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Date: Jul 22, 2008 23:53
In article <1vytl095rf2u3.1tvfnsjqzfmsu$.dlg@ 40tude.net>, Will Spencer did
write:
> Btw I run Vista 64bit sp1 (I originally ran the 32bit version, but
> thought, fuck, it's 2008, time to get with the times). Glad I did move to
> 64bit, it's faster, more secure, and everything works.
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Date: Jul 22, 2008 21:44
Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> How do I know if it's 'local' and free under Xnet's rules for their
> broadband plans?
>
> TIA,
> Jamie Kahn Genet
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Author: Nik CoughlinNik Coughlin
Date: Jul 22, 2008 21:14
"Freesias" Spring-Bulbs.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.07.23.01.47.30@Spring-Bulbs.com...> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:22:57 +1200, Puddle wrote:
>> Freesias wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:14:19 +1200, Puddle wrote:
>>>> I bought a laptop very recently which came with Vista. Vista ran
>>>> fine, it isn't the monster many make it out to be. It was stable, ran
>>>> everything I wanted to run on it etc etc.
>>>
>>> Have you tried playing a HD-DVD film using a monitor that hasn't had
>>> the DRM disabling circuitry put into it?
Admittedly no, as I have neither any films in HD format nor an HD monitor --
like 99.999%% (probably more) of the rest of the population, I would imagine.
>>> Have you tried copying MPEG2 multimedia content from a removable
>>> storage medium to another storage medium?
This made me curious, so now I have tried that, yes. Didn't encounter any
difficulties.
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Author: PuddlePuddle
Date: Jul 22, 2008 20:16
Freesias wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:22:57 +1200, Puddle wrote:
>
>> Freesias wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:14:19 +1200, Puddle wrote:
>>>
>>>> I bought a laptop very recently which came with Vista. Vista ran
>>>> fine, it isn't the monster many make it out to be. It was stable, ran
>>>> everything I wanted to run on it etc etc.
>>> Have you tried playing a HD-DVD film using a monitor that hasn't had
>>> the DRM disabling circuitry put into it?
>>>
>>> Have you tried copying MPEG2 multimedia content from a removable
>>> storage medium to another storage medium?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> As I said
>>
>> "ran everything __I__ wanted to run" ...
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Author: impossibleimpossible
Date: Jul 22, 2008 18:57
"Freesias" Spring-Bulbs.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.07.23.01.47.30@Spring-Bulbs.com...> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:22:57 +1200, Puddle wrote:
>
>> Freesias wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:14:19 +1200, Puddle wrote:
>>>
>>>> I bought a laptop very recently which came with Vista. Vista ran
>>>> fine, it isn't the monster many make it out to be. It was stable, ran
>>>> everything I wanted to run on it etc etc.
>>>
>>> Have you tried playing a HD-DVD film using a monitor that hasn't had
>>> the DRM disabling circuitry put into it?
>>>
>>> Have you tried copying MPEG2 multimedia content from a removable
>>> storage medium to another storage medium?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> As I said ...
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Author: thingythingy
Date: Jul 22, 2008 18:46
Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> How do I know if it's 'local' and free under Xnet's rules for their
> broadband plans?
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> TIA,
> Jamie Kahn Genet
>
netbios noise if you are lucky...
regards
Thing
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Author: PuddlePuddle
Date: Jul 22, 2008 17:22
Freesias wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:14:19 +1200, Puddle wrote:
>
>> I bought a laptop very recently which came with Vista. Vista ran fine,
>> it isn't the monster many make it out to be. It was stable, ran
>> everything I wanted to run on it etc etc.
>
> Have you tried playing a HD-DVD film using a monitor that hasn't had the
> DRM disabling circuitry put into it?
>
> Have you tried copying MPEG2 multimedia content from a removable storage
> medium to another storage medium?
>
>
As I said
"ran everything __I__ wanted to run"
Just because some people have issues doesn't mean everyone does.
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Date: Jul 22, 2008 14:06
> How do I know if it's 'local' and free under Xnet's rules for their
> broadband plans?
>
> TIA,
> Jamie Kahn Genet
Yes, traffic from ftp.wicks.co.nz mirror server is counted as local
(free) to xnet customers if that is the question.
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Author: SquiggleSquiggle
Date: Jul 22, 2008 13:41
Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> How do I know if it's 'local' and free under Xnet's rules for their
> broadband plans?
>
> TIA,
> Jamie Kahn Genet
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Author: impossibleimpossible
Date: Jul 22, 2008 10:31
I resisted the Vista upgrade hype for a long time. In part, this was sheer
instinct, because I've seen too many Microsoft os releases that never come
right until the first Service Pack, and I was determined to wait at least
that long to see how Vista performed. But in part, too, I was simply
unimpressed by the changes Microsoft had made moving from XP to Vista. Was
it really worth the money to upgrade? Like a lot of people, I really
couldn't see the value.
But then most of the objections to Vista that I found myself reading -- here
and elsewhere -- seemed to revolve around a couple of notions that simply
didn't ring true to me:
(1) Vista's hardware requirements are too great. Ok, maybe, but to each
their own. If all you ever want to do with your pc is stuff that can be
handled by a lightly endowed machine running Win9x or some...
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