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  • S Stuart Dootson

    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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    Mycroft Holmes
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    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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    • C Christian Graus

      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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      Mycroft Holmes
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      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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      • J JimBob SquarePants

        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.

        JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************

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        Brady Kelly
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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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        • S Stuart Dootson

          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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          Vikram A Punathambekar
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          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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          • J JimBob SquarePants

            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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            Christian Graus
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            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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            • C Christian Graus

              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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              Brady Kelly
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              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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              • S Stuart Dootson

                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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                Brady Kelly
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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.

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                • S Stuart Dootson

                  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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                  Electron Shepherd
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                  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...

                  Server and Network Monitoring

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                  • B Brady Kelly

                    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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                    Stuart Dootson
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                    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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                    • J JimBob SquarePants

                      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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                      wout de zeeuw
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                      But ofcourse you got backups!

                      Wout

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                      • B Brady Kelly

                        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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                        Gary R Wheeler
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                        Visual SourceSafe 2005, anyone? They added resizable dialogs (finally) that start out sized as Windows 3.1 style :rolleyes:.

                        Software Zen: delete this;
                        Fold With Us![^]

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                        • C Christian Graus

                          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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                          Gary R Wheeler
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                          Christian Graus wrote:

                          the default setup has right click do the same as left

                          Umm... just how is that supposed to work?

                          Software Zen: delete this;
                          Fold With Us![^]

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                          • J JimBob SquarePants

                            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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                            Lutoslaw
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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

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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

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                              JimBob SquarePants
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                              I'm doing that just now. Takes time though with the sheer volume of information.

                              JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************

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                              • J JimBob SquarePants

                                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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                                Mark_Wallace
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                                DRM errors? :laugh: Sorry. It's not funny, I know.

                                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                • C Christian Graus

                                  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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                                  dan sh
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                                  A vital part of the M$ source codes:

                                  if (user == "CG"){
                                  BugGenerator.Start();
                                  }

                                  It's not necessary to be so stupid, either, but people manage it. - Christian Graus, 2009 AD

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                                  • C Christian Graus

                                    How does one legally have 350 GB of movies and music ? If it's legal, surely you had a backup ?

                                    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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                                    Nish Nishant
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                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    How does one legally have 350 GB of movies and music ?

                                    Not music, but I probably have more than that in personal family videos and pictures (mostly of Rohan though) :-) And it's all backed up in triplicate!

                                    Regards, Nish


                                    Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
                                    My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link

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                                    • C Christian Graus

                                      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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                                      Joe Woodbury
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                                      Because it's pretty clear that it wasn't Microsoft's fault. He had a hardware failure that preceded upgrading to Windows 7 and which was corrupting his hard drive. Had he run the check under Vista, he would have lost the data then, instead of later.

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                                      • C Christian Graus

                                        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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                                        Henry Minute
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                                        Clickety-click or wiggle-wiggle, you choose[^]

                                        Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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