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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:47 pm
by Cmd. Cheyd
SD Card - Same reason I have an installation on my
Iron Key. I dont' care what Win-PC I sit down at, I gots me some Oolite. And I don't have to install anything, or reconfigure any files (like the 1.72.2 BAT). Great for those 8 hour meetings where I'm in attendance to stand up at one point and say "Yeah, we can already do that. Implemented it a year ago."
As for rebooting, I reboot my Vista machine at home about once a month, maybe less. My new Windows 7 box at work is being rebooted a bit more, but that's due to some LOW-LEVEL (chipset, etc) drivers that are rapidly evolving. Surprisingly, I installed a new video driver and no reboot was required. Going to have to see if that's normal for Win7 when I install at home. Games and applications should never really require a reboot anymore, and haven't in a while. A lot of driver installation packs force a reboot for housekeeping reasons, but the OS doesn't actually require one.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:54 pm
by wackyman465
Cmd. Cheyd wrote: "Yeah, we can already do that. Implemented it a year ago."
As in you implemented it in Oolite? Wish I could do that at school... "Oh I already wrote that essay... *takes out oolite flashdrive*
And why oh why on your ironkey? That's even sillier than an SD card... Keep the hackers away from your kill rating?
Re: ..
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:59 pm
by Lestradae
another_commander wrote:Lestradae wrote:Thargoid wrote:Could the average Windows user tell an installer from a Winzip self-extractor anyway? 
Yep. Installer ends in exe and does everything themselves, extractor needs a program and a right-click and a "unpack this here".
I think Thargoid's point has just been proven
I was afraid someone would say that.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:01 pm
by Cmd. Cheyd
No, implemented crap at work. Half the time the developers forget what Infrastructure (my team) has already provided for them.
As as for the Ironkey - Because I use the Ironkey for work purposes. I have it on my person 24/7. And there's no more latency that I see off most 5400 RPM laptop HDD's. And again, so I can have it with me no matter what PC I'm at.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:12 pm
by Thargoid
Mine's on an SD card (which sits in a PCMCIA adaptor, making it look like a HD) simply because most weeks I travel for work all over Europe, so I'm playing/OXP'ing Oolite on my work laptop rather than any of my home machines.
And being a work laptop, I don't have admin rights on it, and it's locked down tighter than a very tight thing. And if I start putting a gig or so of game+oxps on the hard drive, the IT department would have something to say about it.
Hence I use my own "little hard drive" which they don't see and is none of their damn business to snoop about.
Plus as the good commander says, for development etc it's nice to have the same install and files whatever PC you're working at, rather than having to remember to bounce copies of development files around.
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:31 pm
by wackyman465
Cmd. Cheyd wrote: And there's no more latency that I see off most 5400 RPM laptop HDD's. And again, so I can have it with me no matter what PC I'm at.
Oolite addict post above. Why not install Oolite on a velociraptor or ssd too? Run it on dual gtx 295s?