I mentioned this dialogue box above. It's my favourite one of all in Windows, the icons in the 'drives' dropdown box date back to Windows 3.0 from 1990!cdd wrote:Yes, my favourite dialog in Vista...Netizen wrote:Every new major version they claim 'built from the ground up', which is always a blatant lie
Network and Sharing Center
I hate Vista.
I also hate my new laptop with a passion. The soundcard only has an output and no input. Which means that recording anything from a streaming online feed or anything like that is now impossible. Fortunately I have an external studio soundcard which lets me get round that - just.
I also hate the fact that Windows Security Centre no longer works, it takes umpteen clicks to view the status of my network/broadband connection - whereas with XP one click on the icon in the taskbar and it popped up instantly.
I hate the fact that Aero gobbles up so much memory (I turned it off straight away) and I hate the fact that Vista takes an age to recognise my wireless mouse everytime I bring it out of sleep mode.
Grrr.
I also hate my new laptop with a passion. The soundcard only has an output and no input. Which means that recording anything from a streaming online feed or anything like that is now impossible. Fortunately I have an external studio soundcard which lets me get round that - just.
I also hate the fact that Windows Security Centre no longer works, it takes umpteen clicks to view the status of my network/broadband connection - whereas with XP one click on the icon in the taskbar and it popped up instantly.
I hate the fact that Aero gobbles up so much memory (I turned it off straight away) and I hate the fact that Vista takes an age to recognise my wireless mouse everytime I bring it out of sleep mode.
Grrr.
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My Macbook Pro has a very annoying design decision: no hardware playthrough of the microphone/line-in socket, so you have to do software playthrough meaning you get a delay between things going in and things coming out of the speakers.
Just keeping the aggravation balanced
Just keeping the aggravation balanced
Knight knight
I think Vista's the same now, ever since they changed the whole sound model so that applications take individual control of recording devices, I'm not sure it's possible just to monitor inputs without having it routed through an app, introducing that delay. Which is a bit rubbish, but I do like the way sound devices work now...generally.Sput wrote:My Macbook Pro has a very annoying design decision: no hardware playthrough of the microphone/line-in socket, so you have to do software playthrough meaning you get a delay between things going in and things coming out of the speakers.
Just keeping the aggravation balanced
Are you basing this on anything - real - or just some mid-90s mindset that anything pretty must have a significant performance hit? I suspect on any not-shit box from the last few years, the performance benefit of disabling Aero would be negligible at best.Jamez wrote:I hate the fact that Aero gobbles up so much memory (I turned it off straight away)
lukey wrote:I think Vista's the same now, ever since they changed the whole sound model so that applications take individual control of recording devices, I'm not sure it's possible just to monitor inputs without having it routed through an app, introducing that delay. Which is a bit rubbish, but I do like the way sound devices work now...generally.Sput wrote:My Macbook Pro has a very annoying design decision: no hardware playthrough of the microphone/line-in socket, so you have to do software playthrough meaning you get a delay between things going in and things coming out of the speakers.
Just keeping the aggravation balanced
Nope, in macs it's hardware design. They chose it. Tsk.
Knight knight
I do admire the new audio stack in Vista, quite nice. The thing with the software playthrough of inputs, I know only too well. Bit of a bugger but just cope dammit.
That bad?nodnirG kraM wrote:Switching Aero off, however, can only be compared to shooting an adorably cute puppy in the face.
*Sheepishly speaks up*... I actaully quite like the Windows 2000 look. And they've fixed that irritating problem in Vista now, where in XP if you clicked in the space between the buttons and the very bottom or very left of the screen the buttons wouldn't activate. The XP theme took care of that by actaully making the buttons and start button go all the way down, as has Vista, but Vista will also activate the button if you click a bit outside it.nodnirG kraM wrote:Switching Aero off, however, can only be compared to shooting an adorably cute puppy in the face.
Bah. You don't know you're born until you've experienced dependency hell on a Linux box...
Yes, 64-bit Ubuntu Heron is orders of magnitude faster than Vista (or XP), and yes it runs my virtualisation software sooooooo much better, but you try getting it to do something as simple as play back a WMV-format video.
No, they haven't written 64-bit drivers for that. So I have to spend three hours forcing the 32-bit versions to work. Grrrrrr.
Then I find the same thing happening with NDIS wrapper for my WiFi adaptor on the new lappy. But here, it's even better because it gives you no warnings -- the 32-bit code just munches the entire OS.
<sigh>
At least IPTables makes a mockery of ICF.
And no, I'm not going back to Windows. I have a 2000 partition, just in case. No more.
Yes, 64-bit Ubuntu Heron is orders of magnitude faster than Vista (or XP), and yes it runs my virtualisation software sooooooo much better, but you try getting it to do something as simple as play back a WMV-format video.
No, they haven't written 64-bit drivers for that. So I have to spend three hours forcing the 32-bit versions to work. Grrrrrr.
Then I find the same thing happening with NDIS wrapper for my WiFi adaptor on the new lappy. But here, it's even better because it gives you no warnings -- the 32-bit code just munches the entire OS.
<sigh>
At least IPTables makes a mockery of ICF.
And no, I'm not going back to Windows. I have a 2000 partition, just in case. No more.