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With all the DRM stuff running in the background, you wonder if the bloody thing can even run a single program

http://www.pcstats.com/artvnl.cfm?articleID=1871


Linux just started to look a heck of a lot better.

Well you see, the speed race between Processors is directly to blame for this.

With a large gain in processing power, Windows had the possibility of actually running smoothly and quickly. Seeing this, the windows team had to think of new and innovative ways to bog down your computer with crap. THen came music Piracy and everything went downhill from there.

Not only will it eat Ram and CPU Cycles, DRM will attempt to solve the problem of making sure everyone buys a shitty OS by not giving them the option.

This sucks. I hate having to wait two weeks for hackers to crack stuff like this.

DRM has started creepy into windows xp
several media files I have recently downloaded will not play without 'updating' my drm profile.

stupid M$

I don't know whether to laugh or cry:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm

UN wants a backdoor built into Windows Vista.


The amount of encryption astounds me. What the h3ll happens when your motherboard fries? Can you ever get at the data? What if the IC storing the encryption fries (but the rest of the motherboard works fine)? Is your data now unreachable?

F00k that bull$hit.

Critics say the companies behind most trusted computing want to use digital rights management to ensure users cannot use programs they have not approved.

Ding.

I don't like the idea of mandatory encryption or anything on my computer.

"BitLocker ensures that data stored on a computer running Windows Vista is not revealed if the machine is tampered with when the installed operating system is offline," it says.

So this is to prevent the old password file swap trick eh? One question what happens when windows Foocks itself and I have to pop the drive into another comp to save the data?


"An unfortunate side effect from law enforcement is it would be technically fairly seriously difficult to dig encrypted material out of the system if it has been set up competently."

So does this mean if I wanted to install a new copy of an OS onto the partition beside my data or in another partition, I will not be able to access the information all ready present?

Damn thing better have an off button on it.

Ding.

I don't like the idea of mandatory encryption or anything on my computer.

Exactly. It's just "Big Brother" bull$hit. No way in h3ll I'm even touching this operating system until EVERYTHING about it is cracked. I didn't touch XP for a good 2 years after it's initial release--hopefully, I'll never have to learn Vista.

So this is to prevent the old password file swap trick eh? One question what happens when windows Foocks itself and I have to pop the drive into another comp to save the data?

Well, you're f00ked. You also wouldn't be able to use Knoppix to access your data. Vista is offline so Knoppix would be denied access. To me, it just seems like you're signing anything on your harddrives away. Might as well just delete it right now.

So does this mean if I wanted to install a new copy of an OS onto the partition beside my data or in another partition, I will not be able to access the information all ready present?

Damn thing better have an off button on it.

Yep. Ya couldn't touch the data. That's why law enforcement wants a backdoor. Like the article says, just "forget" your password. They couldn't find any evidence on your comp. So they want a security breech built in. Either way, you lose. It's like the discussion you and I were having over that encryption USB pen that came with my Abit board--what happens when the USB pen dies due to the flash memory having been accessed over 2000 times? All your data--gone. I'm all for encryption, but on my terms (ie. PGP).

Gates wants passwords to be replaced with a card:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1927077,00.asp

Who supplies the card? What happens when it's lost? And why not just implant it on my hand or forehead?

10 reasons we're supposed to be excited about Vista:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... &ncid=1729

I ain't feeling it.

This article much better articulates why Vista is supposed to be a "big deal:"

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1 ... 913,00.asp

I find this part kinda amusing:

It's a bit unfortunate, but Vista's audio stack is not hardware accelerated. Of course, neither is Windows XP's by default, but when you add hardware like an Audigy 2 or X-Fi sound card (that has a DSP) and the requisite drivers, you basically hardware-accelerate Windows XP's audio. Vista doesn't really work this way, and though the software audio is dramatically improved, you can't just accelerate it by adding a sound card with hardware acceleration. Truthfully, this is primarily a concern of games, which we hope won't be affected much. The only company making mass-market audio cards with hardware acceleration is Creative, and they're doing a good job of promoting OpenAL as the audio standard for games. OpenAL drivers under Vista should allow for hardware acceleration of 3D audio every bit as good as the latest DirectX + EAX.

So, because of Vista, OpenAL support is going to be increased.


The case they make for Vista is pretty good--it's just the stuff that they don't talk about makes me still hate it. It's definitely gonna be a year or two before I even consider upgrading to it for my gaming machine.

Requirements:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/window ... tarpc.mspx


http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/09/07 ... ware_reqs/



Aaaaaaaaaand none of us meet them.

well I meet the minimum for almost everything but the HD component
the minimum what the crap is that

what a waste of system resources... and we think XP is bad

Capable != able

http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/ar ... cat_id=580

Linux FTW! I might have to switch over to avoid this shite.

Soooo crappy
I wonder how long before the pirated version hits the net.