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  A Little Humor George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-02-05 18:53 -0600
    Re: A Little Humor nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid (Nick Naym) - 2014-02-05 20:22 -0500
    Re: A Little Humor Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-05 20:01 -0700
      Re: A Little Humor Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 08:09 -0500
        Re: A Little Humor Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-02-08 15:11 +0100
          Re: A Little Humor Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 12:26 -0500
    Re: A Little Humor Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2014-02-09 10:38 +0100

#56077 — A Little Humor

<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-e
ntire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html?utm_source=
tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(30)>

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#56090

George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote:

> <http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-e
> ntire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html?utm_source=
> tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(30)>

Looks like the experience aged him quite a bit. (I wonder if Borowitz
will post MS's "face-saving" explanation.) ;-)
-- 
iMac (27", 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) • OS X (10.8.5)

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#56107

In article <CF183947.A71B7%ghost_topper@hotmail.com>, George Kerby
<ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote:

> <http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-e
> ntire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html?utm_source=
> tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(30)>

I wish that Borowitz would retire; his columns are funny at most once
every other month, but usually not that often.  He uses a sledgehammer
where he should be using a scalpel.I'm not necessarily referring to
this article, but to his entire body of work over the past few years.

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#56130

In article <050220142001353638%michelle@michelle.org>,
 Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <CF183947.A71B7%ghost_topper@hotmail.com>, George Kerby
> <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > <http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-e
> > ntire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html?utm_source=
> > tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(30)>
> 
> I wish that Borowitz would retire; his columns are funny at most once
> every other month, but usually not that often.  He uses a sledgehammer
> where he should be using a scalpel.I'm not necessarily referring to
> this article, but to his entire body of work over the past few years.

I've installed Windows 8.1 a few times now (in a few different places). 
I don't know what all the fuss is about. Tidy it up a bit, boot straight 
to the desktop, automatic login, it works okay. I don't even mind the 
"metro apps." Of course, I'm not a Winders guy to begin with, and I 
don't have any nostalgia for the, ah, "classic" look which seemed to 
mean that you right-click on the start button and your screen fills up 
with crap. Their version of "Launch Pad" is a bit of a mess, but I don't 
use it much on OS X either.
-- 
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing  room scene.
  -- notes for Blade Runner

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#56219

On 2014-02-06, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <050220142001353638%michelle@michelle.org>,
>  Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>
>> In article <CF183947.A71B7%ghost_topper@hotmail.com>, George Kerby
>> <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > <http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-entire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html>
>>
>> I wish that Borowitz would retire; his columns are funny at most once
>> every other month, but usually not that often.  He uses a sledgehammer
>> where he should be using a scalpel.I'm not necessarily referring to
>> this article, but to his entire body of work over the past few years.
>
> I've installed Windows 8.1 a few times now (in a few different places).
> I don't know what all the fuss is about. Tidy it up a bit, boot straight
> to the desktop, automatic login, it works okay. I don't even mind the
> "metro apps."

The 8.1 upgrade did an excellent job of freeing up disk space.  I gather
that this was driven by the need to do that for the 16GB tablet thingies,
but it demonstrates that MS can do things properly when they really want to.

> Of course, I'm not a Winders guy to begin with, and I
> don't have any nostalgia for the, ah, "classic" look which seemed to
> mean that you right-click on the start button and your screen fills up
> with crap. Their version of "Launch Pad" is a bit of a mess, but I don't
> use it much on OS X either.

I have never understood the desire to hang onto that "classic" look either,
and intensely disliked that screenful of crap.  I did use the alternative
shell available from classicshell.org for Windows 8.0, but I chose the
Windows 7 lookalike rather than  the "classic" one.  According to the notes
at classicshell.org the classic shell could be driven by one letter key
presses in an efficient manner, but I simply didn't use Windows often
enough to memorize that stuff.

To be honest I have so little use of Windows nowadays that I only fire it
up each Patch Tuesday to keep it up to date.  Murphy's Law of course dictates
that if I delete Windows, there will be a compelling reason to put it back
a week later, so for now it stays, but nicely parked away in a virtual
machine.

--
Paul Sture

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#56232

In article <nhqhsa-a9e2.ln1@news.chingola.ch>,
 Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:

> To be honest I have so little use of Windows nowadays that I only fire it
> up each Patch Tuesday to keep it up to date.  Murphy's Law of course dictates
> that if I delete Windows, there will be a compelling reason to put it back
> a week later, so for now it stays, but nicely parked away in a virtual
> machine.

That's where mine is. It's pretty snappy on the iMac. I'm going to put 
it on my Zotac eventually, and use Windows for my HTPC (Netflix USA 
mostly).
-- 
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing  room scene.
  -- notes for Blade Runner

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#56283

On 06.02.2014 01:53, George Kerby wrote:
> <http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-e
> ntire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html?utm_source=
> tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(30)>
>
I am now compleately reassured that Microsoft has got such a bright 
technology advisor...


-- 
One computer and three operating systems, not the other way round.
One wife and many hotels, not the other way round ! ;-)

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