The End is NEAR!

http://www.renderosity.com/news.php?viewStory=13324

Soooo . . . we should repent? ;^)

Give up your old evil HTML ways!

But some of us Win XP 64 bit people are still having a terrible time getting around!  I have to move over to an older computer to actually accomplish anything more than viewing one page, close window, next page new window.

Other than NOD antivirus, everthing else is default.  XP firewall, IE's Pop-up blocker, etc.  The PHP scripts seem to lock up my browser windows (yes, windows as it can stop downloading on 2-3 other windows at the same time!).  Very strange and so far no success finding a workaround or solution.

Brett

We need more staff people on Win XP 64. So we can help "beta" the php pages!

I almost upgraded to it, but thought better to wait until Vista.

Quote - The End is NEAR!

That's your cue Mr. Sinatra
 
And so they face the final curtain ...
...
They did their way ...

AS, watch out for the license issues on Vista. You are only allowed to transfer/re-activate once!

I'll have to find where to umm "volunteer" as this is getting very annoying.  Made some purchases today and have to do everything, including the downloads through another computer as the PHP scripts just stall.

If XP 64 is having trouble, I expect Vista 64 will too as Microsoft is locking it down MUCH tighter.

Brett

Microsoft can KMA, lol.

Nah, so far...my telephone calls to Microsoft and problems concerning licenses, they have been very forgiving. (I take care of my pc-challenged friends/family's PC's for them, about 15 computers total)

But, yes, I have read all about Vista and the new licensing system. I hope it won;' be as much of a pain as it sounds.....

It's the threatened Symantec / McAfee lawsuits that I find more disconcerting.  They both are now stating that hackers have more access to the kernel than they are being given.  Symantec has bluntly stated that if they have to they will hack the Vista core to deliver the protection their customers expect.

Some word that maybe Microsoft is starting to back down a little, but with the number of judgements going against them in Europe, Asia, etc., the juggernaught is slowing.

Brett

I have also heard something about Vista having to phone home occasionally to be authenticated or it shuts itself down. I haven't seen this myself so it is only hearsay but having seen M$ in action before, it makes me take a more cautious approach.
Aero sucks down RAM bigtime and the word in the Cinema forum is XPPro 64 runs Cinema faster than Vista.

I have also heard something about Vista having to phone home occasionally to be authenticated or it shuts itself down

Yup. You HAVE to be able to contect to the internet to authenticate, and yes it keeps having its serial number checked on a regular basis. (via internet)

I don't have a problem with that other than, I am all about shutting everything down I don't need, to have as much computer possible for cgi.

So that's what happening to my Mozillza Fire fox when I try to open Rend's sites.....

MS could be signing their own death warrant. Such a Big Brother approach - forcing internet connection, disregard for what the user may be working on at the time (I've already been a victim of this) - will lead to the rise of other operating systems, not right away, but sooner than if they weren't squeezing their strangle hold . . . imho.

Have chased a big chunk of the problem to ESET NOD Antivirus.  Seems it and IE don't get along too well these days.  Eventually triggered one of the reports back from Microsoft stating "NOD Antivirus has problems with some Active-X controls.  ESET has been notified and is working on the problem".

A few other people have commented about NOD AV doing strange things.  For Iglohigh, it notified him Bryce 6 was creating a trojan when he saved his file.

Fixes could be a long time coming.

Brett

Maybe your firend needs to reconfigure the heuristic part of NOD. I have it at work and have had no problems. BTW, BitDefender is a great antivirus program with spyware protection. I've been using for the last several years and am very satisfied with it. Plus, if you buy it now, for $40 you get a license for two computers for two years. (Do not use their firewall. It's not problematic, but it's not very good either.) As to the PHP conversion, I'm not getting notices. And when I get them, at work, when I click on the link I get sent to the market index page...

Hmm, finally the end huh.  I've had a few crashes here and there, but other than that, no problems, just the occational VERY slow page with certain settings(1 out of 4). OK, so far.

As to this Vista phone home thing, ... I'll bet there will be alot of dead OS laptops from that kind of checking, YIKES.