GKPE: General Ramblings thread

So Vitas on the way. Whos is upgrading and will you have to buy a new PC?

Im still working out what I will do. At this stage Im looking at holding fire. If anyone knows where I can get 2x1gig RAMBUS sticks from at a steal let me know, other wise I have to buy a whole new PC
Personally I would rather buy a "L" lens

scotttnz wrote in post #2194219
Mark, got you PSD working yet? I'm having trouble getting the hard drive formatted.

I had the same problem so went to dos to try formating it

format x: /fs:fat

it took ages and didn't work so tried

format x: /fs:fat32

also took ages and didn't seem to work, I have reformated the drive in a usb enclosure as ntfs and the drive works fine, ended up going to bed and leaveing it will try again tonight

weka2000 wrote in post #2196730
So Vitas on the way. Whos is upgrading and will you have to buy a new PC?

Why?
I don't really care about Vista, I know it won't run on my PC, but I also can't think of anything in it that I need. XP does more than I need.
Unless some really good Vista only content comes out Ill stick with XP and my old PC.
If some really good Vista pnly content does come out, then it will be time to upgrade, by which stage dual core and 64bit will be common and at a reasonable price, and Vista will be easy to get, if you know what I mean

Moppie wrote in post #2196489
But I don't know a hell of a lot about lap top HDD's or how shock resistant they are.

Not very shock resistant whilst running, wouldn't want to be running around with one while downloading. Most 'portable' style drives park the heads after a few seconds of inactivity, the microdrives do after a few milliseconds.

Moppie wrote in post #2196816
Why?
I don't really care about Vista, I know it won't run on my PC, but I also can't think of anything in it that I need. XP does more than I need.
Unless some really good Vista only content comes out Ill stick with XP and my old PC.
If some really good Vista pnly content does come out, then it will be time to upgrade, by which stage dual core and 64bit will be common and at a reasonable price, and Vista will be easy to get, if you know what I mean

Yep. Ran it up at home and here at work, lots of eyecandy, but that was about it. It uses over 500MB of RAM before loading any applications! It does have some speed enhancing features that about offset the loss from the heavier OS

The biggest negative is the licencing, my helpful MS guy here tells me that certain hardware changes such as a motherboard will require you to purchase a new licence, so there goes upgrades

weka2000 wrote in post #2196730
So Vitas on the way. Whos is upgrading and will you have to buy a new PC?

Not I. I 2nd what moppie said. From what I have seen it's nothing to rave about.

FlyingPete wrote in post #2196843
The biggest negative is the licencing, my helpful MS guy here tells me that certain hardware changes such as a motherboard will require you to purchase a new licence, so there goes upgrades

If true it will put a LOT of people off.
I can't afford a whole new system every two years, so rely on being able to upgrade. If I can't do that then why would I want to pay for Vista?
Sounds like someone at MS has been sleeping with someone at Dell, as if their consumer machines weren't hard enough to upgrade already.

Moppie wrote in post #2196816
Vista will be easy to get, if you know what I mean

I have no idea what you are saying

Moppie wrote in post #2196890
If true it will put a LOT of people off.
I can't afford a whole new system every two years, so rely on being able to upgrade. If I can't do that then why would I want to pay for Vista?
Sounds like someone at MS has been sleeping with someone at Dell, as if their consumer machines weren't hard enough to upgrade already.

The "fringe" community should have a resolution for us by then

The latest version of Fedora looks good, run WINE on that and you can keep all your favourite apps!

weka2000 wrote in post #2196912
I have no idea what you are saying

Hey I am the slow one around here

My home PC is a Intel 2.0 with 384 RAMBUS. So Im out for vista. All I want is 2gig of RAM for CS2 and all my photowork. Need tosweet talk my boss and get my laptop RAM upgraded to 2 gig for work reasons of course

weka2000 wrote in post #2196931
My home PC is a Intel 2.0 with 384 RAMBUS. So Im out for vista. All I want is 2gig of RAM for CS2 and all my photowork. Need tosweet talk my boss and get my laptop RAM upgraded to 2 gig for work reasons of course

You need to get the machine up to spec for Vista so you can "evaulate" it for the school, oh and you need it before Vista comes out, as prices will all go up with demand

EDIT: Actually if you need RAM build a case for running Virtual Machines, do that first then say you need more RAM, works most of the time

hey do you guys know anything about how to monitor files that are currently open on a windows xp desktop. Trying to uninstall sap and it coming up with file that's open but there are no current apps running, or running in the background.

ok lets see if Firefox can help my spelling. We all know I cant spell to save my self

I see the rumour mill has started up re 30/5D replacements next year
https://photography-on-the.net …hread.php?t=217​220&page=9

Just got another photo job to do, more product shooting, this time for a gormet bakery, loafs of bread, will contribute to that new lens

Looks like the old product shooting pipeline has reopened, a graphic artist I used to do product shooting for is back in business after starting a family.

nzl-g3user wrote in post #2197072
hey do you guys know anything about how to monitor files that are currently open on a windows xp desktop. Trying to uninstall sap and it coming up with file that's open but there are no current apps running, or running in the background.

I do have a tool at home to do that, the dirty way around it though is to kill the explorer process and restart it by starting a new process - explorer.exe