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lol, I wonder why?Anyways, this topic is getting really pointless, so I'm closing this topic.xboxrulz

I think Microsoft is the only company in the world that is forced to keep their older version of their product due to pressures of the market. It is both sad, I think and a rare exception of basic marketing laws, which state that a new product will make the old product outdated and deprecated.xboxrulz

Docduke, as much as hardware virtualization, most hardware is still having trouble running virtual machines at near native speeds. My system is a dual core Athlon 64 X2 processor (4200+) with 4GB of RAM on Windows Vista and the virtual machine (be it Windows or Linux) are still significantly slower than running it natively. Until everyone runs a quad-core system, I don't see many people use virtualization except in the business/server sectors.I'm going to get a quad-core and this is one of the reasons why I would get it; for virtualizing the system so I can run Linux and Windows at the same time. If I want to run Linux, BSD and Windows, well I would need an even better machine, which I won't be able to afford.As for HAL, yes Linux and Windows had HAL for a long time. On Linux and other UNIX systems, it is handled by hald (HAL Daemon). It made hardware management so much easier and it also allowed ejecting the optical drive tray without manually unmounting first possible.Anyways, this is no place to talk about virtualization. We can continue this topic on another thread.xboxrulz

see ya Sten, the board and its members will miss you (yes, the board ... the IPB software ... scary huh?). You should still visit us once in a while.xboxrulz

No, not in the foreseeable future.

There is already a topic about this. Thus this topic has been locked. Please search before you post a new topic. http://forums.xisto.com/topic/91753-topic/?findpost=1064326662 xboxrulz

There is because most of the computers I have repaired are Dells and they break down the fastest. Their drivers sometimes don't work and it gets really messy after a while. It's the biggest pain in the butt systems to repair. Acer and HP are other brands that I have fixed in the past but never had trouble fixing them because they don't fall apart that fast and they have a great driver repository that I know works perfectly and their drivers are constantly updated.(Apparently throughout the years in my highschool, I have replaced the IT team for repairing laptops around the school. People just come to me for laptop repairs and consultation. I never chose to replace them but that was how it worked.)xboxrulz

It still looks like a iMac wannabe for me and since it's a DELL I would still stay clear of it. iMacs also come with a built-in stereo and an iSight webcam. These are quite standard.xboxrulz

People tend to go Seagate or Western Digital, but I bought a Hitachi disc for my desktop and it's really good. Haven't had any problem to date, the file transfer is good and so is the seek time.xboxrulz

Design Rating: 7/10 (copied most of the good stuff from MacOS X ... Start Menu stuff finally sort alphabetically by itself but Desktop still have issues with it.)System Rating: 5/10 (sluggish unless you have a lot of RAM, I now have 4GB and is now as fast as a 2 or 2.5GB RAM on Windows XP)New Features: 6/10 (there hasn't been much new features, better x64 support, I have to give Microsoft kudos on that ... other than that, I also give points for DX10, the only thing I really see that is new and exciting.)Security Controls: 7/10 (finally a UNIX like elevation process ... not running as full administrator and asking the user for a password (if they are running as standard user) or asking them to confirm whenever there's a system file change; if administrator)Overall rating 6.5/10

It just looks like an iMac look-alike ... I still rather get an iMac over a Dell since it's a Dell and Dells tend to be crappy.xboxrulz

Windows Pros:- better for gaming since most games were written for it- easier to set-up- more devices have official drivers written for itWindows Cons:- very buggy- very bulky and sluggish- you have to pay for it- you are tied into a single vendorUNIX/UNIX-like Pros:- heavily customizable- self-compilable- you can really learn about computers with using these operating systems- many to choose from- not necessarily tied to a specific vendor. A software written for one UNIX system will most likely run on another with a few tweaks.- tends to run faster and more efficient than Windows.- UNIX variants like FreeBSD, OpenBSD and OpenSolaris are free!- UNIX-like variants like Linux are free as well!UNIX/UNIX-like Cons:- lack of drivers for some or unofficial, reverse-engineered drivers- cannot run Windows software, and using WINE (Windows software compatibility layer ... it's not an emulator!) may not always work.- may be difficult to set-up but once set-up it's a breeze- the choices of choosing different packages can be confusing for somexboxrulz

The main issue for Microsoft is to cut the bulk of its system. It's getting to bulky. I filled a 120GB partition without a problem and most of it is the operating system taking up that room. Then of course I have other applications I have to run on top of the operating system or else my computer is just a useless machine running Windows Vista. You don't observe these issues on MacOS X nor Linux ... not even BSD for crying out loud!Linux will be dominant when UNIX is required but until then, it won't be too big a threat to Microsoft.xboxrulz

Make sure that you have DirectDraw to full acceleration.Right-click on your desktop --> Properties --> Display --> Advanced --> Troubleshoot, pull the slider to the fullest.xboxrulz

Try reinstalling DirectX 9 and your graphics card driver. That, or get a new system? That system is getting old, a 2.4GHz P4? That thing is around the same age as my old P4 which I ditched for an AMD Athlon 64 X2 (going to get a Phenom X4 in the near future).xboxrulz

We have an IRC channel? Since when, I never knew that !xboxrulz

I wouldn't say that Microsoft is great at making software. Look at Windows Vista and what a mess it has become. Microsoft is a mess when it comes to a community. Actually XBOX Live is not bad at all, it actually beats the crap out of communities like Wii Connect 24/7 and Playstation Network. However, it's not as integrated and favoured like Steam or GameSpy.xboxrulz

So recently I have been trying to connect a PostgreSQL database that I have set up on my local Windows Vista machine (yes, Windows machine, I know it's horrible for servers; still working on getting the darn thing to work on my MacOS X on my laptop). So I initialized the service, and now it's running. However, the problem is that I tried to connect the database using the code below I found on the website where the @author is now. Obviously I had to edit the code so it would work and connect to my server and database. /* * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates * and open the template in the editor. *//** * * @author http://http://www.faqs.org/docs/ppbook/x20856.htm */import java.sql.DriverManager;import java.sql.Connection;import java.sql.SQLException;public class Test1 { public static void main(String[] argv) { System.out.println("Checking if Driver is registered with DriverManager."); try { Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver"); } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) { System.out.println("Couldn't find the driver!"); System.out.println("Let's print a stack trace, and exit."); cnfe.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); } System.out.println("Registered the driver ok, so let's make a connection."); Connection c = null; try { // The second and third arguments are the username and password, // respectively. They should be whatever is necessary to connect // to the database. c = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://localhost/JTest", "postgres", "main"); } catch (SQLException se) { System.out.println("Couldn't connect: print out a stack trace and exit."); se.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); } if (c != null) System.out.println("Hooray! We connected to the database!"); else System.out.println("We should never get here."); }} Running this code gives me this error: I'm running this via Netbeans 6.0.1 on JDK 1.6.0_05 x64 with PostgreSQL Server 8.3.1. It works with Netbeans but not the code as explained in the image below: help? xboxrulz

Alright, this is quite strange. AMD invented the idea and a way to Crossfire an IGP with a GPU. However, all they have demonstrated was an Radeon HD 3200 IGP Hybrid Crossfiring with a Radeon HD 3400 GPU. What I'm wondering is if you could Hybrid Crossfire with a Radeon HD 3600 or even a Radeon HD 3800?xboxrulz

Interesting, however since we're in the transition to Windows Vista, this won't be so useful for many soon. Some of these tricks are either changed or simply doesn't work on Windows Vista.

It's best to have a router in between the connections so that you don't have to use crossover cables, which can get really irritating. Not many people have crossover cable handy. Even for me, who have many computers in my network and have two network topologies running at the same time, I only have one crossover cable in the whole house.Fortunately, I can connect between two Macs together with a straight through cable instead of having to use a crossover.Once, you establish a connection, you just browse My Network Places on Windows XP to browse the other computer, given that the other computer has been allowed to share its resources.

Safari 3.0 Beta was only a step before the massive better release of Safari 3.1 if you haven't checked it out. However, it's not as good as the Mac version (obviously) since Apple still needs to figure out how to use .NET properly. iTunes is already buggy enough.xboxrulz

Did you force install the service pack or was it through Windows Update. If it wasn't in Windows Update, there might be a reason why it wasn't; it's because your system might still not have the requirements to run Service Pack 1 properly (namely that sound issue). My system running SP1: xboxrulz

I back Firefox better because it uses Gecko, which is a better rendering engine than Opera's engine. However, for best speed and compatibility, I rather use WebCore since it's also based on KHTML.

Ummm... Dell is the definition of crap, a lot of their products are usually crappily built. Then again, that's the perception Dell wants people to think of their brand: tough, good built products. (Which most people in the computer repair business know that's not true).