Vista - Who's downloaded it?

[SPORK]

Hullo all. Seeing as Vista's been available for download for a while, surely some of you have downloaded it. Now, being on dialup, it's pretty much impossible for me to get hold of it, sadly, as I'm rather interested in giving it a go. Does anyone that's downloaded it want to put it on a disc and send it to me, for a modest ($5-10) fee? I'm open to negotiation, however.

Cheers!

[James Deuce]

Check it out now!

[SPORK]

Check it out now!

Elaborate, please? I'm confused :/

[MattRSK]

I could be tempted to download it for you.

[MattRSK]

I could send it to you via email! :p

[SPORK]

Tempt yourself a bit more to send it by regular post and you get money goodness. :)

[MattRSK]

Just PM me your address mate, depending on how long the download takes you should have it friday!. You want 32bit or 64bit.

[MattRSK]

Oh and I don't want your stinking money!

[SPORK]

PM Sent :)

[Wasp]

we've set up a machine at work that everyone can go and have a play on imagine a bunch of tech and sofware developers standing around one comp discussing it...

still, better to learn it now than when a customer comes in the door with it.

[jeremysprite]

I downloaded it back when it was in longhorn beta. It completely deadified a 10gb hard drive, the things a paperweight now.
Downloaded another version, used it as normal OS for quite a while. Nothing special.

[James Deuce]

Calls himself "Soul Bruddah" and is completely unaware of Fat Boy Slim. Sad.

[Cajun]

rc2 is being install as i type this on the desktop, on a seprate 20gb hdd. to have a we looky
last time i looked at it was still called long horn

[dawnrazor]

one word ------------- LEOPARD

[enigma51]

I have a os tiger dvd if you want a real operating system!

[saul]

Calls himself "Soul Bruddah" and is completely unaware of Fat Boy Slim. Sad.


lol :chase:

[James Deuce]

Right about now.

[Cajun]

hmmmmmmm crashed once. machine is not the fastest thing amd 2800+ 512 ddr400, 128 ati vid card.

And thing is slow as a bloody dog, loading anything.

[scracha]

hmmmmmmm crashed once. machine is not the fastest thing amd 2800+ 512 ddr400, 128 ati vid card.

And thing is slow as a bloody dog, loading anything.

RC1 DVD's finally arrived on Thursday. A lot more stable than beta versions. Hibernate doesn't give me a screen full of $hite anymore. Bit of a fight getting the wifi drivers working though. Sempron 2200, 512 ddr400 256 ATI. Noticed BIG difference after bunging in another 512MB [1]. Still seems to have kernel bug where it won't boot from external USB drive. Not brave enough to stick it on laptop's main drive.

Is it just me that thinks Microsoft could have tried a bit harder? Apple and the Linux hippies must be rubbing their hands with glee and it's hardly going to scare enterprise level Unix users. Still seems to be Windows NT with a few bells and whistles. Another excuse for another round of hardware and 3rd party software upgrades as I suspect lots of things will be incompatible.

[1] Reminded me of whining at IT department until they upgraded PC running XP from 256MB to 512MB. I remember Microsoft trying to tell everyone back in 2001 that XP would run fine with 128MB. Most of my colleagues stuck with 2000 or NT until the hardware caught up.

[Sniper]

I have mixed emotions about it. Too graphic orientated

[MOTOXXX]

i have installed it on vmware. the rc2 prtm

looks ok. turn all the fancy shit off.

still got a way to go.


ps windows update as of tonite will download a security patch to upgrade to ie to ie 7

[SPORK]

@ Dawnrazor & Enigma51...

If I could install it on a PC I would... Is it feasible because of the new Intel Macs? I really really really want a MacBook Pro :)

[Wasp]

probably SB, search you tube for "multiboot mac"

the vid i saw had the mac os, ubuntu and xp pro on it

[GR81]

im running 64bit RC1 currently, seems to be fine.
the biggest thing if you want to run it is 1Gb+ of RAM, waste of time with anything less.

i currently have both 32bit and 64bit RC1 if anyone wants a copy.

[SPORK]

probably SB, search you tube for "multiboot mac"

the vid i saw had the mac os, ubuntu and xp pro on it
Yes but that's off a Mac, I'd say, using Boot Camp.

[Wasp]

I might try vista on my new conroe based comp when i get it but at the current rate vista will be out by the time i get it.... (was going to start ordering bits this week but seem I crashed the bike its on hold....)

[SPORK]

Also, if anyone has Office 2007 beta lying around, I'd also be interested in that too. "Finders Fee" still applies :)

[MOTOXXX]

i can hooks you up

:cool:

[SPORK]

Awesome! PM Sent :)

[jrandom]

... 'bout now, 'bout now, 'bout now, 'bout now, 'bout now, 'bout now, 'bout now, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba...

[jrandom]

Goddammit, Jim, you bastard. You bastard.

[SPORK]

Goddammit, Jim, you bastard. You bastard.
Now now, let's not get angry because we neglected to read the thread!?

[jrandom]

Now now, let's not get angry because we neglected to read the thread!?

Dude, you're totally whooshing on this one, aren't you?

It kind of bothers me that Jim and I are whooshing you, cos you're, like, Yoof and shit. Does the point where one recognises stuff that one thought was Yoof Music, but Yoof doesn't... no, I can't. I can't say the words.

:crybaby:

For the record, I haven't had time to play with beta OSs in the last ten years or so. And I don't bother with non-stable *nix-related builds, neither. But I'll sort your download and whatnot if everyone else falls through.

So let me know how it goes.

[TerminalAddict]

And I don't bother with non-stable *nix-related builds, neither.

poor old man .. there there .. we all grow up some time

[SPORK]

Dude, you're totally whooshing on this one, aren't you?

It kind of bothers me that Jim and I are whooshing you, cos you're, like, Yoof and shit. Does the point where one recognises stuff that one thought was Yoof Music, but Yoof doesn't... no, I can't. I can't say the words.

:crybaby:

For the record, I haven't had time to play with beta OSs in the last ten years or so. And I don't bother with non-stable *nix-related builds, neither. But I'll sort your download and whatnot if everyone else falls through.

So let me know how it goes.
This Yoof listens to music that actually has an ounce of artistic merit in it, however. The funk is "soul bruddah" in this one, I suppose though.

Strangley enough, most of the music I listen to is either death-metal, or Compton's finest (mainly for lols though).

En en, dub dub dub dubbayaw, eh eh, eh eh!

(Bonus points to whoever places that...)