Recent content by GreNME

As someone who's with a person who could make use of the hardware in a Mac Pro but isn't willing to pay the premium for the hardware (not with Apple, HP, or anyone else), I have to agree totally. The eight cores, the slick mainboard layout, and other stuff with the hardware make it a sweet piece...

I'm a relative n00b myself-- I got a used iBook about a year ago, and this past November I got a Macbook Pro (2.5 Ghz, 4GB RAM)-- but I can assure you that you shouldn't run into many problems. Now, granted, I still use my Windows desktop and I have Win 7 64-bit Boot Camped, but I now switch...

If the hardware can take it, it's always a good idea to grab more RAM. More stuff the OS can load for you quicker and more stuff that you can do at once without lag.

I agree with both of these statements. Vista is a solid OS. Win 7 looks like a new version of the OS-- they were built from similar or the same code-base-- which looks to be a plus when Win 7 comes out. Since it isn't out yet, if you're looking for an OS now then Vista 64-bit is a good choice.

I know it's after-the-fact now, but the success I had installing Win 7 on my MBP involved me starting with the Boot Camp driver pack (using the Vista 64 version) and making sure the networking was up and going as quickly as possible. The airport and video drivers from the Boot Camp pack weren't...

I don't know where you got the idea that Win 7 uses less RAM than Vista. It has improvements that allow the OS to run faster-- in fact it runs faster on my Macbook Pro than OS X-- but its RAM and VRAM management is built off the same codebase that Vista was. It pretty much works at utilizing as...

Here's a rule of thumb to go by in modern computing: if RAM is not being used for something, it's being wasted. The more efficient OS uses the RAM more efficiently without creating waste. This is so for Vista, for <distribution name> Linux, for Leopard (OS X), and any other modern OS...

I use the Dock in OS X (I have a G4 iBook and a 2.4 MacBook Pro), and from what I can tell looking at the the new UI for Win 7 [linky] it looks like some of the concepts will be similar to those in Leopard's dock (like the stacks), but overall in terms of how programs or windows are accessed...

You can still have programs installed with SteadyState, but if you do it make sure that the other person either uses online e-mail or is storing the e-mail on a separate drive. If not SteadyState will constantly restore the mail DB to its pre-snapshot state along with everything else. Any...

That reminds me: someone I know who uses a Mac recently reported to me that they've got something going on with their computer where the browser constantly has random pop-ups going on when she's using it. Sounds like spyware/adware is starting to make the transition.

To be perfectly and frankly honest with you, have your friend use a limited user account for her web-surfing. That is the first and cardinal rule for users who seem to have repeat problems with malware-- remove the obvious vector (the user privs) and you'll see dramatic changes right away. This...

Just wanted to agree with this post. Most government apps I've seen here in the US were either text-based front-ends to databases-- throwbacks from the days of using thin clients-- or they're very retro Win3.1.1-looking programs with very little in the way of graphic niceness to them running...

There's no need to be defensive, I responded not only to your post but to many before and after it, and it seems to have continued by plenty others. The thing is, I think what you are doing is mixing up administrative or system tasks with regular use in your comparison, hence my focus in my...

And if I want to update or change a driver? Look, I understand and use the GUI most of the time, but in terms of comparison saying that you can do all of the things in CLI that you can do in GUI in Windows is just incorrect. Microsoft is actually aware of this, hence the advent of PowerShell and...

Repeating this because it's close to how I feel. There are still some things that annoy me from time to time, but considerably less than XP and I actually dig the easier interface on a lot of things. Oh, and snipping tool r0x0rz my s0x0rz.