The Really Long Thread

[Brad]

Woot, I can't wait to go home so I can fiddle with it more.

 

[SPeedY_B]

But then you don't get Glass even on machines that have the hardware to support it.

Meh. Fancy stuff is overrated. It's what functionality that O/S can offer that will enable me to decide if I want to use it.

 

[NetRyder]

Meh. Fancy stuff is overrated. It's what functionality that O/S can offer that will enable me to decide if I want to use it.

I probably used the term Glass a little loosely. I didn't intend for it to mean just the translucent window borders effect itself. I was running Vista for 7 months with the "basic" UI on a laptop with a 16MB Radeon 7500, so I'm not in the least bit bothered by lack of "teh fanciness."

Maybe I should have referred to the Desktop Window Manager instead. The DWM offloads a lot of work to the GPU, leaving the CPU free to do more useful work. If you run Vista in a virtual-machine, none of it is hardware-accelerated, so there's a performance hit over and above the the already noticeable penalty associated with running it in a VM.

Basically, I'm just saying that running Vista in a VM won't be a very good indicator of what it's supposed to actually feel like on your machine.

 

[Henyman]

played with it for a bit till it bluescreened

 

[SPeedY_B]

Aren't sucky speeds always the case with VM's?

 

[Grandmaster]

Not a bad first game to the World Cup. The real question: can anyone beat Brazil?

 

[Henyman]

football sucks

 

[SPeedY_B]

Not a bad first game to the World Cup. The real question: can anyone beat Brazil?

Apparently not, Brazil are set to win against Italy in the final.... Apparently

 

[NetRyder]

Aren't sucky speeds always the case with VM's?

Exactly.

 

[kcnychief]

I have VISTA/XP/SERVER2K3 all running in VM's, they run quite nicely. You probably aren't allocating enough RAM, default levels don't cut it IMO.

 

[rushm001]

football sucks

So what were you doing when England were playing?

 

[Evil Marge]

So what were you doing when England were playing?

I sat outside making the most of the sun cause England games are usually dull and apparently it was but hubby stayed in to watch it.We won £50 cause he bet on a score of 1-0 to us.....oh yes oh yes :laugh: :laugh:

 

[xsivforce]

I sat outside making the most of the sun cause England games are usually dull and apparently it was but hubby stayed in to watch it.We won £50 cause he bet on a score of 1-0 to us.....oh yes oh yes :laugh: :laugh:

*rubs up against marge*

 

[Evil Marge]

*rubs up against marge*

Oooh rub rub :cheeky:

 

[madmatt]

*eats a cookie*

 

[X-Istence]

*eats a cookie*

That was the 9000th reply to this thread.

 

[gonaads]

Re: The Really Really Looong Thread

9001, you be 9002

 

[SPeedY_B]

Re: The Really Really Looong Thread

Not long until it's back up to original size

 

[Henyman]

Re: The Really Really Looong Thread

i was watching futurama dvd while football was on

 

[rushm001]

Re: The Really Really Looong Thread

Oh dear! :s