jr_dakota wrote: >> In any case, what has all this to do with soft_radio? > > When my computer crashed because of GRUB I didn't have timne to jack > around looking for a fix (kind of hard when you can't boot the > computer and get on the internet) and have my computer down while I > search through the volumes of message board posts that Linux calls > support when it was a lot easier to just let Vista's recovery fix it > for me in less than 5 minutes ....
So far you can't boot the computer how do you run Vista? ;-) There are around Linux LiveCDs, two hands full, enabling you not only to simply restore a working GRUB config or to install/recover to a correct MBR in less then one minute, but you can run a full version of your Linux distro with all what you need to work with *your not booting installation* and your data, shifting the moment you have to work on repairing the GRUB you have mischanged to a later time. > I used to run Linux but I got tired > of spending more time jacking around with it trying to make it work > with my hardware (There was always at least one piece of unsupported > or poorly supported hardware to deal with) This has been a frequently used assertion by the Linux antagonists, in the past. To such a point I'm used to answer what follows: Before to buy a car we have to think about what use we want to do with it. It wouldn't make sense to select a Ferrari to have trips onto the but now I need productivity This is really a still unresolved drawback, I admit, being cause of non satisfaction of Windows to Linux based o.s. migrators. Linux is not one operating system. It is many, very different o.s. each tailored for specific uses. The problem is to get the right one fitting to one's own requirements. If you select the wrong "distribution" the invariable result is indeed loss of time and low productivity. > > And Vista MUST have the prerequisites as my HDTV DSP app is much more > processor intensive than any SDR application, in fact it IS a SDR > application, the hardware (A USB dongle barely larger than a USB flash > drive) only downcoverts the UHF signals to baseband and streams it > through the USB port, ALL the decoding is done in software where you > need a minimum of a dual core 64 bit chip ... A HDTV stream takes up > 8.5 Gb per hour, even my 20 stereo track 24 bit studio recordings > don't come close to that ... Yes XP will decode it too but not as > efficiently with it's patched dual core support > > In a couple of years his choice is going to be support Vista or watch > his program die along with XP like it would have if he decided to not > support XP and stayed with Win98 .... I for one would hate to see that > happen for no really good reason other than everyone hates Microsoft > and wants to bash Vista > > Most of the stuff about Vista right now is FUD, granted it's hard to > feel sorry for Microsoft when they are guilty of FUD in the past too > but let's not let the Politics blind us to the Reality ... And the > reality here is I have yet to experience any of the downsides I hear > about, no DRM issues, I benchmark faster than XP in every way that > matters to me (And Office apps don't matter to me) Whether Vista is > any good for Big Business is irrelevent to me but I can guarantee > nearly all of them will be running it in a couple of years as they > upgrade their computers to 64 bit ... The only problems I have had is > a poorly written 3rd party driver, and lack of finished soundcard > drivers. The key is turning off the User Account Control which is a > good 'mom and pop' app but unnecessary if you already know how to > secure XP properly .... no one, even Microsoft wants to recommend > that, because it's necessary to idiotproof Vista security for the > Masses (A problem Linux has too, as way too many people are cruising > the internet using the Root account) but the UAC is a resource hog and > probably still buggy ... > > I find it odd that I seem to be the only one that's noticed that if > you turn off the UAC in Vista you no longer need to run a 3rd party > app to gain full control of the serial and parallel ports which caused > me all kinds of problems in XP as every device (PIC and EPROM > programmers, my Velleman scope/spectrum analyzer, etc) had a different > hack and they didn't always play well together ... Now there is > something to blame Microsoft about, was I really in danger of being > hacked through my serial and parallel ports so that taking away > control from me in XP was necessary? I don't think so although the few > that still use dialup and an external serial port modem might be at risk > > I think it would be foolish to just dismiss Vista altogether, that is > my point and history backs me up >
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