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  1. Update Fix by techintexas · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft 'Stealth Update' Proving Problematic

    At the good ole Tarleton State IT department we have seen this problem a lot this link has the best fix we have found so far: http://www.updatexp.com/0x80248011.html Give it a whirl. P.S. - Everyone hates the bully on the playground (Microsoft)

  2. Microsoft has killed my gaming laptop already by rwa2 · · Score: 1 · on Gamers Don't Need Vista or DX 10 Says Carmack

    Data Execution Protection (DEP) in WinXP SP2 has already prevented me from playing any games on my Dell Inspiron 8500. Apparently the old NVidia drivers provided by Dell are no longer digitally certified to run, so all of my games and applications crash with an error code as soon as something 3D comes up:
    http://www.updatexp.com/0xC0000005.html

    Unfortunately, I can't install stock NVidia drivers with this laptop since they wouldn't tickle the special integrated laptop power and cooling management interfaces properly.

    I do have Debian on another partition, but the linux partition cropped up with several bad blocks :/ So I think they only thing left is Games-KNOPPIX :(

  3. Re:Oh well... by Vancorps · · Score: 1 · on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux?
    SFC I've never had to use it myself but under most extreme circumstances its available should someone need it.

    Exactly what software breaks the Windows kernel? Are you talking about drivers? If so then Linux damn well does have the same problem. I've had bad drivers screw it up on the order of thousands of times.

    Now I'll add in that I live and work here in Phoenix and guess what? It is very rare that I ever come across a linux box. So by your logic just because I never see it that means the rest of the people in this country aren't using it. Here's a link 4 Years old even. Here's another its two years old.

    Okay, back to fudd land. Exactly what software screws up the Windows kernel these days? Or do you mean to say software that makes it difficult for the user to use his/her computer? Plenty of software out there can cause the same problem with linux. That is unless you know how to get around them, every OS gives you the tools to do it ;-)

    You also seem to think I was praising Windows when I was simply defending it. I've been an admin of Novell's Netware, Microsoft's Windows, and various distros of Linux in my life and I've found problems with all of them. That is why I use Windows in some places and especially for machine and user management. Backend databases are usually Linux based with Oracle. Unfortunately I don't get to play with Netware much anymore. People were spreading misinformation about the current state of the OS and that serves no one's best interest. Convincing someone that the average user can easily switch over to linux is ludicrous at this point. This goes double if we're talking about a home user with that fancy digital camera, scanner, and/or printer. Sure most of the drivers work on any modern distro but you'll have to find them, in some cases compile them, and then configure them. This is in no way as easy as Windows.

    Being an OEM I can state that Microsoft does not tell OEM to put everything on a system partition. OEMs do this to save money on support later since people invariably lose their install media. They always have the option for the media and they may even charge for it but this is not the fault of Microsoft and even if they did it has nothing to do with the OS being backwards.

  4. Chicken or the egg by ad0gg · · Score: 2, Insightful · on PC Makers See Little Reason to Deploy XP N
    The issue was never about abuse of users in the way you are suggesting, it was about other companies (Real) not being able to compete because Media Player is bundled with Windows.

    Microsoft started bundling a media player with windows(windows 3.0) before Real even existed. Now microsoft is expected to unbundle their media player after 14 years of it being bundled? You slashbotter simply amaze me.

  5. Re:probably not by bigman2003 · · Score: 4, Informative · on Longhorn Skinning A Reality

    Microsoft does make it possible to create new themes. People do create them, in fact there are thousands and thousands of them out there.

  6. Re:I wait until... by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 1 · on Patching Paranoia - How Fast Do You Patch?

    When was the last time a patch broke something?

    There was a "slow-down-your-system" windows patch in April 2003. Took them a while to release a working version of it, too.

  7. What about the patches that screw up your machine? by mkraft · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows

    Q818043 - Caused many computers to lose their internet connection.
    Q811493 - Caused severe slow down on many computers.

    I don't think I'd patches that completely screw up my system automatically installed.

  8. What about the patches that screw up your machine? by mkraft · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows

    Q818043 - Caused many computers to lose their internet connection.
    Q811493 - Caused severe slow down on many computers.

    I don't think I'd patches that completely screw up my system automatically installed.

  9. Re:Not such a bad idea by edgezone · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows
    how often do MS patches actually break things?

    see: Q811493
    It caused complete freezing of my athlon laptop (mine wasn't the only case, as I found out about this by searching google).

    Now I have to check every time an automatic update notice pops up to make sure it is not listed. I can only imagine what would happen to a poor soul who didn't realize what was happening every time his/her computer froze and was completely unresponsive until rebooting (hard reboot only).