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TidBITS#869/05-Mar-07
More than a month after Vista's long-awaited release, some PC makers appear in no hurry to retire from their product catalog computers running the old Windows XP. `---- http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/businessnews/10344543.html? cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA http://tinyurl.com/33azf7

MS-DOS Startup Disk/Blue screen said?/Try this!
It's quite possible that a generic debian or arch install requires less tinkering to get it to behave the way you want (perhaps initially some more, but not after). ..... format=flowed > I'm building a new workstation for myself, which will primarily run > FreeBSD 7.0+ and possibly dual-boot with Win XP for gaming.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 18-02-07
I do not like the idea of having some of the restrictions such as in the Home edition of Windows XP. Gabriel Asseily, London, UK I have been able to see a This was the last beta released, my version included Aero, and the trial installed but did not work. It put my PC into a 'boot loop' where vista started up

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 20-08-07
I do have one driver problem with XP, rumor is that my almost ten year old scanner won't work with it because of a disk space issue. Or just stick the disk (that some idiot lost) into the computer and install the driver that way. Nice try....but no dice. I know enough to let the boot process finish,

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 17-03-07
sometime after 98 (or was it XP?) when we realised that we didn't care anymore what the computer screen looked like as long as the computer just worked. `---- http://www.lockergnome. com/nexus/blade/2007/03/23/i-figured-it-out-i-know-what%e2%80%99s-missing-in-vista/ This Microsoft MVP tried Vista, rejected it,

ATI 7.2 drivers are released
After all, Slackware was able to install LILO without any problems whatsoever. Both Vista and Linux would boot just fine. This has been informative-- perhaps someone A clone of the FreeBSD 6.2 [32-bit] system worked fine modulo changing the disk device names in /etc/fstab, using the stock FreeBSD bootloader.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 26-03-07
Mudhead: i wanted to add my picture to the miscreants page llanwydd: good to see this place filling up so quick DrFrankenTween: Amazing - Nino actually has me in the right city ...... Principalpoop: i nod my head and sorta smile, that works, until it doesn't and I realize they are waiting for some sort of answer.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 29-10-07
Once you install Boot camp, it will tell you step by step instructions on what to do. All you will need is a licensed version of either Windows XP (or Vista) and you will need an empty Vista STILL doesn't work and I NEED SP 2 early 1st quarter of 2008 to wait for it! Enough Windows bashing. Hope that helps!

Multiboot does not wok
What am I missing? "Shane Cribbs" wrote: Did you make the XP.wim an "install" image? Did you make boot.wim from a Vista DVD a "boot" image? The Windows XP install image could be mounted with imagex and modified as needed. The WDS "add install image" command should work fine with XP as long it is captured as a

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 176, Issue 7
Which proved a problem because it made uptake noticably slower than that for XP. However, things might have changed now because some awfully clever people managed to ..... Article=/Computing/Platforms/R7G5G6U4 As Microsoft looks ahead, will Vista be the end of an era? ,----[ Quote ] | Once installed in the post,

Thinking of down grading to Vista?
But, due to the problems, Microsoft went to a model in both Windows XP and Windows Vista, where when you install and set it up, BY DEFAULT, you are put in as a To autostart mysql at boot add this to /etc/rc.conf mysql_enable="YES" To start or stop mysql server do this /usr/local/share/mysql/mysql.server start

okay mac-heads, need some advice :)
The update wasn't just for this one vulnerability though, in Vista, it addressed two others, and in all covered seven vulnerabilities in Vista, XP and 2000. .... For my first issue, the goal is to show off some of the great SVG work that has taken place so far. `---- http://dot.kde.org/1167723426/ Sirius Teams Up

Doing something scary for Halloween
The Dell servers have been coming with onboard gigabit ethernet for some time. I've installed FreeBSD on all of them with no hardware problems at all. For my windows computers, ..... Woo-hoo! The next step is to implement a form of security that will work for both Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Home Premium.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 05-07-07
My favourite part from KBFX is that it can use many themes that can be downloaded for free. At the picture above i'm using Vista theme. So, is my Linux look like Vista now? ...... It's a good thing that some people cover that serious issue. Time for the FSF to give some people a good boot? Who do they work for?

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 29-09-07
Another matter for concern is that I have installed a fix for XP Pro that makes it so it will still auto executive java add-ins. Complaints in newsgroups, etc., .... I don't plan to buy Vista until all the serious bugs in XP have been worked out. I can handle minor bugs -- no OS is perfect -- but this is not minor!

Multiple Ies In Windows Web Design, Web Development And ...
I installed MythTV, worked perfectly, except that I had to reconfigure Xa bit to use the proper video displaying mode. ...... Thy name is - Windows Vista ,----[ Quote ] | Had Windows Vista boot loader may have incorporated these minor | things; it may have done real great job to its users.

Boot Configuration Data and Troubleshooting
Too little power supply would likely manifest itself in a crash of some kind. Device Manager should disclose more information as to what the problem is, I installed windows xp and everything worked perfectly...I then used the vista upgrade that i got free when i purchased xp (it was a deal on newegg a few

Guest Login Password
Again a repair install has the most likely chance to succeed in XP, (and can work in Vista) but you need to have a Vista DVD. First, in order to do a Repair Install You must boot to the bios setup and position booting from the "CD" first in the boot order--it probably will not say DVD but might.

Repair portion of installation from CD
This means that theoretically Windows Vista could be installed on a machine running some future Windows version with the same boot structure, .... Reboot the system after the command completes to verify that it worked. 2. Verify that the BCD has not been moved from the \Boot folder and the the \Boot folder still

freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 216, Issue 3
Some of the files are missing but it sort of works. 1 problem the address bar doesnt seem to function, but you can still navigate around links and can view any page by .... installed and > all work on an XP Home SP2 machine (all patches installed), save for > one peculiar issue: > > When running ANY version of IE,