I have the ME virus on my laptop. One of these days when I have time I need to get XP installed on it. Hopefully that will solve all it's problems. It acts like it's a hard drive issue, but from what I gather this is common with ME.
Yep. I can't imagine what Microsoft's excuse was for releasing such a pile of trash and I'm really amazed that they survived doing so. You'll want to reformat the HD to fix the broken chains and other assorted ills that ME creates. In our case, ME also had serious display issues. Like it couldn't keep the text and buttons inside the application window. You'd launch an app and the window would be on part of the screen and the menus and buttons would be scattered all over outside the window. Buggier than a termite nest.
We're still running ME on one of our home PCs. Nightmare! That, and the convenience factor, is why I use the laptop for most everything.
RE the census form: I'm wondering if I got one of these if I could shred it thoroughly and tell them we never got it. That happens enough in real life that they couldn't actually prove it wasn't true. Then I'd just not answer the phone--I do that already if I don't recognize the incoming number. I *heart* caller ID!
I find that more and more our caller ID is worthless. Instead of name and number, it just shows "Unknown caller" or "Cellular call". Someone calling you on a government WATS line isn't going to appear as anything identifiable, I'm sure
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XP has been Rock Solid for me these last years. One reason I'm not exactly rushing to jump into Vista. Though I've got some Linux things lined up for the lappy. Ubuntu being first.
As for the survey, we got that a few years ago, and I answered with complete candor.
Hey, they know where you live, might as well tell them how *coughs* poor you are in such a *coughs* bad neighborhood.
They don't care about that. They just want to know where to put the new Wal-Mart. Either it will be far away because no one where you live is going to spend money and probably you'll all be shop lifters, or else they'll figure your house is so worthless they'll just kick you out and build on top of you.
Actually I see it as Big Business owning the government. They've bought so many politicians and judges that they get whatever they want and there seems to be no stopping them.
Supreme Court upholds right of city to take land by eminent domain to build a shopping mall.
Justice Department backs down on Microsoft settlement, lets Gates' company do whatever it wants because it's good for business.
All environmental protections repealed wherever they bother the energy industry or the timber industry.
And so forth. Some of these things are actually called "Making big government smaller." Now that's what I call @.@
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RE the census form: I'm wondering if I got one of these if I could shred it thoroughly and tell them we never got it. That happens enough in real life that they couldn't actually prove it wasn't true. Then I'd just not answer the phone--I do that already if I don't recognize the incoming number. I *heart* caller ID!
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And you don't want to install Vista, aka ME2, on the machines? ;-)
I'm not a huge fan of Linux, but it has it's uses. When I build a new machine soon I intend to put XP on it though.
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years. One reason I'm not exactly rushing to
jump into Vista. Though I've got some Linux
things lined up for the lappy. Ubuntu being
first.
As for the survey, we got that a few years ago,
and I answered with complete candor.
Hey, they know where you live, might as well
tell them how *coughs* poor you are in such a
*coughs* bad neighborhood.
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Big Government colluding with Big Business.
*Pschyo Strings*
@.@
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Supreme Court upholds right of city to take land by eminent domain to build a shopping mall.
Justice Department backs down on Microsoft settlement, lets Gates' company do whatever it wants because it's good for business.
All environmental protections repealed wherever they bother the energy industry or the timber industry.
And so forth. Some of these things are actually called "Making big government smaller." Now that's what I call @.@
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