scribbles of the perennial debugger…
Posts tagged Rant
Useless piece of M$ software
Aug 10th
An instance where Vista Readyboost would be very help on a Vista laptop is if you had an IDE laptop hard drive with 1 GB of RAM. On the other hand, Vista Readyboost can actually slow down your computer in some cases. This is because the faster SATA laptop hard drives will be much better at being virtual memory than the Vista Readyboost will ever be. Most of the newer Vista laptops are also coming with 4 GB of memory and more. A Vista laptop with 4GB of RAM and a SATA laptop drive on a 64 Bit version of Windows Vista doesn’t seem to gain anything at all. In fact, you will feel the Vista laptop going faster when you just unplug the memory card or USB jump drive from the computer.
From: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1816370/vista_readyboost_review_for_a_vista.html?cat=15
This explains… I have forked out some $$ for a 4GB SD (SanDisk Ultra II 15MB/s) to no avail. At first, I couldn’t feel the difference. I just used my laptop to the “comfort” feel of maybe, something’s being boosted. After a while, I notice significant decrease of performance due to excessive swapping between the HDD and the ReadyBoost media. M$ doesn’t even point this out… Vista sucks, really!
Some sort of a twitt!
Jul 18th
I hate Vista. After few months of using it, I have grown tired of its sluggishness. Vista sucks, really.
Oh, BTW, I hate Chrome too. I’d go back to Firefox
Another JDK6 WTF!
Jan 22nd
Chanced up a JDK-related error when I tried to uninstall Poseidon for UML CE 5.0.1. It looks like that the JDK6 has some things to clean. I reinstalled JDK5 Update 10 once more to save my day. This time, I am sticking with JDK5 until updates to JDK6 are made.
If runtime errors happen on supposedly stable programs using JDK6, what more can it do on other programs that I do or run? tsk tsk tsk. So much of the vaunted performance gain that I have been bragging to a friend just for him to jump into 6. Guess I’d be back into 5′s fold.
