OT: Fscking Windows!

You just have to press or while the system is booting. But linuxopaths don't look for easy ways.

VLV

Windows does tend to fall over quite easily.

Had Win7 since it came out and had to reinstall it four times.

Funny you should mention that. My friend knocked the F8 key off her laptop trying that.

Wow! Is she on a wrestling team or something?

Had Windows Vista since beta release. Never a problem.

Same box, have had Windows 7 since beta. Never a problem.

Your hardware is shit.

If you do not believe that your capacity to tell is shit.

Windows 7 is cool. And idiots like you can't hack it.

I feel safer. Naaahhh. I was never worried about someone as dumb as you hacking my box.

I've had Win98SE since 1999 and have probably had occasion to reinstall it about the same number of times as your Win7.

I have XP - installed it once. No problems since.

I'm tempted to say they can have my XP when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers... ...but then, they'll probably just do some unauthorized Windows update in the background someday that will totally f^ck everything up and then I'll have no choice but to upgrade.

Either that, or the rest of the world will move on, and I'll be forced to tag along, grudgingly.

Oddly enough, I used to be an early adopter of all things new and techie. Maybe the change now is a sign of maturity -- but I think it's much more about broken promises. I can't count the number of times I've purchase something that does "x", only to find out later that it does "y". Or more succintly, "y-abc" With "y" being something that you find particularly annoying!!!

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That's the problem with Microsoft products.... there are too many quirks you need to know. and may as well be "secret herbs and spice" for most computer users!

Almost. She's quite athletic and scares the sh*t out of most men she meets.

Really !!!

Is she still single ??

hamilton

I'm impressed. On a good day I can only do an F4 or F5.

mike

A walking, talking laxative? ;-)

You're an idiot. Grub, the bootloader for Linux, does the same thing. It auto-boots a certain selection UNLESS the user presses the left shift key.

Grow the f*ck up, you retarded twits!

Because Windows is rather a business platform than an operating system.

If it was perfect nobody would pay money to repair/disinfect/reinstall it. This is the mindset behind every Microsoft product and explains why once one version has become stable they soon discontinue it and replace it by a new (new purchase), different (new courses/certifications/ development systems purchases) but unreliable (new help contracts) one.

Executives often say that millions of people make money thanks to Microsoft. They're certainly right, what they dont tell you is how most of that money is wasted repairing something that was created inefficient and/or defective by design, not to make innovative and solid products.

Same here, installed this machine > 5 years ago, installed NOD32 and it's been rock solid ever since. The only time it's ever BSOD'thd was when I was messing about creating USB drivers.

And it's still supported.

Nial.

F8 has been a "secret" for well over a decade now.

So, you are saying that this machine would have been a netter piece of hardware if an idiot with your perfect business model mindset were at the helm?

Bullshit.

What started out fitting on a single floppy has now grown into the monster we call Windows 7.

Just like IC chips, we men slowly build on the previous. This is why a CPU today has a billion transistor elements on it, and the originals had less than 1000.

Same with the operating system AND the software that runs on it.

Mosey along, and then someone throws the 64 bit monkey wrench into it.

NOW, we not only need a certain app to do our computational deeds, but we can get it done up such that it runs nearly twice as fast. Aside from us typically standing (sitting) in front of our machine with IT waiting on OUR next move, we can have it so that when it DOES do some work that it does it faster. This is a great thing.

I would blame a company like Sony for foul business practice and poor repair services, and wanting the customer to PAY them to fix their f*ck-ups.

Microsoft is more like the one thing that everyone had to have a copy of and it was not only by default, but by desire. Once everyone had it, however, the number was huge. Then the IDIOTS among them had to have someone's ear over at MS, and then THAT became an even bigger monster than the real bugs were.

You could not develop a multi-million line program (including an OS) if you were paid to, boy.

Nope.

She's the one who sold me her (now my) Porsche. The joke was that her husband didn't want any good looking blond wife of his driving around in a car like that attracting attention. So then she went out and bought a Corvette ZR-1.

Just buy a new HD and INTERCHANGE, dingledorf.