You're lucky you got the Vista Home Edition. My wife, who's the computer engineer (I'm an economics major) ... simply would not touch Linux even with a pole much to my distress. So when I bought a HP Pavillion machine as a replacement to our 3 year old pc (which she assembled but too lazy to fix/upgrade) last year ... she forbade me to install linux and just leave the pre-installed Windows Vista Starter Edition. ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Do you know whats more irritating for me using that version of Vista? It only allows you to run 3 application at the same time. So let's put this in perspective ... so I have Yahoo Messenger running, then I have J running, then I run Word to type something ... then I open up iTunes to listen to some music while mucking around. Guess what? You can't open iTunes anymore because you already got 3 application running. <much hair pulling at this point> So in the end, I just upgraded it to Vista Business edition. I really wish I can format it and just put gOS or Ubuntu in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Björn Helgason Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:22 PM To: Chat forum Subject: [Jchat] Vista at the top and the beginning of the end I bought a very cheap laptop recently and with it I got Vista even if I did not want any M$ product. Anyway then I decided to keep Vista to try it out. Yesterday I was going to install a favorite game Sherlock I have used off and on over the years. It is very good for kids to learn about einsteins puzzle. It is a Dos program and I have installed it in various flavors of Windows. Not now in Vista. It seems that Vista has abandoned Dos. The recommendation I got was to install M$ Virtual Machine and start Dos there. I retrieved M$ Virtual Machine only to discover it is not supported in the Vista Home Edition. I then looked for a new copy of Sherlock but for free was only a copy that needed to be paid for. Then I discovered a free program called http://demonews.com/downloadget.php?id=1220&file=9&evp=724e590e7277748b7c21aa3bd609f6f2 It is actually quite good. It is interesting that Vista does not support Dos anymore. I guess a lot of programs will have problem running under Vista. The majority of all Windows programs are really Dos programs. I guess this fact will move a lot of people over to Linux. -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Þerneyjarsund 23, Box 127 801 Grímsnes ,t-póst: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: gosiminn, gsm: +3546985532 Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) `. )----' (")_(")
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