Author Topic: VENT! (Read 36476 times)

pmp6nl · « **Reply #60 on:** October 07, 2009, 03:16:03 PM »

My internet is suuppperrrrr slow. I am downloading a file at 2kb/sec... this is terrible. Web pages are even timing out

Plantains · « **Reply #61 on:** October 07, 2009, 04:45:39 PM »

Ew what is ur interwebs stats?

pmp6nl · « **Reply #62 on:** October 07, 2009, 08:07:49 PM »

Quote from: Guardrail on October 07, 2009, 04:45:39 PM

Ew what is ur interwebs stats?

It appears to have been a specific wireless router on campus... unfortunately it was the one that serves my office.

:BangHead:

pmp6nl · « **Reply #63 on:** October 28, 2009, 01:37:01 AM »

My computer running like crap and me feelin like crap! GRRR

Meest · « **Reply #64 on:** October 30, 2009, 12:59:23 PM »

Just switched to Windows 7 on the gaming machine. Quite an improvement. Seems as nice and compatable as XP, without the junk of vista.

Sal Atticum · « **Reply #65 on:** October 30, 2009, 02:06:36 PM »

Quote from: Meest on October 30, 2009, 12:59:23 PM

Just switched to Windows 7 on the gaming machine. Quite an improvement. Seems as nice and compatable as XP, without the junk of vista.

You forgot "Rrrrrrrrraaaaaawwwww! I'm mad!"

Plantains · « **Reply #66 on:** October 30, 2009, 02:40:50 PM »

OH SERIOUS! How is it? I've heard it was nice... I've hesitated upgrading until it has a mega fail or something. But I can't wait to get it off XP and onto 7.

Were you able to "upgrade" or did you have to do a fresh install? I heard going from XP to 7 you'll need to transfer anything you want to keep onto another HD and do a fresh install and then move the data files back?

Sal Atticum · « **Reply #67 on:** October 30, 2009, 04:06:42 PM »

I was going to do that on my office computer, but I don't think it meets the requirements (and I definitely don't want to spring for more RAM).

Meest · « **Reply #68 on:** November 02, 2009, 08:33:46 AM »

Quote from: Guardrail on October 30, 2009, 02:40:50 PM

OH SERIOUS! How is it? I've heard it was nice... I've hesitated upgrading until it has a mega fail or something. But I can't wait to get it off XP and onto 7.

Were you able to "upgrade" or did you have to do a fresh install? I heard going from XP to 7 you'll need to transfer anything you want to keep onto another HD and do a fresh install and then move the data files back?

Well I guess yes you would if your hard drive is partitioned into one giant single disc... I myself have multiple hard drives and backups as I don't like losing information

No you have to do a fresh install. NEVER do an upgrade. Read about all the issues doing the upgrade from vista to 7 and you'll see that also... and why would you want to do that anyway? a fresh load is almost always better for file structure and speed in general.

Sal, i was running windows 7 on an athlon 2500 (Single core 1.8ghz) with 512 ram. Ran OK, but a gig of ram is much better... and ram is cheap anyway. Only computer i have thats less than 2 gigs of ram is my old P3 coppermine that will only handle 512mb...

Sal Atticum · « **Reply #69 on:** November 02, 2009, 09:29:25 AM »

Meh. I have little enough money at the moment that I'm not going to waste it on RAM when I don't actually need to upgrade.

Plantains · « **Reply #70 on:** November 02, 2009, 10:01:46 AM »

When I mentioned upgrade I meant freshing it.

Except hen I said "upgrade" in relation to freshing it.

But yes yes and yes. Which version did you get that runs well on a gigglebyte?

pmp6nl · « **Reply #71 on:** November 02, 2009, 10:14:32 PM »

I hope you guys are getting the $29.99 student version!

Plantains · « **Reply #72 on:** November 03, 2009, 10:59:17 AM »

WOW. they did this for office 2007 but I suspected it was only because they would be coming out with office 10 and windows 7. Is this only available for home premium?

Edit: This is only for home but with 7 I can't think of a good reason to get anything more than that? Anyone? DOuble EDIT! Its also for 7 professional.

Also... this is only for upgrade?

pmp6nl · « **Reply #73 on:** November 03, 2009, 03:40:49 PM »

Its for both home and professional.. for professional they have a semi hidden link at the bottom.

Its for upgrade or clean install... I did a clean install and it worked like a charm.

Sal Atticum · « **Reply #74 on:** November 03, 2009, 06:44:20 PM »

Microsoft should be hyping up this student version if they really want to make an impact.

Of course maybe they figure all the students who want Windows 7 will just torrent it.

pmp6nl · « **Reply #75 on:** November 03, 2009, 07:32:59 PM »

Quote from: Sal Atticum on November 03, 2009, 06:44:20 PM

Microsoft should be hyping up this student version if they really want to make an impact.

Of course maybe they figure all the students who want Windows 7 will just torrent it.

Yea, it is very odd that they arent. There is very little mention of it anywhere. Hummm

Vent: too much thesis work for tonight

Plantains · « **Reply #76 on:** November 04, 2009, 12:07:57 AM »

they did make a big to do about selling office 07 at the discounted price. I suspect they'll hype it once things are further along. I doubt they want all sorts of college kids (read as: potential morons) running their software before the first updates and drivers hit the shelves. cuz then their stuffs won't work.

Meest · « **Reply #77 on:** November 04, 2009, 10:38:58 AM »

Quote from: pmp6nl on November 03, 2009, 07:32:59 PM

Quote from: Sal Atticum on November 03, 2009, 06:44:20 PM
Microsoft should be hyping up this student version if they really want to make an impact.

Of course maybe they figure all the students who want Windows 7 will just torrent it.

Yea, it is very odd that they arent. There is very little mention of it anywhere. Hummm

Vent: too much thesis work for tonight

Student vesion was all over my tech sites, So i guess it was widley known as all my friends have bought it through there. I bought two copies as I have two separate school e-mail accounts that qualified. Get the pro version. no reason to get the home when you can get pro for the same price.

Was running whatever the beta was?? Pro or ultimate on a gig of ram.

Its been working great for me for the last 2 weeks or so.

Just got my clarkconnect box up yesterday, and holy hell whoever said Mac's just work obviously never had to deal with sharing a network printer connected to a linux box running a Cups server...

Windows I just go to the samba share, double click on the thing and it tells me to install drivers when i choose from the drop down menu.

My Girlfriends mac I have to manually enter the IP, then the que information... Never had to even do that in my ubuntu box... Took me 20 minutes of googling to make the damn printer work... Quite sad.

pmp6nl · « **Reply #78 on:** November 17, 2009, 12:21:27 AM »

Very tired, but lots to do...

Sal Atticum · « **Reply #79 on:** December 01, 2009, 08:45:44 PM »

This has been a heck of a long and horrible day.