I still hate Microsoft
I did eventually manage to get XP loaded on my computer with a minimal set of drivers. The hard drive driver and the wireless driver. The graphics driver doesn't exist. So everything on my screen is smushed, since its a wide screen defaulting to 1024x780 or whatever the standard is. Neither do most of the other drivers; I guess Sony decided no one needed to run XP on this laptop, so only the Vista drivers exist (unless it's a generic enough hardware piece). I tried to download Windows 7, and eventually figured out that the reason I was getting an infinite dotted green loading circle was because I wasn't using IE. Why couldn't they just just pop up a message like everyone else and say unsupported browser? Since I was lacking a decent internet connection I gave up on that direction, since by that point I had matlab running.
So I ended up with about 5 days to run the datasets, write the paper, have my advisor look it over, and submit it to the conference. I did actually manage to finish, and submit the paper yesterday on the deadline. Only to wake up this morning and find out the deadline is extended to Aug 10.
So I ended up with about 5 days to run the datasets, write the paper, have my advisor look it over, and submit it to the conference. I did actually manage to finish, and submit the paper yesterday on the deadline. Only to wake up this morning and find out the deadline is extended to Aug 10.