my day with windows

[solarbird]

Solarbird sends openly ** STOP BUGGING ME WITH SHIT WINDOWS **
Solarbird sends openly ** goddammit this is an annoying OS. **
Solarbird sends openly ** "You have unused items on your desktop! Do you want
to clean them up now?" "No, fuck you." <dismiss> **
Solarbird sends openly ** "You have unused items on your desktop! Do you want
to clean them up now?" "No, I said, fuck you." <dismiss again> **
Solarbird sends openly ** "I'm going to hide unused items in your taskbar now!
Click like crazy to bring them back!" "I DON'T CARE, LEAVE ME ALONE." <dismiss> **
Solarbird sends openly ** "Would you like to learn more about Office features
now?" "AGH FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU SO MUCH LET ME DO MY GODDAMN WORK" <dismiss> **
Solarbird sends openly ** Clippy lives. **

Then, of course, it wouldn't let me log out because it insisted upon telling me over and over again that there were new programme items on my start menu, and, in doing so, covering the "log out" button. It took three tries each time to get the start menu to pop up and click on "log out user" before it would bring that stupid dialogue bubble up.

Comments

[banner.livejournal.com]

I have found that when windows will not allow me to log out, unplugging it works quite well.

And I'd LOVE for a switch that would turn those stupid bubbles off forever. They do not tell me anything I want to know.

[solarbird]

Yes. The "HELLO I AM NOT A MORON" checkbox. It'd be WONDERFUL.

[banner.livejournal.com]

Cant you talk to any of your friends there? To be honest I'm not looking forward to Vista at all, from the sound of it and what's in it I'm thinking of jumping ship from windows completely at that point and just use linux. Which means no more computer games, but to be honest most of the games suck these days anyway.

[solarbird]

Dual boot. Know it, live it, love it. Or better yet, VM a windows box inside a linux session. I had a friend who used to do that, worked great for games and Excel, the two things really most not replaceable in the Windows environment on Linux.

What I've done on my Mac is installed the Windows remote desktop client and given only myself permmission to remote login. So I can pop up a Windows client desktop on my Mac box and run PC Excel in it on a completely different machine. So far, it's really nice. I wouldn't want to do it for games - too slow - but for Excel? There is much ass-kicking.

[janne.livejournal.com]

That ranks high up on my list of least favorite windows features, too -- Nanny Microsoft doesn't trust me to know what I've been installing lately, so it *forces* me to go look at all the new programs before I'm graciously allowed to log out. At the very least, windows could come with a 'Idiot User/Not Idiot User' switch, where the ability to locate and set the switch would be sufficient proof of non-idiocy.

If only work would allow me to use a mac... :)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Want to borrow my old Amiga 2000HD for a while?

[solarbird]

I've got a 4000/040. Don't think I'm not tempted occasionally.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

I had a 4000/060 (accelerated) but it was from near the end of the Canadian manufacturer's time and never worked right and I went back to the 2000 until I bought my HP Pavillion.

[snotvark.livejournal.com]

please to be enjoying the glory of bubble tips on a windows machine with a flaky wireless connection.