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Title: Vista problem
Post by: blobrana on September 27, 2005, 05:36:22 PM

Looks like Winuae may not work that well with Vista…

“the entire system partition is encrypted and that includes both the hibernation file and your data as well”

Weblink: (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26504)

Title: Re: Vista problem
Post by: Vincent on September 27, 2005, 06:35:02 PM

Crap.

--edit--

Actually, that shouldn't really bother me.  By the time I get round to getting Vista there'll probably be a new version of WinUAE for Vista :-)

Title: Re: Vista problem
Post by: Thomas on September 27, 2005, 07:18:37 PM

@blobrana: why should this be a problem for WinUAE ? WinUAE uses Windows to access files like any other application, too. Data encryption/decryption is not the job of an application. An application always sees plain unencrypted data, even if Windows encrypts it internally. It's Windows' job to decrypt it before the application sees it and to encrypt it after the application has written it to the output buffer.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: Vista problem
Post by: blobrana on September 28, 2005, 12:11:15 AM

Doh!
never thought about that.

Title: Re: Vista problem
Post by: koaftder on September 28, 2005, 12:23:12 AM

Are you guys talking about vista pro?

Title: Re: Vista problem
Post by: Vincent on September 28, 2005, 12:42:00 AM

Windows Vista aka Windows Longhorn aka Windows Crap 2006 aka We Really Need To Get Our Own Ideas 2006 ;-)

Title: Re: Vista problem
Post by: bloodline on September 28, 2005, 09:42:21 AM

But by the time Vista is released, Apple will be using decent CPUs... :-D

Title: Re: Vista problem
Post by: orange on September 28, 2005, 12:44:46 PM

encrypted! are you sure? man I can't imagine how hard will it be to recover data from virus/power failures/etc ..
I have relied on Norton disk editor as 'ultimate' tool (low level disk editor) for restoring data when everything else fails, in this case even that won't help. hopefully Linux will become much much more popular before that sh*t is released.

Title: Re: Vista problem
Post by: Lando on September 28, 2005, 03:28:08 PM

At the Microsoft site it says...

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Windows Vista supports full-volume encryption to prevent disk access to files by other operating systems.

"Supports" is the operative word here. It doesn't say that it will be mandatory to use encryption.

Title: Re: Vista problem
Post by: Vincent on September 28, 2005, 03:37:41 PM

Yes, but it'll probably catch on with certain places and become "Standard".

I just wonder how it'll affect those networking Amigas with PCs.

Title: Re: Vista problem
Post by: SamuraiCrow on September 28, 2005, 04:07:52 PM

It should work ok with networking unless Windows changes the SMB protocol used by Samba.