Life without Walls Wallpapers for your PC

Life without walls

Aerie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:36:33 GMT

Life without walls

re: Life without Walls Wallpapers for your PC

adrian — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:04:07 GMT

I'm a PC and life without windows would be quite suffocating... indeed

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Interesante recopilación de Wallpapers y Screensavers para Windows

Guillermo Taylor @ Microsoft — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:26:04 GMT

Comparto con ustedes una interesante colección de estos elementos, para que tengan a la mano algunos

re: Life without Walls Wallpapers for your PC

ke6seh — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:31:57 GMT

I'm a PC, and I don't use Microsoft products.

My email sig states:

Ubuntu (logo here) Life without Windows

I customized my Ubuntu sustem so that it looks and feels like a Macintosh.

Now I have the best of both worlds without the bad of both worlds.

Open Source Rules!!

Yo soy un PC

Guillermo Taylor @ Microsoft — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:20:43 GMT

Así es. Yo soy un PC. ¿Y ustedes? En el vínculo de la imagen de arriba, está todo

I’m a Device!

Windows Embedded Blog — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:59:30 GMT

You’ve probably seen the new “I’m a PC” adverts, either on TV or the internets (what do you think of

re: Life without Walls Wallpapers for your PC

Brandon LeBlanc — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:07:49 GMT

ExDotNetter, great to see you back on Windows Vista. Neat comment by the way.

- Brandon

re: Life without Walls Wallpapers for your PC

ExDotNetter — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:18:12 GMT

I'm a PC, and I just reinstalled Windows Vista... People hate it but it gets the job done. We have an odd VPN at work, and I felt I didn't have enough time on my hands to tweak the VPN config on Linux... just like the first time I switched over. Productivity over principle. I'm becoming a bit of a pragmatic, apathetic, "Git-R-Done" PC...

Speaking of DRM, after all the rumors I had heard before, I actually got relieved when I installed the OS. It turned out to have much less DRM than I had expected. A lot of the horror stories I heard in the early 00s were completely untrue.

They said: You won't be able to install another OS.

Reality: Linux ran just fine in dual-boot mode and even in MS Virtual PC 2007. I could even launch it from a MyBook drive.

They said: You won't be able to play or copy DRM-free content.

Reality: I ripped all the CDs that I own and put them in my Music folder. I also made a whole bunch of copies for my car. No hassle, no restrictions. Every once in a while, I stream them from my XBox.

They said: You will only be able to run applications that have been signed and authorized by Microsoft.

Reality: You can sign applications just like you put an SSL cert on a Web site to assure your customers that the page is actually coming from you and not from some scammer/spammer who created an identical copy of your page. If an app is unsigned, all you get is a scary-looking pop-up.

WMA files can come both with and without DRM, and some services like Napster let you remove the DRM for a fee (the Internet equivalent of buying a CD)

DRM is a hot issue these days, but since I ain't no left-winger, I don't object to the technology per se... It depends on how it's used. And I think if it's applied properly, it might actually increase competition in the music distribution market because artists will be able to work with much smaller record labels and publish music directly on the Internet. And I don't download any pirated content of software from Gnutella (LimeWire) or BitTorrent. But that's just me...

In reality, the Vista woes everyone is so gung-ho about somehow bypassed me. Here are the issues I experienced personally:

1) Problems with VS 2005 Express - SP1 is required, and even with SP1, you can't open files directly from Windows Explorer.

Resolution: VS 2008 Express.

2) TortoiseSVN used to crash Windows Explorer about every couple of hours (when heavily used)

Resolution: TortoiseSVN 1.5.x... They finally fixed those bugs.

3) Hibernate went away...

Resolution: This was a Dell issue, not a Windows issue... The Hibernate option was removed by Dell's power management updates. An MS tech support specialist brought it back by typing something in the command line.

4) Old JavaScript debuggers won't run because of permission adjustments (MS Script Debugger / Script Editor)

Resolution: Use Visual Web Developer to debug in IE, FireBug to debug in FieFox.

5) Very minor: unzipping files would take a while before SP1. With SP1, unzipping is zippy.

6) A few blue screens from a third-party VPN driver.

Resolution: This seems to have been partially fixed by SonicWall. Blue screens are very rare now.

Other than that, it's been just as stable as any other Windows NT (2k, XP), and way more stable than 9x... I don`t really believe it to be the buggiest Windows ever.

Honestly, there`s only one thing I hate about Vista... I HATE THE FACT THAT EVERYONE HATES IT. I wish I could have the same "pride of ownership" of my laptop and the tools I use that I would've had a few years back... And it`s annoying to hear people scream "VISTA SUCKS" from behind my back the first time they see me working on my laptop... and try hard not to laugh when I try to extend PHP ".net-style" (by re-coding some of the little features I miss from .net like IXmlSerializable, for example)

How about y'all release a Service Pack that will actually go ahead and rename it to Mojave? (just joking)

re: Life without Walls Wallpapers for your PC

Brandon LeBlanc — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:02:18 GMT

ExDotNetter, I don't quite follow your connection with Windows Vista and DRM. I also am pretty sure that the "only reason behind the introduction of Vista" was not DRM. You should read Ed Bott's blog post about DRM and the FUD about DRM + Vista:

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1762

Thanks for the comment!

- Brandon

re: Life without Walls Wallpapers for your PC

ExDotNetter — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:47:33 GMT

I'm a PC, and I just got rid of Windows. I know that my decision-making abilities and judgment are inferior to those of the average user, since I've been satisfied with Vista for over a year until I took a hard look at the reality of Vista adoption, as well as what people are saying on the blogs.

I think it's the beginning of the end of Microsoft... A few years from now PC's won't even have OSes with which users will interact... They'll be more like dumb terminals with Chrome pre-loaded on a stripped-down Linux or OSX... I've long refused the notion that "the next OS will be the Internet itself" But now I believe it... Even though I don't personally enjoy coding in "Postel-compliant" HTML + JS with tons of hacks + a copy'n'paste style, that's the way of the future. That's precisely why Silverlight ain't takin' off. No one needs a VM running in a browser when there's JS, HTML and document.write(). That idea has been dead since MS tried to push Java.

DRM is also a failing technology, and it's the only reason behind the introduction of Vista. Everyone else is just a facade. It appears that, while the average user might be easy to fool (like me before I ditched Vista and the folks in the Mojave Experiment), Microsoft has grossly "misunderestimated" the collective brain of the Internet community.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm

Microsoft News Summary w/e 21st September 2008

BlogMS - Official Microsoft Team Blogs — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:25:08 GMT

There were 214 articles from the Microsoft Team Blogs and feeds last week. Here is my summary of interesting

I’m a Device!

Windows Embedded Blog — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:32:47 GMT

You’ve probably seen the new “I’m a PC” adverts, either on TV or the internets (what do you think of

re: Life without Walls Wallpapers for your PC

NickelGreen — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:49:41 GMT

I like a lot the "Heroes" look of this ad image. :-)

re: Life without Walls Wallpapers for your PC

Spencer — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:17:58 GMT

Great job! You should upload these to WinCustomize as well. :)