#1 2007-12-15 15:02:29
Who knew, right? PC repair pays my rent but MS Windows has become so fucking tedious, I offer free linux installs.
The commonest XP headache I encounter are all the installed 'Services' executed by default. Three quarters of these entries are not a lot different than dropping your drawers and bending over in public.
Want to do you and your afflicted loved ones a favor? Scan the following list, then go to the start menu run command, load MSCONFIG and, from the Services tab, toggle off all the crap you really don't need.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm#Services
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#2 2007-12-15 16:03:07
choad wrote:
Who knew, right? PC repair pays my rent but MS Windows has become so fucking tedious, I offer free linux installs.
How many of your customers come back to you later asking why their Windows software won't run on their computer?
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#3 2007-12-15 16:13:42
Victory is mine!
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#4 2007-12-15 16:47:51
Zookeeper wrote:
choad wrote:
Who knew, right? PC repair pays my rent but MS Windows has become so fucking tedious, I offer free linux installs.
How many of your customers come back to you later asking why their Windows software won't run on their computer?
None for service dependency issues. I may hate the crap but I know it with my eyes closed. Linux xwindows doesn't suck much less but at least there's still a functional command line.
From cruelty to tech talk. How low we've sunk. You got your first PC in '81, am I right?
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#5 2007-12-15 20:03:28
choad wrote:
Who knew, right? PC repair pays my rent but MS Windows has become so fucking tedious, I offer free linux installs.
What is the definition of irony ? Operating system rape is one amongst thousands of reasons I tell people to get Macs (non-techs) or Ubuntu (semi-techs). No Microsoft product shall ever poison my household again.
Felch
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#6 2007-12-15 21:18:11
choad wrote:
From cruelty to tech talk. How low we've sunk. You got your first PC in '81, am I right?
Close. The first computer I owned was a C64 in '82. I first started playing around with the Commodor PET at school in '80.
Say what you want against Windows (there's a lot to say). But for developers it was a huge boon since it set a standard OS for us to target. I code for Windows and know I'll catch the vast majority of the market. No need to port to Commodore, Atari, Apple, Kaypro, etc. "One OS to rule them all" is fine with me.
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#7 2007-12-15 23:15:19
Zookeeper wrote:
Say what you want against Windows (there's a lot to say). But for developers it was a huge boon
The Bill Gates full employment act, where any patient, half bright, no skill geek can escape auto repair, retail, construction or driving a school bus. I'm not complaining, you understand, I'm lying.
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#9 2007-12-16 00:45:53
This is the same crap I hear every day, but I'm convinced that the only problem with Windows is that Microsoft gave all of the developers everything they wanted. I heard all of the complaints about closed source software and tentatively believeed it, but as soon as I started to learn scripting and then programming languages I learned the truth: Microsoft is more open and easier to program for than Linux (or any *nix) or Mac. XP was the culmination of Microsoft bending over backwards to give develpers everything they wanted, and the result? Script kiddies the world round were able to write viruses and worms like there was no tomorrow. Vista took the majority of the APIs and disgarded the ridiculous OS hooks and promiscuous security models, and what do people do? Whine and complain like kids that have been told they can't go outside and play. Developers that for years have abused the operating system to their own advantage now whine like children about how "hard" vista is, when the truth is any decent operating system (read: all of the rest of them except DOS or Win311) wouldn't have let them run roughshod over the OS like XP let them do anyway.
There is no operating system so suited towards managing an enterprise as Windows. Linux is the next best thing, and Mac is a big fat joke at users' expense. We're at a crossroads, and though people can't seem to remember the transition from DOS 5 to DOS 6.22, or Windows 3.11 to Windows 95, or Windows 95 to Windows 2000 or NT, this is all part of growing into an operating system that is new and different. Still, you will not soon find another operating system that works with mostly everything without some bad Java shoehorn job.
Windows has plenty of crappy problems, but when it comes to end user operating systems (i.e. not Web servers, etc.), and especially managing multiple systems, I'll still take it over everything else.
P.S. Don't even get me started on the POSIX security model. It sucks so much ass you can smell it's breath for miles.
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#11 2007-12-16 01:07:23
tojo2000 wrote:
P.S. Don't even get me started on the POSIX security model. It sucks so much ass you can smell it's breath for miles.
"Posix" - that's a pick up line for the ugly IT chick 'cos you can't pick up anywhere else.
Excuse me. I need to jerk off over some German porn now.
Felch
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