I ran the upgrade advisor on my work computer just for kicks, and it said I wouldn't have Aero either. I have two Nvidia 9XXX cards in there and four gigs of RAM (both of which are a fucking waste on XP), I know it'll work fine. I think after they got reamed out by the media for the Vista certification program (which was largely the fault of the very hardware manufacturers who had such shitty support for the OS in the first place), they're erring on the side of caution. I run CF Builder and Flex Builder at work, and both are Eclipse-based. They both act a little strange sometimes, so it wouldn't surprise me if it's Eclipse. For example, occasionally, I'll be unable to minimize certain other programs if CF Builder is running, which is just bizarre. Some of us actually like to accomplish things with our computer beyond the thrill of finally getting WINE set up so that you can use real software again.
190.62 Not the latest set as they screw up some of the textures on eve online. Hell still getting lockups in CoD4 now for no reason.
According to one forum you can fix that by changing the driver to a HP deskjet 940c driver. You will have to find that driver, extract it and point your printer at it in device manager HP no longer support that printer as they feel it is too old. You will have to do the same for win7 as well as 7 and vista are much more similar in terms of driver than xp and vista were.
I hope you understand that you should really be mad at HP for failing to support their products. Basically they said "hmm, some of our customers are upgrading to Vista, we need to build a new driver for them. Wait! I have a better idea! Let's save ourselves the development time, then they'll have to buy a new printer! Either way they aren't going to realize that it's OUR job to make our product work." I can understand HPs position if that printer is really old or something. But if it's reasonably new, then it's just them being a bunch of assholes. Even if they never advertised Vista compatibility, it's still a shitty way to do business, and they are going to lose customers over it. HP printer drivers are a bunch of bullshit anyway. Why the hell I need a 200MB install to print a file is beyond me. They just want to package stupid crapware with it. Frankly I don't see what would be so hard about making a unified printer driver, at least for a particular brand. That way they can just build one driver per OS, not one driver per printer (or per 2-3 printers as they do now) per OS. I honestly think they WANT you to have problems with the driver when you upgrade.
That's quite amusing as my response was to a non sequitur... Rolling into a Windows thread to tell the whole world how little you care about the new release, and flashing geek credentials by telling us all about your terribly interesting flavour of linux? Might as well gatecrash aparty at the Playboy mansion to discuss STD's.
Well, Microsoft did keep changing core aspects of Vista making it very hard for hardware manufacturers to do the drivers. When you've just coded a driver, then get an email from Redmond informing you they've done yet another change, meaning you have to go in, recode and recompile the driver, then test, it's little wonder that by launch day you're going to be bedevilled with issues.
I have found one huge, major [-]flaw[/-]feature in Win7, and it's in IIS7. They've altered how .NET works in it, thus stopping my url rewriter module from working. They have at least given me the means to back to the old way, however to do it in more than one application means using the command line, which was dandy back in the days of DOS, but I prefer doing things in a GUI now I'm in the vicinity of being middle aged. They have done their own version of mod_rewrite for the new method of dealing with .NET, but I prefer my own as it simply checks if a called object physically exists, serves it if it does, pipes the request to default.aspx if it doesn't. It means I have an MVC model that doesn't look like an explosion in a code factory (I'm looking at you Magento). I'll have a tinker, but my heads still fuzzy from last nights antics!
Okay, the URL rewrite module is actually quite nice, and you can get it to do what my old rewriter did, plus a whole lot more. Now that I'm starting to figure out how it works, it's far superior to fannying about with htaccess files.
Granted the printer is about 9 or 10 years old, but it's still a perfectly good printer. I hate to have to buy a new one all because of printer drivers and Windows.
- I've been trying to convince my employer to upgrade to IIS7 just for this - the rewriter is a hell of a lot nicer than the Ionic Rewriter ISAPI filter that we use now.
You can create a module that handles url rewriting natively in .NET: public class urlrewriter : IHttpModule { public void Init(HttpApplication sender) { sender.BeginRequest += new EventHandler(sender_BeginRequest); } void sender_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e) { HttpContext HTTPCall = HttpContext.Current; if (!File.Exists(HTTPCall.Request.PhysicalPath)) { string QS=""; string path = HTTPCall.Request.Path.Trim("/".ToCharArray()); //Do some code-y stuff here HTTPCall.RewritePath("~/default.aspx", path, QS); } } } And in web.config: <system.web> <httpModules> <add name="urlrewriter" type="urlrewriter, App_Code"/> </httpModules> </system.web> You can pretty much emulate the rewrite module using that. Course, depends if work gives you the time!
I'm going to pass on Windows 7 for now. Unless you buy the super-duper ultimate version, it pretty much requires a clean install whether you're running XP or Vista. I'll be arsed if I'm going to back up all my shit and then reconfigure everything just for a slick new OS that probably has a million bugs and security flaws. I'll probably upgrade next year when I have an entire day free to figure things out.
I was seriously considering this. It's just getting too challenging finding aps for my increasingly antiquated (but still excellent) W2K box. But I just got an ad for W7 at my MS Hotmail account. Slick copy and photos telling me how much simpler and more wonderful my life will become if only I get it. Given that the last software MS has made that promise about is the terrible Bing search engine, it made me a mite apprehensive. I like W2K. If you can figure out a way to make W2K run faster without it deciding to "help" me the way XP et al do, I'd be happy as a clam.
