[QCLUG] Vista Wow Experience

[Leif Theden]

It seems like we are on the dawn of botnet becoming self-aware.

anyway, bravo on the vista performance.  my that os RIP.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Noah Norris <preludelinux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Was helping my friend update his computer he had 512 MB ram and a 160GB hard
> drive. let me just say here that he was not having any Wow factor.
>
> So i had him order some more memory (4GB) and hard drive (500GB) and part of
> the deal was to get Ubuntu 8.10 installed on the 160 GB hard drive.
> lets just say that after i installed the memory vand drive vista would no
> longer boot off the main drive ....  maybe to much hardware has changed or
> its
> a new feature .... (the computer was a 3 Ghz pentuim D)
>
> anyway i went about doing a full install of vista from his disks and after
> it was done after like 8 hours for updates and reboots and
> some apps installed he was ready to go. after the system came up i had this
> feeling that the OS felt like something i removed from most windows
> computers coming from dell gateway hp etc etc ( adware crapware buy this
> crap ... ) except it was integrated into vista everything i clicked on
> i was presented with upgrade windows and click here to buy windows software
> ..... um  so this is windows adware addition um vista  on many if not
> all the screens showing computer infomation had these nice lil features ,
> yes this is home basic but ads inside my OS .... besides installing vista
> security products where also installed taking up extra time.
>
> After all that time had past i did say 8 hours but also an entire night for
> windows to install sp1 cough cough i ventured to install linux ....
> finally i could relax install and update so i did a standerd install of
> ubuntu 8.10 and all update and additional software installed (codecs etc)
> and i looked at the time an noticed like an hour and 30 mintues went by
> ...... after i brought my friends pc back to his house under linux i pluged
> in his epson all in one printer and noticed a pop-up in the right hand
> corner saying it was detected and automaticly configured for use ..... ( in
> windows vista it did require a driver / software download) so under linux a
> min after turning on his printer/scanner he was able to print and scan
> windows took alot longer about 10 mins and a reboot.  ( this just shows if
> linux get more oem support and device drivers the kind of things we may see)
>
> during this exercise i also had to copy large amount of files of and hope he
> didnt get hit with the infamous vista copy bug, copying files in vista is
> dog slow.
> i had to let this run all night with the vista download (which probley
> downgraded his connectio to the network ) updates which the next day i re
> copied because windows
> didnt copy all the files yet gave me an error ... maybe sp1 fixed that ....
> so after all the updates i copied again.  ( talk about a wow expience the
> only cool thing was if
> i was charging , god all the extra hours.)
>
> i think i finaly understood lately as what Wow means on windows. i have
> fixed many virus infested computers and with that new worm hitting 9
> million+ boxes (windows boxes
> only apply but WHY THE F**K DOES all the reporting agency never say it only
> effects WINDOWS or WINDOWS VIRUS , nice worm too it infects from  that was
> patched
> in october but also now attemps brute force dictonary based attack on admin
> accounts ( which normaly dont have passwords on most home pcs .. ) anyway it
> sickends me that
> these virus outbreaks are not labled WINDOWS Only Virus right in the head
> line in the article. The above worm is also cited to might be connected to
> becoming a botnet
> which might actually wake some people up i mean 9 million computers could do
> some interesting damage.
>
> Wow means Worms on Windows <<<
>
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