Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Friday, October 23, 2009

If Win 7 is Supposed to Be Leaner than Vista

You might ask why Microsoft's BK tie-in promotion in Japan has seven patties of beef and over 1,000 calories.

Bloatware. Bloatfood.

Win 7 takes up something like 16Gb on a drive, all to just give one the opportunity to run other programs.

If I were writing the laws, I'm make MS support NT-5 (`00 Pro and XP) forever. NT-5 is possibly the only OS that they ever managed to (eventually) get right.

3 comments:

Fixer said...

XP rules (as far as a Windows OS can rule). My laptop is a Vista machine that I'm less than impressed with. The other 2 machines in the house are XP and I like 'em so much better.

Eck! said...

Winders is only half the problem,

I run winders, linux and Mac (lepoard)
and I can say Mac annoys me the least linux second and winders is just plain always in the way.

Most of the winder apps (office and friends) are bloated and worse even Office for Mac tends to barf and die though the mac os deals with it better.

In general winders is a weak os with poor security and runs apps that integrate in such a way to further weaken security.

Eck!

Unknown said...

Win 7's RAM footprint is much better than Vista's though, basic setup hits ~0.5G so it runs comfortably on most netbooks.

FWIW you can also slim down the disk footprint if required with VLite. It would be nice if MS integrated that sort of functionality.