Microsoft Bashing

Mon Dec 26 2011 05:22:00 EST from triLcat @ Uncensored

Now, whenever I use Track Changes in Word <barf>, the changes come through as Poofy.

Apparently, the only way to change that is to create a new user for Windows <blergh!>

I had something similar today, I set up a new win7 machine for our secretary and the thing forces you to create a user on first install, so I created the_mgt. I deleted it after activating the administrator account (sudo activate administrator....).

Today I saw that the adobe software and also office had "the_mgt" as user/owner showing up, even when I used the secretarys account for checking if MS EasyTransfer had really transferred outlook correctly. (Which it did, to my surprise).

Only solution was to comb the registry for the string "the_mgt" and replace it with the secretary's name. And it was all over the place.

Tue Dec 13 2011 10:09:48 ESTfrom skpacman @ Uncensored

I had it partitioned as: d0-p0 (System Reserve), d0-p1 (OS - 250GB), d0-p2 (DATA - ~650GB)

The bad thing is, it got them switched somehow. It installed Windows on the bigger partition after I specifically told it to install on the smaller one.

I fucking hate windows... it ruined a perfect build.

At least I am not alone! A while ago, I upgraded the laptop of my gf. I already had set up the previous version of winxp, so I had a seperate partition of OS and one for data already. I moved everything important to the data parition, inserted the win7 installer and pointed it  to the previous system partition, believing to fill that partition with the shiny new win7. Now, there is something truly bizarre about the win7 installers and I am not sure if I already have understood it completely. (No way I am going to RTFM here...)

If you advice it to install on a complete blank hd, it will create some small partition and a big one for the OS. The small one seems to be like a linux' grub partition, bootloader and rescue stuff.

If you create a partition and choose this one as install target, it sometimes omits the bootloader partition.

Now, if you choose an already existing partition for installation, and it tells you this partition will become the "System" partition you better step on the brakes. It will use this partition for the bootloader and the next one behind this one as the real windows partition. Thats what happened to the GFs computer and her data partition... Of course it nuked the partition table, wrote over some data and left me with a 50gb big boot partition filled with only 200mb of shyte....

Thanks to Zero Assumption Recovery (yes, this is product placement, I even bought that tool for 25$ on a weekend special offer) being one of the few really good recovery tools, I found all her relevant data and was able to get the system going again until sunrise.

I did some resizing of partitions and reinstalled and now all is good, but I wasted 3gb on this "System" partition, since the stupid win7 partition tool can't shrink it any further.

WTF?  [ If you can't see the image, go to http://i42.tinypic.com/fnrzu8.gif ]

101 is my collection of "LAMP" type web sites (including www.citadel.org).  102 is Uncensored, with lots of people logged in and doing their thing.  104 is my development box.

103 is an idle Windows 7 desktop.  It is doing nothing right now.  There aren't even any applications installed.  It's sitting there idle and it's consuming more memory than any of the other VM's, and eating CPU.

Windows 7: their best ever! 

To avoid beating the long-dead horse... any way you can pop some extra RAM in there? I ran win7 with 2gb ram and when I was only running 4-5 tabs at a time on Chrome, life was livable. Now I'm at 4GB RAM and sadly, I manage to use all of it. 

Portal 2 on linux? Seems to be no problem. See:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=23278

Microsoft 365, not 366!

Har, har, har.....

Gotta love the leap years.

heh, that guy too:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/121015-windows-8-may-drive-me-to-linux

astonishingly he seems to like the unity dekstop;