[TriLUG] Fwd: Hans Reiser leads cops to wife's body.

[Jim Tuttle]

This always makes me laugh- Like you, I boot into Windows to play games
(infrequently), but don't use Windows for anything more important than
that.  (Not that killing Nazi's and aliens isn't important)

Jim

Jason Watts wrote:
> I agree with this approach... I would get rid of windows if I had a choice
> (games at home keep me with windows and the higher ups keep me on windows at
> work)
> 
> The only concern I would have about taking the VM route.  doesn't VM not
> handle full screen app's very well??  best example I can think of off the
> top of my head is Battlefield 2142... don't think that game has been ported
> over  yet.
> 
> jason
> 
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> There are more than a few people around here who think the answer is a
>> Linux
>> desktop running virtual machines as-needed until applications can be moved
>> towards Linux compatibility.  I'm doing everything I can to further this
>> idea.  Sadly it's an uphill battle but Vista's uselessness is flattening
>> that hill bit by bit.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> A compelling reason... granted we aren't there yet, would be that XP will
>>> eventually be unsupported... and updates will go away with that.
>>  (meaning
>>> no new security/stability patches)  as much as windows users don't want
>> to
>>> go to vista... i think that choice will become a requirement... unless
>> they
>>> get their new OS out before then.
>>>
>>> Are you saying that Vista makes its IPv6 tunnel to m$ or XP does?  I
>>> haven't
>>> heard that yet, then again I don't hear a lot of things
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think, for us at work and a corporate desktop, there is no compelling
>>>> reason to upgrade.  XP offered a huge set of improvements over NT and
>> 9x
>>>> but
>>>> the "big leap" just isn't there with Vista.  It looks somewhat better
>>> just
>>>> sitting there but when you get it in a lab and really work it's guts
>> out
>>>> there just nothing there beyond what is in XP.
>>>>
>>>> And then there's that whole Toredo thing.  Why would any machine make
>> an
>>>> IPv6 tunnel to a server owned my M$ by default and without my asking is
>>>> beyond me.  No thanks.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM, James Tuttle <jjtuttle at trilug.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  > I've never used Vista and likely never will, but is it really so
>> bad?
>>>>  I
>>>>> know people seem to hate UAC and the hardware reqs are pretty bad,
>> but
>>>>> is it so shitty?  For the record, I truly hope it is.  I just can't
>>>>> believe I'd be so lucky as to receive my wish for their stunning
>>> failure.
>>>>> Jim
>>>>>
>>>>> Greg Brown wrote:
>>>>>> From a senior manager where I work:  "Vista has all the flaws
>>> necessary
>>>>> to
>>>>>> supplant Dos 4.0 as the second worst abomination inflicted on the
>>> world
>>>>> from
>>>>>> the geniuses in Redmond.  Microsoft Bob remains theoretically
>>>> untouchable
>>>>> at
>>>>>> number one."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Matt Bidwell <
>>> bidwell at dead-city.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Greg Brown wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Scott Lambdin <
>> lopaki at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Make him work on Vista?
>>>>>>>> We have a winner!!!
>>>>>>> You know they have laws about cruel and unusual punishments?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Matt
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