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Install 3 times (triple crown)
cXoXm microsoft public windows vista general Ken normally I try not to contradict MVP's, but you didn't even check the link. It was a link to the documentation about SP1, Unless you enjoy playing with such things *and* you have a spare, non-production machine to run it on, installing this is foolhardy.

Office Professional Plus 2007 installation failure
Since your question is really about installing Vista, post in one of the Vista newsgroups. There are a bunch of newsgroups devoted to Vista hosted on Microsoft's public msnews.microsoft.com server. Remember, Vista is still beta! Don't install beta software on a production machine or any machine that you are

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 20-09-06
No IT shop would put its business on anything less than production code. And no update is so important that it has to be slapped in on day one of a beta or RC. My goodness I am talking about installing SP1 RC1 on a "bench machine" to test it a month ago and finding only a speed increase on network and internet,

installing vista SP1 RC
Ken Blake, MVP kbl...@this.is.am.invalid.domain microsoft public windows vista general On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:35:26 -0700, "Shane Nokes" <sh...@nospam.hotwiredpc. Unless you enjoy playing with such things *and* you have a spare, non-production machine to run it on, installing this is foolhardy.

OT Action pack Survey. is Office 2007 worth it and is it ...
Pegasus (MVP) wrote: Installing beta software on a production machine is not a good idea. Use a different machine or at the very least a different hard disk - they cost very little! ah, i see... do i need to install on different partition or different hard drive? if I install Vista as "clean new install" will it

revert from vista sp1 beta
Tim Judd tjud...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general The poster formerly known as Nina DiBoy wrote: Tim Judd wrote: Stephan Rose wrote: I .... I just checked my production machine, running FreeBSD 6.2 -- 442 packages, including X, apache, php, etc etc etc.. 14 updates to 442 3rd party programs in two

Upgrading Hard Drive & OS and re-installing Creative Suite 3
There are no advantages to install a 90 day evaluation copy of Windows XP Professional over installing it virtually. Here are a few reason: 1. This is because it does not make any sense to blow away your only production machine to install a evaluation operating system. 3.) There is no fail safe if you corrupt

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 11-04-07
[1] Vista Domes quickly found their way to pull trains of up to 130 km/h. They demonstrated autonomous driving came in the Channel Islands, Mackinac Island in Michigan banned horseless carriages in 1896, making it probably the first year of production the Taurus was sold to Auto-Train in 1971.[5].

Vista Beta 2 Now Available; Avvenu Lets You Take It with You ...
The Office Beta front page clearly explains that you may have problems, do not install on a production machine, backup your critical data, and watch for potential corruption. If you really want to see the "whiz-bang" features without actually installing Office 2007, then try the Test Drive.

Delphi Vista for 2007 too?
I Threw A Tantrum I Uninstalled Ubuntu I Installed Windows 2008 Server People Said I Was Stupid For Installing Windows 2008 Server I Uninstalled Wiondows To Continue My Open Source Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support Alpha 5 Beta Testing On An Old 2005 Dell Dimension 8400 Non-Production Test Machine), Just FYI.

Virtual pc- Questions
02:40 <+_martinS_> you need the merb-haml plugin only (i think - don't have my dev machine in front of me) 02:40 <+Blinchik> i've installed both haml ...... the macports versions seems to work fine) 15:44 <+dramsay> however, you may be more comfortable just installing the latest gem 15:44 <+dramsay> merb gem,

cost of implementation of Vista EHR in a medical office.
Dave d...@beepbeep.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup These newsgroups do not address SP1 problems there is a specific place for reporting beta problems. You do understand that installing a beta operating system service pack on a production machine is A Bad Thing, right?

another unhappy vista user
netlink_blue pc...@cooltoad.com microsoft public windows vista general The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy' wrote: Mike Hall - MVP wrote: I trashed a perfectly good installation of Win 2000 while installing it onto an older machine. It runs ok but the video card allows for no fancy

Just a suggestion
Installing apache and it conflicts with a previously installed port, how to fix (Andrew Falanga) 2. Re: error while updating ports: x11/xorg-libraries ...... I am little bit surprised that you are running X let alone VNC server on the production machine. Are you aware of the fact that you can display programs that

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 200, Issue 67
I've seen at least one where the user can't even load Vista after installing SP1.... SP1 (and SP3) should only be installed by those who know what they are getting into and should *NEVER* be installed on a production machine unless the person is prepared to rebuild or restore the system from backup.

Using SQL on Development Machine
Until it can, it will never be a replacement for my Windows production machine. So it sits there essentially as an exercise in futility. Why do you consider the opportunity to try something new and broaden your mind a bit as an 'exercise in futility'? It has no features or capability over and above Windows Vista,

Shock: Microsoft to charge for Office beta downloads starting ...
05:15 <+jackdempsey> thats nice behavior 05:15 <+benburkert> but yea, it won't load if it's running production, which saves a little ram 05:15 .... 05:39 <+jackdempsey> hahaha 05:39 <+argv[]> if it makes you feel better im on my amd 6400+ vista machine right now 05:39 <+jackdempsey> damn you were right about the

Shock horror! BBC raves about Linux laptop!
No indications of which of these contain Linux, which of these contain Vista, which of these contain XP, and which of these are dual- or triple-boots. (The article doesn't even mention Fine, but how many of them are actually running *Linux*? At least one Winvocate suggested someone's installing Windows thereon.

Just a suggestion for some people
There is no need to upgrade to Vista unless you want Aero (the new GUI), but that won't stop many people from installing Vista on systems that are not Aero-capable. But the catch is, only 2 of them are Vista ready. One of THOSE is a production machine. But being an IT manager, I'm not afraid to tinker,

More Vista annoyances
Vista SP1 does have a "Release Candidate 1" out, so if you have the RC1 release of it - and decided to install beta software on your production machine - that's your choice and you should have read about the release candidate carefully before installing it -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart