[AccessD] Dvorak's rant on Windows 8

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Sun Jun 10 04:17:53 CDT 2012



There's another proud Dane here, FYI :)

Hans


On 2012-06-10, at 12:55 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:

> Hi Arthur --
> 
> You sound a bit depressing, don't give up!
> 
> In fact (if you believe MS) Win8 should run just fine on 1GB box:
> 
> Have a look "Reducing runtime memory in Windows 8"
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/07/reducing-runtime-memory-in-windows-8.aspx
> 
> Yes, JWC has a great hardware environment but is it a must have for every developer to be competitive these days?
> I suppose it's not. For example, I'm staying currently outside St.Petersburg city, in a village and I'm using here a mere mortals DELL Inspiron 9400 with Win7 Ultimate 32bit, 3GB RAM, 300GB HDD, a GSM modem and a 850GB backup HDD connected via USB2.
> That's it. And I feel rather comfortable developing .NET Framework and MS Office apps running all over the world.
> I usually have three VS instances running keeping opened solutions with multiple projects as well as MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, dozen Google Chrome tabs and some other software...
> And I'm using such a "poor man" system for almost a year now - trying to get the highest ROI from hardware investment possible :)
> I have other hardware but I have found I don't need it for my current customers projects. Yes, keeping a couple of displays connected to one development box would help to speed-up a bit, and I'm planning to get them connected but again, that's it: that's all a developer using MS modern development tools would need to work efficiently on a broad range of application software project types. Not all of course: I can't develop SharePoint projects on my system, nor can I develop games for WinPhone7...
> But on my 32bit system I'm developing software, which runs fine on customers' 64bit systems...
> 
> Yes, I do plan to get  purchased i7-driven box this fall but just because my DELL Inspiron 9400 is getting a bit old - it's 5 years old currently...
> 
> Once again, don't give up Arthur!
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- Shamil
> 
> P.S. BTW, the Euro 2012 Football championship started a couple of days ago, and you're a football fun AFAIK. Did you see Denmark football team did win The Netherlands' one - first time in the last 50 years? (Congrats to Gustav! :) 
> 
> Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:29:13 -0400 от Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>:
>> Obviously I am far and away out of my league in this discussion, so I think
>> the best policy is to shut up and watch the intelligentsia wage their wars.
>> I can't afford lunch tomorrow, let alone another computer. I'm happy for
>> you people who can, seriously. I am not suffering techno-envy, my stupid
>> little two boxes one running Mint and the other WIndows 7 Ultimate, that's
>> all I have and it shall suffice. I read stuff from JWC and he's got more
>> boxes and RAM on them all than I could ever dream of, but that's ok. He
>> works hard and makes money and all that is totally OK. Not a problem in the
>> world with his doing well. I mean, if anyone in this community has given
>> back, it's JWC! He has done more for this community than pretty much anyone
>> else I could name.
>> 
>> All that said, I have only two boxes, one dedicated to Mint 11 and the
>> other to Windows 7 64-bit. with a mere 4 gigs of RAM in both. This is the
>> sad story of my life. Oh, I forgot. I have a KVM that enables me to swap
>> from this box to that, since I cannot afford separate keyboards, mice and
>> monitors. so I have to swap among them, but hey, KVM is pretty cool, given
>> my extremely limited resources. I'm about to purchase a third box, and my
>> KVM can actually support that new baby and two more. And the best thing is
>> that my heating bill is included in my rent, so in theory I could have 100
>> computers here, and not pay even a nickel extra in rent or hydro bills. Woo
>> hoo! In addition, I'm probably not going to live even 24 more years, so
>> that's that. Call me Toast. I'll be off this planet soon.
>> 
>> A.
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