FYI I have Vista loaded on my new machine and it works [fairly] well, with some pretty handy little improvements over XP. My big problem was my software not being Vista compatible. I found MS has a free download for Vista Ultimate (I think it works with some other versions also) called virtual machine that they support, it works quite well for me and it should bridge the gap until manufacturers rewrite their software. Don't forget to get the latest update for VM and turn on the ports you want to use from the setup screen. Doug
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Navarro Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 7:31 AM To: Mark Cc: kxt@kxthelp.com Subject: Re: KX-T: KXTA blues... At 12:09 AM 6/3/2007, you wrote: >Carl Navarro wrote: >>At 10:19 AM 6/2/2007, you wrote: >><snip> Each time I find another broken thing on vista I say out >>loud I JUST LOOOOVE Vista. >>Except for Netstumbler security, it's actually behaving.....today. > >You are a brave lad to become a beta tester for Microsloth this soon >after the Visa release. :-) Not brave, just unfortunate. My work laptop is also my personal laptop. When I'm on the road, I want the fastest and best cheap box I can find. My Compaq developed a problem with the ratchets in the lid. It won't stay in any position and it died after Vista was foisted on the general public. I went to Bust Buy where I have a rewards card, and they said it would cost about $60 in parts and $200 in labor to fix the Compaq. Hmm, M processor, 2 years old I'll take one of them there new-fangled Pee Cees for $500 or maybe an extry $100 for the upgraded memory and HD., Out the door I walk with an Acer, thinking that I can pick up an eBay toughbook for $600 or so and have 2 boxes at 1200. In a couple of evenings, I got all of my pet software and files loaded, Office, Netstumbler, Hopertrm, Panasonic Progs, Music files and progs, etc. On the 10th day after purchase, the mouse pad died! Back to the geek squad who told me that it was fatal and I should exchange. No Acer, so I picked up another HP. Now I'm $800 into this project and I get to reload all the above mentioned programs again! The other shoe dropped about a week ago when I plugged in my Maxtor USB drive and got an error message. O.K. It's old, I can live with that. When I plugged in my Maxtor One Touch III 200G drive and I got the same error message I'm now officially pissed. The problem, of course, in India English is that HP does not support XP on my laptop model. That's Indian for "you got no drivers, Meester and we don't plan on any. Meanwhile Seagate bought Maxtor, probably before I bought my One Touch....guess that's why it was so cheap. I downloaded the patch, but it tells me the drive has to be reformatted. Probably because the drive is FAT-32 and Vista is looking for NTFS. Who knows? Who cares! I am NOT reformatting the drive that works on XP and W2K. They tell me that Dell made Microsloth unhappy for offering XP and Linux (Ubuntu?) on new machines. Geeze, I hope Dell, or anybody, crushes M$. I'd like to but I can't. Carl _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
