Microsoft VISTA

[Thermodyne]

El_Phil said:
Calm down Themy. Seriously that can't be healthy for you. Whatever tablets the doctor gave you, take double the dosage. Or just stop taking them.

I'm going to take a stab here, but you've got an MCSE haven't you?

I'm fine, just felt like spouting off.

No MCSE here, no A+ and no Net+. Lots of MCP's but I seldom do anything that has much to do with them. If I had my preference, I’d still be bending wrenches, which was my second occupation and something that I actually enjoyed. But old age and a blown out elbow dictated other wise. After the doc pinned, stapled, and stitched me back together, twice, he suggested that I find something easy to do. I had already taught myself the hardware end of it. And had some formal training on dc electronics back in the 70’s. So I took some classes on 2K and went looking for a job. I couldn’t get anyone to even read my resume, so I hung out my own shingle. Got lots of clients did lots of work and almost lost my butt after the 2K build out. So I sold my business and went to back work at a government agency as a volunteer just to force my foot in the door. Then to make things worse, the guy I sold out to couldn’t make his payments to the bank and I ended up getting 65% of it back. So to make a long story short, now I do 40+ a week for the state on a no bid contract and 15 to 40 more for A&K Ltd. More or less everything I really needed to know was learned on the job, and I brought the problem solving and customer support skills with me. I should take the last two exams and get my MCSE, but just don’t have the time. On top of the hours I work, there is a 120 mile a day commute. As I type this, the servers are grinding away on offsite backups and the printer is hammering away on verification logs. And since it’s almost the 15th, soon as the printer is free, I’ll start printing invoices for the dead beats that have yet to pay July’s billing. Then because tomorrow is pay day, I’ll be printing out checks for the 8 most over paid people in the known world. After that I’ll sleep till 4am and start it all over again. Almost forgot, I still need to put today’s tapes in the safe and set tomorrows exchanges up so the lazy *** currier can pick them up at 9:30-10:00 and then complain about all the traffic she has to fight. I don’t suppose you’d be in the market for controlling interest in an IT support business specializing in disaster recovery and SBS installations/support?

[Renegade 13]

I agree heartily with a lot of that Thermo, but not all, especially one part. I bet there were people from a bunch of different countries who brought the world the PC, internet, and good OS. For instance, I bet there've been a whole lot of Canadians who worked in the US to help bring the PC, internet, and good OS So don't be so hasty to cut us out!

EDIT: Referring to the first rant

[El_Phil]

Sady not. But in light of that story I can understand the need for a rant. Letting of steam is good for the soul.

This seems in contradiction of my discussion with Ashton about the joys of repression and denial. As they say 'To each according to his need, from each from his ability.' Some things need to be let out and some things should be repressed, it depends upon the circumstances, as all things do.

"Nothing is more useless than a general maxim."

[Thermodyne]

Renegade 13 said:
I agree heartily Thermo, except for one part. I bet there were people from a bunch of different countries who brought the world the PC, internet, and good OS. For instance, I bet there've been a whole lot of Canadians who worked in the US to help bring the PC, internet, and good OS So don't be so hasty to cut us out!

Might have been some working at IBM (PC), but there wern't any at DARPA (First redundant wide area network) and none at MS (OS) in the early days.

PS: I guess I could have just said “America”.

[Renegade 13]

Ah well, guess I've showed my ignorance again!

[Thermodyne]

Naa, don’t worry about it. I guess that’s what comes from sharing the largest open border in the world. The only thing you all need to worry about is global warming. First the killer bees and fire ants will crossover, followed by 40 million hard working Central Americans looking for the good life

[Fyron]

Thermodyne said:
And it will run most old software if you have the ability to read some directions and implement them.

In my experience, this has been blatantly untrue. For me, very few old DOS or win95 era games ever worked with XP compatibility mode. win2k has pretty much the same compatibility layer that XP does, though perhaps slightly less refined, which can be enabled by registering slayer.dll. The XP version seems to have just as much hit and miss rate as the 2k version. DosBOX or a win98 partition are the only ways to go for old Windows software compatibility...

[Atrocities]

I find XP and win2k to work well with some of my old games like Dark Forces.... however, sound drivers are something else.

[Renegade 13]

Thermodyne said:
Naa, don’t worry about it. I guess that’s what comes from sharing the largest open border in the world. The only thing you all need to worry about is global warming. First the killer bees and fire ants will crossover, followed by 40 million hard working Central Americans looking for the good life

It's odd...there's actually very little distinction nowadays between Canadians and Americans. We essentially share...everything. Culture, technology, trade, language, religions, basic political systems, etc. We may as well just amalgamate and be done with it Actually, bad idea. Seeing as how Canada is larger than the US, but with only 1/10 the population, it'd be a little difficult to get fair representation in federal government. More likely is having Western Canada (Manitoba and all provinces west) separating from the rest of Canada.

Wow, I've really managed to get off topic. Sorry!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Canada as part of the US would be a blip on the map.

Canada as it's own country is actually something to notice.