There is one truth (somewhere)

- these are the ingredients for some big big trouble

basically i could not use any OpenType Fonts (otf).

my system installed with Windows Xp sp3 said the fonts are either not there or damaged. i could use normal truetype fonts (ttf) but no otf.

after hours of search i finally stumbled across that on some systems with sp3 and ati cards there could arise these problems.

i had drivers installed from laptopvideo2go.com which are newer then the drivers samsung provides for my laptop (samsung r70) which has a nvidia 8600gs. version was forceware 175.xx.

I resolved the issue with installing the drivers from samsung which are forceware 101.19 from last year. they are freaking old!

i will try some other versions, i read somewhere 16x.xx series should do.

the bug itself seems to be in the driver and in the engine windows uses to render (postscript based) otf fonts witch they licensed from adobe. nice team work guys!

• how the fuck can such things happen and why cant you find anything about it!
• why the hell i can only get drivers from my laptop vendor and why are they so freaking old?

another problem i have (or had) is tearing mostly bad not only in videos.

its also hard to understand why it seems to be impossible to use directx on dual head, means games or movies.

i will certainly look at other operating systems again now…

vista.

ill had a pretty bad experience yesterday. a stalled process i could not kill. not with taskmgr, not with process explorer from sysinternals, not with kill, taskkill and so on. not as administrator. after trying to get it for half an hour, ill had to leave, so i suspend my laptop. this also did not worked, the laptop kept on working and never finished suspend. after five minutes i powered it hard down.

any one ever had something like this? i could not find anything that helped on this. i am suspecting something like a kernel module or driver. maybe punkbuster or some shit like that. the process was autoit which is wildly used for cheats like for bots/aimbots… i am using ac’tivAid which is an program from the german ct-magazin and uses autoit.

any suggestions? i will investigate that stuff….

remember when you used to delete the hibernate files under windows xp to gain some temporary extra storage?

well, if you do such under vista, you might be missing your beloved hibernate after it…. so what you do? you search your system control center for the setting and wonder where the f*cking hell they now put it.

its not there.

like in most cases, the ms-kb will give you a solution: "powercfg.exe /hibernate on" in a administrators shell will fix your problems.

while reading the bad as usual windows help (some things never change), i discovered that there is a new "hybrid standby mode" which is basicly standby with a fall back hibernate on disk in case the ram is corrupted from a powerfailure or whatever. sounds nice, will try that…

atm im looking the last minutes of "the rock" on german television. i consider this my preparation for the upcoming bio-test in school tomorrow (for my defence, im only watching tv cause i played a bit with solaris on my lap…)

since i got a new laptop, samsung r70 - my old amilo is dying and was shity anyways - im back on windows.
why? easy, atm (open)solaris does not support stepping for multicore cpus - on a laptop, this kills.
another thing, X sucks big time and even more the window systems on top - gtk based system are the worst for my memory, gnome eats about ~250mb out of the box alone, xfce ~150mb. but the worst is the leaking, dunno if this is a solaris "special", but realy atm, i dont care, i dont have the time for such things.
the worst on gtk is firefox. on *nix firefox is gtk based, with X(org) this leaks like hell, ~200mb firefox memory (yeah i got a couple of tabs open…) this gives me a ~500mb Xorg after some time (memory is here the limit). i have to look out for it, cause otherwise my system goes into a swap-lock. (i dont have this problems in windows, there firefox uses windows native stuff)

what could i do? - use kde. i allways liked qt based stuff better from the "feel". opera is an option and i will try to migrate on opera 9.5 (not the first time). i could use kde from blastwave, but no, aint no blastwave for me - if im doing it, im doing it right.
also i would prefer to wait until kde 4.x is out, going by 3.5.x and then finding out the newer versions suck  - nah.
so i will wait, and maybe, if i like it, port kde 4 to solaris. i think its crucial that sun picks up kde and integrates it. i always here "there is blastwave kde" or "why not port it by your self?" - but that stinks, i can ask back, "why does sun maintain there own gnome version then?" its more work then simply port it on a desktop.

well so im on my vista now and i wonder why all the people flame on it that much, yeah its huge and so on but it isnt that bad…
i will cross-check performance with a windows xp install soon.

ps: for your windows terminal (putty) needs: a good font! (standard sucks on white background)