Was helping my friend update his computer he had 512 MB ram and a 160GB har=
d drive. let me just say here that he was not having any Wow factor.<br><br=
>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.<br>
lets just say that after i installed the memory vand drive vista would no l=
onger boot off the main drive .... maybe to much hardware has changed=
or its <br>a new feature .... (the computer was a 3 Ghz pentuim D)<br><br>=
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 <br>
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<br>com=
puters coming from dell gateway hp etc etc ( adware crapware buy this crap =
... ) except it was integrated into vista everything i clicked on<br>
i was presented with upgrade windows and click here to buy windows software=
..... um so this is windows adware addition um vista on many i=
f not<br>all the screens showing computer infomation had these nice lil fea=
tures , yes this is home basic but ads inside my OS .... besides installing=
vista <br>
security products where also installed taking up extra time.<br><br>After a=
ll that time had past i did say 8 hours but also an entire night for window=
s to install sp1 cough cough i ventured to install linux .... <br>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)<br>
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<br=
>in his epson all in one printer and noticed a pop-up in the right hand cor=
ner saying it was detected and automaticly configured for use ..... ( in<br=
>
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<br>=
windows took alot longer about 10 mins and a reboot. ( this just show=
s if linux get more oem support and device drivers the kind of things we ma=
y see)<br>
<br>during this exercise i also had to copy large amount of files of and ho=
pe he didnt get hit with the infamous vista copy bug, copying files in vist=
a is dog slow. <br>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<br>
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 <br>i was charging , god all the extra hours.) =
<br>
<br>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 milli=
on+ boxes (windows boxes<br>only apply but WHY THE F**K DOES all the report=
ing agency never say it only effects WINDOWS or WINDOWS VIRUS , nice worm t=
oo it infects from that was patched<br>
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<br>these virus outbreaks are not labled WINDOWS Only Vi=
rus right in the head line in the article. The above worm is also cited to =
might be connected to becoming a botnet <br>
which might actually wake some people up i mean 9 million computers could d=
o some interesting damage.<br><br>Wow means Worms on Windows <<< <=
br><br>