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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 07.04.2009, 00:43

> > Most people have standalone players anyways
>
> Indeed, and the BR thing is a matter of time I guess.
So far (as least in the U.S.) they still make everything for both standard DVD and Blu-Ray (at least according to all the tv ads for movies that I see).

> (snip, OS/2 vs WIndows)
>
> I don't agree entirely with this. Some stuff is true (IBM's rigidity and
> attempts at control), but the main problem I think is that it happened at
> a time where every so an so many months, the number of computer users
> doubled, and that made the market very fluid.

As opposed to now where everything is a big fracas due to too many competing technologies?

> > Anyways, for normal everyday use I disable desktop composition (which
> > disables Flip3d, boo freakin' hoo) just because UAC took at least
> > 5 secs. to recover (fully blank screen!) each time it was invoked.
> > That was just stupid, esp. since I didn't need it. (Silly Sidebar
> > widget says I have 53% RAM used right now. It doesn't typically
> > go too high for me, but I'm not really hardcore in that way. VMs
> > are typically the greediest.)
>
> I downgraded to XP with this (work) one. (core 1 laptop, 1GB of which
> 320MB is taken by the video card. Always!)
Hopefully you got a free downgrade (heh, dumb marketing bastards, we should all have that right)! Yikes about the video card although I've heard similar stories. Oh well. At least it looks pretty. ;-) (Couldn't you swap another card in there? Or is it blacklisted by your BIOS?)

> But that in retrospect was because of certain problems we had with
> instability that in the end turned out to be a bios problem (which only
> occured when the amount of memory was expanded). Vista probably used the
> higher memory more intensively than XP.
>
> The memory corruption would also corrupt windows installs over time,
> making the issue even harder to detect. After close to an year(!), the
> vendor came with a bios update, and the laptop was suddenly stable.
The latest BIOS update on mine changed the fan algorithm dramatically, so it makes a much quieter (but more static) sound than before (which was more of a rev up / rev down thing).

> > But have they tried it? And if not, why not? :-)
>
> No. Time, interest.
Uh, it's predicted to be 5 x faster. You can't afford not to try it!!

> > > Hmm. I have to boot freebsd anyway this weekend. Will see if I can do
> > > anything.
> >
> > I didn't mean you have to, just curious if somebody knew if it
> > would build there or not.
>
> It's an install for experimentation, no problem. Just didn't get around to
> it.
(Where's sol when you need him. He should be testing too!) ;-)

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