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Offline fuzeman

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« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2007, 07:11:33 PM »
As usual, I'm two days late and two dollars short.

Apologies.
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« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2007, 07:16:16 PM »
what Microsoft deserves for making a POS Operating System:furious

my 2 cents:D
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« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2007, 07:21:02 PM »
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Our government will not Fishu.  They are the most computer illiterate people on the planet.  It takes them 10 years to get a dang bid done.  Most computer companies do not want the business from the government due to the insane support requirements.

It really is pathetic.  There is one local agency here who is still using 486 based computers.  They have the fundng for next generation replacements, but cannot find anyone willing to quote 133 MHz Pentium systems to them.  Yeah, that is how old the spec bid is.  So they are going to write another bid.  In 5 years it will be ready, maybe.  Due to adminstration changes it will more than likely be 10 years before they get approved to submit the new spec for bids.

The government is a drop in the sales hat of MS.  OEM's is where MS's bread gets buttered and they are all over Vista.
Holy crap... I agree 100% with skuzzy.
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« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2007, 07:33:15 PM »
Damn Vista anyway.  It broke my program I wrote and sell.  They have a dummy WinHlp32.exe installed on Vista that pops a message that says go fish whenever help is invoked.  Never mind the fact that support for the API is still built into the Kernal.  Had to change all the online help over to HTML Help (.Chm) files, code it up and recompile.  Now I have a couple of hundred users who's programs are going to break as they migrate to Vista.  I will keep an update at the website but it is, nonetheless, a monumental pain in the bellybutton for no good reason.  There are literally hundreds of other legacy applications that will fail in this way.  Of course you can d/l an update to make it function from MickySoft or just grab a WinHlp32.exe from an XP box but the technical level of the folks I deal with makes either of those untenable options.  

I'm hoping Microsoft screwed the pooch on this deal.  They are forcing the upgrade through blunt economic force and it's nice to daydream that average users will wake up to amount of control they are giving to Microsoft and descend on Redmond with torches and pitchforks.  Probably no such luck.
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« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2007, 07:39:57 PM »
OOOOOOOOOO my,,,, Skuzzy Took the Vista Plunge .... eek whats this world coming too ...

and how about that hack coming thru the xbox live accounts and infiltrating your vista pc ? .... Just something to beware of guys . theres alot more to it then what there letting go public at this time.
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« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2007, 09:01:59 PM »
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Damn Vista anyway.  It broke my program I wrote and sell.  They have a dummy WinHlp32.exe installed on Vista that pops a message that says go fish whenever help is invoked.


So what your saying is the "Help" isnt any more helpful in Vista then is was in XP, or 98, or 95?

LOL MS Help files are the most useless things I ever came across. In any software I ever owned. In countess times in giving them a shot I havent one single time had an instance where it helped me
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« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2007, 09:11:10 PM »
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OOOOOOOOOO my,,,, Skuzzy Took the Vista Plunge .... eek whats this world coming too ...

and how about that hack coming thru the xbox live accounts and infiltrating your vista pc ? .... Just something to beware of guys . theres alot more to it then what there letting go public at this time.


He probably has to.
After all hes going to have to try and provide some sort of tech support for all the new vista users
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« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2007, 09:41:19 PM »
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OOOOOOOOOO my,,,, Skuzzy Took the Vista Plunge .... eek whats this world coming too ...
Business decision.  My home PC is doing quite well running XP Pro.  I do have to find a way so Vista users can play the game.  Only way to do that is to work with the mess.  And it is a mess.  Much worse than I had originally thought.

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Holy crap... I agree 100% with skuzzy.
Uh, that just ain't right. :D
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« Reply #23 on: March 23, 2007, 09:45:09 PM »
yea I knew you would have to mess with it sooner or later ... to many prebuilt pc's with it on the store shelves now .

Now you get to convince the noob gamers that Vista performs 100% better with the aero pack turned off ...   Good luck
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« Reply #24 on: March 23, 2007, 09:54:16 PM »
My first thought on how to approach it...

Me:  Disable Aero.
Mr Big Computer User:  But its pretty and lame to turn it off.
Me:  I have heard over the Internet, if you like Aero, it means you are gay.
Mr Big Computer User:  I meant to say, "it's pretty lame, I intend to turn it off!"
Me:  That's what I thought you said!

Sigh,..hey a support guy can dream, can't he?
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« Reply #25 on: March 23, 2007, 10:18:29 PM »
he he he.....skuzzy said "gay"



OTOH I seriously don't see why somone with a brain doesn't design a stipped down OS that can run games, emulate windows, and doesn't bogg down the system.  There's a serious market for something like that that's easy to use.
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« Reply #26 on: March 23, 2007, 10:22:47 PM »
Lot of people want to do it.  But, MS would tie it up in court for a bazillion years.  No one can fight Microsoft.  At least, no one in this country can.  Even the U.S. government got stomped on my MS.

Nope, it will have to be done off shore and it would never see the light of day in the U.S.
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« Reply #27 on: March 24, 2007, 07:41:35 AM »
well its been about 6 months now on Vista and still no problems...

internet is faster, torrents work just fine, and so does everything else...

I must be gay cause I use Aero, just cause skuzzy said so:rolleyes:
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« Reply #28 on: March 24, 2007, 10:09:24 AM »
^ Must be one of Bill Gates shades. ^
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« Reply #29 on: March 24, 2007, 10:43:54 AM »
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internet is faster, .....


So a different OS can make the internet faster???

Where's Al Gore when you need him?
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