More Fun With Windows XP

09.01.2006

Last may, I got a new laptop. It was an acer5670 aspire, with dual processors, 2 gigs of RAM, etc[1]. While I'd normally feel a bit unseemly for bragging up my laptop specs, this situation is a bit different. Acer -- in their infinite wisdom, gave me a system with dual processors, and Windows XP home edition preinstalled...

::pauses for to give audience a chance to grasp the significance of the proceeding sentence::

You see kids, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition doesn't support dual processors. So why would Acer package a high end system with an operating system that didn't support it?

That wasn't a rhetorical question -- and indeed I have plenty of time to ponder it; as I watch 800 megabytes of windows XP updates download. Yes sir, download, install, restart, download, install, restart -- that's my future for now.

I hope all is well out there in greater blogastan.

Nick Lewis's blog

Comments

Tue, 2006-09-26 03:22 — styro (not verified)

Not to worry

MS licenses software by the number of sockets not the number of cores. XP Home will support a single socket dual core CPU just fine.

Late reply - you've probably already realised this by now though :)

Sat, 2006-09-02 12:40 — Arancaytar

Hey Nick

After people have been complaining more and more frequently about the PBA blogroll requiring an update, I thought this could be simplified by making the Blogroll part of the PBA site (via a Drupal module). This would make it possible for people to add their sites, and also to share the updating work by giving several moderators access to it - which isn't really feasible with the blogrolling.com roll.

I've never worked with the Drupal API before, so what I did is really quick and dirty, but I'd be glad if you could look at it when you have time and perhaps give me a few hints for improvement. :)

The module source is here.

Fri, 2006-09-01 22:38 — a passing drifter (not verified)

why don't you try to throw

why don't you try to throw linux on there. OpenSuSE has quite good laptop support.