Stop Microsoft
All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Hardware => Topic started by: cahult on 21 March 2005, 20:59
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My mom has experienced the very darkest downside of windows: she "lost" her mouse and when she regained it the whole management software was shot to hell.
My mom likes to play solitaire on her computer as a kind of therapy for her muscle aches. The other day I was at her computer because she had told me to start it while she was in the kitchen. She wanted the computer to be ready for her when she came back. Well, while waiting for her to get ready I started a program and the whole system crashed on me. Nothing was working and I hit the reset button. When it was done with scan disk (of course the damn thing accused me of shutting down the computer wrong!) the mouse was gone. There was a little window telling me that no mouse could be detected and all I could do was hit enter and restart it.
After that start the mouse was back but now the management was instead shot to hell. A simple easy click now can be a double click. Why is it that windows has this badly written software? A hardware device should not be lost only because the system crashes. I have seen every kind of system crash just about anywhere but only windows can lose a device AFTER the crash.
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Sounds like windows 9x. Upgrade to the NT series already and your troubles will go away.
Also, you should've just reconfigured the mouse speeds (like doubleclick tolerance) and all would've been fine again. If something happens with the filesystem or registry in w9x, you can have pretty much any kind of things happen.
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Sounds like windows 9x. Upgrade to the NT series already and your troubles will go away.
Also, you should've just reconfigured the mouse speeds (like doubleclick tolerance) and all would've been fine again. If something happens with the filesystem or registry in w9x, you can have pretty much any kind of things happen.
That's no excuse for Microsoft torturing home users with Windows 9x for more than 5 years!
Also, Windows XP has its share of problems too, don't think it's the best operating system out there.
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why not upgrade to linux? there are something like half a dozen solitaire clones for it, and since the mouse configuration is in plain english (more or less) in the XF86Config there's less of a risk of this happening, or at least more of a chance of fixing it.
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I prefer windows 2000 and Windows 2003. I have to admit the latter is a warez copy, though. I figured I'd just try it out to see what it's like but I fell in love with it and don't want to replace it with legit system now :)
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welcome to warez world. who the hell is going to pay $470 for xp pro sp2 when all it is is piece of shit bloatware, and OMG
NAG_WARE !
Mr X :beos: :beos:
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There are ways to get cheap legit versions of software. Windows 2003 just happens to be a server version, even the OEM version is more expensive than XP :)
Also, where exactly do you have to pay $470 for XP pro? Checking the prices, that's about $100 more expensive than the local store. Also, if you upgrade from windows 98, you can get update version for even cheaper. And OEM prices are even cheaper than that. Since OEM versions are sold to anyone who buys internal component, some stores here sell OEM software to people who buy IDE cables ;)
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There are ways to get cheap legit versions of software. Windows 2003 just happens to be a server version, even the OEM version is more expensive than XP :)
Also, where exactly do you have to pay $470 for XP pro? Checking the prices, that's about $100 more expensive than the local store. Also, if you upgrade from windows 98, you can get update version for even cheaper. And OEM prices are even cheaper than that. Since OEM versions are sold to anyone who buys internal component, some stores here sell OEM software to people who buy IDE cables ;)
good thing i have proof.
http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=13470&vpn=E85-02665&manufacture=Microsoft
oh wowee the price dropped by $4 . do i really care? no, because i stay away from microsoft related products.
yeah, but you still bought win98 in the first place so it makes up for the difference in the money you are going to waste.
Mr X
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http://www.google.com/froogle?q=windows+xp+professional
I congratulate you for managing to find a ridiculously expensive store.
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http://www.google.com/froogle?q=windows+xp+professional
I congratulate you for managing to find a ridiculously expensive store.
beware of 'bargain basement prices' on Microsoft operating systems. many turn out to be pirated rip offs of the originals.
ps- those funds where in Canadian dollars.
Mr X
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Pirated rip offs? If you have a proof of purchase, microsoft will replace your pirate copy with a legit one.
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Let's run them broke!!!
Make a fake proof of purchase, burn 10 copies of your windows disks, get the legit versions from Microsoft and sell them... Instant Profit...
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Sadly, Microsft's pockets are almost as deep as the security holes in Windows. It'd never work.
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i got a better idea, all of us burn like 50,000 cd's and at the samne time reverse enjineer windows at hold a ransom for the source code!!
EDIT: ransom might not work as few people would want code to a crappy bloated os that has 40gb of source code
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I prefer windows 2000 and Windows 2003. I have to admit the latter is a warez copy, though. I figured I'd just try it out to see what it's like but I fell in love with it and don't want to replace it with legit system now :)
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but server 2003 is even more partial to elk-penis ingestion than bill gates. I have even had the displeasure of using server 2003 datacenter, and even datacenter treats IT profesionals like noobs. News flash microsoft: I'M NOT FUCKING STUPID, I CAN SET MY OWN FUCKING SETTING THANK YOU, STOP FUCKING GUESSING THEM. The clustering on server 2003 is trash, along with most evrything else.
As some of you may know, I have started refusing to use microsft products. It just so happens that for my CNT degree, two of the courses I have to complete are "Server 2003" and "active directory". I have had a talk with my department chair (Who has 30 years experiance on VMS, is partial to Linux, and also hates microsoft) and he said he doesnt blame me for refusing to use it, and said we can work something out using an alternative OS and software for my required projects.
ps. bill gates devours penises and phallus objects
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Everything prior to Windows 2000 is complete ass. There are things I like and don't like about 2000 and things I like and don't like about XP. All in all, I prefer Windows 2000 simply becuz it's less bloated than XP and easier to 8ir@t3.
As far as mice go, I highly recommend the Logitech MX150. Excellent mouse, only 30 dollars thru newegg.com
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I agre Logtech mice are great, I use a Logtech optical mouse at home and an M$ mouse at work that sucks horribly. Microsoft should just stick to software and not try to put their lable on everything they can. I bet one day you'll be able to buy Microsoft TVs, cars, and even cheese!
If Microsoft made food what would it taste like?
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yuck!
I wouldn't drive in a MS car, their OSes crash far too often, I wouldn't trust them to build my car.
:fu: Microsoft!
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yuck!
I wouldn't drive in a MS car, their OSes crash far too often, I wouldn't trust them to build my car.
:fu: Microsoft!
I wouldn't want to drive in the same STATE as a M$ car.... OS crashes will quickly become car crashes, and that leads to fatalities. I wonder what Billgatus would do about being sentenced to prison for negligent homicide in those crashes, and then getting sued for billions for wrongful death?
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I wonder what Billgatus would do about being sentenced to prison for negligent homicide in those crashes, and then getting sued for billions for wrongful death?
Quickly blame traditional open-source cars (read: Ford, Chevrolet, Honda, Subaru, Daewoo, the list goes on...) for security breaches, then convince the mass public that it's true. He'd be exonerated by the U.S. government because, hey, Billy G's always in the right.
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Pirated rip offs? If you have a proof of purchase, microsoft will replace your pirate copy with a legit one.
you have a link?
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MS Car:
Error:
You have been in a motroway traffic jam too long and been going too slow, steering.dll, spam.dll, slow.dll, shitos.dll have crashed, hope u dont mind having no steering or speed control :p btw the ms spam system crashed, the ms spam dll will automaticly be restarted to provide you with the best spam from ms
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Well if it get infected with spyware they could report every minor road traffic offence you commit to the police. I hat to think what would happen if it catches a virus. Hang on, this could really happen if the internal computer system ran Windows. :(
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Fuck man. No MS cheese for me, man...
You buy it for half a fortune...
You bring it home, it takes you a day to put in your fridge,..
and if there happens to be something already in your fridge, it'll simply format it...
It'll instate the new NTFS - NT fridge sys. ...
Which is basically there to make putting anything else in the fridge as difficult as possible...
And of course, it full of holes, stinks like crap, looks like an Apple...
yeah.. enough...
(edit)
I forgot... it freezes your fridge every now'n'then... and you have to eat it slowly I guess. But 90 percent of fridges around the world have MS cheese in them... going too far?
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fuck! (http://www.abrn.com/abrn/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=159198) It's actually happening?
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If Microsoft made food what would it taste like?
It would take like a donkey's asshole after eating 2 week old carrion in 110 degree heat.
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fuck! (http://www.abrn.com/abrn/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=159198) It's actually happening?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE END IS NEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sounds unsinkable, just like the Titanic.
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Oh boy, I can't wait till the unvailing of the first Ford with the system so I can see a bluescreen on the indash lcd screen on national TV. Looks like I'll never be buying a Ford.
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Holy crap! First you should focus on making a crash-free OS, Bill!
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Holy crap! First you should focus on making a crash-free OS, Bill!
dont give him an impossible goal :P XD
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Warning, fatal error in injectiontiming.dll. To fix this problem, pull over to the side of the road, close all the windows, stop the car, start the car again then re-open the windows. If the problem persists, revv the engine to hell and then contact your product vendor. If you are running Zone Alarm, the emergency lock will have been activated and you can't gain access to the outside, and all incoming access will be denied.
We are sorry for buggering up your day :D.
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...and your life.
And making it much shorter too. Fortunately, Windows crashes don't kill people directly, they just make you get a heart attack in the early forties...
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Dude, why is the CHECK OS light on again. This is the 5th time in 5 minutes and it keep BSODing and when ot does the whole car shudders and the engine cuts out than start back up and the overrevengine.dll kicks on. Also sometimes this pops" do to low disk space Windows CE* will now use the space allocated for systemcontrol.dll