How’s that for a very geeky and obscure movie fact?

& a disclaimer that all of these were on different machines.

1: I tried opening firefox – nothing happened. After waiting over a minute i got bored and decided to try and open up google chrome (installed as a backup)… still nothing.

After this i got bored and eventually decided to go and check if IE8 would work. I clicked on the start-bar and a message came up saying “Windows explorer has suffered a terminal error and must be restarted” (OWTTE) so i clicked the “restart” button on the dialogue.

Again… no result. Tried clicking the start bar to see if it had done anything, or sorted itself out. Same error message.

Turned off manually. Restarted it (slowly) and successfully (but slowly) opened firefox.

2: Was running an installer which was written in java. I didn’t expect anything to go wrong even on vista, as java is known to be one of the most stable and dynamic platforms to program on. The installer crashed on 3 occasions.

3: Incredibly slow startup, several error messages, and took ~3 minutes to launch iTunes.

Now i understand that vista works well with the expensive top versions (a-la 64-bit ultimate) on higher end hardware but the base versions have so many issues on even average hardware that it’s scarcely worth the CD it’s burt on to.

Anyway other than that I fully agree. Vista is faster in every way vs XP, more secure, easier to use, and more stable. Vista got the short end of the stick when people blamed it for problems that were caused solely by hardware that was not manufactured for 4 gigs of ram or more causing problems. Creative was a big force in blaming MS for breaking things with the introduction of vista, when in actuality the biggest source of problems with creative’s sound cards in vista were pure hardware incompatibility with 4 gigs or more ram. X-Fi Titanium cards are the redesigned cards that no longer have that incompatibility.

Inspired by the true life exploits of Rodney Ansell, the film was made on a budget of under $10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience, but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon. Released on 30 April 1986 in Australia, and on 26 September 1986 in the United States, it was the second highest grossing film in the USA in that year and went on to become the number one film worldwide at the box office.

There are two versions of the film: The Australian version, and the American/international version, with much of the Australian slang replaced with more commonly understood terms, and also being slightly shorter, lacking several scenes. The international version also changes the title to “Crocodile” Dundee, adding the quotation marks.

The film was followed by two sequels: 1988′s Crocodile Dundee II and 2001′s Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.