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    valex123
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    This is my first post in the lounge so please be gentle. I was reading my San Francisco Chronicle newspaper this morning and read this article by Mark Morford entitled "You always fall for Windows come-on". It was very funny so I looked it up on the sfgate.com website and it was there, so I decided to share it with you. The title was different but the text of the article is the same. Enjoy, Vince Windows Gives No Tongue Reminder: Microsoft's bloated OS is truly terrible in the sack. But a Mac will make you moan http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/07/14/notes071406.DTL[^]

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      This is my first post in the lounge so please be gentle. I was reading my San Francisco Chronicle newspaper this morning and read this article by Mark Morford entitled "You always fall for Windows come-on". It was very funny so I looked it up on the sfgate.com website and it was there, so I decided to share it with you. The title was different but the text of the article is the same. Enjoy, Vince Windows Gives No Tongue Reminder: Microsoft's bloated OS is truly terrible in the sack. But a Mac will make you moan http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/07/14/notes071406.DTL[^]

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      Chris Maunder
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      Thanks for the link. But I think that guy needs to get out more. And maybe he needs to meet my friend with a Mac who seems to have way more freezes than I. In fact I don't think I can remember the last BSOD I've had. Maybe a couple of years ago? Whatever. :zzz: (Not yawning at you - yawning at Yet Another Cliched Anti-Windows Fantasy) cheers, Chris Maunder

      CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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        Thanks for the link. But I think that guy needs to get out more. And maybe he needs to meet my friend with a Mac who seems to have way more freezes than I. In fact I don't think I can remember the last BSOD I've had. Maybe a couple of years ago? Whatever. :zzz: (Not yawning at you - yawning at Yet Another Cliched Anti-Windows Fantasy) cheers, Chris Maunder

        CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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        I think the author watches too much pr0n, anyone cares to subscribe him to the latest porn lists? He still must not be getting enough though, I couldn't even finish reading the article because of all the oooohs and aaaaaaahs... mmorford@sfgate.com

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          Thanks for the link. But I think that guy needs to get out more. And maybe he needs to meet my friend with a Mac who seems to have way more freezes than I. In fact I don't think I can remember the last BSOD I've had. Maybe a couple of years ago? Whatever. :zzz: (Not yawning at you - yawning at Yet Another Cliched Anti-Windows Fantasy) cheers, Chris Maunder

          CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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          Chris S Kaiser
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          Kinda like the new mac commercials about buggy rebooting PCs. I've had mine running for weeks before rebooting. We have one server running with 4260 hours of idle time, with multiple app servers, and dbs on it. And its also our build machine. So yeah, propaganda. What's really funny about it is that they're comparing to PCs instead of windows, which includes Linux, which is under the hood of the new macs, so is this a hardware comparison? This statement is false. -- modified at 16:23 Friday 14th July, 2006

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            Thanks for the link. But I think that guy needs to get out more. And maybe he needs to meet my friend with a Mac who seems to have way more freezes than I. In fact I don't think I can remember the last BSOD I've had. Maybe a couple of years ago? Whatever. :zzz: (Not yawning at you - yawning at Yet Another Cliched Anti-Windows Fantasy) cheers, Chris Maunder

            CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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            So is your Mac friend running XP on his Mac? If so, that would explain the freezing...

            "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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            "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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              Thanks for the link. But I think that guy needs to get out more. And maybe he needs to meet my friend with a Mac who seems to have way more freezes than I. In fact I don't think I can remember the last BSOD I've had. Maybe a couple of years ago? Whatever. :zzz: (Not yawning at you - yawning at Yet Another Cliched Anti-Windows Fantasy) cheers, Chris Maunder

              CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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              Jeremy Falcon
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              Chris Maunder wrote:

              But I think that guy needs to get out more.

              Hear hear.

              Chris Maunder wrote:

              And maybe he needs to meet my friend with a Mac who seems to have way more freezes than I.

              Tell them to stop downloading all that damn pr0n and it would be less of an issue. ;P

              Chris Maunder wrote:

              yawning at Yet Another Cliched Anti-Windows Fantasy

              I didn't read the link, but from the looks of things I have a feeling of what to expect already. Jeremy Falcon

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                So is your Mac friend running XP on his Mac? If so, that would explain the freezing...

                "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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                "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                Jeremy Falcon
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                John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                If so, that would explain the freezing...

                Or it could be some lame software that's installed, or faulty hardware. It's no different than with Windows. A poor written application can hurt the OS. But, well, who knows. Jeremy Falcon

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                  This is my first post in the lounge so please be gentle. I was reading my San Francisco Chronicle newspaper this morning and read this article by Mark Morford entitled "You always fall for Windows come-on". It was very funny so I looked it up on the sfgate.com website and it was there, so I decided to share it with you. The title was different but the text of the article is the same. Enjoy, Vince Windows Gives No Tongue Reminder: Microsoft's bloated OS is truly terrible in the sack. But a Mac will make you moan http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/07/14/notes071406.DTL[^]

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                  Jeremy Falcon
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                  I'm very PRO-Mac and will defend them all day long, but just afer glancing at this article I can tell this guy watches too much anime pr0n. Jeremy Falcon

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                  • V valex123

                    This is my first post in the lounge so please be gentle. I was reading my San Francisco Chronicle newspaper this morning and read this article by Mark Morford entitled "You always fall for Windows come-on". It was very funny so I looked it up on the sfgate.com website and it was there, so I decided to share it with you. The title was different but the text of the article is the same. Enjoy, Vince Windows Gives No Tongue Reminder: Microsoft's bloated OS is truly terrible in the sack. But a Mac will make you moan http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/07/14/notes071406.DTL[^]

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                    A few years ago I worked with a guy who did both Windows and Mac programming. One day I asked him which one he preferred. His answer; "Whatever one I'm not working on." Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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                      This is my first post in the lounge so please be gentle. I was reading my San Francisco Chronicle newspaper this morning and read this article by Mark Morford entitled "You always fall for Windows come-on". It was very funny so I looked it up on the sfgate.com website and it was there, so I decided to share it with you. The title was different but the text of the article is the same. Enjoy, Vince Windows Gives No Tongue Reminder: Microsoft's bloated OS is truly terrible in the sack. But a Mac will make you moan http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/07/14/notes071406.DTL[^]

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                      The delight of fanbois... The tigress is here :-D

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                        A few years ago I worked with a guy who did both Windows and Mac programming. One day I asked him which one he preferred. His answer; "Whatever one I'm not working on." Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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                        Jeremy Falcon
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                        Joe Woodbury wrote:

                        "Whatever one I'm not working on."

                        :laugh: Jeremy Falcon

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                          So is your Mac friend running XP on his Mac? If so, that would explain the freezing...

                          "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
                          -----
                          "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                          Chris Maunder
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                          I give that a 1/10. The one is for the effort in actually posting. C'mon John, you can do way, way better than that. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                            I give that a 1/10. The one is for the effort in actually posting. C'mon John, you can do way, way better than that. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                            Well, my posts are only as good as the material I'm given to work with. :) You don't challenge me. :) ...and I've been really busy at work using your grid control. :)

                            "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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                            "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                              Thanks for the link. But I think that guy needs to get out more. And maybe he needs to meet my friend with a Mac who seems to have way more freezes than I. In fact I don't think I can remember the last BSOD I've had. Maybe a couple of years ago? Whatever. :zzz: (Not yawning at you - yawning at Yet Another Cliched Anti-Windows Fantasy) cheers, Chris Maunder

                              CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                              Gary R Wheeler
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                              Chris Maunder wrote:

                              I don't think I can remember the last BSOD

                              Too true. The only BSOD's I've seen under Windows XP on my entire development team happen to the guy who's developing drivers for our custom hardware.


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                                Thanks for the link. But I think that guy needs to get out more. And maybe he needs to meet my friend with a Mac who seems to have way more freezes than I. In fact I don't think I can remember the last BSOD I've had. Maybe a couple of years ago? Whatever. :zzz: (Not yawning at you - yawning at Yet Another Cliched Anti-Windows Fantasy) cheers, Chris Maunder

                                CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                                Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                I think the whole deal with BSODs depends on who's behind the monitor. I have a friend who's constantly f-ing up machines. It doesn't matter what OS it has on it, it will eventually end in a plume of smoke. Of course, it's always the evil empire that is at fault. (He's all big words - and no action. My mother knows more about computers than he does - a fact which pisses me off everytime he starts spewing crap about all the stuff under the hood of the OS, of which he has no clue about)

                                -- Not based on the Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

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                                  Chris Maunder wrote:

                                  I don't think I can remember the last BSOD

                                  Too true. The only BSOD's I've seen under Windows XP on my entire development team happen to the guy who's developing drivers for our custom hardware.


                                  Software Zen: delete this;

                                  Fold With Us![^]

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                                  I had a USB driver for uploading firmware to a particular mobile device which would, without fail, blue-screen XP. We had to install Windows 2000 on a spare computer to be able to upgrade the firmware. This particular Windows CE-based device had no way to keep a third-party application persisted so that it could survive a complete power loss due to battery failure, removal or a deliberate cold boot. There was user-accessible flash storage, but no mechanism for automatically running an installer to restore a program. We therefore had to negotiate with them to include our software in their firmware image. Because the hardware was still relatively new, they were updating their firmware quite frequently, and we were trying to work around their issues as well as fix some of our own. I think we got to something like 25 firmware revisions before abandoning the device as being too unreliable, with the OEM being incapable of fixing, or unable to fix, the problems. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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                                    Well, my posts are only as good as the material I'm given to work with. :) You don't challenge me. :) ...and I've been really busy at work using your grid control. :)

                                    "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
                                    -----
                                    "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                                    David Stone
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                                    John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                                    ...and I've been really busy at work using your grid control.

                                    Suck up. ;P

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