On Mar 17, 5:16 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
> Given that I teach at a university it was inevitable. One of my
> students bought a new laptop and due to the monopolistic practices
> of Microsoft had no option to get XP and ended up with Vista.
>
> Well to make a long, and ugly, story short I was able to beat Vista
> into submission and have posted the steps in Morgan's Library under
> Microsoft Vista Enterprise and Oracle.http://www.psoug.org/reference/vista.html
>
> For those not wishing to go there here is what I discovered on a
> brand new IBM ThinkPad T60 with 2GB RAM.
>
> 1. It is glacially slow
> 2. There are more dialog boxes then grains of sand on the beach
> 3. It isn't 1/10th the operating system Apple had two years ago
> 4. It eats CPU like a starving hyena eats mice?
> 5. Given the choice between using Vista with Oracle or getting
> a papercut I'd take the papercut.
>
> But for those similarly victimized by their hardware vendor ...
> it is posted, it works, and I do not know the implications with
> respect to security, stability, scalability, or anything else.
>
> Did I mention it is glacially slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww?
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damor..._at_x.washington.edu
> (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org
I've been wondering when O. on Vista might be addressed, beyond "it's
not certified". Has anyone tried installing VMWare on a Vista box,
then running O. on a Linux virtual machine?
Received on Sun Mar 18 2007 - 08:09:31 CDT
