Today I reinstalled Windows.
Sep. 16th, 2009 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaMicrosoft to Windows XP users: no security fix for you, and fuck you.
NotN: Republican in "heterosexual" sex scandal; Apple saves world from Commodore 64 nuclear attack; CRB checks expanded to entire UK population; Jordan drunk-texts her old shag; Alan Turing apologises for Gordon Brown ; Microsoft Bob Hope gains "visual search" feature; Yet another amazing Bush Whitehouse tell-all released.
MY FUCKING GOD I HATE WINDOWS AAAAAAAAGGGGHHH FUCK.
I'm currently demonstrating the definition of "true love" by reinstalling XP on the PC belonging to the older teen, at the request of arkady, her mother. This is because Windows 7 RC mostly worked straight off the DVD, except sound. Update: Turns out the sound cable wasn't attached to the board! It works better now it's plugged in.
I have found the use case where Windows 7 clearly beats XP and you would benefit from buying it! It’s when you’re reinstalling a supar-l33t gaming rig with rare and custom drivers galore. XP can't find the drivers either, and at least Win7 mostly works instead of mostly not working.
It turns out this is because it's her dad’s old gaming rig (2004-2005 vintage), which has ridiculously custom hardware that was l33t of the l33t four years ago and is now in the "legacy" section on the nVidia and ATI websites. I was reduced to looking at PCI IDs in the Hardware Manager and Googling on the magic numbers (perhaps I shoulda Bung) to work out what half this crap was.
Oh, and frequent MACHINE_CHECK_ERROR bluescreens, even with the CPU and memory clocked at half speed. That's an error message that means "stop overclocking so much you smelly nerd" or "your l33t hardware is wearing out from heat stress." In this case it'll be the latter. Said loved one can reseat all the cards and RAM, I've done my day on this thing. I killed most of a £3 bottle of petrol-flavoured red wine on the Windows Drinking Game.
One more virus and she gets Ubuntu whether she likes it or not ...
Exercises in temper control: not striking down teen with lightning from above when she calls James Brown "chav music."
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Date: 2009-09-16 11:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-17 06:52 pm (UTC)I was most annoyed that the latest MSN Messenger doesn't install under Wine - msxml6 not sufficiently implemented yet or something.
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Date: 2009-09-16 09:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-16 11:33 pm (UTC)Also: *eyeroll*
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Date: 2009-09-17 07:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-16 09:59 pm (UTC)Just be glad you're not installing Vista. That is all I have to say on that matter. Or just go ahead and install Ubuntu. Or since she's a teen, Hannah Montana Linux (http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/Site/Home.html).
James Brown as "chav music" shocked me to the core. If there were chavs back then, surely they were far classier than today's chavs. o_0
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Date: 2009-09-16 10:06 pm (UTC)The soundcard isn't a problem ... there appear to be *three* on the box. The trick is finding the right sockets to plug the speakers into ...
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Date: 2009-09-16 11:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-17 03:42 am (UTC)And Aidan, I think the answer is George Clinton ;)
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Date: 2009-09-16 10:39 pm (UTC)Drivers - use the Vista ones and you'll fly. Did it with multiple machines under the last RC and that covered me for drivers.
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Date: 2009-09-16 10:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-17 08:20 am (UTC)I'm assuming the latter is not in the Linux kernel, or at least, I'd be very surprised.
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Date: 2009-09-17 09:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Assuming Microsoft aren't lying about the state of their source code. They probably aren't, but who knows. :-)
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Date: 2009-09-16 11:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-17 02:56 am (UTC)Recently, WXRT has had in pretty heavy rotation a new song by Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears called "Sugarfoot" that I swear they musta dug up James Brown to record. Played it for the old folks at the bar, and it was uniformly well-received. Might want to check that out.
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Date: 2009-09-17 07:57 am (UTC)I wonder if this is because of all the times James Brown has been sampled that his music is seen as "common"
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Date: 2009-09-17 08:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-17 08:16 am (UTC)My little (teenage) brother is the opposite. He seems to like modern R&B which I just find bland.
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Date: 2009-09-17 10:29 am (UTC)Personally I hate the fact that modern 'R&B' is, in fact, deeply shitty hip hop and not Proper R&B as performed by messrs Brown, Franklin and Hooker.. Tarred with the same brush, I presume.
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Date: 2009-09-17 11:57 am (UTC)