No doubt, when MS has a new release of anything, we can expect it to be
buggy (recall that MS is the company that made a reboot fashionable
whenever there was a software problem).



 

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-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of James B. Byrne
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:48 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT Re: Visual Studio 2005

On: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:05 PM, Ray Shahan wrote:


> I just finished reading "Visual Studio 2005 for Dummies", and I must
> admit, I'm thoroughly impressed with the MS view of the world.

Well, I just bought two brand-new Toshiba Satellites for my daughters
each
with MS Vista Home Premium (allegedly pre-installed - what a joke), and
after spending the better part of an hour on each (with considerable
parallel, if manual, processing) both machines were finally ready to do
some work.  No problems mind you, just tedium.

Except... every three minutes or so each machine gives a warning message
that .net has encountered a bounds violation.  Both machines are
exhibiting exactly the same condition and both have been updated to the
very latest hot fixes.  The only software besides that pre-loaded at the
factory that I have added is open-office and Firefox.  Neither of these
need to be running to get this error so I doubt that either has anything
to do with it.  I will look into the matter further when I have time.

Further, from what little I have seen I am not impressed with MS's
recent
conversion to security. In Vista every program that you invoke causes
the
OS  to request that you confirm that you started it yourself before it
will run.  No doubt this feature will prove a great productivity
enhancer
until the user figures out how to turn it off.  You think these people
would have learned from "Clippit", but noooo, let us roll out the same
annoying little aids so beloved by the under 20 set.

My next laptop is going to be a Linux box. I just cannot decide whether
to
go Ubuntu or CentOS. I lean toward CentOS because I prefer a stable core
and I am willing to source and build my own personal apps.  But, Ubuntu
seems to be more in tune with the desires of a desktop user.  We shall
see.


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