20 Jan
2005
20 Jan
'05
11:52 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
I ran Win 2k for a bit and that was sort-of-OK
stability-wise, but it
ate a *lot* of memory. Plus it still suffered from the gradual
destruction which I hate about all Windows flavours; as the system was
used it seemed to gradually slow down and eat up more disk space of its
own accord (presumably registry bloat, disk caches etc.)
Yes, this is affectionally known as Microsoft Cancer. I once contracted
Microsoft Cancer on a Win98 box that manifested itself in GDI somewhere. The
end result was that I could no longer drag icons. I could delete them,
right-click on them, double-click, etc. -- just not drag. In fact, I couldn't
drag anything at all. Being a personal computer user since early 1980s, I just
adapted and used keys for everything. But you want to know the worst part?
The part that really got me steamed? A week later it was working again and I
hadn't done a goddamn thing!!! THAT pissed me off so much that I reloaded the
entire machine. Did I learn my lesson? No; I reloaded with XP.
Unfortunately, Windows is the only platform you can seriously tinker with video
without spending an arm and a leg for professional solutions; Linux support
still isn't there, and Mac is too expensive (and nobody but windows has
avisynth and virtualdub). So I stay on Windows, for now.
--
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