2009/7/29 Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]>: > Tough, but honest :) Compiz is an interesting idea, and this machine should > have the horses to do a good job of it. FWIW, it probably would last only > about a week, so I might not even bother. > > Just to be fair (well a little more complete) in my exposure to Vista, I > might put QCad on it for some drafting that needs to get done today and > tomorrow. After that, Tux arrives. > btw, to get vista work fast as close as to XP, disabling the UI quirks is not enough. Go to sevices and start disabling them one by one.. THere is a lot of crap which is enabled by default, but useless. Its only purpose to eat memory & CPU in order to keep oil prices high and continue global warming progress :)
> Bill > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Boris Popov > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 5:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [OT] Vista must-see items?? > > What a tough crowd :) > > /me goes back to tuning his SQL Server > > -Boris > > -- > +1.604.689.0322 > DeepCove Labs Ltd. > 4th floor 595 Howe Street > Vancouver, Canada V6C 2T5 > http://tinyurl.com/r7uw4 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miguel > Enrique Cobá Martinez > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [OT] Vista must-see items?? > > El mar, 28-07-2009 a las 18:19 -0400, Schwab,Wilhelm K escribió: >> Hello all, >> >> I finally bought a new machine. It arrived with a severe malware infection >> (Vista), and while I was tempted to blow it away w/o even so much as letting >> it boot, I decided to have a look. Is there anything I should try before >> the stampede of Penguins begins? >> >> In particular, is there any way to gag the animation/visual effects/whatever >> they call them? >> >> Bill > > Not much to see, the solitaire I heard remains good and the notepad remains > crap. You'll have a big clock and wheather and several gadgets more but, as > any new windows install, you won't be able to do anything useful without > installing several other apps before. I recommend to nuke it and install your > penguin OS and try compiz for a similar experience. > > After a week or two you'll have enough of effects and you'll disable them (I > promise) and you'll end with a normal machine, but without virus/malware. :) > > Miguel Cobá >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
