Thank you Microsoft!
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I agree there. I've certainly learnt my lesson anyway. Tried a mac once. Could never figure out the one button mouse thing. Tried to right click with my middle finger the other day on a touchscreen hp. I walked slowly backwards out of the pc store my head held in shame.
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JimBob SquarePants wrote:
Tried a mac once. Could never figure out the one button mouse thing.
Apples come with a one button mouse, but they support two. For some retarded reason, the default setup has right click do the same as left, but once you change it, it's all good.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote:
My Mac not only doesn't delete any files
Yeah, right...[^] It deletes *all* user data. It's annoying, Christian, you're one of those 'Mac Monks' now, intoning "Macs don't have any problems, why don't you switch?" ;)
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
That's never happened to me, and yet, any windows bug that exists, I get hit by.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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23 hours into my shiny new copy of windows 7. Warning.... your hardrive needs to be scanned for errors. 350gb of movies, music etc wiped out! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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JimBob SquarePants wrote:
350gb of movies, music etc wiped out!
:rolleyes: It sounds like you would have had problems even if you put snow leopard on there.
Later, JoeSox CPMCv1.0 - Last.fm - MyFriendfeed - Joesox.com
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Christian Graus wrote:
My Mac not only doesn't delete any files
Yeah, right...[^] It deletes *all* user data. It's annoying, Christian, you're one of those 'Mac Monks' now, intoning "Macs don't have any problems, why don't you switch?" ;)
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
But if that (admittedly nasty, if rare) bug affects you, as you're using OS X, you'll probably be using Time Machine (as it's about the easiest to use backup solution you can find and comes with the OS), so any losses will be minimal. Also makes it very easy to upgrade the HDD as well, as you just need to swap out the drive, boot from the OS X DVD and restore from your Time Machine disk. I know, I've done it.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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23 hours into my shiny new copy of windows 7. Warning.... your hardrive needs to be scanned for errors. 350gb of movies, music etc wiped out! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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When I had that kind of failure a year and half ago, it was due to a bugs in Nvidia's Neo4 and a specific rev of a Seagate SATA hard drive clashing. I'd had problems for almost a year until I finally figured out what the problem was which was about the same time, the bugs took the whole drive down due to heavy corruption of the NTFS tables. (I replaced the drive with a PATA drive and haven't had a problem since.) Be aware that even without scanning for errors, your drive had serious problems. You'd already lost gigabytes of data and just hadn't known it yet.
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I agree there. I've certainly learnt my lesson anyway. Tried a mac once. Could never figure out the one button mouse thing. Tried to right click with my middle finger the other day on a touchscreen hp. I walked slowly backwards out of the pc store my head held in shame.
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
I dunno - I'm often gesturing at my PC at work with my middle finger…doesn't affect the way the machine works, but it releases some GRRRR!
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I dunno - I'm often gesturing at my PC at work with my middle finger…doesn't affect the way the machine works, but it releases some GRRRR!
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
Oh so that is what mouse gestures are, you have to raise the bird while holding the mouse, what is this animal magic. I usually accompany that one with the f**k you expletive and then bash the monitor with my foam baseball bat. As you say totally non productive but eminently satisfying.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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That's never happened to me, and yet, any windows bug that exists, I get hit by.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
never happened to me
That could be that you are relatively new to OSX and the feedback has not made the loop. We have a CG on line, ATTACK, deploy the anti CG bugs. Whereas windows has had many years to prepare for you. It also may be that you are not yet deep enough into OSX to be pushing the boundaries of expected limitations.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Since the shell is the way 99% of the way people will interact with the OS, rocks is not how I would describe vista or 7. Microsoft seems to do this a lot. They provide us with so much... .Net, Top notch developer tools to work with (spend an afternoon coding php and i dare you to complain about visual studio) But then, just mess things up so badly: bluetooth, IE, chkdsk. It's like one side of the company doesn't know what the other is doing. Even, simple cosmetic things. Microsoft security essentials.... pretty good underneath but ugly....so, so ugly. Like somebody forgot to tell the developers in security about the whole aero revamp thing. Trying a third party recovery tool now. Do not fancy my chances.
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JimBob SquarePants wrote:
somebody forgot to tell the developers in security about the whole aero revamp thing.
Eeew! Like those UI's you get that still look like 16 bit Windows 3. :~
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But if that (admittedly nasty, if rare) bug affects you, as you're using OS X, you'll probably be using Time Machine (as it's about the easiest to use backup solution you can find and comes with the OS), so any losses will be minimal. Also makes it very easy to upgrade the HDD as well, as you just need to swap out the drive, boot from the OS X DVD and restore from your Time Machine disk. I know, I've done it.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
OMG, I thought it was just Christian, there's more than one of them? :omg:
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
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23 hours into my shiny new copy of windows 7. Warning.... your hardrive needs to be scanned for errors. 350gb of movies, music etc wiped out! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
I gave you a 5. It amuses me that if you post in this forum with a specific explanation of how a Microsoft product has a specific, reproducable bug, or how it has in your instance destroyed all your data, you get 1 votes.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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That's never happened to me, and yet, any windows bug that exists, I get hit by.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
That's never happened to me, and yet, any windows bug that exists, I get hit by.
FTFY
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But if that (admittedly nasty, if rare) bug affects you, as you're using OS X, you'll probably be using Time Machine (as it's about the easiest to use backup solution you can find and comes with the OS), so any losses will be minimal. Also makes it very easy to upgrade the HDD as well, as you just need to swap out the drive, boot from the OS X DVD and restore from your Time Machine disk. I know, I've done it.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
Last time my laptop caught a virus, during a meeting on a Saturday lunch time, AVG could detect but not remove it, I simply invoked the Windows System Restore, to the routine daily restore point created that morning. No more virus. Also comes with the OS.
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But if that (admittedly nasty, if rare) bug affects you, as you're using OS X, you'll probably be using Time Machine (as it's about the easiest to use backup solution you can find and comes with the OS), so any losses will be minimal. Also makes it very easy to upgrade the HDD as well, as you just need to swap out the drive, boot from the OS X DVD and restore from your Time Machine disk. I know, I've done it.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
Stuart Dootson wrote:
you'll probably be using Time Machine
Just so long as your Time Machine is less than 18 months old, then all the capacitors explode...
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Last time my laptop caught a virus, during a meeting on a Saturday lunch time, AVG could detect but not remove it, I simply invoked the Windows System Restore, to the routine daily restore point created that morning. No more virus. Also comes with the OS.
Brady Kelly wrote:
AVG could detect but not remove it
That's part of the reason I use Avast! on the Windows boxes/VMs I use.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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23 hours into my shiny new copy of windows 7. Warning.... your hardrive needs to be scanned for errors. 350gb of movies, music etc wiped out! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
But ofcourse you got backups!
Wout
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JimBob SquarePants wrote:
somebody forgot to tell the developers in security about the whole aero revamp thing.
Eeew! Like those UI's you get that still look like 16 bit Windows 3. :~
Visual SourceSafe 2005, anyone? They added resizable dialogs (finally) that start out sized as Windows 3.1 style :rolleyes:.
Software Zen:
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JimBob SquarePants wrote:
Tried a mac once. Could never figure out the one button mouse thing.
Apples come with a one button mouse, but they support two. For some retarded reason, the default setup has right click do the same as left, but once you change it, it's all good.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
the default setup has right click do the same as left
Umm... just how is that supposed to work?
Software Zen:
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23 hours into my shiny new copy of windows 7. Warning.... your hardrive needs to be scanned for errors. 350gb of movies, music etc wiped out! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
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JimBob SquarePants wrote:
350gb of movies, music etc wiped out!
And didn't even try to restore them?? I do not believe they all got destroyed in a minute. I would try some recovery software like Undelete or sth.
Greetings - Jacek
I'm doing that just now. Takes time though with the sheer volume of information.
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