I understand and here you. I am trying to make the same journey and hopefully make some friends along the way. As far as tuning the vista,
you should probably increase the memory to 4 GB or max out the memory requirements (Paired Memory). Oracle XE on my HP 64 bit laptop (Running XE 32 bit software) ran much better after adding memory. Also go into MSCONFIG (Run: msconfig) under startup and see what you can de-select. In other words, remove as much process resources as possible.
I have a question for you regarding your journey into
J2EE career. I am studying enough thing that I can get my hands on regarding Java, and I am seeing that the job requirement at minimum is J2EE, and EJB which means you need to be ready to
JSP on demand. Had most Java development gone to JSP? Should I just continue to study the Tutorials for web base technologies
Struts, Websphere,
Jboss?
Preston@Large
Anyway i use windows vista wich came with the pc, and netbeans 6.5.1 wich alone is pretty heavy, even more when i run glassfish v2 on it, but sometimes when i'm on the road i need to start oracle 10g database and that kills my pc, So the question is, Can i somehow tune the db service to consume less, much less resources... since i only need it for develpment.. 