Posts Tagged ‘vista’

Good bye Vista :)

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

My new PC is up and running, from an s939 3800+ I changed to an Am2 5600+X2 with DDR2-800 2GB ram, because Vista was slow as hell and my Virtualbox vms were terrible. After some painful assembly Vista DID boot up fine (major wow! – not that my Linux boxes haven’t done that for ages though), just that it was the same sluggish crap as before. No kidding. No aero, no candy, just the pure raw grey unskinned native look, and yet I had to wait for background to be redrawn on menu items and see the loadbar go around seven to nine times in the initial boot screen.

In the end I could not care less, since my licence died (thanks Microsoft, for coming up with the whole oem drm activation idea) and Vista gave me three days to buy another one. Will I buy one? You bet I won’t.

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Vista vs TortoiseCVS

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Installed TortoiseCvs 1.10.1 RC1, should work with Vista. Does not. Period. Context menus take at least a minute to show up (no kidding), application launch and login slowed down, overlay icons are missing.

As soon as I can get rid of this pc I’ll build a powerhouse and move everything to VMs. How I’ll transfer this fucked up oem Vista, have no clue.

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More vista woes

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

I could not get an original English Vista, so had to settle with a localized version. Now, the fun begins: create shortcut from Administrative tools (Felügyeleti eszközök in Hungarian) to the desktop (creating a shortcut is fine, dragging (though one can’t drag these items out from the admin tools box) requires administrator rights??!!), for example “Services”. It was “Szolgáltatások”, now it is reverted back to “Services”. Touch the file, it is localized again. More fun: create a shortcut to cmd.exe, call it “Services“, and it is localized to “Szolgáltatások”. WTF? Translation overlays? Ended up with Services_, sheesh.

Another thing. Writing a dvd with a Nero oem at freakin’ 4x speed (yeah, 4x). Trying to open the control panel: it took a nifty 10 seconds to show that – why on earth are these icons not cached? It’s not like Doom 5′s icons, it’s the control panel…

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Vista backup – restore only for me

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Nada, no way, no thanks. Bought this shiny vista, thought of being smart and installing backup (you know, for the system state; otherwise I can copy shit); after the Nth validation (not kidding) I installed the ntbackup utility and now I can RESTORE FILES. For fuck’s sake, I know Home Basic edition trimmed down on backup, but this is insane. Okay, I can export the registry and copy files by hand, but Vista is giving me more headaches than fun…

Edit: have found the automated backup in Vista home, hurray! Now I just have to figure out if this savefile can later be used in the Vista Pro (landscapes, anyone?).

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Installing Apache on Vista Home Basic

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Vista is getting flaky, driving me nuts… might be back to Linux sooner than I thought? Anyway… Vista Home does not like developers, but with some work, one can install Apache.

  1. download Apache msi installer :)
  2. run cmd.exe as administrator (right click), then run msconfig
  3. go to tools, run the “Disable UAC” script (without that you would get “(OS )Access Denied” error). reboot.
  4. install Apache from a fake administrator account (the real one is buried deeply in VHB; don’t bother to enable it, it will just hurt you badly); fill in the forms, make all stuff go to C:\APACHE, give it port 80 and let the service run for all users.
  5. the Apache service should have been created (if not, do “http.exe -k install” from admin cmd)
  6. delete Apache control tool from Startup (inside start menu) – to get rid of the “Error” nag box.
  7. do the msconfig trick, but enable uac this time. Reboot.

In case I haven’t mentioned Vista started to show popups for everything admin related, no matter which user I use (yes, I do have admin rights enabled). MS will have to try harder to make people believe this is what they need…

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