Stuff and nonsense.

[chess]

Yesterday I fell to the Dark Side.

We installed WinXP on Kastaka. Not only that, but my mother (who I'm now allowed to mention :-) ) used my name when saying WinXP should be good to someone!

WinXP is the height of evil, and assumes that you are stupid, and runs programs for you and changes your start menu on the fly and whines about having properly signed drivers and makes you click around a bunch more if you want to see, e.g., the root directory of your disk (which is where it puts you just after My Computer and Explorer is more hidden as default) or Program Files. However, it is also much faster at loading things than Win98 was, and we haven't managed to crash it yet, and it's made the wireless network and the proxy server work again, and all our old programs seem to run on it too. So, it's evil but also useful... the worst combination, evil and seductive...

And my parents are determined to get another copy and install it on Yamsyn, despite my suggestion that we get our hands on a copy of Mandrake or one of the other more user-friendly Linuxes (them having banned me from trying to install Debian on anything they have a stake in). Bah.

Comments

[sagima.livejournal.com]

All that stuff is just there for people who want the OS to run itself - it can all be turned off ro put back to how it used to be

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Except the bit where it constantly nags you with 'you have unused icons on your desktop, here, let me clean them up for you'...

And in reference to actual post, evil and seductive. I like that. Excellent way of putting it. Evil, seductive, and sneaky -- you can frob the settings enough that it looks almost exactly like earlier versions of Windows, and then you forget the evil for a bit and then it comes back and smacks you in the face again...

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[sagima.livejournal.com]

Even that bit

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Really? How?

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[sagima.livejournal.com]

Right click on the desktop, select properties, select the desktop tab, then customise desktop, the clear the check box at the bottom

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Wow, so THAT'S where they hide it! Thanks!

Mandrake

[r-win.livejournal.com]

I could send you some Mandrake 9 CDs if you like.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Hold it ... they want to put WinXP on a P200?

"I've just booted it, so we'll have tea then it'll have come up and be ready to use."

And you know what having WinXP means don't you?

It means you can put icons on programs properly. I'll send you the new nox to compile ;-).

Neil

[chess]

No, they upgraded Kas at the same time, so now she's technically better than Yamsyn... she's a 1.7Gig Athlon now!

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

WinXP is the crashiest crashy thing even and is the spawn of SATAN goddamit.