Greetings From Windows XP

[the_gneech]

Well, the "Recovery Disk" that came with my HP Pavilion was garbage -- big surprise there -- so I went to Best Buy and got a copy of Windows XP. After a bit of fighting with it to convince it that yes, I did have a hard drive, it is now installed and seems to be running happily ... if a bit on the pokey side.

The true test will come when I fire up Photoshop ... later.

But for now, I exist! Yay. :)

-The Gneech

Comments

[richvstone.livejournal.com]

Hey do you have any realtime chat proggies?

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I do, but I try not to get too many contacts on them. :) Most of the time I prefer e-mail! -TG

[katayamma.livejournal.com]

You're running XPloit now?

[nekomimikun.livejournal.com]

*hugs computer* I'm so glad I have a Mac. =^_^=

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Gah! You can have 'em. Every Mac I've had was buggier, crashier, and generally more junk than every PC I've had. -TG

[elektron.livejournal.com]

Amidst all the hacky-ness of OSX, it still knows what a USB mouse is. =-)

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

ERF? Why would you need a whole copy of XP? The recovery disk is just going to reset everything to factory originals, not really install any new OS.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

The recovery disk was supposed to have an option to reformat and reinstall -- except when it tried to do FDisk, it hung every time. Just as well, I suspect Win98 is where half of my difficulties lay anyhow. -TG

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

Win98? Don't tell me you upgrade from Win98 to XP!

And I got a few copies of both too....

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

I'm with Spiked on this one. 98 is much less of a resource hog and much more, ah, adjustable than XP ever will be.

But Neko's crazy idea that a Mac is better than a PC is just silly. Number one, the file system on a Macintosh OS of any level wastes waaaay too much space...

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Chip sends out his legions of gremlins to take over the Gneech's computer while he's not looking! Hah!

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

To me, XP's strength is that it seems to make everything co-exist better than anything else I've found to date.

I hear horror stories out the wazoo about it, yet I've been running it for around 6 months now, and it hasn't crapped out AT ALL, where before that, I fought with "the blue screen of death" for YEARS.

Given that MickySloth is evil incarnate, I have to give the Devil his dues---

The fool thing WORKS.

(Hey, I was about ready to toss it all and buy a MAC---! EEEEE!!!!!)

Glad you're back among the cyber-living!

[level-head.livejournal.com]

I've had similar good experience with Windows 2000.

And it does not have the built-in mechanism that requires "giving the devil his dues" on a monthly basis, as XP has.

Microsoft just announced a couple of days ago that they are going to delay somewhat the new rental payment plan, and have a different arrangment for small business; apparently, they fear some reprisals so soon after the Lawsuit.

We shall see.

And to The Gneech: Good to see that you've made it through!

The Lady Anne sends a suggestion: take your art, computer-colored, and print it on a transparent plastic. This will make it look like a "cel", which is Very Trendy to hang in offices. ];)

===|==============/ Level Head

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Well, the "cel" thing is for animation, generally. ;) -TG

Re:

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Of course, he said animatedly.

But how do you know it ain't, looking at only one?

This is marketing. You are likely to cel more of them.

===|==============/ Level Head

[nekomimikun.livejournal.com]

Oi! I use a Mac! They're not bad. I like them!

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

Actually, I like them, too.
They just don't like ME---

My neighbor has had several (latest is an IMac) and every one of his that I've even TOUCHED has suddenly gone belly-up, to the point he's had to reload both the OS and the programs.

Needless to say, I no longer go NEAR his Macs...

Yet at the newspaper where I worked, I used them for YEARS, doing digital imaging. Funky, sometimes a bit flaky---but compared to the PCs at that time, the Macs worked GREAT---

[richvstone.livejournal.com]

Rental payment plan? What's that all about?

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

"Compute ergo sum," eh?