Geek's Corner, Windows Longhorn

9 Sep 2005

Quote by Deviated Prevert
These are the same people that told everyone it was possible to run Windows 95 on 4MB of RAM. :shock:

Didn't it!! :shock: lol

:lol: :lol:
I started on msdos6 and remember upgrading my 386sx 16mhz (with 2meg of RAM) from a 20meg HD to a 50meg HD (at the phenomenal cost of Â£250) so that windows 3.0 (no sound support) would run.. I din't upgrade again till I bought a pentium and went straight on to 98.. Me, I'm just glad I don't have to fluck about with extended memory managers anymore for an hour or two every time I want to play a game :lol: :lol: :lol:

9 Sep 2005

Quote by Pete_sw
OOH OOH
have you tried Ghost Recon? :bounce: :bounce:
sooooooooo many hours wasted on that one , could have built the ESB all by myself lol

Not played that one, I started out on Halflife and Team fortress Classic, moved on to Natural Selection (HL mod) after a couple of years, then discovered Battlefield 1942 and it's sequels. I'm trying to scrape the cash together to get BF2 as the demo looks well cool.

9 Sep 2005

I bought my pc In 1999 (the first and only pc ive bought from a shop! Id never pay a middle man again :twisted: )in the days when 98 was the o/s and I liked it since then Ive had M/E and 2000 and I thought they were both crap especialy M/E with all its are you sure you want to do that operation b.s. when you do a simple task.
Ive been on XP the last couple of years and its been fine for me.
Any one know how good this Vista is supposed to be confused

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9 Sep 2005

Quote by wolvie_dude
I started on msdos6 and remember upgrading my 386sx 16mhz (with 2meg of RAM) from a 20meg HD to a 50meg HD (at the phenomenal cost of Â£250) so that windows 3.0 (no sound support) would run.. I din't upgrade again till I bought a pentium and went straight on to 98.. Me, I'm just glad I don't have to fluck about with extended memory managers anymore for an hour or two every time I want to play a game :lol: :lol:

My little story about hating XP.
I started on Dos 3.3, went through all the dos versions to 6.2 (ewww @ dos4.0!), hit windows 3.0., 3.1, for workgroups, 95, 98, 98SE , ME (yuck!) XP and 2000.
So I feel I am a fairly experienced PC user and although I can't pin anything on my extreme dislike for XP, I'm sure Dawn will vouch for the foul torent of abuse I gave one of her laptops when all I did was turn it on and try and copy some data to a floppy disk.
Ian

9 Sep 2005

Quote by Deviated Prevert
OOH OOH
have you tried Ghost Recon? :bounce: :bounce:
sooooooooo many hours wasted on that one , could have built the ESB all by myself lol

Not played that one, I started out on Halflife and Team fortress Classic, moved on to Natural Selection (HL mod) after a couple of years, then discovered Battlefield 1942 and it's sequels. I'm trying to scrape the cash together to get BF2 as the demo looks well cool.
OMG you havenâ€™t lived till youâ€™ve been to a proper counterstrike LAN party â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦.. Oh I now so wish that I knew how to put pics up on here, could show u the party to end all parties â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦.. Sorry, getting carried away here, but I used to do this for a living, so please forgive people, its nice to meet a fellow gamer.
Anyway, enough for now, suffice to say that there is more to LAN parties than meets the eye lol.

9 Sep 2005

the way i heard it MS bought an os called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) that was a lash up by some other start up in the 80's and then resold it as a commercial product.
thus began their illlustrious reign of selling undercooked crap to morons, whilst simultanouesly forcing intelligent people to suffer their "innovations" by blackmailing and coercing ligitimate competition with attack-lawyers, lies and bribery.
that said, win2k (the first remotely stable version of NT which was itself stolen code from VMS) is tolerable and i've been using it since 2001 without the need to reinstall till my motherboard fried a month ago.
i've used XP and have found it like a kind of top heavy bloatware that dumps a turgid layer of (traditionally for MS) half baked "stylish design" on top of the perfectly acceptable 2k user interface at the expense of needing a multi GHz processor and more than half a Gb of RAM to get it to respond in a non-frustrating manner.
I run win2k at work on my old K6-2 500 with 384Mb and it's fine. If microsoft want to donate an Athlon 64 X2 4000 for me to be able to run the next pointless round of space wasting colourful desktop themes then i might consider upgrading.
all the "innovative" features MS promised for "Longhorn" have been sidelined exactly the way they were when they were promised for win2k all those years ago. ie, WinFS.
"vista"s only feature is built in DRM which allows microsoft to shoehorn its way into the RIAA and start extorting money from the general public in yet another innovative and disgusting way.
still, google are really pissing on MS's bonfire at the moment and its only a matter of time till open source software eliminates their sickening influence on the computing world.
rant over biggrin

9 Sep 2005

Quote by sexyfella
Any one know how good this Vista is supposed to be :

You know two pages ago, that's basically what I asked.... lol

Ian

9 Sep 2005

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kiss

Jas
XXX

9 Sep 2005

A0F356ED089H432E
if you can spot the deliberate mistake then you're as much as a geek as me. and i'm an utter geek.

10 Sep 2005

Ooh, ooh! I know. H is not a hexadecimal digit.

10 Sep 2005

Quote by Ian_Mids

Any one know how good this Vista is supposed to be :

You know two pages ago, that's basically what I asked.... lol

Ian
Ian did I miss something :shock: :shock: I was just about to tell you what filling I like in my pie what the *uck has that got to do with XP why are you talking about vista I thought that was a curry???????? lol
Anyway have you really got a laptop for sale? I need something to replace this crap one I am sitting with - help!!!!!!!

10 Sep 2005

MEAT AND POTATOE
CHICKEN N MUSHROOM LOL
AND OOPS IM IN CAPITALS ....HAD A VODDY BEEN DANCING SOZ XXXXXXXXXX
CHEESE N ONION wink

LOVE PEPPSXX

10 Sep 2005

Quote by Mister_Discreet
Recommended System Needed for Vista:
NCQ SATA Hard Drive (none of these exist yet) Yes they do.
HDCP Compliant Monitor (none of there exist yet) No, this is true, but you will only need a HDCP compliant monitor to watch HD-DVD and Blu-Ray content in high definition format. Vista will still run on normal monitors.

10 Sep 2005

Quote by MikeC
i would like topint out the bill gates stole the idea of MSDOS from somelse
MIkeC

Wasn't it from the lads who had developed Concurrent DOS - I used to use that - it was great for it's time!

10 Sep 2005

If I remember correctly, he substantially rewrote it when turning it into MS-DOS (that's probabbly why it isn't as good ;) )

10 Sep 2005

Heres a chalenge to all the geeks see if you can break this!
1100
make sure youve got your "ascii" (pronounced as-key) table ready
Lets see who cracks it first
good luck sf

10 Sep 2005

Heres a chalenge to all the geeks see if you can break this!
1100
make sure youve got your "ascii" (pronounced as-key) table ready
Lets see who cracks it first
good luck sf

I've got my ass key ready but can't seem to fit it in the lock. Oh well there goes another night's anal action out of the window!

10 Sep 2005

Quote by sexyfella
Heres a chalenge to all the geeks see if you can break this!
1100
make sure youve got your "ascii" (pronounced as-key) table ready
Lets see who cracks it first
good luck sf

How to kill a thread in easy lessons. That probably says something like 'I knit fluorescent green willy warmers for charity on Saturdays' rolleyes

10 Sep 2005

fella... would you mind not posting long lines of text with no spaces. Dynamic text pane you see, makes the page a mile wide, very not good.
Thanks.

10 Sep 2005

How to kill a thread in easy lessons. That probably says something like 'I knit fluorescent green willy warmers for charity on Saturdays' rolleyes

It actually translates as the copy right symbol, the letter U,and some foreign letter.

10 Sep 2005

well i worked with a datapoint 3 system, with 6 5gb disc drives double sided, as a1/a2 throught to f1/f2, with a 45 minute back/up each night.
Then moved to an 1bm system 36 with tape back up and 1 50gb hard disc, this was run with BASIC, which was so easly to run it was silly.
the company then moved onto IBM AS400. total rubbish
I had an AMSTRAD 8256, great machine but not compatible with anything - good old Alan Sugar.
Them went from IBM PS2, though,
win 3.1,
95,
98,
2000,
me,
to finally Windows XP
I have no trouble as i do a
Registery check,
virus scan,
disc check
on start up every day and run spybot before shutting down each night
im also using Norton Antui Virus
never hav any trouble at all
GOD BLESS BILL GATES

10 Sep 2005

XP prof is ok its as far as MS products go ,XP home edition thats cack.
As for longhorn/vista if it is ever released, no dought the first thing you'll have to do after installing it is download 1000's of services packs for it to get it working.

10 Sep 2005

Quote by sexyfella
How to kill a thread in easy lessons. That probably says something like 'I knit fluorescent green willy warmers for charity on Saturdays'

It actually translates as the copy right symbol, the letter U,and some foreign letter.
:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
Sexyfella, you want to learn how to quote?
Hit the 'quote' button then type in whatyou want to say AFTER where the is.

10 Sep 2005

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
Whats happened to me feckin screen?
note to self, buy widescreen monitor rolleyes

10 Sep 2005

Quote by Ian_Mids
At last - the end is nigh for Windows XP :happy: :happy:
(I won't use a pc with it installed, if you hadn't guessed).
Today, I saw on ebay that beta dvd's of Windows Longhorn are now available.
Anybody got it yet? any good?
Ok, sorry, I'll go crawl back under my stone.
Ian

I have had XP Pro for some time now - I found it to be the most stable system I have had in over 25 years but I had my system custom built from someone in Preston who knows what to do. Never buy one from PC world etc. I had a PC from Time in the past - biggest IT mistake in my life! If you have not found Torrents yet - just do a search - you are missing a lot of good free stuff out there.

10 Sep 2005

Quote by Pete_sw
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
Whats happened to me feckin screen?
note to self, buy widescreen monitor

:shock: :shock: ooooo bloody hell - me too! thought I'd pressed something I shouldnt lol but darent say owt, being surrounded by puter geeks an' all :roll:

10 Sep 2005

Quote by sexyfella
Heres a chalenge to all the geeks see if you can break this!
...</snip>
make sure youve got your "ascii" (pronounced as-key) table ready
Lets see who cracks it first
good luck sf

Why yes, I must indeed be a geek.

10 Sep 2005

Quote by Darkfire
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
Whats happened to me feckin screen?
note to self, buy widescreen monitor

:shock: :shock: ooooo bloody hell - me too! thought I'd pressed something I shouldnt lol but darent say owt, being surrounded by puter geeks an' all :roll:
innocent

Activate cloaking device :twisted:

10 Sep 2005

Quote by Pete_sw
... thought I'd pressed something I shouldnt lol but darent say owt, being surrounded by puter geeks an' all

Activate cloaking device :twisted:
awww dammit, I really need one of those now! redface

I'll be off then :whistling: :bolt:

10 Sep 2005

FJB, does it have anything to do with knitting willy warmers? lol