Microsoft is a bunch of crooks and imbeciles, burned my copy of xp

[Jan Panteltje]

Microsoft is a bunch of crooks and imbeciles, burned my copy of xp.

After spending a whole Saturday afternoon re-installing Xp, because it no
longer worked, losing all previously installed programs and drivers in the process,
because it would hang in install in some unknown place, had to start on a clean disk,
and finally got it working with internet access,
when I started it again today, a week or so later, it decided that my Logitech mouse
was a 'MS mouse', and the cursor jumped all over the screen.
Had enough.
I would like to hit Bill Gates and Balmer in the face for making such a crap product,.
I have burned my MS xp disk in front of the camera.
And replaced the partition by reiserfs, will be used for data storage in Linux.

Thank God for Linux and may penguins walk all over Redmond.

[Daave[_8_]]

Sounds like a case of PEBKAC to me...

Jan Panteltje wrote:
> Microsoft is a bunch of crooks and imbeciles, burned my copy of xp.
>
> After spending a whole Saturday afternoon re-installing Xp, because
> it no
> longer worked, losing all previously installed programs and drivers
> in the process, because it would hang in install in some unknown
> place, had to start on a clean disk, and finally got it working with
> internet access,
> when I started it again today, a week or so later, it decided that my
> Logitech mouse was a 'MS mouse', and the cursor jumped all over the
> screen.
> Had enough.
> I would like to hit Bill Gates and Balmer in the face for making such
> a crap product,. I have burned my MS xp disk in front of the camera.
> And replaced the partition by reiserfs, will be used for data storage
> in Linux.
>
> Thank God for Linux and may penguins walk all over Redmond.

[ANONYMOUS[_2_]]

You will be better off punching a brick wall to get rid of your anger
because you are likely to get serious health problems if you keep all
the anger bottled up in your body. You won't have any chance of
hitting "Bill Gates and Balmer in the face" because you won't get near them.

Hope this helps in your stress related illness.




Jan Panteltje wrote:

>Microsoft is a bunch of crooks and imbeciles, burned my copy of xp.
>
>After spending a whole Saturday afternoon re-installing Xp, because it no
>longer worked, losing all previously installed programs and drivers in the process,
>because it would hang in install in some unknown place, had to start on a clean disk,
>and finally got it working with internet access,
>when I started it again today, a week or so later, it decided that my Logitech mouse
>was a 'MS mouse', and the cursor jumped all over the screen.
>Had enough.
>I would like to hit Bill Gates and Balmer in the face for making such a crap product,.
>I have burned my MS xp disk in front of the camera.
>And replaced the partition by reiserfs, will be used for data storage in Linux.
>
>Thank God for Linux and may penguins walk all over Redmond.
>
>
>

[Shenan Stanley]

Jan Panteltje wrote:
> Microsoft is a bunch of crooks and imbeciles, burned my copy of xp.
>
> After spending a whole Saturday afternoon re-installing Xp, because
> it no longer worked, losing all previously installed programs and
> drivers in the process, because it would hang in install in some
> unknown place, had to start on a clean disk, and finally got it
> working with internet access, when I started it again today, a week
> or so later, it decided that my Logitech mouse was a 'MS mouse',
> and the cursor jumped all over the screen.
>
> Had enough.
>
> I would like to hit Bill Gates and Balmer in the face for making
> such a crap product,. I have burned my MS xp disk in front of the
> camera.
>
> And replaced the partition by reiserfs, will be used for data
> storage in Linux.
>
> Thank God for Linux and may penguins walk all over Redmond.

The other few million people who don't have the problems you do with the OS
you were unable to utilize surely agree. ;-)

I use OS X 10.5 (10.6 has a few issues I would like to see resolved still),
Ubuntu 9.1, Windows XP, Windows Vista (32 and 64-bit) and Windows 7 (32 and
64-bit) on an almost daily basis - as well as various Windows Server 2003
and 2008 (some R2's and 32/64-bit stuff mixed in there as well) on a less
frequent basis. So maybe I am not the one to judge how easy/difficult an OS
is. However - since you stated you are now running Linux - you must have
some computer skills beyond the typical, "What does 'OS' mean?" user... So
I would have to say that if you were unable to fix your issues (given it the
way you did and it was functional before at some point) - the problem is
either dying hardware or the individual installing and configuring... ;-)

Also - you should look into backups and imaging. If you have something
working and you do not want to go through the trouble of redoing it (either
because it was difficult or because it was more trouble than you deem you
have time for) you could make a system state backup or complete
disk/partition image (schedule it) with various freeware or at-a-cost
applications or even hardware devices these days.

This is a peer-to-peer newsgroup. I am happy you may feel better for
expressing your distaste and issues you had - but it is more likely to start
a flame-war, name calling incident and make you more frustrated than before
as people respond. There will be those few that agree whole-heartedly,
those who disagree and then those who are relatively indifferent.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[Leythos[_2_]]

In article >,
says...
> I would like to hit Bill Gates and Balmer in the face for making such a crap product
>

You sound like and appear to have the skills of a MAC user.

--
You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
(remove 999 for proper email address)

[VanguardLH[_2_]]

Daave wrote:

> Sounds like a case of PEBKAC to me...
>
> Jan Panteltje wrote:
<snip - childish diatribe by malicious Linix promoter>

More like PIWECOD (Problem Is With Empty Cranium and Overflowing Diaper).

[VanguardLH[_2_]]

Leythos wrote:

> You sound like and appear to have the skills of a MAC user.

This one can't even figure out how to use a Gameboy.

[M.I.5¾]

"Daave" > wrote in message
...
> Sounds like a case of PEBKAC to me...
>

ITYM "PEBCAK".