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What kind of cheese will I eat today? Pissed with Windows


Will God take pitty on Windows? For those of
you who run Windows or have ever had the wonderful exprience of doing so, I am quite positive you know what I am talking about. A friend of mine lent me a DVD/CD-WR drive for my comp so that I may enjoy DVD's on my computer and my precious TR (Tomb Raider Legend)-(which I will review later). Well, look low and behold he needed the drive back temporarly, so being a good citizen I let him take it back replacing it with my previous CD-drive.

The next night I have a sudden urge to send Lara out and kick some serious mercenary ass. When I inserted the disc, my pretty computer made a most terrible face at me and started to yell that the drive I was trying to run was disabled on the account of it missing from the computer. Sigh, I thought. But of course, I have my old drive. So I popped the disc out and pondered the thought of purchasing a drive of my own. This is when my computer informs me I have installed new hardware and must restart my computer and enable this hardware. (Would I like to restart now or later?) Now.

My computer reloaded in what appeared to be a cheap version of "safe mode" and to my suprise my resolution was pathetically low and was running on 4bit colour. Oh good gracious good Gandhi. I attempted to change it, and my computer as stubborn as beauty can make you said, 'hell no'. I spent the next hour trying to find where in the jennifer love hewitt my Nvidia video card option re-install button was.

I tried to push button, but no bacon was recieved. I was severly and most dangerously pissed at Windows for making everything so gaud-damn 'user-friendly'.

I have met people who are 'friendly' and some can be so friendly they are just f*** anoying. This is what windows has done. They have become so friendly you just want to torpedo them into innerspace. Where I'm sure the computer will then say something about hardware again. Even the sea creatures will become so offended they will throw Windows back onto the mainland and protest about us pissing in their water.

I am this close to switching to Linux. But I won't now because I am far too amused by my friend who spends every hour of the day trying to switch me to just that. Perhaps MAC. Not only are they pretty and shiny and full of immense win and awsome, not to mention the amazing +4points, but because they are practical.

Long story short, my computer is now working after hounding my computer settings and re-installing sh** that was already installed. But Windows, like such a friendly fu** friend, would not recognize that some things in our relationship, were already done.

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Comments: (2)

anonymous - May 16th, 2006 Say that again dustin! XP sux mostly. But I cant over look couple of facts eitehr. Its like MS have been on the mass hunt when it comes to selling. There MS doze is all around the globe. To be honest learning Linux for everyone is pain in ass. Secondly, when we talk about linux there huge set of issues at times. Though I am planning to put linux on the laptop that I am using right now bt I am still lookin to master it like we did with windows. Spcly the explorer.exe of MS is pathetically retartded. When it comes to memory it eats it up. As for now I am stickin to windows mostly and trying to run LINUX on parallel. Can you suggest some good linux version? I am plannin to start with red hat 10. For MACs I'd love to say the machines are awesome but they are way too off the track. Reason is cost! I mean they are expensive, their softs are expensive. Ppl dont buy them much coz of the support for new software. It gonna take a huge step to do that like for instance, say all of our frens...one group..decides to have only MAC or Linux then it can be a success as the files and things would be circulated from a same platform. There are tailored specific softs which are not available for any but WindOZE; i am talking about corporates whre we work in. Lets see when will we get something stable and something easier at reasonable prices!!

guptakapil - May 16th, 2006 Am sorry, it was me who posted the last comment. wasnt logged in, my mistake.

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