Justin W. Reagor on 30 Aug 2007 02:44:57 -0000


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Re: [PhillyOnRails] Sharp stick in the eye on free software distributed after MSDN and TechNet Events here in KC today...

  • From: "Justin W. Reagor" <justinwr@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PhillyOnRails] Sharp stick in the eye on free software distributed after MSDN and TechNet Events here in KC today...
  • Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:44:34 -0400
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He should just spend the $239.99 each on you guys and get "Ultimate" RAM instead!

:: Justin Reagor

On Aug 29, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Jared Blitzstein wrote:

My boss ask us devs if we were interested in upgrading our boxes from XP to Vista and I responded with an emphatic NO! A shiny new theme and a GUI changes won't speed my compiler and I'm hurting for RAM as it is.

On Aug 29, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Toby DiPasquale wrote:

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:17:49AM -0400, Keith Fitzgerald wrote:
i have to run vista on a box for work ... i have it totally stripped down.
no fancy aero [fancy being relative to M$ here], only necessary services
turned on, etc ... and it boots up with ~800MB ram eaten. ms is some voodoo
software.

Try running the fucker in VMware... I initially installed with a 10GB
virtual disk, only to find out that it wasn't enough for the god-damn
install!

-- 
Toby DiPasquale
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