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Old Mar 9, 2006, 04:44 PM #101 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by Kairyu
More or less, here a list of things that windows xp pro has over windows xp home:

- SMP support (multi-processor support)
- Roaming user profiles
- Remote desktop
- Access control
- Encrypting file system
- Offline files and folders
- Remote installation service
- Windows server domain support
- Group policy
- Software installation and maintenance
- Multi-lingual user interface support
Wait a minute...
Theoretically, in virtue of the fact that Home can use NTFS, shouldn't it have an "encrypting file system"?

Also, as a note, group policy in XP affects all users: don't expect to restrict specific users from things with it. (Granted, the policy editor in XP can be very useful for modification purposes alone.)

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Old Mar 9, 2006, 05:08 PM Local time: Mar 9, 2006, 12:08 PM #102 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by Snowknight
Wait a minute...
Theoretically, in virtue of the fact that Home can use NTFS, shouldn't it have an "encrypting file system"?
It should, yet I'm on a windows xp home machine and the EFS option is grayed out .
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Old Mar 9, 2006, 05:18 PM Local time: Mar 9, 2006, 10:18 PM #103 (permalink) of 142
At the moment, I'm running SuSE OSS 10.0 on my AMD64 Box, and MacOS 10.4.5 on the PowerPC box :P

Getting a little peeved with SuSE as it won't play any MP3s copied from the Mac via FTP...Switching to Fedora Core
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Old Mar 9, 2006, 07:36 PM Local time: Mar 9, 2006, 05:36 PM #104 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by Kairyu
It should, yet I'm on a windows xp home machine and the EFS option is grayed out .
I do rember there being some registry hack you can use to use EFS on WinXP Home. I wouldn't know if it works or not, because I use WinXP Pro.
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Old Mar 9, 2006, 08:07 PM #105 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by PirateGod
Getting a little peeved with SuSE as it won't play any MP3s copied from the Mac via FTP...Switching to Fedora Core
Eh, I really (personally,) wouldn't recommend Fedora. It's OK, but you can do better. Ubuntu is what I recommend, but you won't have MP3 support right off the bat.

But, hey, you'll definitely learn something out of it.

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Old Mar 9, 2006, 08:14 PM Local time: Mar 10, 2006, 02:14 AM #106 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by PirateGod
Getting a little peeved with SuSE as it won't play any MP3s copied from the Mac via FTP...Switching to Fedora Core
Have you checked out Packman? It has a few packages left out of SuSE for legal reasons.
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Old Mar 9, 2006, 10:53 PM Local time: Mar 9, 2006, 10:53 PM #107 (permalink) of 142
I use Windows XP. Mainly because I have figured out how to use it so well that if I were to switch, I would have to learn everything all over again. I just hope that I have enough money to get the new version of Windows when it comes out in the next while or so.
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Old Mar 10, 2006, 05:50 AM Local time: Mar 10, 2006, 10:50 AM #108 (permalink) of 142
Yeah, might just do that Thanks guys...

Methinks I'll be reinstalling SuSE then :P
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Old Mar 10, 2006, 08:30 PM Local time: Mar 11, 2006, 02:30 AM #109 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by The Wise Vivi
I use Windows XP. Mainly because I have figured out how to use it so well that if I were to switch, I would have to learn everything all over again. I just hope that I have enough money to get the new version of Windows when it comes out in the next while or so.
Though you should consider that Windows Vista will revamp several concepts as well, so wether you give an alternate operating system a try which you can legaly obtain for free or buy an expensive upgrade for your Windows, there will be re-learning involved either way. And it's not like every single aspect of, say Linux, is so otherworldly different from Windows, not anymore.
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Old Mar 10, 2006, 09:02 PM Local time: Mar 10, 2006, 07:02 PM #110 (permalink) of 142
Relearning an OS isn't that hard. In fact if you don't deeply tweak or probe your OS, you won't notice too many differences between how to use Win98SE and WinXP (which is how it should be).
When Smokers try to lasso him, he grabs their tongues and pulls them to HIM instead.

When Hunters jump on him he flips them over, pins them to the ground, and rips out their teeth one at a time.

When Boomers vomit on him he wipes himself off, shoots peptobismol into their mouths, and performs liposuction on them before splattering their brains on the wall.

When a Tank throws a chunk of concrete at him he rolls up his sleeves and puts on boxing gloves.

When a Witch gives him lip he pulls his hand back and slaps that bitch right in the mouth.

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Old Mar 11, 2006, 04:40 AM Local time: Mar 11, 2006, 05:40 PM #111 (permalink) of 142
I mac on 10.4
and runs XP Pro virtually when theres a need to.

not many mac useres around here huh o.O
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Old Mar 11, 2006, 07:39 AM Local time: Mar 11, 2006, 02:39 PM #112 (permalink) of 142
I use Windows XP for gaming and chatting with my people and offline I use ubuntu because its just cool when I get all those "WTF Looks" when I start ubuntu
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Old Mar 11, 2006, 08:29 AM #113 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by Myst'
I use Windows XP for gaming and chatting with my people and offline I use ubuntu because its just cool when I get all those "WTF Looks" when I start ubuntu
Those same looks, when compiling something in Gentoo, get magnified ten times. "Did you write all that?!?!?!?"
"Uhh... no."

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Old Mar 11, 2006, 11:21 AM Local time: Mar 11, 2006, 09:21 AM #114 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by mackun
I mac on 10.4
and runs XP Pro virtually when theres a need to.

not many mac useres around here huh o.O
Nope, not too many, but there's a cadre of us. Before the crash we had a sort of "Mac Users" thread that contained a lot of chat on all things Mac (including requests for help), but that was lost. Maybe one of us should re-make it.
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Old Mar 11, 2006, 03:35 PM #115 (permalink) of 142
I use Windows XP Pro primarily. I run a separate, slower Linux box with SuSE 10 on it. It's has a Samba server, and acts as primary domain controller so my two little brothers can have roaming profiles, since we have so many computers in the house of varying speeds.
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Old Mar 12, 2006, 09:19 PM Local time: Mar 12, 2006, 07:19 PM #116 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by Cless
Nope, not too many, but there's a cadre of us. Before the crash we had a sort of "Mac Users" thread that contained a lot of chat on all things Mac (including requests for help), but that was lost. Maybe one of us should re-make it.
I'm curious if you're going to get MacOSX for the x86 platform. There's a lot of buzz about this, finally you'll be able to dual boot Windows (for all those programs greedy authors won't port) and OSX.
Me? I heven't used a Mac since I graduated from high school (June 2005), I did have a lot of fun getting root access on the school PCs though.
When Smokers try to lasso him, he grabs their tongues and pulls them to HIM instead.

When Hunters jump on him he flips them over, pins them to the ground, and rips out their teeth one at a time.

When Boomers vomit on him he wipes himself off, shoots peptobismol into their mouths, and performs liposuction on them before splattering their brains on the wall.

When a Tank throws a chunk of concrete at him he rolls up his sleeves and puts on boxing gloves.

When a Witch gives him lip he pulls his hand back and slaps that bitch right in the mouth.

No zombie is safe from Chicago Ted.
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Old Mar 13, 2006, 01:19 AM #117 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp
I'm curious if you're going to get MacOSX for the x86 platform. There's a lot of buzz about this, finally you'll be able to dual boot Windows (for all those programs greedy authors won't port) and OSX.
Me? I heven't used a Mac since I graduated from high school (June 2005), I did have a lot of fun getting root access on the school PCs though.
As of yet, a way to dual boot OSX and Windows on the x86 Macs hasn't been found.

Apple's use of EFI (Without BIOS compatibility/emulation) with 32bit chips means that you can't use the EFI compatible Windows (Those intended for Itanium), because they are 64bit only. The 32bit versions of Windows don't work because they require BIOS instead of EFI.

The really sad news is that it appears that Vista will not include EFI support until the release of 'Longhorn Server' in 2007. So what everyone thought would be the easy way of dual booting those two OSes is looking pretty grim. http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/03/10/0526237.shtml
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Old Mar 13, 2006, 12:42 PM Local time: Mar 14, 2006, 01:42 AM #118 (permalink) of 142
XP Professional SP2. So far so good.

I wanted to try Linux yet I don't know what will I use. SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, and Ubuntu makes it confusing as ever.
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Old Mar 13, 2006, 11:01 PM Local time: Mar 13, 2006, 09:01 PM #119 (permalink) of 142
Originally Posted by PUG1911
As of yet, a way to dual boot OSX and Windows on the x86 Macs hasn't been found.

Apple's use of EFI (Without BIOS compatibility/emulation) with 32bit chips means that you can't use the EFI compatible Windows (Those intended for Itanium), because they are 64bit only. The 32bit versions of Windows don't work because they require BIOS instead of EFI.

The really sad news is that it appears that Vista will not include EFI support until the release of 'Longhorn Server' in 2007. So what everyone thought would be the easy way of dual booting those two OSes is looking pretty grim. http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/03/10/0526237.shtml
Yeah, but isn't there hacks of OSX that allow it to run on regular Windows PCs? I know it's not official or anything but it's a start,
When Smokers try to lasso him, he grabs their tongues and pulls them to HIM instead.

When Hunters jump on him he flips them over, pins them to the ground, and rips out their teeth one at a time.

When Boomers vomit on him he wipes himself off, shoots peptobismol into their mouths, and performs liposuction on them before splattering their brains on the wall.

When a Tank throws a chunk of concrete at him he rolls up his sleeves and puts on boxing gloves.

When a Witch gives him lip he pulls his hand back and slaps that bitch right in the mouth.

No zombie is safe from Chicago Ted.