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OT... #&@%$ Windows XP...

2K views 31 replies 14 participants last post by  RickCJ7 
#1 ·
Well, this is just my luck...
1,600 wiring harnesses that are incorrect and my 'puter takes a crap...

Trying to load an anti-virus program, and the computer I was using takes a giant sh!t...

Now I'm finally up and running on XP, but I'm sure not liking it so far... Maybe it's like a fungus and it will grow on me.
 
#8 ·
I liked '98 - at least it was reliable!

XP keeps locking up - and sometimes does things all on it's own.

The nutcases that create the ads you don't want, the viruses, and the spy stuff, trying to steal information mostly write it for XP and other "modern" software.
They don't bother with '98 any more.

Part of the reason I liked '98 was it still had a real MS DOS - newer ones don't. It's a phony MS DOS, things like Lotus 123 and Dbase II need the real thing.
 
#10 ·
things like Lotus 123 and Dbase II need the real thing.
WOW!!!!! Dbase II.
I thought I occasionally jumped in a time machine.
I have Dbase III (circa 1805 I think) on a computer at work for referencing very old company data. It runs just fine on the XP machine I have it on.
If you've heard it won't work but never tried, you might give it a shot.
XP SPII is far and away the most stable Microsloth OS to date.
As others have mentioned, set it to use classic interface and I think you also need to tell it to view folders NOT as web pages, or how ever they had it worded.
My PC's have looked exactly like my Win95 machine did through 95, 98, NT, 2K, and now XP.
Forget Vista. Never get the first generation of a new OS.
You're right on about the crap being pointed towards XP, though. Not much to do about that except keep the security updates and more importantly add-ons current.
 
#11 ·
What version are you using? I haven't loaded Autocad yet. My daughter uses its architectural flavor... Architectural Desktop, with Goggle Sketchup-Pro for architectural drawings. Once I decide if the OS is stable, I'll start playing with these programs. Last night I loaded a Windows Kernel that's supposted to let me run many windows programs... flawlessly. I'll believe it after I load some Windows only programs. Right now, I'm wrestling with getting the DVD/R-RW CD to run.

After about 48 hours of using the OS, I'm not disappointed. It's good geeky fun. But then I was a Unix guy back in the 80's and this brings back some long forgotten and rusty skills.
 
#13 ·
:burnout:

I had a 1972, 2000cc engine... it was the WORST car I've ever owned, I only got 175,000 miles out of it... and that was on two engines. The wife was driving it through Chicmicam WA and it threw a rod through the block.

That was back in the days when Uptown and Downtown Chimacum was the same place. The owner of the Standard gas station/Garage heard her coming about 1/2 mile away. He could hear that main bearing and rod hammering away. So, he went out onto the highway and tired to flag her down to stop the car and prevent further damage.

She thought he was nuts, just a stupid guy standing in the road (and we knew him) and swerved around him at 55mph. She got about another 1/2 mile and the engine self destructed scattering parts all the way from the school to the Tri-Cities dairy.

That cost me a few dollars (guess who I bought the new engine from?)... those were the days...:rolleyes:
 
#14 ·
JYG, you never cease to amaze me! All the high tech engine equipment you work on, the bleeding edge engineering, and you complain about finally upgrading to a six year old OS? Oh My!

Xp has to be the easiest to repair, integrate into a network, and see what is going under the covers.

If it runs too slow or unstable, it is due to cheap, old equipment; Too many and/or incompatible programs; or lack of adequate virus/spy/trojan protection.

You get what you pay for period guys, you know that.

Since this is my chosen profession, and I found my soapbox:

Computers are not like Jeeps. period. To interact with the rest of the world/add new harware/try new software, you need a current PC. getting it to work on the cheap, doesn't cut it for reliabilty. You can DIY, though won't save much and will more than likely spend more, and find out later what you did wrong.

I can never understand nostalgia with computers, that is just not the point.

ok. Done.
 
#15 ·
What version are you using? I haven't loaded Autocad yet.
If that was aimed at me, I'm using Autodesk Inventor 11. It's their parametric design software - you build a solid model and apply dimensions to its features. Later you can go back and change those dimensions and it adjusts the model accordingly, and the drawings and assemblies derived from the model.
 
#17 ·
JYG, you never cease to amaze me! All the high tech engine equipment you work on, the bleeding edge engineering, and you complain about finally upgrading to a six year old OS? Oh My!
Answer as follows:
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This thing is here to serve me, not the other way around.
I shouldn't have to learn a new OS every year or two.
NOTHING, I mean NOTHING on this XP is the same way it was on the others...

Plus, I'm not crazy about a OS than has the potential for 1,400 different tattle tails back to Microsoft...
Where I go and what I do on my computer is between me and the internet porn industry!
 
#18 ·
'Pinto' and it's 2000 CC engine is what got my first business going...
You couldn't get a used head for them that wasn't warped, so we used a steel form, wedges, bolts and an old pizza oven to straighten them out enough to seal.
I hated the Pinto and Mustang II and I'm glad they are dead!

BUT...
With the gas in the US going on $4 a gallon yet this year, I'm sure some of us will be driving 2.0L engines again...

Pinto/Mustang II/Escort/Vega/Chevette/LeCarcass/Omni/Citation/Datsun anyone?

Reads like a 'Who's Who' of vehicles found dead along side the roads of America for the last 40 years, doesn't it!?
With fuel being $8 a gallon in Europe, a 2.0L engine is considered pretty sporty...
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Anyway, I'm still looking for drivers to get all my media drives up and working, and forget about my icons for the different drives, plus I lost a ton of crap I had on the old box...
Good thing my last backup was only a week or so ago.
Now, if I can just find my Surfcam disk...
 
#22 ·
Yeah, I know...I spent 3 years doing the upgrade dance on that machine...first was a RAM upgrade...to 2mb. Then a second 750k floppy...then more RAM (up to 4mb) then finally a hard drive...85MB! Whoo, Hooo!

Was a great machine given it's price and it's learning curve...

Wish this IBM T41 and WindersXP was that simple to use...Not much fluff in the programs back then.
 
#23 ·
...Was a great machine given it's price and it's learning curve......Not much fluff in the programs back then.
Yep, I cut my programming teeth on a Timex Sinclare 1000, then "upgraded" to a Texas Instruments TI-99/rA and then came the big one.. the $3,000 IBM PC with a ProPrinter and Color VGA. That lasted me about 5 years through college and graduate school. By the time I was out of college, programs were bloated. What took two passes of a compiler then took five or six. The computer aided sofware design systems were just coming into being when I left programming. Whew.. I escaped a bullet on that one. But I've got to hand it to Microsoft and MAC, they both opened up computers to the world... and that's a good thing.
 
#24 ·
He He - time machine is right.
I never liked dBIII because it was too standardized - too many menu driven things. They eliminated some of the things you could do with it. Once you learned dBII, it became far more versatile than anything I've even seen since.


My businesses were all done in DBII and were made to link with Lotus 123. I wrote it all myself.

He He - going back in time - In College I took a couple of classes in Fortran and Basic. That was touted as the wave of the future! Once in a while I still play around with Basic on an old cumputer.

No, DBII won't even load up, and I use Smart Suite - it has a later version of 123, similar to the old 123.
 
#26 ·
Have you tried the newly released Safari? Once reserved for the MAC, it's now available for the Windows world. It's a nice, fast and clean browser. Do I use it? Nope, but I have loaded and worked with it. I'll stick with Firefox, and it's working great on my Linux powered comupuer.

 
#32 ·
Wow, another Smart Suite user. I gave up trying to explain to people that Lotus (now part of IBM) had better products than Micro$oft. My own stuff I do in Smart Suite, but when other people are involved I have to switch to the Office mess.
 
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