Vista with its big butt taking up all my hardware space! It can’t seem to find big enough space to sit down quietly, it’s restless, noisy, unpredictable, all in all, it’s trouble and not worth it at all!!!
My laptop was for Internet surfing, entertainment and minor stuff. Now that I’m extensively using it, I’ve developed a Vista headache, things freeze up and stop responding! Even their damn MS office!!!
So why don’t I throw its sorry ass out, well because I don’t trust the next one coming in 
Not in terms how big the other one butt is Nope, compatibility issues. And I don’t care if someone says what runs on Vista runs on Win7, because the later is just a “tarqeee3″ of the former, with my luck of things going wrong, even in their simplest form, they do! And I’m not in a place right now to handle “things” going wrong.
I got a Kingston RAM module off amazon.co.uk and now my RAM is upto 3GB and it seems that things are running more smoothly. I might upgrade to Win7 after my course ends. If I have any incompatibility issues with any of my important applications running, I’ll reformat back to Vista-Hell You can see the irony here, can’t you 
#1 by MBH on November 24, 2009 - 2:31 AM
Win7 was supposed to be the ultra service pack that would resolve all of Vista’s issues (and it did), but since Vista was tainted with a bad name, MS thought it would be better to just brand it as a new OS, and Voila! Money rolls in!
I hope you’re not developing on a laptop with an SSD harddisk… That would certainly kill it faster than an iceman in Kuwait’s summer.
Do it in the weekend. You have 2 days to put stuff back :p
I can teach you how to clone your disk and put back the clone in case things went bad, which is highly unlikely.
#2 by Someday on November 24, 2009 - 5:46 AM
I almost never upgraded to things related software especially when I’m comfortable with the old version
I’m still running on xp and it’s working out just fine ;p
#3 by Marzouq on November 24, 2009 - 3:08 PM
oohhh I know when you don’t want things to go wrong and it does..
I remember when 2 GB Ram was the ultimate amount needed.. now it barely does it! And we are still stuck with a 4GB limit with 32 bit windows.. hmmmm
#4 by Bloggylife on November 24, 2009 - 5:57 PM
MBH, thus the “the later is just a “tarqeee3″ of the former” statement, nope mine has HDD. For cloning, I would need to buy another HDD but it’d make my life easier if thing go bad.
Someday, at work I used XP and for Vista is was light usage so it didn’t bother me much. Well XP is good, depending on your use and since it is still supported by MS, hang on it a little while longer, then jump to Win7.
Marzouq, especially if you are in IT, things always go wrong, even the simple ones
and weird things happen also 
#5 by MBH on November 24, 2009 - 9:15 PM
2GB isn’t enough?!
I run multiple heavy Java applications at the same time and still have plenty of RAM to swim in:
Used RAM: 803 MB
Running apps: Firefox 3.5, Vuze/Azureus, Google Chrome, Firefox 3.0, KDE Window Manager (Yes I use all 3 browsers at the same time), and a few progs here & there
Oh, probably my memory consumption is low because I use Linux…
#6 by Bloggylife on November 24, 2009 - 9:26 PM
how about 4 GB isn’t enough!
On 2 GB if I’m I’m running browsers, MATLAB, then go crazy and pop media player and office you can see the swapping process!!! Everything freezes.
I’m currently running a C program that is consuming more than 55% of my CPU that’s also running Vista try having something else running too!
It’s not about using three browsers, why are you using two versions of the same browser!
I use IE/firefox/chrome ordered from least to most used.
I’m going to the max. of 4GB, I just wanted to try out Kingston before ordering more.
#7 by MBH on November 24, 2009 - 9:34 PM
Firefox 3.0 is a different browser than 3.5. I just use different browsers to access sites that I don’t wish to see my Google account in Firefox 3.5. Chrome is for Google Wave + youtube, since it’s so freakin fast. Firefox 3.0 is for loading pages with many ads since it has AdBlock Plus.
Microsoft Office’s programs are bloated and they don’t share an executable base, meaning that when you run Word and Excel, you’re running 2 separate programs and they eat a lot of memory.
I use OpenOffice.org and it loads the base for all apps, then whatever you run just adds a little overhead.
OO.o uses Java, so make sure you have the latest JRE installed for optimum performance & reduced memory consumption.
My workstation has 8GB of RAM because I run virtual machines. Also I create filesystems in the RAM sometimes for tasks that I want to finish quickly, like huge program compilations (seconds compared to many minutes).
#8 by Bloggylife on November 25, 2009 - 7:51 AM
Are you talking about Linux or Windows environment here …
“create filesystems in the RAM” … tell me more …
#9 by MBH on November 25, 2009 - 8:02 AM
Yeah I was teasing you guys since you all suffer from lack of memory issues due to Windows’ crappy memory management :p
ramfs or tmpfs. They do the same, but tmpfs has more options/restrictions.
Before I get into details & usages, I’ll give you a reason on why to use ramfs for compilation: on my AMD-based system, I can create files with a speed of 1GB/s.
Now to details: Your typical hard disk has a speed of 120 MB/s at max (at 7200 rpm). The filesystem introduces an overhead which will reduce that speed a lot especially for file creation. The fastest disk-filesystems are reiserfs and ext4.
What’s even faster is ramfs/tmpfs: You copy your files into this temporary filesystem which reserves a segment of your RAM, and then you run your operations there. You’d get your results in almost no time. Combine the ramfs/tmpfs with some compilation optimization for multi-core systems and you got yourself a nice speed boost.
Typically, tmpfs creates a filesystem of half the total size of RAM.
mount -t tmpfs none /mount/point
Then to compile on multi-cores:
make -j4
(j4 = 4 threads = 2 cores since each core can do 2 threads)
I hope this helps.
#10 by Bashar on November 25, 2009 - 2:56 PM
If you can live with Vista, you can live with anything. So get Win7!
#11 by Bloggylife on November 25, 2009 - 7:01 PM
MBH, I’ve told you’re mean before haven’t I! Will read your details laters
Malee khilq now 
Bashar, LOL @ live with anything hehehe .. OK, let’s not play with fire here
In a month’s time insha’Allah
#12 by MBH on November 25, 2009 - 7:03 PM
WTH? You asked for details!
Women…
#13 by Bloggylife on November 25, 2009 - 7:42 PM
well they seem like Linux commands man, and I told you, sometimes I dun wanna think
Ohhh, I forgot I didn’t say thank you, does that make it better
#14 by MBH on November 25, 2009 - 7:59 PM
You make it sound like I wrote a shell script! They’re just 2 commands: One to create the tmp filesystem & one to compile!
And no it won’t! Too late. Za3alt.
#15 by Bloggylife on November 25, 2009 - 9:16 PM
what’s a shell script
OK don’t get upset, I do need to Google some of the terms you mentioned, have you read my THANK YOU 
#16 by Bashar on November 25, 2009 - 11:29 PM
Damn I sound like ballmer! But trust me it’s from how much I hate vista nothing else