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Post by I...Died...Again!!! on Jun 18, 2007 11:05:50 GMT -5
Well all is well with the world. We (my ex-brother-in-law and I) don't ask. Tried to kill Vista.. and even thew Mfrs site didn't have the drivers for xp for some of the hardware??? any way reloaded vista, clean install thank God and all was well, or so we thought. I arrived home only to still have connection problems, some minor router adjustments and bingo it is working. So for now I'll keep the linksys as the signal id 100% better than the d-link. Thanks guys.
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Death's Shadow
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Post by Death's Shadow on Jun 18, 2007 11:19:37 GMT -5
glad your back up and running IDA..
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Post by Urumii-Previously ThePresident on Jun 20, 2007 0:43:35 GMT -5
The general consensus about vista is if you install it, make sure you have an extra xp disk, or a seperate harddrive with xp installed on it. I've heard this from many people who have upgraded from xp to vista. I think vista will get better in the coming months as Microsoft fixes some of the problems, I seem to recall xp being very buggy when it first came out.
Red, have mac os's had many bugs, or when mac releases them are they pretty much bug free by then?
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RedRock
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Post by RedRock on Jun 20, 2007 1:51:15 GMT -5
The early Mac OS X had one big bug--it had built in hard disk encryption, called File Vault, and if you forgot your main password, you were well and truly screwed--no one could break in, and some people claimed the app got corrupted and messed up the main password (maybe they just forgot it or typed it wrong initially but wouldn't admit it), so Apple basically advised everyone not to use FileVault unless they had an unencrypted backup somewhere. Other than that, significant bugs are very rare with Mac OS releases, but they occasionally occur with releases of individual program updates--for example, there was one bug with an iTunes update that was eating the song files for some users. The updated update was released a couple of days later and fixed that. Most MacUsers I know wait about a week before downloading and installing the system updates, to give time for the brave ones out there to give it a whirl. More often released are security updates by Apple--fixes to make sure there are no backdoor holes into your mac through the internet, firewalls, wireless cards, etc. Probably more important than waiting a week or so, though, is that MacUsers should run the Disk Utility app that comes with the OS and "repair permissions" (please don't ask me what that means, I don't know, but it works) before (and probably after, too) dowloading and installing OS updates. It only takes a couple of minutes, and it makes some files or apps that were not opening or closing quickly now do so faster. The main thing with Mac OS updates are that old software slowly stops working with each new update. ViaVoice for Mac runs just fine with Mac OS 10.3.9 but not with 10.4, for example. But since iListen runs even better than ViaVoice (both are voice recognition software--speak and the Mac types it) and is optimized for OS 10.4.9 and for the MacIntel chips, things like that tend not to matter much very shortly after the OS update releases. I have yet to see Vista in action. The next Mac OS, Leopard (10.5), is due out soon in the Fall. If you've used "Cover Flow" with iTunes, you know what a nifty graphical user interface that is. Well, Leopard will integrate that into the Finder (the main OS interface)--check out the demo at www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/finder.html (click on "watch the demo") and check out the stackable dock, too! www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/desktop.html (click on "watch the demo"). |
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