I finally have my laptop working about 2 weeks after installing W8 as an upgrade. I had to use the refresh option. This uninstalled about 50 programs, including MS Office, along with my text files and anything from competitors like Google Chrome. I may as well have formatted my hard drive and installed W8 from scratch. It's marginally better than W7 now. Without my back-up I'd have to spend about £200 to get the programs I actually use back. I had 2 hours of pain with Microsoft over Office - which wouldn't let me reinstall from my genuine disk. The new version of IE that supplanted my normal browsers left me cold and I will never learn its new interface. In all it's cost me 2 days work and frustration and left me feeling the thing is intended to get us to spend more money on MS products. Analysis boils down to a con I could easily do without. My old fart prediction on your son is he will learn more about deviant mothering on the lines of 'A Boy Named Sue' than the tribulations of dotage. I shall encode something in cloud cabal to let him know getting old is crap but does entail a certain freedom from mothers.
With England at 332 for two I sorely miss Vam. I'd explain in great detail Gabs - but cricket is one secret we have kept from you Germans since refusing to send professionals to expand the game in your country in the 1930s. I have an image of you as the lady chair of the Deutscher Cricket Bund, ensuring the teas are maintained to the high standard I found in a small club outside Munich. The potatoes were particularly excellent, though not as rewarding as my practical explanation of 'chin music' on the pitch - which led to some jokes on dueling scars during splendid after-match hospitality. I'm sure the game would be safe in your hands and would always return to see the pigs flying on tandems over the Munich Hills (with are, in fact, outside Dublin). Sadly, as an old fart, I am reduced to guile, deception and soin to get batsmen out these days, before retiring to the pavilion and endless discussion of bad backs and has-beenery. On Nov 26, 3:50 pm, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > Right, which is why one should write an alternative text for the images one > uses. But the visual stuff helps the un-initiated more than gray XP style > and code language. My son says he doesn't need W8. For him to be able to > decode old farts' stories of victimization I'll have to buy the upgrade for > him. > > 2012/11/25 archytas <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > I'd still be on dos given the choice too. I finally have W8 looking > > like XP and most of the glitches out. I wouldn't have bothered except > > for the reasons above. Lots of this metro, visual stuff makes things > > much harder for blind people. I'd go for text-only with a button to > > play pics and vids. > > > On 25 Nov, 09:43, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Right now my hands are stuck firmly in my pockets I preferred IBM Dos > > > over MS dos and only started using had a fantastic email program.. > > > wonder it it is still around.. I fully understand about the barge > > > pole.. excellent idea.. I am sure your son or grand son will love > > > it.. > > > Allan > > > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:59 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Lots of stuff doesn't work - start up and shut down remain dicey, the > > > > laptop's mousepad doesn't shut down automatically when I plug my mouse > > > > in - the lis of such annoying bits is long. Microsoft (after two fob- > > > > offs) told me to use F8 to do some debugging. I'd rung to tell them > > > > F8 didn't work! I wouldn't touch the thing with a bargepole unless > > > > you have a commercial reason for needing to. > > > > > On 24 Nov, 20:07, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Actually MS is trying to get control of the gaming market ,, by > > > >> getting game programers to set their programs that they only operate > > > >> on Windows 8 > > > >> Allan > > > > >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:21 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > W8 looks like yet another attempt to stick us with yet another > > portal > > > >> > directing us to Microsoft products - via its metro interface that > > > >> > replaces desktop. I don't like Faceflop, Googleplod or Twatter > > (which > > > >> > started as a place to host audio podcasts - am amazing non-starter). > > > >> > The highlight on these over several years was Gabby tagging me as a > > > >> > rabbit in a weird building in Berlin. > > > >> > I'm rid of the metroface through a bit of cheap software. One can > > > >> > understand why these conglomerates want to shoehorn an advertising- > > > >> > based business model into our social activities. These days I watch > > > >> > all commercial TV via Tivo to fast forward he ads and increasingly > > do > > > >> > the same with BBC to evade their promos. I-google lets me rid > > myself > > > >> > of the standard bimbo products of all browsers. I use gmail in > > order > > > >> > not to give out my 'serious' email address. I guess we essentially > > > >> > want to freeride on the technical provision. > > > > >> > Wikipedia gets stick for not being sufficiently peer-reviewed. In > > > >> > terms if the subjects I 'teach' it is more accurate than textbooks > > and > > > >> > the material publishers provide if you recommend their texts to > > > >> > students (it's very difficult not to when 'exams' are based on the > > rot > > > >> > - much of which is trashed in wider academic peer review). A few > > > >> > academics like Steve Keen (economics and under redundancy threat at > > > >> > his uni) and Alain de Connes (maths) publish all their work for free > > > >> > access. I wish I was in a position to do the same - if I allowed > > free > > > >> > access my income would go. > > > > >> > In principle I would like Mind's Eye to have wider contribution. > > > >> > Currently I would say we are open to diversity but actually not > > > >> > diverse. But we don't want the SNERTs, trolls, flamers and > > > >> > advertising. One can see how we might 'revamp', but everything I've > > > >> > tried(like new google groups) seems to vapourise continuity. > > > > >> > On 24 Nov, 15:47, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> >> Air gunner full of hot air ready to release it quickly - taking > > care of > > > >> >> "Minds Eye"! LOL > > > > >> >> 2012/11/24 Allan H <[email protected]> > > > > >> >> > Air gunner full of hot air ready to release it quickly > > > > >> > -- > > > > >> -- > > > >> ( > > > >> ) > > > >> |_D Allan > > > > >> Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. > > > > >> I am a Natural Airgunner - > > > > >> Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. > > > > > -- > > > > -- > > > ( > > > ) > > > |_D Allan > > > > Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. > > > > I am a Natural Airgunner - > > > > Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. > > > -- --
