On 8/27/10 11:45 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Paul McNett<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 8/27/10 8:30 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: >>> Why do you think you have to reboot a modern PC since 2005? They just >>> run until you need an update or to play with the hardware. >> >> I have this fully-patched Vista Pro laptop that needs to be rebooted every >> time I >> mistakenly try to play a DVD in it. Or accidentally open up Windows Media >> Center. Or >> remove the USB mouse. Or run iTunes for more than 3 days or so. Or if the >> boys play >> flash games online too much (like more than 30 minutes). >> >> From what I gather, my experience is fairly typical. > ------------------------ > > Typical? Attempting to touch resources mapping through other OS > systems? Sure that is what everyone has a problem with.
Huh? What other systems? This is an HP laptop with oem-installed Windows Vista that I've kept fully patched. > To be honest with you I had the same trouble with running W7 under > Ubuntu so you are typical. It was the reason why I just canned Ubuntu > and went to just Win as OS. I found the problem to be VirtualBox and > not W7 nor Ubuntu. Either of those OS products worked fantastic with > the resources I wanted to use. But the mapping between one OS and the > other for resource consumption was the failure. Back in 2001-2004 or so I was running NT4 on top of VMWare on Red Hat Linux, and NT4 ran better than native. Today I'm running W7 on Parallels/Mac and I don't have a native system to compare it with, but performance seems quite high. I have no experience with VirtualBox. > I use iTunes daily it seems to get new podcasts. I don't play stuff > through iTunes because iTunes blows in the user friendly department. > I wonder what that PM had on Jobs that the kludge of iTunes still > exists in "AppleLand." All the other things they do, they do so well. I don't mind iTunes for what it is, but it does seem pretty annoying to use on Windows for some reason I haven't put my finger on yet. It differs from other Apple apps in that it has a large scope, and is pretty monolithic. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
