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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #15 on: 20 December 2005, 02:06 »
the power blip was months before it died
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #16 on: 20 December 2005, 02:07 »
That can happen even without there ever having to be a failure. Way back in the days of win 95 I had lots of files (pics, movies, small games etc) and I turned the computer off for the night. Next day all of these files were gone. No explanation whatsoever, no failure of any kind, nothing. Word was gone too. There was no software that erased files when shutting down so I don
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #17 on: 20 December 2005, 02:15 »
Undiscovered virus?
Microsoft discovered you are not using MSN 9?
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #18 on: 20 December 2005, 02:33 »
wtf 9, MSN kept firing up upon boot even if i set it not to and it said the latest version was msn 7.5
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #19 on: 20 December 2005, 02:59 »
Actually, back when I was a Win98 guru, I turned on my computer one day to find that for some unknown reason, the registry had deleted itself.  No recovery of any kind was possible, because we didn't have cd burners back then, and my zip drive required a software driver which wouldn't work in emergency DOS.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #20 on: 20 December 2005, 03:37 »
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wtf 9, MSN kept firing up upon boot even if i set it not to and it said the latest version was msn 7.5
The latest version of MSN explorer is 9.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #21 on: 20 December 2005, 04:02 »
he's talking about the IM


who the fuck uses MSN explorer...
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #22 on: 20 December 2005, 04:11 »
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The latest version of MSN explorer is 9.


The three people who use MSN Explorer will be glad to know that.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #23 on: 20 December 2005, 05:06 »
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The three people who use MSN Explorer will be glad to know that.

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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #24 on: 20 December 2005, 10:17 »
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OS/2 should have prevailed...

Fuck that, BeOS owned OS/2 and Windows 3.x by far.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #25 on: 20 December 2005, 22:30 »
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xp did the same to me. you know the scandick at startup. well it ran and instead of asking me weather i want it to make changes,  it just did them. do when it says "The directory C:/dickuments and settings/noob has serious errors. Convert folder to file?" and it just selects yes and turns 30 gig, including all my college work into a 3k file, i get pretty pissed off. why would you want to convert a folder into a file? they are totally different.


TAR does the same thing. Useful for packing source code.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #26 on: 31 December 2005, 13:22 »
Except with TAR, you can get the files out again after it's finished.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #27 on: 31 December 2005, 18:52 »
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Except with TAR, you can get the files out again after it's finished.


True, but holy smokes, look at that scandisk compression ratio.... like a million to one...

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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #28 on: 31 December 2005, 21:32 »
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True, but holy smokes, look at that scandisk compression ratio.... like a million to one...

:)

 That's nothing; you get better ratios assigning backups to /dev/null.
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Re: Microsoft must die!
« Reply #29 on: 1 January 2006, 03:51 »
and a better chance of getting it back
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