You know Windows sucks when...........

[Bazoukas]

.....you are forced to use it for homework for some intro class you should have taken ages ago but always avoided it,,,,,and as you do your homework for tomorows Midterm, You have Winamp open, Word, Excell and at the same time Downloading RH7.3.......and you are scared shitless because you see Win98 draging its ass after few hours of work....and your head is buzzing with fear because you are afraid you gonna loose 401MB (with 200MB to go) of Download if this Win98 give you the blue screen.


 You may say why not Win2k? CAUSE IT DOESNT SUPPORT ALL OF MY HARDWARE THATS WHY!!!!

  RH even recocnized my GamePad,even though companies are still sceptical about porting games in X  

[Kat]

But see Win2k won't give you a BSOD, instead it will just reboot your computer.  

[voidmain]

You've never seen a BSOD in Win2K? Then consider yourself lucky. They are there, and they do appear.

[Bazoukas]

I have been a 2kBSOD victim.

 But i have to admit. Win2k, doesnt crach like Win98. Win98 is just a ho for BSDO.

[Canibuz11]

2k and the BSOD i have seen that more times then i can Count

[beltorak0]

there's a setting in the registry for win2k and beyond that will reboot the computer instead of displaying the BSOD; so it is still there, you just won't see it unless you turn [AutoReboot] or some such drivel off.

My supervisor had a win2k laptop; he uninstalled a bunch of crap at the same time; including a mysterious entry in the Add/Remove Programs section titled: Unknown.  He figured if it was unknown, it couldn't be important.... so uninstalled it became.  Then the Windows Install Shield appeard telling him that "windows is prepareing to install the selected application" and the computer promptly rebooted.  Everytime windows finished loading, the same message box would appear, and then the computer would shut down.  he, my dad-in-law, and me spent 7 hours trying to figure out what it was.  even CTL-ALT-DEL didn't halt the inevitable; and safe mode was broke.  It would simply hang when tried.  So to the computer shop he went, and they tried much of the same shit we did, and finally they put the harddrive into another computer, transfered all his personal data over, and wiped the original.  complete re-install.  what a shame.

-t.

[RudeCat7]

This is the best example of "those people" (no offense)

Those people who don't backup their shit!

Those people who would rather screw around trying to fix Windows for 7 hours (once again no offense) instead of doing a clean re-install.

Those people who think they can fix Windows when it starts to fuck up.

Those people who should stick with Windows and pay the rest of us to Fdisk their hard drives and kick back while the system boots the Win Cd because they haven't got a clue. I'm glad they bought MS products- cause they're suppose to provide support, and I don't want to be the one doing that for those people.     :mad:    

And may I repeat, this all happened because someone didn't backup their shit!    :mad:    

This is not directed to you, and you know who you are.

But I wish the rest of those dumb... (left out) would realize that your damn hard drive is not a fucking file cabinet!

There is nothing more likely to let you down at the worst possible time than a hard drive being used as the one and only copy for important data!

Oh yeah, one more thing, those people need to stop buying those shitty $5.00 surge protectors because they don't protect shit! Tell everybody you know to buy a damn UPS, and if they say "what's that?" tell them it's something that cost 50 bucks that you need! so I don't have to Fdisk your hard drive!

[ August 31, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]

Oh, yeah. I almost forgot the topic.....

You know Windows sucks when someone creates a domain name that wants to fuck the OS's manufacturer.

[ August 31, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]  :mad:    :mad:

[ August 31, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]

[hm_murdock]

you know Windows sucks when the platforms that Windows IT guys hate are the platforms that kick its ass.

[Master of Reality]

your right.... those Commodores are awesome.

[ October 08, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
your right.... those Commodores are awesome.

[ October 08, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

I don't remember if this was posted here before... but the C64 web server is sweet.

http://fearlinux.com/article.php?sid=289

Not quite as cool as the Lego web server but still...

[imthesponge]

lol... you guys would hate my school, we have to take a billion fucking lessons on windows and ms office, its not an elective they make it required... both my dad and me complained but the computer ppl (who only pretend like they know what they're doing)don't seem to give a shit
luckily i'm almost done with it but only cause i already knew alot... that would suck to have to learn it for the 1st time...

[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: imthesponge ]

[Calum]

at my high school we used macs almost exclusively, and the only computers on our network that weren't macs were BBC Acorns (click here for more details).

It was only when i went to college that i discovered a taste of the dreaded windows 3.1 running on top of DOS and the hideous M$works. (at the time i didn't even notice that i was not using claris works, well, i was studying modern music, not computing and they glossed over all that stuff).

Well, i escaped luckily, and it was only when i began to use the internet in 2000 that i really started to notice the windows shittiness effect, having had my sister harp on about how rubbish dos and windows were for years. Paradoxically, she still uses windows as her main OS and i use linux mainly, although there are extenuating circumstances for that, not the least of which is her lack of time to spend with the computer, and the fact that her hardware has been on not only its last legs, but its last arms and its last basically every other body part for a good while now. Last time i visited, a bit came off her motherboard!

anyway, i'm rambling. i'll stop.

[HPC GUY]

you know windows sucks when....

-the company claims no responsibility for any damage to your computer or data as a result of the o/s

-When the people who are trying to sell it, use large buzz words that dont really mean anything

-when it crashes before its even finished being installed

-when the parent company stop supporting it the second the "new and improved" version comes out.

[HPC GUY]

oh and im one of the guys that tries to fix windows for a living. its amazing the kind of fucked up things that happens to these peoples computers!! if it werent for M$, business wouldnt be as good as it is.

[lazygamer]

How's Linux perform if you have a shitty surge protector? I have no idea how good a quality mine is.