Just as Friday was construction lunacy day, yesterday it all went quiet. And so it is today. Graham reckons that it’s because all the suppliers and tradesmen have done their thing, leaving the rest to traditional builders. And traditional builders don’t work weekends.
Mind you, I’m not about to complain. I like it quiet. Dolly likes it quiet, too. I’m sure Graham would like it if he weren’t making so much noise.
Today he’s reloading his Windows XP system. Again. With much cursing and shouting for its recalcitrance.
“I don’t understand how you can go on claiming XP to be superior to Vista when it needs to be reloaded so often,” I said, not realising I was speaking aloud until I heard my own dulcet tones falling flat on the floor.
“It’s not that XP is superior, it’s more a case of Vista being inferior. Everybody says so.”
“Oh. You may have the truth of it, then. And no doubt Windows 7 is even more inferior?”
“Of course.”
“Right you are, then.”
And off I toddled to work my Vista system hard once more. You know. The Vista system that came pre-loaded on this machine nearly three years back, has never been re-loaded, and so far as I can remember has never given me a moment’s trouble. It’s an inferior system, though. Everybody says so.
Must be so, then. But my granddad used to say, “‘They say’ is liars.” [That's an exact quote, bad grammar and all.
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All I can cite is my own experience, XP has run okay for me since February 2008 without a reload. My previous computer had Windows 95, never reloaded it and ran it till XP came out, whenever that was.
Traditional builders will work outside through the dead of winter, but they take their weekends seriously.
Have a grand time enjoying the ‘relative’ quiet. I hope the expletives have died down by now. [giggle]
I have a theory that computers come with a covert ‘expletive detected’ circuit, faithfully counting each cuss word and obscenity directed at it. Hit a secret threshold value and it starts sending random mischief signals across the motherboard and all its daughter boards … and the only way to reset it is to reload!
No, noooooo! John, you’re tempting fate!
We’re still running XP here and (tempting fate) have never had to reload it and it’s been 4 years, I think. I’m in the process of trying to decide on a laptop and they all come preloaded with Windows 7. ‘They say’… 7 is quite reliable.
I do believe I’ve had only one reformat since putting xp to work. Even now considering a new computer I will have him load xp on it. With the 2 psp programs I have I do not trust windows 7. I have an old rebuilt printer it probably wouldn’t recognize, and a scanner too.
btw in groups a lot of people have had trouble with vista working with psp.
Oooph, xp is something else alright….
I have one PC running Vista and another running XP.
The XP machine is old and slow but otherwise reliable.
Vista seems reliable so far but annoying in that it constantly asks me if I am sure I really want to do something. The screen suddenly goes black, the little pop-up pops up, and I have to click ‘Continue’ if I want to do whatever it was that I had first indicated that I wanted to do. It gets old very fast.
I asked G about XP on my last, very tired computer, and he said that we never had to reload XP once. I did like it. I tolerate Vista only because the Office 2007 will see all the other Offices.
We are still running XP on two computers too.
Glad you have quiet next door for the weekend. How is the fireplace coming?
Here’s another one lovin’ ol’ XP, which has served me faithfully for somewhere between 4 and 5 years of daily use. Haven’t had any experience with Vista or Seven so that’s not a comparison, just an observation with limitations. (Most of the limitations being on the order of user error.)
I’ve had XP for… well… years. I forget how long. The only times I’ve had to reload it were when hackers lovingly loaded viruses onto my machine (or my sons’ machines usually) which nothing else could get rid of.
We have one new laptop that came with Vista and has recently been upgraded with the $30 student version of Win7. My son says he can’t really tell the difference, but everything seems to work fine. I’ll not upgrade my old machine, but I suspect I won’t have a choice when the ancient laptop dies. It will be either a Mac or a Vista, by necessity.
I’ve never had to reload any Windows system since back in the days of 3.1.
I moved from XP to Vista, and now onto Windows 7, because XP would not recognize more than 3 gigs of RAM. I popped in a total of 8 gigs of RAM and upgraded to Vista out of necessity. Windows 7 feels stable, except that Adobe’s FlashPlayer 10 will not work at all on a 64-bit computer, and works only halfway-well when using a 32-bit version of IE 8 (after using FlashPlayer inside a particular session, IE8 crashes on cue).
@Annie: You can turn off all that pop-up nonsense by going to the Security tab of the Internet Options Control panel. The pop-up warnings are supposed to help you prevent thieves from hacking into your system.
Of course, none of this has a bit to say about the poetry of writing, and all of it gets in the way and therefore encourages a poet to return to pen and pad.