Nerd question regarding operating systems

  On 1/20/2010 at 5:12 PM, Fred McGriff said:

peace of mind when it comes to vector arrays is worth a few hundred bucks a month if you get the extended crash protector that comes with it.

I agree, with the only exception being that I might bypass the crash protector in favor of spending a few extra bucks on a motherboard with room for additional serial bus cartridges. in my view, leaving room for expansion will always save you more money in the long run, even if you have to spend a little bit more up front. I know that Konami makes some pretty reliable units that are not budget busters and there are some decent General Electric models too (although you have to be careful with GE, the bitrate retention on some of their lower end models has gotten shitty ever since they bought Disney).

Does anybody know if Windows 7 supports the older drivers for the Intel floppy chips? I've been resisting upgrading to the newer terra chips because I circuit bent my old floppy to be able to handle simultaneous instances of screen saving configs. I realize there's been a paradigm shift, but why fix what ain't broke, you know? sorry for the noob question. i'm still pretty new to computers.

  On 1/20/2010 at 5:29 PM, LOL Alzado said:

  On 1/20/2010 at 5:12 PM, Fred McGriff said:

peace of mind when it comes to vector arrays is worth a few hundred bucks a month if you get the extended crash protector that comes with it.

I agree, with the only exception being that I might bypass the crash protector in favor of spending a few extra bucks on a motherboard with room for additional serial bus cartridges. in my view, leaving room for expansion will always save you more money in the long run, even if you have to spend a little bit more up front. I know that Konami makes some pretty reliable units that are not budget busters and there are some decent General Electric models too (although you have to be careful with GE, the bitrate retention on some of their lower end models has gotten shitty ever since they bought Disney).

right, but invariably you'll get an uptick in vector aggression with the serial buses. i like we're you're heading with the konamis but i'd also consider getting universal cad retractors installed for added measure. but now you're delving into the wonderful world of RAID analysis, and i'm not sure you want to go there if you're running a GE 9 that's literally been soldered on top of the fan belt, lol.

  Quote

Does anybody know if Windows 7 supports the older drivers for the Intel floppy chips? I've been resisting upgrading to the newer terra chips because I circuit bent my old floppy to be able to handle simultaneous instances of screen saving configs. I realize there's been a paradigm shift, but why fix what ain't broke, you know? sorry for the noob question. i'm still pretty new to computers.

I read that the intel floppy chips are being phased out in Q2, which is unfortunate for those of us that are still attached to their S2-90s (article here: ftt\.lanparty.graph). You could still slave an old optical keyboard to the commodore bay and control incoming rom thwarts that way. If I were you I would just hold out for the next wave of existors that are being developed in the tech lab as we speak.

I haven't read what everyone else has said so sorry if I repeat.

I bought a new PC before Christmas, a quad core X64 capable Intel 8.6ghz processor and 4gb of ram. It arrived with vista 32bit. I've used vista lightly before on other computer but have been XP since day one.

Fucking vista is a nightmare, so after 3 weeks I bought Windows 7, I thought about getting 64bit but apparently its a huge ball ache updating bios settings and things for not much difference so I got Win7 Pro.

Install was a doodle, did a clean install. First off it looks like vista but better. You can adjust the task bar so it opens windows like XP did and show desktop has just jumped over to the other side. Other than that its basically the same. It runs sweeter and looks great. So from my point of view I recommend, and its only been 3 days.

One note to add, Vista and Win7 support ready boost, so if you have a good quality flash pen/drive you stick it in an hit readyboost on the autorun window and all the spare space can be used as extra RAM, makes a big diffrence actually I've doubled my 4gb of ram to 8gb now. If you have huge pens you can actually use 256gb of extra ram.

Hope this is helpful!

  On 1/20/2010 at 5:12 PM, Fred McGriff said:

nail, meet head. and just to elaborate, if you are primarily an error processing style of user, then go ahead and spend the extra cash on a solid XP manifold. peace of mind when it comes to vector arrays is worth a few hundred bucks a month if you get the extended crash protector that comes with it. when you're running 7 or 8 emails at the same time, you'll undoubtedly need a RAM sentry to pick up the extra IP parsing, and what the manifold gives you is a constant packet burst of command prompt injectors when the dos shell is getting drained. you'll notice a bell curve matrix printout if you have legacy HP printercables, which can be tedious, but I just stash mine in a locked storage cabinet (out of sight, out of mind). ultimately if you can count on one hand the number of chip romulators you've salvaged in the past decade, then you obviously are going to value a solid workhorse manifold that's going to regulate any unwarranted replication artifacts and create (automatically is the default) wingding DLLs to quarantine whatever offending parsecs it finds. kind of a no-brainer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBp5ag6SJH4

  On 1/20/2010 at 7:10 PM, El_Chemso said:

I thought about getting 64bit but apparently its a huge ball ache updating bios settings and things for not much difference so I got Win7 Pro.

You don't need to change your bios settings to run a 64-bit OS.

  On 1/20/2010 at 7:10 PM, El_Chemso said:

One note to add, Vista and Win7 support ready boost, so if you have a good quality flash pen/drive you stick it in an hit readyboost on the autorun window and all the spare space can be used as extra RAM, makes a big diffrence actually I've doubled my 4gb of ram to 8gb now. If you have huge pens you can actually use 256gb of extra ram.

This is inacurrate. You're not extending your RAM by using ReadyBoost. You're using a slow storage device as extended swap. ReadyBoost uses this to store some non sequential data (because there are no seek-times on flash memory) and for using SuperFetch. Both don't make much difference at all. With 4GB of ram, you shouldn't be swapping much anyway. Swap is a last resort, not a good thing. Especially on a device that is even slower than your hard drive.

windows 7 is lush. i thought my hard drive fried.. no. all i had to do was do a battery drain and it was top notch again!

i love windows 7

  On 1/20/2010 at 12:53 AM, joshier said:

I'm not fully happy (mouse feels wrong, fonts are way too big, navigating my way around windows is awkward, etc).

have you ever been into the System Preferenc menu ?

Haven't used it much at all, but a friend had me look at their netbook which has Windows 7 Starter on it....Couldn't even change the desktop background, apparently that is too leet a feature for Microsoft to include in even the lowest end version of their new OS...Way to go Microsoft, way to go.

Honestly seems like the next Windows ME to me.

  On 1/20/2010 at 7:32 PM, Ego said:

  On 1/20/2010 at 7:10 PM, El_Chemso said:

I thought about getting 64bit but apparently its a huge ball ache updating bios settings and things for not much difference so I got Win7 Pro.

 

You don't need to change your bios settings to run a 64-bit OS.

 

  On 1/20/2010 at 7:10 PM, El_Chemso said:

One note to add, Vista and Win7 support ready boost, so if you have a good quality flash pen/drive you stick it in an hit readyboost on the autorun window and all the spare space can be used as extra RAM, makes a big diffrence actually I've doubled my 4gb of ram to 8gb now. If you have huge pens you can actually use 256gb of extra ram.

 

This is inacurrate. You're not extending your RAM by using ReadyBoost. You're using a slow storage device as extended swap. ReadyBoost uses this to store some non sequential data (because there are no seek-times on flash memory) and for using SuperFetch. Both don't make much difference at all. With 4GB of ram, you shouldn't be swapping much anyway. Swap is a last resort, not a good thing. Especially on a device that is even slower than your hard drive.

Thanks for the info on the 64bit OS and BIOS, I read it on some site somewhere.

About the ready boost. I discovered later that 32bit windows doesn't support anything more than 4gb of ram so I took my ready boost out.

Its a confusing world out there! Bottom like I like 7 thou.