I give up.. I hate Vista...
Oh well my battle with 64bit Vista has ended... last night I gave up on it and decided to reinstall my Windows XP.
I couldn't install my VPN clients that I use, I couldn't find drivers for fairly recent components, and the just make things work DirectX doesn't work properly, so my favourite game Battlefield 2142 doesn't work.
In case any one plays Battlefield 2142 my nick is donmozza. I am a member of the TOG clan (The Older Gamers http://www.theoldergamers.com ) who are made up of over 25 gamers. Teach those young kids a lesson (NOT!!!) Geeezz some of the younger kids are good. Mind you the annoying thing is that people use cheats to gain an advantage which just isn't sport.
I don't understand how customers could move to Vista... many corporate PC's just aren't up to Vista recommendations, and Computer component vendors still don't have Vista drivers available or they may have but they only cover products that are less than 12 months old. Plus Cisco and Checkpoint's VPN clients don't exist for Vista 64bit.
Mind if someone wanted to go to Vista and didn't have the desktops with a sufficient configuration, you could go one of two ways.
First you could move your applications to Terminal Services running on Vista, and then use Secure Global Desktop or Sun Ray Appliances to connect to those Vista RDP sessions. This currently isn't supported but is on the near horizon. Mind you if you are using published applications then you can't really see much of Vista and there really isn't much point. Just stick with a Windows 2003 Terminal Server until Longhorn comes out.
Otherwise you could use VMware's Virtualised Desktop Infrastructure with Sun Secure Global Desktop as a migration strategy for Vista. There is a Virtualised Desktop Access (VDA) kit which can be downloaded from http://www.sun.com/downloads which integrate SGD and VDI and Sun Ray thin clients if you were also interested in replacing your desktop PC's with Thin Appliances.
So at 3am this morning I finished reinstalling Windows XP, and it will probably take me a couple of days to get everything to where it was. I also installed Solaris Express (x64 version) on the box so it dual boots. Solaris absolutely flies on my PC, which has an AMD FX-60 Dual Core CPU and 2GB of memory. I also installed my XFX NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS card and this screams. I got a 3DMark06 score of 8760 without tweaking.
That's basically it for today, Until next time.
Posted at 05:57PM Mar 08, 2007 by sunraybruce in General |