[quote user="ender"]Sounds almost like .NET Framework - download the base version first (through Windows Update), reboot, get the service pack (again through Windows Update), reboot, download more updates (for .NET), reboot. I've been wondering for years why couldn't they make an unified...

Whoa, at first I misread the title as "Microsoft Source Forge". Oh crud, another hostile takeover! Fortunately, my groan was suppressed as I followed the link. BTW, am I the only one who can't download the game?

[quote user="DaEagle"] [quote user="dlikhten"] and has a ram requirement of 512 ram to work great. Once that happens its vista all de way! [/quote] is that MB or GB? [/quote] I think it's 512 RAM modules.

[quote user="dlikhten"]The only problem is that cmd.exe does not have coloring like linux shells do so ls --color gives bad output [/quote] Why not use MSYS, then? Just tried ls --color , works fine. (Well, except it messes up Cyrillic filenames. Grrr.)

A while ago I promised a story/rant about Microsoft translators. Well, here it is. I'm not sure if the issue I describe is known stuff, or whether it is appropriate to the forum, or if it's too long, so "AS IS", etc. You probably know that Microsoft distributes a lot of localized Windows...

[quote user="boomzilla"]Notepad?!? What a bunch of bloat. Ed is the standard text editor .[/quote] Isn't that ironic that, ed is an order of magnitude more full-featured and powerful than Notepad? Would not call it "bloated", though.

My favorite FP tag job so far... <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px"> <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> <font size="2"><br /> </font></span> <em style="font-style: normal"> It aparently screwed up the code enough to the...

marketdroids: The Microsoft ® Windows Vista™ tone That's the most retarded, inane, pretentious thing I've heard all week.

Iago: The real WTF is the actual, uh, what for want of a better word I shall charitably call the "content" of that page. As in, the things they think are going to make me speechless. One of the highlights, at #9 in the list, is the fact that Windows Vista supports wireless networking. I'm speechless...