[PhillyOnRails] Sharp stick in the eye on free software distributed after MSDN and TechNet Events here in KC today...

[Jared Blitzstein]

My boss ask us devs if we were interested in upgrading our boxes from  
XP to Vista and I responded with an emphatic NO! A shiny new theme  
and a GUI changes won't speed my compiler and I'm hurting for RAM as  
it is.

On Aug 29, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Toby DiPasquale wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:17:49AM -0400, Keith Fitzgerald wrote:
>> i have to run vista on a box for work ... i have it totally  
>> stripped down.
>> no fancy aero [fancy being relative to M$ here], only necessary  
>> services
>> turned on, etc ... and it boots up with ~800MB ram eaten. ms is  
>> some voodoo
>> software.
>
> Try running the fucker in VMware... I initially installed with a 10GB
> virtual disk, only to find out that it wasn't enough for the god-damn
> install!
>
> -- 
> Toby DiPasquale
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