Posted 12/16/2008 at 05:57:52am

It was a real pain in the arse fiddling with EMM - that dastardly emm386.sys /loadhigh and whatever else.  And changing the order in which things were loaded to make more efficient use of memory.  Ugh!!  However, there was the unforgettable Leisure Suit Larry to while away the small hours at University, and Harvard Graphics whenever you wanted to do a pie chart...

Posted 10/07/2008 at 05:57:57am

Maybe I'm one in a million, which I certainly feel like after reading Maximum PC for a while, but I have no problems with Vista x64, I like it, and it's speedy.  And I get to run GPU-accelerated Folding@Home.  And a whole bunch of other stuff.  No crashes, and my PC is on 24/7, rebooting only to install updates.  OpenOffice reminds me of the Windows 95 days with its old interface.  I couldn't find any features there not already in MS Office - so basically OpenOffice is just a total ripoff of someone else's work.  I like Ubuntu and use it on my eeePC and my server, but would never use it on my home PC - I do more than web browsing, and I don't want to spend all weekend trying to figure out how to get something to work or google around grovelling in front of sarcastic, mean, unfriendly Linux gurus who tell me to RTFM when the F'ing M doesn't have what you want.  Clearly it's a waste of time asking people here to stop hyperventilating about Vista because it's their raison d'etre - even, as I'm sure, they use Vista to blog about how crap it is and what a monumental failure it is.  Losers.  Is there nothing constructive to say?

Posted 09/30/2008 at 07:46:21pm

Umm, skuze me, but what about Orac from Blake's 7??  That thing predated House by decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orac_(Blake%27s_7)

Posted 07/23/2008 at 11:59:18am

Oh puhleeeze.  Next we'll be blaming Vista for global warming.  Y'know, there really isn't THAT much to blame Vista for - the Vista-bashing is getting really tired, almost (but not quite) as tired as incessant iphone coverage.