Yesterday I installed Windows 7 beta on my home laptop overwriting the old Vista. The new Windows 7 task bar is nice, but other than that, I don’t perceive much ground breaking improvements over Vista. Perhaps deep down it consumes less resources, maybe.
One thing that annoyed me was the slow file open time. It was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Vista’
24 Jan
Windows 7 beta
27 Jan
Cross-OS pain
I tried to move a large file (larger than 4.7GB) from Mac OS to Vista. It was so painful that I just gave up.
Attempt: Burn file to a dual-layer DVD.
Problem: My MacBook only has a single-layer DVD burner.
Attempt: Mount a NTFS-formatted USB drive to Mac and copy the file directly.
Problem: Mac OS cannot write [...]
24 Dec
PHP CLI crashes on Vista
I had XAMPP 1.6.4 with PHP 5.2.4 on my Vista machine. Every time I ran PHP in command line (CLI) it crashed miserably, though after completing the task at hand. I thought Vista’s User Access Control (UAC) was the culprit, but turning it off did zilch to fix the problem.
Turned out the real [...]
