IMO, new company laptop with Win 7 - horrible o/s.

[Paul in Houston TX]

Had to get a new laptop from the company.
The old one went bad.
The new one came with Win 7 on it. I don't like it
at all so I'm going to pop in a new hdd
and install XP3.
Also, Office 2010 is available for $9.95.
After trying it for several days, I wiped it
and installed Office 2003.
IMO, 2010 is almost unusable. It's really bizarre.
Reminds me of Vista.

 

[philo]

Had to get a new laptop from the company.
The old one went bad.
The new one came with Win 7 on it. I don't like it
at all so I'm going to pop in a new hdd
and install XP3.
Also, Office 2010 is available for $9.95.
After trying it for several days, I wiped it
and installed Office 2003.
IMO, 2010 is almost unusable. It's really bizarre.
Reminds me of Vista.

Before you do that check to see if you can even get XP drivers for the
mobo's chipset...
IF not, XP is not going to work out for you

 

[choro]

Before you do that check to see if you can even get XP drivers for the
mobo's chipset...

I can post him chips from the UK. Plenty of fish'n'chip shops here!

 

[Tim Meddick]

Your post does not seem to actually ask anything!?!!

But as a statement of facts, I couldn't agree with you more!!!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Your post does not seem to actually ask anything!?!!

But as a statement of facts, I couldn't agree with you more!!!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[philo]

I can post him chips from the UK. Plenty of fish'n'chip shops here!

been over there and had 'em

yummy!

do they still come wrapped in newspaper?

 

[Tim Meddick]

Always newspaper sir!

(The chips just don't taste right otherwise!!)

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Tim Meddick]

I'd send you some, but would worry that they may get slightly cold & soggy
on the way!!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[philo]

I'd send you some, but would worry that they may get slightly cold & soggy
on the way!!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

It happens *very* rarely...but I am home from work today due to a snowstorm
that his hit the US.
It's been 10 years or more since Milwaukee's been shut down by snow.

I am making good use of my time and finally getting to read "War and Peace"

Hopefully the storm will be over with well before I finish!


My wife is working in her studio today on one of her blue women series

http://gallerygrand.org/

 

[Goobus]

Had to get a new laptop from the company.
The old one went bad.
The new one came with Win 7 on it. I don't like it
at all so I'm going to pop in a new hdd
and install XP3.
Also, Office 2010 is available for $9.95.
After trying it for several days, I wiped it
and installed Office 2003.
IMO, 2010 is almost unusable. It's really bizarre.
Reminds me of Vista.

Who gives a damn about any of this?

 

[Tim Meddick]

For two possible reasons that I can think of (off the top of my head) :-

1). The newspapers are always relatively old ones, more than a week, and,
as such, the ink is much drier than newsprint of papers of the that same
day.

2). The oils from off the chips themselves "seal", to a certain extent, the
ink on the paper from dissolving (or bleeding) due to moisture.

Plus....

3). (just thought of another thing!) I remember that, on occasion, you
actually *would* get black "lettering" appear (in reverse) on the odd
chip!!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[choro]

For two possible reasons that I can think of (off the top of my head) :-

1). The newspapers are always relatively old ones, more than a week,
and, as such, the ink is much drier than newsprint of papers of the that
same day.

2). The oils from off the chips themselves "seal", to a certain extent,
the ink on the paper from dissolving (or bleeding) due to moisture.

Plus....

3). (just thought of another thing!) I remember that, on occasion, you
actually *would* get black "lettering" appear (in reverse) on the odd
chip!!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

Hey, stop misleading people and telling them a pack of lies. Newspapers
are no longer used to wrap fish'n'chips. And even in the old days,
fish'n'chips were first wrapped in a small(ish) clean sheet of paper
before it got a newspaper outer wrap.

These days fish-n'chips quite often come in a foam type boxes. But paper
IS better as it absorbs the vapours from the hot fish'n'chips.

Nothing can beat a properly fried fish'n'chips sprinkled generously with
salt and vinegar. I buy mine from an award-winning chippie and sometimes
have a sit-down meal there.

I believe he uses beer to prepare the batter.

YUMMY!

 

[Tim Meddick]

Even in a light-hearted banter with someone - I cannot be left alone with
out some know-it-all WANKER butting in and who has just got to tell me how
I have got it all wrong....

Like IT'S ANY OF YUR BUISINESS!

If you just came up to me on the street while I was talking to someone,
just because you happened to overhear part of the conversation and reckoned
that you knew better, I'd give you a smack in the gob for your trouble...

You just butted in with an accusation that I'm misleading people.

So, you have been into every fish & chippy in the entire UK have you ?

So you know , do you, how every single chippy serves-up do you?

And besides all this, there is absolutely NOTHING in my post to suggest
that I was talking about life in the present. Point-in-fact, I was
reminiscing...

But, it seems, even when digressing from the subject to talk to someone
about some human commonality; someone has just gotta butt in with their
superior sense of duty to correct the rest of us, lesser dimlows!!!

God - is it impossible for people like you to just shut the hell up?

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Maybe I should say, since I have been rudely hounded by some guy called
"choro", that I haven't actually seen newspaper, in the ten or so chippies
in the two cities I'VE been to, used anymore.

In fact, I just can't remember the last time I saw it used in a chippy for
wrapping-up.

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I remember, the inner one or two layers were
specially purchased "chippy paper" with a lot of the absorbent qualities of
newspaper but none of the print.. Then the outer layer was always
newspaper.

But I seriously don't know if anyone anywhere uses it anymore!?

I'll let "choro" take over the conversation since he has something to say
so badly.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[choro]

Even in a light-hearted banter with someone - I cannot be left alone
with out some know-it-all WANKER butting in and who has just got to tell
me how I have got it all wrong....

Like IT'S ANY OF YUR BUISINESS!

If you just came up to me on the street while I was talking to someone,
just because you happened to overhear part of the conversation and
reckoned that you knew better, I'd give you a smack in the gob for your
trouble...

You just butted in with an accusation that I'm misleading people.

So, you have been into every fish & chippy in the entire UK have you ?

So you know , do you, how every single chippy serves-up do you?

And besides all this, there is absolutely NOTHING in my post to suggest
that I was talking about life in the present. Point-in-fact, I was
reminiscing...

But, it seems, even when digressing from the subject to talk to someone
about some human commonality; someone has just gotta butt in with their
superior sense of duty to correct the rest of us, lesser dimlows!!!

God - is it impossible for people like you to just shut the hell up?

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

It wasn't I but YOU who first butted in 'cause I was the first one to
bring in fish'n'chips into this conversation.

But if I spoiled your fun, a big SORRY!

BTW, have YOU been to every fish'n'chippie in the land?

 

[N. Miller]

Had to get a new laptop from the company.
The old one went bad.
The new one came with Win 7 on it. I don't like it
at all so I'm going to pop in a new hdd
and install XP3.
Also, Office 2010 is available for $9.95.
After trying it for several days, I wiped it
and installed Office 2003.
IMO, 2010 is almost unusable. It's really bizarre.
Reminds me of Vista.

What is bizarre is people's rants. Windows 95 was significantly different
than Windows 3.1; yet people raved. Windows 98SE was merely a modest
improvement from Windows 95, yet people raved even more. Windows ME was a
sidewise step from Windows 98SE; neither better (except in some modest
ways), nor worse. Yet people absolutely hated it.

Windows XP was a different paradigm than Windows 9x, and people had to learn
new ways of interacting with the OS; yet it is fondly remembered as the
"best ever Windows OS" (except for a small handful of reprobates, who
reserve that accolade for Windows 2000, the direct progenitor of Windows
XP).

Windows Vista offered some modest improvements over Windows XP, but
implemented some changes inspired by Linux (UAC anyone?). People had to
re-learn again (as with the transition from 9x to XP), but people tend to
get set in their ways, and whined about the changes. Windows 7 offers some
modest changes to Windows Vista. I've seen divided opinions about that; some
seem to think it is superior to Vista, other think it is inferior to Vista.
I think the differences between Windows Vista and Windows 7 are less
significant that the differences between Windows 98SE and Windows ME. I
liked ME better for superior recovery from low resources; and I like Win7
better than Vista for a more sensible approach to UAC.

But it isn't much different from Vista, and isn't so difficult to get
accustomed to the changes from XP. I might go back to Windows 7 x86 over
technical issues due to the system hardware (processor is x64 capable, chip
set is not). OTOH, the work-arounds I have employed to overcome the troubles
I encountered are not onerous. Sharing the NAS which can be read from an XP
machine, though the drivers won't load under any Windows 7 system, works
out. I have to go through the older Pavilion (which is crawling under the
strain of XP; hardware is barely adequate). But so far it works.

 

[Tim Meddick]

No I haven't but then if you actually READ my post I didn't say anything to
indicate that they still use the practice of wrapping in newsprint.

I was merely answering someone who asked me about the print-ink
transferring to the chips (or "bleeding", or whatever...).

And I don't care, I was trying to be pleasant to whomever, but when anyone
brings such a discourteous accusation to such an informal conversation as
this, I will take exception.

You are a blunt, discourteous, rude and insensitive fellow, whom I will
remember, in future, has no scruples against turning on others, even when
the immediate discourse is supposed to be "fun".

Good going Mr Killjoy...

What you do for an encore - can you make it rain too?

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[SC Tom]

It happens *very* rarely...but I am home from work today due to a
snowstorm that his hit the US.
It's been 10 years or more since Milwaukee's been shut down by snow.

I am making good use of my time and finally getting to read "War and
Peace"

Hopefully the storm will be over with well before I finish!


My wife is working in her studio today on one of her blue women series

http://gallerygrand.org/

From the looks of it on the weather.com maps, you may very well be through
with W&P before the snow clears. Big fun in Chi-town, too; all the poor
people who had to abandon their vehicles on the roads are now having them
towed by the city. Talk about adding insult to injury.
Then, on the bright side (for me anyhow), it was 71 and mostly sunny here
today. Yet another reason I abandoned life in Detroit and Baltimore years
ago

 

[Tim Meddick]

I agree with allot [most] of what you say, and found it most insightful.

But I have noticed that there are more similarities between WinME and XP
than ME is generally given credit for.

For instance - I could NEVER EVER get a USB pen-drive, or memory-stick, to
be recognised under Win98SE but is a piece of cake under WinME! Likewise,
XP has no problems in successfully recognising a pen-drive.

And to give one more example of similarity, WinME had built-in Zip-Folder
management like XP has (courtesy of the [Zipfldr.dll] file in both OSes)
whereas Win98SE and Win2K does not have this feature.

I think that,despite the obvious differences in NT vs. DOS build between ME
and XP, I still believe they share allot more than people think.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[choro]

No I haven't but then if you actually READ my post I didn't say anything
to indicate that they still use the practice of wrapping in newsprint.

Of course not! You merely used the present tense...

1). The newspapers are always relatively old ones, more than a week,

and, as such, the ink is much drier than newsprint of papers of the that
same day.<