Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Watching the wheels
Right now we have seven brand spanking new notebooks in the office - all needing initial configuration before they go into service at a demo day next week.
Getting this done is a test of patience. All come with Vista - and it seems that every machine behaves slightly differently out-of-the-box - for example with regard to network detection and runonce apps.
One thing that's common to all is that I've been reminded of that John Lennon song from Double Fantasy, Watching The Wheels. An OOB Vista installation already requires between 35 and 130-something MB of updates to bring it up to speed. That's larger than the entire Windows 98 install file...
Getting this done is a test of patience. All come with Vista - and it seems that every machine behaves slightly differently out-of-the-box - for example with regard to network detection and runonce apps.
One thing that's common to all is that I've been reminded of that John Lennon song from Double Fantasy, Watching The Wheels. An OOB Vista installation already requires between 35 and 130-something MB of updates to bring it up to speed. That's larger than the entire Windows 98 install file...
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