New Laptop - which flavour of Windows? (and other issues)
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From: Gib Bogle on 14 Mar 2010 23:25 tony sayer wrote: > In article <jaGdnYOIcOtcFAbWnZ2dnUVZ8j6dnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, John > Rumm <see.my.signature(a)nowhere.null> scribeth thus >> Ryan P. wrote: >> >>> On 3/12/2010 7:02 PM, John Rumm wrote: >> Ok, with content this time! >> >>>> Wandering off topic a bit here, but, are you aware of any free solutions >>>> that can work in the manner of VNC-SC (i.e. a small prog a user can DL >>>> and run that then "phones home" back to me and gives remote control - >>>> nicely sidestepping any NAT and firewall issues on the remote end of the >>>> setup). While VNC-SC works well controlling XP machines, its painfully >>>> slow on Vista and Win7. >>> I don't have any issues with speed going from my Vista laptop (or the >>> Win 7 partition on the laptop) via VNC to my Win 7 desktop upstairs. >> The normal VNC seems ok over a LAN when controlling Vista etc, but the >> single click version over a pair of ADSL connections seems to have major >> difficulties. >> >>> Of course, I turn off most of the Aero eye candy, as it does nothing >>> except increase power usage and suck RAM. That could be part of your >>> speed issue? >> Turning off aero helps - but its still almost postal - e.g. click for a >> menu and wait anything from 10 to 20 seconds to see the result etc. >> >> > Dunno what was wrong with WIN 2000 best prog microsoft ever wrote;)).. What was wrong with W2000 (from MS's point of view) was that everybody already had it. That wasn't good for sales.
From: Gib Bogle on 14 Mar 2010 23:35 NT wrote: > I know I sound like a broken record on this, but seriously all these > concerns and many more are non-issues if you try Ubuntu. Linux has a > poor usability reputation, but ubuntu is the distro that's really > changed that. Let me put in a plug here for Jolicloud. http://www.jolicloud.com/ This is a customised version of Ubuntu, specifically tailored for netbooks (it seems to work fine on most laptops too). The user interface is very easy to get used to. I've put it on my Asus eeePC as a boot alternative to XP. One of its appealing features is the speed of booting and shutdown. Note that it is still "Pre-Beta", but even at this stage it's pretty impressive.
From: Mike Barnes on 15 Mar 2010 04:44 Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com>: >Some of your applications are REALLY old. Quicken 98? Really, you >should make upgrading to later versions a bit of a priority. You seem to be assuming that later versions are better. After several Quicken "upgrades" that made the product worse rather than better for my purposes, I stopped upgrading at Quicken 6 (1997, I believe). Nothing I've seen or read since suggests that I made the wrong decision. -- Mike Barnes
From: Mike Barnes on 15 Mar 2010 04:47 tony sayer <tony(a)bancom.co.uk>: > >> >>I know I sound like a broken record on this, but seriously all these >>concerns and many more are non-issues if you try Ubuntu. Linux has a >>poor usability reputation, but ubuntu is the distro that's really >>changed that. It costs nothing to try, and if for some reason you >>still want to get windows you can buy it if and when you find linux >>isnt what you want. The days of linux being only for geeks are >>history. >> > >Second all that .. try it, you've nowt to loose:))... No *money* to lose. I'd place myself firmly in the geek category and once spent countless hours trying to get Ubuntu to do what I want a PC to do. Those wasted hours count as a loss to me. -- Mike Barnes
From: tony sayer on 15 Mar 2010 05:41
In article <n32P$UTnQfnLFwYS(a)g52lk5g23lkgk3lk345g.invalid>, Mike Barnes <mikebarnes(a)bluebottle.com> scribeth thus >tony sayer <tony(a)bancom.co.uk>: >> >>> >>>I know I sound like a broken record on this, but seriously all these >>>concerns and many more are non-issues if you try Ubuntu. Linux has a >>>poor usability reputation, but ubuntu is the distro that's really >>>changed that. It costs nothing to try, and if for some reason you >>>still want to get windows you can buy it if and when you find linux >>>isnt what you want. The days of linux being only for geeks are >>>history. >>> >> >>Second all that .. try it, you've nowt to loose:))... > >No *money* to lose. I'd place myself firmly in the geek category and >once spent countless hours trying to get Ubuntu to do what I want a PC >to do. Those wasted hours count as a loss to me. > Well what couldn't you get it to do?.. -- Tony Sayer |