VistaJuice

For the past couple of days I've been having strange issues with Vista on iMac. Namely, if I leave the computer alone for 5 minutes, it would go to a blank screen (all black) and never come out of it until I restart.

This was annoying the living hell out of me... I disabled the Dream Scene package and now it all works like a charm. Also, with the Dream Scene out - I do not get the random Windows Manager restarts due to some video driver failures.

So, if you are having some issues - try getting the Dream Scene out. It sucks without it, but what can one do? I rather have a stable system than 5 minutes of pretty animated desktop :)

P.S. - Scratch out where I said Dream Scene works in last post. :)

It's been some time since we've all wanted an SP1 for Vista. The not-so-final version, but mostly good enough for public testing has been released today.

As with every "beta" software, you should be careful and not install this on any mission critical systems, but if you are like me - you won't care less and just go for it and see what Microsoft's kitchen has in store for us.

Here's the download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=529d992a-d69e-4c73-9213-7a7f3852c0ca&displaylang=en&tm

Also, you might be interested in reading up about it first on ZD-Net: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1106

P.S. Is Microsoft trying to show us how good Vista is meant to be just a day before the MacWorld 2008? :)

There aren't any visual improvements with Vista's SP1 (that I've noticed in the first hour of playing with it), but I did notice the following:

• It does seem I am not being asked as much for a permission to do some things (finally)
• I LOVE that Vista now sees 4GB of RAM (the correct amount) and is not showing it as 3GB... It's nice to be able to use what you paid for :)

When I see more things I'll let you know, but for now ... it seems fine :)