »

5 years from Jan 30th 2007, no more support for XP.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #3 on:** November 12, 2006, 07:44:30 PM »

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Originally posted by Kev367th
5 years from Jan 30th 2007, no more support for XP.

I ran 98 for at least a year after they stopped suporting it.
I imagine Ill be doing the same with Vista.
the only game I really play is AH
So gaming isnt an issue so long as HTC doesnt change that.

and I cant envision NEEDING Vista to surf pron

The Buisness software I use is called "Pen and Paper"
Mostly cause I cant find a proggie that will do what I want it to do the way I want it to do it.

And I dont see Bic Pens needing to be Vista compatable any time soon LOL

Deth7 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 12, 2006, 08:35:51 PM »

Still runnin 98SE here......

Flayed1 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2006, 07:51:14 AM »

I really miss DOS and win 3.1....

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2006, 03:19:43 PM »

I actually had alot of fun with DOS.

I found getting it setup to run the whatever games I was trying to run almost as much fun as playing the game itself

Krusty · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2006, 03:31:07 PM »

Bah, DOS was a POS. This from a guy that grew up on DOS (didn't even have Win3.x -- only got Windows when 95 came out, as it was on a newer PC when I got it). Dos was a total mess if you didn't have an interface like Windows. Okay, not "a total mess" but "a royal PITA", shall I say?

I miss some of the games that would only run on DOS. I do not miss DOS or win3.x. I say "good riddance" to both. XP has been far far better than any of them ever were. I dare say XP is better than 98SE, especially in memory and stability.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2006, 03:41:52 PM »

I have always preferred a command-line oriented approach to the operating system. Stupid mice are for eating cheese and squashing with hammers.

Windows has always gotten in my way. Pain in the tushy. I can get more done, faster using a command-line, than any GUI based OS.

Krusty · « **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2006, 03:48:45 PM »

It depends on the command line interpreter.

DOS is very limited in regards to how many commands it can link together, and redirecting input/output.

However, when considering UNIX command interpreters, you have a lot more power. Not necessarily more effective, not necessarily user friendly, but more efficient.

Flayed1 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 13, 2006, 03:53:21 PM »

Yes exactly Skuzz, I wasn't the best at the command line thing but By damn if you tell a dos system that there is a modem or what ever (HERE) it would do it's best to use that pice of hardware.. I never had my old dos system try to tell me that there was no modem/what ever in this place even though it was until I had to COUGH upgrade out of it lol.

As long as you gave it a viable command it would execute without question.. This was only a bad thing when I accedently erased my WIN 3.1 folder LOL.

The farther we get from DOS the more the system runs you instead of you running the system like it should be.......

Shivvver I could sware I just saw a teminator outside my window....

Skuzzy · « **Reply #11 on:** November 13, 2006, 05:14:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
It depends on the command line interpreter.

DOS is very limited in regards to how many commands it can link together, and redirecting input/output.

However, when considering UNIX command interpreters, you have a lot more power. Not necessarily more effective, not necessarily user friendly, but more efficient.

I find the UNIX command line to be very user friendly and a GUI insanely unfriendly.

Like Flayed stated. With each OS revision, the operating system is taking more and more control away from the user. Instead of the user telling it what to do, the operating system is now dictating what it will allow you to do. In some cases, with Vista, it will even refuse to do what you want.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 13, 2006, 05:52:32 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
the ........ system is taking more and more control away from the user. Instead of the user telling it what to do, the operating system is now dictating what it will allow you to do. In some cases, with Vista, it will even refuse to do what you want.

Sounds like my ex-wife.

I didnt know she worked for Microsoft. Cool, can I stop paying alimony now??

Tigger29 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2006, 11:32:17 PM »

I miss the good old days with dos...

and then there was getting 3.1 on the http://WWW... THAT was fun.

First release of netscape.. getting winsock configured and all that...
14.4 modem... although much faster then the 300 baud on the old C64 I used to have... come on guys you know what I'm talking about

I even soldered in a volume control from an old pair of headphones I had... velcroed it to the side of the modem because there was no way to adjust the sound of the dialtone and the numbers dialing (had an old audio input because the modem couldn't generate its own tones)... And all this at the age of 13 haha

Anyways.. one of the first websites I went to went something like this:

Hrmm.. nice hair...
2 mins later.... such beautiful eyes
3 mins later... ok there's her shoulders...
2 mins later... hrmm... nipples!
3 mins later... BELLY BUTTON NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE!!!
2 mins later.. .oh yeah.. WHAT? LOST CONNECTION?!?!?!?!?

hahah yeah ... the good ole days!

I was so proud of myself though.. getting windows 95 loaded on my old 386.. didn't run too fast though.

Even today I jump to dos prompt to do a lot of things... if I have friends over they have no idea what I'm doing half the time

Flayed1 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2006, 11:47:11 PM »

LOL same here tigger.. 1200 baud modem C64 here.

And most of the people I know have no idea what I'm doing on the comp lol..

It's like OMG your typing!!!!!! Why arn't you using the mouse??!!!!:eek: