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[Spacecadet]

PS. I Like Vista

have you done any sidebar widget development?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I've been hoist by my own petard for advocating Ubuntu in preference to Vista. Ubuntu has started misbehaving and I can't get a good answer about why on the ubuntu forums. Although Vista is slower, it's behaving.

I find Vista generally OK if slow (to be fair I am using it on only slightly above min spec) - it is particularly awful for copying files between the laptop hard drive and flash drives or my external hard drive. I've seen speculation that this is due to DRM.

[voodooflux]

I find Vista generally OK if slow (to be fair I am using it on only slightly above min spec) - it is particularly awful for copying files between the laptop hard drive and flash drives or my external hard drive. I've seen speculation that this is due to DRM.

Are you running Service Pack 1? I believe the service pack contains some improvements with respect to file copying, explained in Mark Russinovich's blog. I've certainly seen improved performance when chucking files around network shares.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Are you running Service Pack 1? I believe the service pack contains some improvements with respect to file copying, explained in Mark Russinovich's blog. I've certainly seen improved performance when chucking files around network shares.

Thanks for the tip - downloading SP1 now I had forgotten all about it.

[NickFitz]

I've been hoist by my own petard for advocating Ubuntu in preference to Vista. Ubuntu has started misbehaving and I can't get a good answer about why on the ubuntu forums. Although Vista is slower, it's behaving.

How exactly is Ubuntu misbehaving? I'm no Linux geek, but some here are and might be able to help if you explain what's going wrong. It's even possible that my Unix knowledge (derived mainly from OS X's BSD base, not Linux) might be of help.

Probably best to start a new thread for that, though - unless Vista has a Unix core they've been keeping quiet about

[VectraMan]

Are you running Service Pack 1? I believe the service pack contains some improvements with respect to file copying, explained in Mark Russinovich's blog. I've certainly seen improved performance when chucking files around network shares.

I was getting about 1MB/s copying from an XP machine, and it went up to 10MB/s once I installed SP1 (over 100Mb ethernet so that's about what you'd expect). Don't know how MS managed to cock that up.

Hasn't SP1 rolled out over windows update yet? I had to do mine manually, but that was 2 months ago.

[blacjac]

Should have done. Mine auto installed at the begining of May

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Thanks SP1 downloaded last night and installed. Installation seems to have removed some of my desktop widgets, and hard drive is thrashing like crazy this morning, but I'll leave it a bit and see if it calms down, maybe the install is still doing something?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

How exactly is Ubuntu misbehaving? I'm no Linux geek, but some here are and might be able to help if you explain what's going wrong. It's even possible that my Unix knowledge (derived mainly from OS X's BSD base, not Linux) might be of help.

Probably best to start a new thread for that, though - unless Vista has a Unix core they've been keeping quiet about

Thanks - I will post a new thread.

[blacjac]

Thanks SP1 downloaded last night and installed. Installation seems to have removed some of my desktop widgets, and hard drive is thrashing like crazy this morning, but I'll leave it a bit and see if it calms down, maybe the install is still doing something?

SP1 removes all the indexing and so this has to be rebuilt. Your hard drive will thrash like crazy until this is done, but mine hardly light's up at all now (most of my work is done via RDP).