My New Car

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Hi folks, I just bought this top of the range car, the model is win XP
pro. The make is Microsoft. I had a few problems at first.
It was recalled quite a few times for changes. Then I found when I was
running it would just stop for no reason that the builders could find. I
think the written word was 'There is no help for this problem'.
To cut a long story short, I got rid of some of the parts, Outlook
Express, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office, my car runs much
better. I see there is a new model out called Vista. I think I will
give that one a miss.
Joe
 
JoeSoap said:
Hi folks, I just bought this top of the range car, the model is win XP pro. The make is Microsoft.
I had a few problems at first.
It was recalled quite a few times for changes. Then I found when I was running it would just
stop for no reason that the builders could find. I think the written word was 'There is no help
for this problem'.
To cut a long story short, I got rid of some of the parts, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer and
Microsoft Office, my car runs much better. I see there is a new model out called Vista. I think
I will give that one a miss.
Joe
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That's odd. I bought the same brand car and it has worked flawlessly for 5 years.
Maybe because I maintain it.
 
Yours must have come with extras not part of Windows.
Microsoft Office has never been a part of Windows.
There are probably other extras, some of which may be at the heart of the
problems.
 
That's odd. I bought the same brand car and it has worked flawlessly for
5 years. Maybe because I maintain it.
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The only problem with this particular car is that to keep it running
flawlessly for every hour of travel a quarter-hour of maintenance is
required. If you're one of those that doesn't want to actually get
somewhere that's fine. Nothing wrong with towing it to a garage twice a day
for its daily maintenance. For the rest of us that actually want a car to
be a productive means of transport, we've adopted the new L-car.

The L-car is a low-maintenance machine, that just keeps running and running.
It is immune to roll-overs. Starts every time. Is fully customizable. Comes
with thousands of dollars of free options. And gets a hundred times the gas
mileage of the XP model even though it's built like a Hummer.


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The only problem with this particular car is that to keep it running
flawlessly for every hour of travel a quarter-hour of maintenance is
required. If you're one of those that doesn't want to actually get
somewhere that's fine. Nothing wrong with towing it to a garage twice a day
for its daily maintenance. For the rest of us that actually want a car to
be a productive means of transport, we've adopted the new L-car.
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My W car has required less than 30 minutes maintenance this Month and
has provided more than 12 hours per day of mostly continuous service, or
at least 4 hour blocks at at time, without a single fault.

My Dodge Dakota Quad 4x4 V8 has required about 2 hours maintenance this
month and has about 15 total hours run time - seems that my W car is
much more reliable, requires less maintenance, and no loss of
productivity.

My L car has required about 3 hours this month to maintain updates and
also to find additional features that allow me to interact with W car
owners.
 
NoStop said:
The only problem with this particular car is that to keep it running
flawlessly for every hour of travel a quarter-hour of maintenance is
required. If you're one of those that doesn't want to actually get
somewhere that's fine. Nothing wrong with towing it to a garage twice a day
for its daily maintenance. For the rest of us that actually want a car to
be a productive means of transport, we've adopted the new L-car.

The L-car is a low-maintenance machine, that just keeps running and running.
It is immune to roll-overs. Starts every time. Is fully customizable. Comes
with thousands of dollars of free options. And gets a hundred times the gas
mileage of the XP model even though it's built like a Hummer.


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Sorry, I have Linux on a test machine and it is a real bitch to setup.
My Windows machine has never been to the shop and never stopped working.
I installed my antivirus, antispyware software to do automatic maintenance.
Linux is nice for "us geeks" but my father would never be able to figure it out.
PS. I had to buy a very expensive modem to get Linux connected to the Internet.

On a Windows news group, just answer the users questions, don't sell Linux.
 
JoeSoap must have learned to drive in the horse and buggy days.
Perhaps he needs to upgrade HIS skills.

DRW
 
Richard in AZ wrote:
|| ||| On Monday 12 June 2006 09:03 am, Richard in AZ had this to say in
||| microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
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|||
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||| The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:
|||
||| http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613
|||
||| View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
||| http://linclips.crocusplains.com/index.php
|||
|||
|| Sorry, I have Linux on a test machine and it is a real bitch to
|| setup.
|| My Windows machine has never been to the shop and never stopped
|| working.
|| I installed my antivirus, antispyware software to do automatic
|| maintenance.
|| Linux is nice for "us geeks" but my father would never be able to
|| figure it out. PS. I had to buy a very expensive modem to get Linux
|| connected to the Internet.

Could the above statement be because Linux adheres to standards,
therefore
not enabling a cheap sound card to be used as a modem.
 
Jupiter said:
Yours must have come with extras not part of Windows.
Microsoft Office has never been a part of Windows.
There are probably other extras, some of which may be at the heart of the
problems.
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You forgot to mention that the warranty has been voided by both
the factory and the dealer for removing some of the parts and
the extras.
 
JoeSoap said:
Hi folks, I just bought this top of the range car, the model is win XP
pro. The make is Microsoft. I had a few problems at first.
It was recalled quite a few times for changes. Then I found when I was
running it would just stop for no reason that the builders could find. I
think the written word was 'There is no help for this problem'.
To cut a long story short, I got rid of some of the parts, Outlook
Express, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office, my car runs much
better. I see there is a new model out called Vista. I think I will
give that one a miss.
Joe
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Nice trolling. Not only poking fun at the totally rediculous
car=computer/OS analogies but look at all the squirrels you rounded up.
Good work pal.

Steve N.
 
JoeSoap said:
Hi folks, I just bought this top of the range car, the model is win XP
pro. The make is Microsoft. I had a few problems at first.
It was recalled quite a few times for changes. Then I found when I was
running it would just stop for no reason that the builders could find. I
think the written word was 'There is no help for this problem'.
To cut a long story short, I got rid of some of the parts, Outlook
Express, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office, my car runs much better.
I see there is a new model out called Vista. I think I will give that one
a miss.
Joe
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Sounds like the problems are caused by lousy driving ;-) ;-)

Antioch
 
Steve N. said:
Nice trolling. Not only poking fun at the totally rediculous
car=computer/OS analogies but look at all the squirrels you rounded up.
Good work pal.

Steve N.
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Not to mention the 'nuts' as well!!
 
Leythos said:
My W car has required less than 30 minutes maintenance this Month and
has provided more than 12 hours per day of mostly continuous service, or
at least 4 hour blocks at at time, without a single fault.

My Dodge Dakota Quad 4x4 V8 has required about 2 hours maintenance this
month and has about 15 total hours run time - seems that my W car is
much more reliable, requires less maintenance, and no loss of
productivity.

My L car has required about 3 hours this month to maintain updates and
also to find additional features that allow me to interact with W car
owners.
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I hate these stupid car=PC analogies. Oh well.

You either have a crappy or way outdated Linux distro, or don't know
what you're doing. Took me less than a minute to get SuSE 9.1 Pro
talking to my Win boxen. Easiest thing I ever did.

Steve N.
 
I hate these stupid car=PC analogies. Oh well.

You either have a crappy or way outdated Linux distro, or don't know
what you're doing. Took me less than a minute to get SuSE 9.1 Pro
talking to my Win boxen. Easiest thing I ever did.
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Not outdated, just would not setup easily with my Windows 2003 Servers
using shares and permissions as setup on the users 2003 shares. I didn't
like Suse in the times I've tried it, I do like Fedora Core as it didn't
require any extra work to see all of my hardware.
 
Leythos said:
Not outdated, just would not setup easily with my Windows 2003 Servers
using shares and permissions as setup on the users 2003 shares. I didn't
like Suse in the times I've tried it, I do like Fedora Core as it didn't
require any extra work to see all of my hardware.
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Try a newer distro of SuSE if you can, I'll bet you will be surprised.
It's still open source but being developed by Novell, a _real_ NOS
company so they have a lot of brainpower behind it (and it shows).

Depending on how many extras you install, it takes a little longer than
XP to boot up (but it's real hard to beat XP on bootup time anyway
unless you're running DOS), but once it's running it's like greased
lighting. KDE is a great GUI and I'm pleased SuSE installs it as
default. I don't care much for Gnome. YaST has really come a long way, too.

Hold your head up and never give up.
Steve N.
 
I get to walk a mile in 24 minutes, rest for 6 minutes, and then repeat the
process. Sounds like Demowear!
 
Richard in AZ wrote:
|| ||| On Monday 12 June 2006 09:03 am, Richard in AZ had this to say in
||| microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
|||
|||| |||
|||
||| --
||| The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:
|||
||| http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613
|||
||| View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
||| http://linclips.crocusplains.com/index.php
|||
|||
|| Sorry, I have Linux on a test machine and it is a real bitch to
|| setup.
|| My Windows machine has never been to the shop and never stopped
|| working.
|| I installed my antivirus, antispyware software to do automatic
|| maintenance.
|| Linux is nice for "us geeks" but my father would never be able to
|| figure it out. PS. I had to buy a very expensive modem to get Linux
|| connected to the Internet.

Could the above statement be because Linux adheres to standards,
therefore
not enabling a cheap sound card to be used as a modem.
Click to expand...

More likely Richard in AZ lacked the computer skills required. He's so stuck
in the Windoze mindset which hides the underlaying reality of a computer,
he was incapable of getting it set up without resorting to spending more
money. Either that or he was trying to get a toy modem (ie. Winmodem)
working with Linux. Those modems are built for toy operating systems, not
real operating systems.


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