It would look like Microsoft somehow managed to gain a new fan in me from my last posts.Well, remember that hang glidin' pig outside my window? Yeah, he crashed and burned.
You see, I had forgotten that I spent a few hours hacking Windows 7 Beta after the first install. Taking out unnecessary services, startup programs, windows media player 12, DRM crap. Basically a necessity for my trusty old laptop.
Unfortunately, after my unsuccessful attempt at making 7 beta and Fedora 10 mutually tolerable, I used window's system restore to try to fix the screwed up boot sequence. It didn't work. But when I finally got 7 beta back up, I saw that it indeed "worked". All that portly junk that I removed came back, and some. The DRM stuff is worst. Windows 7 will support more codecs natively (namely divx/xvid & h.264), but EVERYTHING is routed through the built-in DRM pipeline. You know, to protect the unalienable rights of swell guys over at the RIAA and MPAA. Even if the content isn't copyrighted.
Okay, I know artists gotta eat and RIAA and MPAA suits need to buy yachts. But it sucks when said built-in DRM pipeline system is grossly inefficient. Video and music files that my trusty lappy used to handle at the lowest power state (600Mhz) now consistently devour over 90% of the CPU at full speed (1.4GHz). Besides using more juice and creating more pollution, it generates more heat which keeps the laptop fan on constantly. Definitely not cool. Literally.
I remember I was able to override 7 Beta's built-in codec with Xvid in the first go around, which seemed to alleviate most video issues. But thanks to system restore, the 7 beta codecs are back and refuse to give up power.
D'oh!
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I don't want to sound smug, but I will anyway.
Just let me ask, Why on earth did you expect Windows to let you customize it and then work?
After seven years and counting of M$-free life, every time I encounter an instance of Windows, it only serves to remind me why I ran away screaming in the first place.
Can't help but share what I just found with Consumerist's help: Texas bans Vista for gov't use :)
Ya know, even your S2000's right eye looks smug. Stop smirking already!
But the Texas ban is pretty funny. Didn't Intel do the same a while back? So much for wintel.
Seven years? Impressive. But isn't it just in time for a seven years itch... :) But yeah, customizing *cough* hacking *cough* Windows 7's retarded DRM system is frustrating. I still can't get Xvid or ffdshow to register as my active codec. It's really too bad, because I actually like Windows Media Player 11's library database system (of course, I had to hack Windows 7 to remove the "new" 12 and install 11, but that's another story).
Okay, you can ungasp now. Really, 11 is actually not that bad. Fast and even avant garde with the clever use of album arts (borrowed by iTunes some say). It's like GM's Corvette! With all that resource, you gotta get at least ONE decent product out of it.
But from the new media player 12 included in Win 7, it looks like MS managed to ruin the one good thing going form them.
Oh well.
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