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Mac OS X 10.4.5 Tiger, the OS of champions.
How ya doing, buddy? |
I was speaking idiomatically. |
I'm using Windows XP Home Edition SP2,of course is better than Win98 or WinME
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
My main computer runs Windows XP SP2. Every other computer I touch is pretty much the same. Unless you count what I usually use at college, which is some version of Sun Solaris using some version CDE. How ya doing, buddy? |
I have Windows XP Home SP2 on my desktop, and my laptop has Windows XP Professional SP2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 both stuffed onto one 40GB drive. My parents' computer runs Windows XP, too, and my old desktop runs Windows 98SE.
Nothing weird and exciting like Solaris or OS/2 or anything, sorry. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
XP Pro, would be using 2000, but Battlefield 2 won't let me.
Jam it back in, in the dark. |
I'm using Windows XP Home Edition now, but I used to use Winsdow 2000.
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Windows XP Home SP2 for me. I should have got Professional instead. But since I'm just playing games, doing some light codings and posting on online forums, I don't think I think special OS.
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.
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Last edited by Fire Fox; Mar 7, 2006 at 04:35 AM.
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I'm running OS X 10.4 and occasionally XP Pro in a virtual machine.
Will likely be adding a PC sometime, and it'll either be running XP Home or Media Center. Now, assuming that this is just going to be a regular machine, is there any advantage/disadvantage to getting the media center edition instead of home? I'm going to get whatever comes with a 'good buy' computer anyways, and thus a Pro edition isn't an option. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?
"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
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Unless you don't want any flexibility in configuring your computer what-so-ever. I don't know if Media Center is based on Home or Pro, but I'm leaning towards Home. I was speaking idiomatically. |
Also, alot of OEM PCs w/MCE come with problems out of the box. Theres a hardware glitch that causes MCE to crash/freeze while you're watching TV/Recorded TV and no one knows a real solution to fix it. Theres a Windows Update that claims to fix this problem but for most people it makes it worse or doesn't fix it at all. My PC came with this problem and I wasn't able to fix it until after reinstalling MCE for the third time and reinstalled the update. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?
Last edited by Jujubee; Mar 7, 2006 at 02:27 PM.
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Anyway, I'm running XP Pro on my main desktop and my laptop. I gave up trying to use Linux as a desktop OS. I found it completely counterproductive and usually spent more time trying to get Linux to do something I needed it to do than I spend worrying about security issues with Windows XP. FELIPE NO |
Double Post: Guest, Cetra, thanks for your insight on MCE, as I've not used it. Sounds like home is the way to go at the same pricepoint. Neither is going to do anything I care about over the other, and if I'm using a mediocre OS (home), it might as well have a few less headaches than the other mediocre OS (MCE). All depends on the sales though. ^^ What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?
"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
Last edited by PUG1911; Mar 7, 2006 at 06:51 PM.
Reason: Automerged double post.
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Jam it back in, in the dark. |
I don't pirate software anymore, hence, not going to do that. The XP Pro I'm using in virtual PC is not a legal copy, but I'll remove it when I get a real PC. I appreciate the thought though.
How ya doing, buddy?
"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
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On my main comp I run Windows XP Pro SP2 Int. My Laptop runs 2000 Pro because anything else would make it explode.
I have copies of the December CTP of Vista, I might have the February CTP but I don't think so. I have Intel's Tiger 10.4.5 also. I plan on testing them as soon as my external decides to work again. I actually have shitloads of valid XP keys, just not for Pro, only Home. I also have valid keys for older versions of Windows too. Might have a 2000 Pro one, have 98SE, and countless ME serials. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
I use Windows 2000 SP4 for the most part. A few months ago I installed Windows XP64 just to see how well it performed on my system (which is supposedly ideally suited for it, with a couple of Opterons on the motherboard). Performance was a little bit slower, but I appreciate the PowerNow! support which can stop my ears from bleeding due to fan noise, unlike in Windows 2000 where I need to use RMClock to get a similar effect and it tends to be unreliable anyway.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
Woo! It's Spring Break! I left my PC at school and am now running Tiger on my 400Mhz Macintosh G4. I can't wait until the Intel version of OS X is stable enough to install on my PC, because I definitely prefer it to Windows (although the Terminal leaves much to be desired).
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
Are you saying Terminal leaves much to be desired compared to Window's command line? If so, what?
Only issue I have with it is that when switching between DOS and Unix command lines I will often mix up commands. It's amazing how poorly ls works in Windows. You can try, and try, and try. ^^ Double Post:
FELIPE NO
"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
Last edited by PUG1911; Mar 9, 2006 at 01:04 AM.
Reason: Automerged double post.
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What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
And I'm not talking about domains and shit, I'm talking about the stuff they don't tell you that's not in Home that's in Pro. Have fun trying to create users other than Administrators or Users, sharing your things over the network with any decent control, or otherwise, administrating your computer decently. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
And any XP doesen't handle these jobs decently to begin with. From what I've heard, the Home and Pro editions are actually just a few registry changes apart, is that true?
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
- SMP support (multi-processor support) - Roaming user profiles - Remote desktop - Access control - Encrypting file system - Offline files and folders - Remote installation service - Windows server domain support - Group policy - Software installation and maintenance - Multi-lingual user interface support This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
Theoretically, in virtue of the fact that Home can use NTFS, shouldn't it have an "encrypting file system"? Also, as a note, group policy in XP affects all users: don't expect to restrict specific users from things with it. (Granted, the policy editor in XP can be very useful for modification purposes alone.) I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
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