Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-21 Thread Eric Shubert
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:06 -0700, Joe Fleming wrote: I don't know that they are specifically targeting that market. I mean, most of the netbooks run vista already. Run over the Fry's if you don't believe me. all of their netbooks on display are running vista. It was

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-17 Thread Stephen
The main difference is the streamlineing vista codebase for netbook compatability. And overall optimization on the backend. There is more but that I know for sure On 1/16/09, Joe Fleming j...@selectitaly.com wrote: I'm really curious what all the fuss over windows 7 is all about. I mean, it's

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Joe Fleming
I'm really curious what all the fuss over windows 7 is all about. I mean, it's just vista with a few changes, and from what I can tell those changes are pretty small. I always think it's funny seeing sites talk about how bad vista is and how much better 7 is, considering it's really nothing

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Josh Coffman
From what I hear, and this is from .Net devs who are running win7, its described as Vista without the crap. It performs nearly as fast as WinXP and with far lighter hardware requirements than Vista. (which isn't hard) From the screenshots I've seen, it has a lighter look and feel that Vista, but

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread keith smith
:) Keith Smith --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Josh Coffman joshcoff...@gmail.com wrote: From: Josh Coffman joshcoff...@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT: Redmond To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 9:59 AM From what I hear

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Joe Fleming
...@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT: Redmond To: "Main PLUG discussion list" plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 9:59 AM From what I hear, and this is from .Net devs who are running win7, its described as "Vista without the crap"

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Josh Coffman
:) Keith Smith http://www.netcodeman.com/ --- On *Fri, 1/16/09, Josh Coffman joshcoff...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Josh Coffman joshcoff...@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT: Redmond To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 9

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Alan Dayley
be nice to have an O/S that requires less and is more efficient. Maybe we can recycle some old hardware :) Keith Smith --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Josh Coffman joshcoff...@gmail.com wrote: From: Josh Coffman joshcoff...@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT: Redmond To: Main PLUG

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:06 -0700, Joe Fleming wrote: I don't know that they are specifically targeting that market. I mean, most of the netbooks run vista already. Run over the Fry's if you don't believe me. all of their netbooks on display are running vista. It was enough to make me not

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:24 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: My 10-month-ish old Eee PC 701 is running the Ubuntu Eee distribution with Firefox, OpenOffice.org suite and many other apps, and my data on the 4GB storage it came with. 10GB just for the OS (no office suite, etc.) seems really, REALLY

RE: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Bob Elzer
-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Joe Fleming Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:07 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT: Redmond I don't know that they are specifically targeting that market. I mean, most of the netbooks run vista already. Run over the Fry's if you don't

RE: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Lisa Kachold
- http://uat.edu Second Saturday of Each Month Noon - 3PM From: bob.el...@gmail.com To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: RE: OT: Redmond Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:04:22 -0700 And lets not forget about DRM and the logs that Vista/Win7 will be keeping. I can't wait for DRM

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
://hackfest.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS - http://uat.edu Second Saturday of Each Month Noon - 3PM From: bob.el...@gmail.com To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: RE: OT: Redmond Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:04:22 -0700 And lets not forget about DRM and the logs

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:24 -0700, Craig White wrote: FWIW - on the Windows partition...I removed the trial version of Microsoft Office, the included Microsoft Works, the addiction version of MacAfee, installed HP Web JetDirect Admin, OOo 3.0, AVG Free, iTunes and it's using 10 Gb...not that

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread keith smith
then. Keith Smith --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: From: Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com Subject: Re: OT: Redmond To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 6:25 PM On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:24 -0700, Craig

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:55 -0800, keith smith wrote: I've got a Fedora 5 box that is almost 2 years old. I us it for LAMP dev and I have tons of data and web stuff on it and it is at 4.9G. I suspect the full install was less than 2G. 9 years ago I bout 2 20G drives and thought I had

RE: OT: Redmond

2009-01-14 Thread Lisa Kachold
://wiki.obnosis.com | http://hackfest.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS - http://uat.edu Second Saturday of Each Month Noon - 3PM Subject: Re: OT: Redmond From: craigwh...@azapple.com To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:07:58 -0700 On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 21:42

RE: OT: Redmond

2009-01-14 Thread Bob Elzer
-Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Charles Jones Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:52 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT: Redmond James Finstrom wrote: I like to imagine

OT: Redmond

2009-01-13 Thread James Finstrom
I like to imagine it is because I am important or that its because I went to church with many Microsoft cube gnomes when I lived in Washington but none of these things are true simply because I am on a Microsoft Spam list I got an invitation and license to download and play with Windows 7 beta. So

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-13 Thread Charles Jones
James Finstrom wrote: I like to imagine it is because I am important or that its because I went to church with many Microsoft cube gnomes when I lived in Washington but none of these things are true simply because I am on a Microsoft Spam list I got an invitation and license to download and