win_tech_off_topic : Message: <a href="http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/prerc1/en/download.html">http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/prerc1/en/download.html</a>

http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/08/29/452448.aspx
--> http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/prerc1/en/download.html

This is the same build (5536) released last week to Technical Beta and
TAP customers.

Offer good while supplies last -- the download site will close after
~100k downloads!

-S

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http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/08/29/452448.aspx --> http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/prerc1/en/download.html This is the same...

Shawn A. Van Ness
arithex

Aug 29, 2006
2:41 pm

... downloading... 10x :)...

Stoyan Damov
stoyan_damov

Aug 29, 2006
2:56 pm

Thanks for the heads up Shawn.. ! Now if only the wireless setup here at work was faster 450Kb to 550Kb download speed is going to take 2 1/2 + hours?!...

Ken Grierson
webtiger01

Aug 29, 2006
6:33 pm

... 565.92 KB/s here. It's not your wireless :) Oh, and I'm done - whee! About an hour and 20 minutes total. Now to go find a sacrifical goat^w computer... ...

Arthur Warren
warren_herb

Aug 29, 2006
7:15 pm

Dude! If you can get Vista running on a goat, let me know! : ) _____ From: win_tech_off_topic@yahoogroups.com [mailto:win_tech_off_topic@yahoogroups.com] On...

Chris Sells
csells

Aug 29, 2006
8:06 pm

I thought it was Microsoft policy to be more inclusive nowadays? Where's your imagination? Presumably the elephant goes in the corner of the server room. ...

Richard Howells
loopylozzysdad

Aug 29, 2006
10:59 pm

4.5mb/s from my stateside based box....

josh robb
josh_robb

Aug 30, 2006
11:46 am

... Assuming that's Mb (mega-bits/sec), it's about the same as I was getting. Eerily close, even. Herb....

Arthur Warren
warren_herb

Aug 30, 2006
1:41 pm

nope - that's megabytes. the whole thing downloaded in about 9 minutes. j....

josh robb
josh_robb

Aug 30, 2006
3:50 pm

... Wow. How close are you to the MS campus? :) Herb....

Arthur Warren
warren_herb

Aug 30, 2006
4:37 pm

Must be perched on top of one of the flagpoles. - R _____ From: win_tech_off_topic@yahoogroups.com [mailto:win_tech_off_topic@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...

Richard Howells
loopylozzysdad

Aug 30, 2006
5:50 pm

Even on MS corp intranet, the only way to get Vista in 9 min is to walk over to the burn lab in bldg 26 and grab a DVD... :-)...

Shawn A. Van Ness
arithex

Aug 30, 2006
6:48 pm

... Well, at least I know where to go. Getting in might be tricky, though. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a herd of goats packing DVDs. Herb....

Arthur Warren
warren_herb

Aug 30, 2006
8:20 pm

... m = milli (x10^-3) M = mega (x10^6) b = bit (atomic unit of information) B = byte (8 bits, aka: octet) AIUI ISO/IEEE standards say 1 MB == 8,000,000 b. ...

DJ Mort
mort1337

Aug 30, 2006
5:27 pm

Likely the data is passing through that aged 10Mbps hub you could not bring yourself to throw out. As we all know the data can only go as fast as the slowest...

Richard Howells
loopylozzysdad

Aug 30, 2006
5:46 pm

... So does that mean I got 4.5MB/s???? ... Ethernet is a funny thing - depending on utilisation you could be getting _much_ less the theoretical max... in...

josh robb
josh_robb

Aug 31, 2006
10:26 am

... To the best of my knowledge, no virtualisation platform offers sufficient DirectX support for Aero. VMware Workstation has had "experimental" DX support...

Jon Kale
JonKale

Aug 31, 2006
11:18 am

... Well... you downloaded 2,771,730,432 bytes in 540 seconds... which is 5,132,834 bytes per second... so you received data at 5.1MB/s. That doesn't really...

DJ Mort
mort1337

Aug 31, 2006
8:17 pm

I realize that this might sound as a dumb question, but have you checked that you are not copying from/to a compressed folder?...

Franci Penov
francip

Sep 1, 2006
1:21 am

... I'm copying from a stock NTFS partition on the local WinXP source to a Samba server using a ReiserFS file-system on a virtual RAID5 partition on the...

DJ Mort
mort1337

Sep 1, 2006
2:20 am

Assuming a product key is necessary to install this, how do you obtain one? I don't see any mention of this on the download page. Fernando Tubio ... From:...

Fernando Tubio
ftnews@...

Aug 29, 2006
8:23 pm

LOL, great question... I will try to find out....

Shawn A. Van Ness
arithex

Aug 29, 2006
9:01 pm

1) If you have a Beta2 PID key, it will work. 2) An email was sent to TAP customers, with instructions on obtaining a new key, if needed. 3) I think (but...

Shawn A. Van Ness
arithex

Aug 29, 2006
11:04 pm

... ...I have (or can get, anyway) a Beta2 key via MSDN. (I got myself registered yesterday by emailing a scanned copy of the paper form to the MSDN people......

DJ Mort
mort1337

Aug 29, 2006
11:31 pm

... Wow. Introduce a digital camera into the mix, and you'll have a trifecta going. ... Blasphemy. How do you expect to get any non-trivial SCSI chain working ...

Arthur Warren
warren_herb

Aug 30, 2006
12:46 am

... The UNIX Gods are very demanding... and I daren't suffer their wrath! ... ...I do actually have two goats sitting right here next to me... they're ...

DJ Mort
mort1337

Aug 30, 2006
1:17 am

Would it be http://i-x.info/? _____ From: win_tech_off_topic@yahoogroups.com [mailto:win_tech_off_topic@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of DJ Mort Sent: Tuesday,...

Ken Grierson
webtiger01

Aug 30, 2006
3:29 am

... Holy Architecture Astronautism Batman! That's interesting, but nope... that's not it. My reference is a far more pedestrian/pop-culture thing. Here... let...

DJ Mort
mort1337

Aug 30, 2006
4:35 am

Hey John, ... I thought Un-Ix was pretty funny, given that you're trying to run Vista on it... But I see you have something else planned. - Kim...

Kim Gräsman
kimgrasman

Aug 30, 2006
5:34 am

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