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Click on the image to go to TigerDirect page. This is Vista Ultimate 32 bit full version (OEM) DVD from what I see. Check out for yourself.

 

Get something better to bash Microsoft. This is a piece of code from “programmers” left over for a long time and has debug code in it. Can cause system crash if exploited. Nothing more. What’s the point. There may thousands other ways to crash any given OS or applicationbecause they are all written by “programmers”. And when it crashes, it is someone else’s fault anyway.

Journalism is so cheap these days these people like to ‘elevate’ every one else to their level cheapness. There are many of them call themselves journalist for copying and pasting from elsewhere. You go to every damn news site and see the damn same news down to the level of same words.

Speaking of Microsoft, the spell cheker in the WordPress editor does not work in IE7. I am more concerned about that than this useless vulnerability report.

We all were mad at Windows XP at one time or the other for not responding to your simple commands like a key click or mouse click and do its own stuff. Well, for me it happens all the time because I load way too many stuff that Windows cannot handle all at the same time. With all advances in hardware and software technology you would expect things to be different in 2007. From what I see, you are out of luck unless someone else start making OS and software. I don’t believe OS X or Linux is better in that respect.

I think there needs to be new generation of software developers who can think about true parallel programming to exploit the power of new multiple core processors from the hardware vendors. I am pretty sure game developers are going to be the first ones to truly explore this area. I know that the academics were already there and mainframe OS developers already did it probably 20-30 years ago or more. I am not going there. I am talking about the PC. Microsoft developers are probably still thinking in Visual Basic terms. Just kidding, but this is totally unacceptable.

My Vista 64 bit system won’t respond to commands while its is busy writing to hard disk or installing some software. Or may be just pop a CD with some images in it in to the CD drive. I have a pretty powerful system that gives me a 4.5 Windows Experience Index (most components are 5.5 and above except for one which is 4.5).

I tried to install the PC Mark 05 updated version that supposedly support Windows Vista. I don’t know if if it works with Windows Vista 32 bit but on 64 bit it failed to run. Installation went without any problem. When I run the application Many tests will run without a problem but the HDD tests will not run. I see the HDD Test Target drop down list empty in the advanced settings.

If I click on the details button it spits out garbled stuff in to the internet explorer as part of my graphics card description as well.

I have installed the same PC Mark 05 on the same machine on the Windows XP partition and it works fine. So, it is definitely not a system configuration issue. It must another Windows Vista 64 bit edition compatibility issue. The world (at least that of the software vendors including Microsoft themselves) is not ready for the 64 bit.

After I successfully restored the complete PC backup, I found that my dynamic disks were empty. This is where I store my media before uploading to my Linux server. Data on Linux server is safe so far. A small amount of media was not uploaded to the Linux server and looked like lost. Right now I am running a disk tool to recover that. I have booted in to Windows XP to run this tool. By the way, I had to use one of my previous postto get Windows XP back to boot options. This tool (R-Studio) is known to be a good data recovery tool. It costs $49 for single user NTFS/Linux partition recovery. You can find more about this tool from their web site. I do not have any past experience with this tool. The demo version correctly showed me the files on the Vista messed disk. The scan is still running for one partition. The disk is 500 GB. So, it might take another 4-5 hours to complete the scanning of all partitions.

Never use dynamic disks. I just read a bunch of horror stories from people who created dynamic disks in Windows and had lost all data or lost money to recover the data. Another expensive lesson.

All my basic partitions on other disks were safe. No harms done. Stick with basic partitions.