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Dear Micro$oft: Fuck you. Fuck you right in the ear! :)
According to this site here Micro$oft is going to stop the sales of Windows XP. No, wait - they actually DID so two days ago...
Get this: Basically all the world (at least those ppl who actually have to work with their PCs or know a thing or two about them) told them to take their Vista and shove it where the sun don't shine. Several big companies told them "Thanks, but NO THANKS! We're going on to use to use the safer/slimmer/more stable Win XP!".
Microsoft's Reply is basically a "Thanks for supporting XP, and now get lost!".
Well, dear Microsoft: I am STILL happily working on a machine driven by Windows2000, and there's NOTHING your XP or Vista can do that I need and that my PC can't do anyways. :) Not that I haven't tried using XP here - it simply turns into a big crash-o-rama. And from what I heard about Vista from people who were forced to work with it... Well, let's put it this way:
SHOULD I, at one point or another, need a new computer I'll happily become either a Mac or a Linux user. I won't even have to check the latest Vista version that might be available when the time has come, there's simply no way I'm even going to consider using this pile of shite. So ... THANKS, dear Microsoft - you just helped me make a decision just now! :)
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Freakin A...
Seriously, I have Vista on my newer machine, it came infected, and I'm going to dig out an old copy of xp.
Vista is the bane of my online life. So clunky, inflexible, and rigid. I was never really that big of an xp fan, but I can't wait to have it back.
Robotlizz can tell you from her one experience on my machine that the littlest burp and it hurls.
Good Grief.
Try Ubuntu Studio
Actually, XP runs as well and as stable as any current desktop Linux system on modern hardware, if properly set up, configured and maintained. The Times o' Crashing are long gone. You must be bound to a rather dated machine in terms of hardware release cycles, if I may say so. That is not bad at all, I'm still using Pentium I and II hardware for small home servers myself.
Still, Microsoft's support (now wait, what support?) policy sucks big time and is a slap in the face of private and business customers likewise. The failure to establish Vista forced them to prolong XP support already, and it remains to be proven if the former will ever see a decent market share. There might be Windows 7 released long before that. Game manufacturers for instance, which are the prototype of early adopters and promoters, won't develop on Vista currently because there are only 1-2% of gamers around who use it. "FAIL!" for Microsoft this time, I'd say.
You are a musician, so there might be not much of a choice. Should you ever have to pick an OS for your shiny new hardware, I would recommend Ubuntu - or Ubuntu Studio in your case - over Mac OS. Otherwise you may find that you've just traded in Bill Gates for Steve Jobs. But as a long-term Debian user, I'm naturally biased. Give it a try, when the time comes. It's free, and will remain so, so you lose nothing but the time for testing.
I tried XP again early this year...
and even with all the latest service packs it sucks donkeydicks on *this* computer here - and you're right, it's not that new. But I think the main problem (apart from the unstability) I had is the unconventional sound hardware configuration:
I couldn't get XP to use the soundcards I wanted it to use for specific tasks, a thing that isn't a problem under win2k. Right now I have 3 soundcards in my PC: One onboard which I also use as microphone-in for my headset. One old soundblaster which doesn't work soundwise but has a gameport for joysticks. And then my main 24bit soundcard (which only has chinch plugs, that's why I use the onboard card for my headset, also the input is connected to my homestudio).
As far as games and multimedia stuff goes my PC still is enough to play pretty much all the stuff I like at the moment, and so it's not so bad I can't afford a new machine - Right now I'm a fan of games from Valve, based on the Halflife 2 Engine, and those work just fine on my platform.
I guess since I like to play some mainstream games from time to time I won't be able to completely say goodbye to windows at this point - of course the future might change things a lot at some point, who knows...
Dear Micro$oft: Fuck you. Fuck you right in the ear! :)
Hiya Briel - ja wie denn, ja was denn, nach den Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre immer noch keinen Mac irgendwo zwischen den ganzen Stapeln von Hardware auf dem Tisch stehen!?? ;-) Wie hältst Du's nur aus? (Okay, ich weiß ja, "EVERY OS sucks...") Btw. - very nice, daß Du Deine ganzen Sachen immer noch so schön sortiert der Öffentlichkeit zum Download anbietest. Schade, daß in den letzten Jahren nicht mehr so viel dazukommen ist.
+Grüße = SeBiG
Naja, Sebig
Hatte einen langen Writer's Block, die Hardware hat ein paar Jahre lang gut Staub gesammelt... Aber im Moment würde ich es doch gerne nochmal versuchen und warte irgendwie nur noch auf den letzten Kick, damit ich WIRKLICH mal wieder anfange... Mal sehen.
Da ich nach wie vor gerne mal das eine oder andere Spiel spiele bin ich immer noch Windows User, aber zum Arbeiten (ich versuche z.Zt. etwas Geld mit Webbasteleien zu verdienen) bräuchte ich über kurz oder lange mal einen Rechner auf dem auch der IE 7 läuft, zwecks Überprüfung gebastelter Seiten (ist peinlich, wenn ich das immer wen anders machen lassen muß und auf meinem PC läuft nur Win2000 brauchbar, XP habe ich entsetzt wieder deinstalliert - das kommt mit meiner Hardwarezusammenstellung garnicht klar, deswegen ist mein höchster IE der 6er, und der ist inzwischen doch arg veraltet).
Solange 2000 für die Spiele und anderen Sachen die ich unter Windows mache noch reicht bleibt die Mühle hier auch stehen, aber wenn ich mal Geld genug haben sollte (daran mangelt es im Moment massiv) wäre ein Laptop nicht übel, zusätzlich - und das dürfte wegen mir auch gerne ein Mac sein...
Schick mir dochmal über Contact deine aktuelle Mailadresse - irgendwie bekomme ich immer Fehler zurück bei denen die ich versucht habe...