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Inside the Windows 7 Launch Party Pack
Barence writes to tell us that it seems Microsoft has been grinding away in the corporate world for so long, they have forgotten what "fun" means. PC Pro managed to get their hands on one of the "party packs," and it seems woefully inadequate. Nowhere did we see a pin-the-chair on the Ballmer game, giveaways that you might actually use, or even a few balloons or streamers. Instead, the only reason to get a party pack seems to be the free copy of Windows Ultimate Signature edition, which doesn't do much for your party guests (unless you burn them all copies I guess, but we would never condone that). All-in-all, it seems that Microsoft should have gone to the nearest dorm room and asked for some pointers on how to have a good party.
This pretty much sums up the image of "nerds party pack" or nerds throwing a fun party.
Sad, but insightful.
What will I be able to throw at the Mac/Linux users who show up?
Releasing easily-hackable, infectable code is shameful. Not knowing how to party is unforgivable!
Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, gladys and my mitts.
waking up hung over, going over to your computer, pushing the mouse to wake the monitor and realizing you got so drunk at the party you attended last night that you installed Windows on your own computer.
Monstar L
They should have at least thrown in a couple grams of blow.
Playing cards. Jigsaw puzzle. Tote bag.
Not bad, at a retirement home that's the equivalent of hookers and blackjack.
The Windows 7 Launch Party, it's like the birthday party for the loved one you adore who has a terminal illness and is unlikely to see another year.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
You have balloons, streamers, a deck of cards, and a puzzle. It's like they want you to throw a lame children's birthday party. I really have to wonder how this got through without anyone noticing how terrible it is. And the goodies you're supposed to give to guests? Two of them are cards for antivirus software. I guess that's being responsible, but pointing out ways to fix your software's faults is still a funny way to market a new product.
For every dollar you spend on a retail, upgrade, or OEM operating system between now and 30 days after launch, you get a coupon worth, I don't know, say 50 cents good on any MS product purchased between 31 days after launch and January 31. "Buy your friends a Christmas present or use these as a stocking stuffer!"
Talk about PR and buzz.
But did they do that? Nooo....
The only way this could backfire is if
*it was poorly executed, or
*it was perceived as a desperate attempt to generate sales, rather than a gift to loyal customers
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
The video of Balmer getting out of breath was worth it.
Balmer, you really need to get some exercise!
It looks for real and you can get a free version of Windows 7 Ultimate if you host a party!
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
I got mine in the mail yesterday. Like most nerds I am doing the party for the free copy of windows. As a software engineer who depends on software for a lively hood I refuse to pirate it, so the free copy is nice. However my wife thought that they tote bags were cool and colorful. She will definitely hang the streamers and stuff. I guess it depends on who you are. The only thing for nerds in the pack is the license key. Other types of people might enjoy some of it, but what can you really provide for free on a budget? I'm guessing the the whole pack cost them less then $10 (windows for them is basically free). Really, tell me what you could include for under $10 that would make a better party, that is not illegal, or morally sketchy (think beer pong, I mean, water pong supplies)?
Be a sport and raffle it off as a door prize or auction it off, and give proceeds, less your real costs for providing food and drinks, to a charity. Does the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation accept donations?
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
There is just no punch
Like some middle age balding guy trying to party with glow stick-swinging teenyboppers.
Hey, we are talking MS, leave me out of this.
Robocop had a launch party with Mrs. Wilson's 3rd grade class.
hillarity ensued.
. . . are the virus and zero-day exploits that are always a part of any Microsoft party?
nice of MS to provide protection in the kit, you wouldn't want to wake up hung over the morning after and realize the disgusting beast you ended up getting in bed with gave you a nasty virus!
the jokes just write themselves...
I wonder how many of the Windows 7 "parties" will really be Linux install fests.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Things like "throw the chair at the Steve Jobes photo" game.
Maybe Microsoft is just trying to make the launch of a software product so completely lame and uninteresting that people see how stupid marketing really is. Maybe they're trying to poke fun at Apple and everyone else who makes a big deal of their releases. Who am I kidding? Microsoft really is that lame. What else do you expect when the majority of the employees aren't even citizens of the country the product is sold in? Of course they're going to blow things like product launches, and completely fail to connect with their target market.
Or maybe they're hoping that the American economy really is so devastated, and people are so desperate for a reason to come together with their neighbors that a free copy of Windows and some streamers really will be a big hit. Again, who am I kidding?
the jokes just write themselves...
You really ought to make a /. account and make that your sig.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Given all the comments and thoughts... I just got my party pack this week.... I took it to the office, distributed the bags, gave away the puzzle, and basked in the glory of my copy of windows 7 ultimate signed edition, I installed the software and threw away ballmer's signature.... All in all, not too bad for a couple minutes of filling out a form! At least they didn't renig on their promise of the software :)
Recently had a Mozilla Firefox 3.5 release party. Even after some schmoozing and 2 other release parties already under our belt (and a previous honorable mention on their part), we still ended up with some shoddy swag.
The "shitty" economy might be to blame.
interactive hologram, or it didn't happen.
To do what with?
to kill Elijah Wood, but good...
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
When I opened my Party Pack last night, my wife's reaction to almost everything in it was "WTF!".
We are still going all out for the party, just for the sake of irony.
Microsoft is trying to deflate the "John Hodgeman as PC" meme. So, since everyone knows that it's not appropriate to pick on little girls, "Windows 7" is personified by the (almost) seven your old girl in the ads. Apple looks like a big ,meanie. Why not give her a little birthday party, with cake, and games, and clowns, and.... OMG PONIES!!!
I know Microsoft has been trying to turn a corner in the past year or so with the Open Source crowd; 'Promising' not to bludgeon people with their patent war-chest, 'opening' some of their sourcecode, 'playing nice' with the EU, not 'maiming' people that pirate their flagship product. But seriously, this is going too far. This latest tactic really sounds like the "Installfests" I throw with my local Linux Users Group. We get a bunch of food/music/etc together, some guy brings the "Distro of the Month" and we invite about 100+ people to bring their computers in so we can set them up for dual-boots or a total "Window-Cleaning".. And as funny as it sounds, I don't think MSFT would take kindly to us burning a hundred copies of the "Windows 7 Ultimate Signature U2 Laser-Etched Edition Now with 33% More Suck!" media they so graciously provided. But what the hell, I'm game. We're meeting at the Renaissance Festival, guys! Let's see the Microsoft Lawyer-Dogs try to fight a bunch of broadsword-wielding geeks tampering with WGA!!!
"When I am king, you will be first against the wall..."
They look the same, you even get an "athletic" t-shirt with something about windows genuine advantage printed on it.
If they'd given out, say, 10 copies of Windows 7, 10 copies of a game that uses Windows 7 in some useful way, and a 10-port LAN hub, at least you could have a LAN party.
Come on now, this is something that could be quite fun. Combine Windows 7 party pack, Microsoft, and the month of Halloween together and there is some real potential. For example, use the Windows 7 party pack for decoration, and throw a good Halloween party. People could come dressed up as the BSOD, Clippy, or your favorite Microsoft spy software. Could have awards for the best Bill Gates imitator or maybe just a marketing dweeb contest. Could do things like turn the lights out, shine a flashlight on your face, and read a Halloween memo.
Microsoft is dead.
It would be nice this topic thread could be permanently ended.
Yours In Lesosobirsk,
Kilgore T.
Honestly, following this marketing effort from MSFT is a bit like watching Nascar. I couldn't care less about the drivers or the cars but damn....there are some fine wipeouts to see.
/. work in corp environments and as much as we detest marketing-droids, at the end of the day, we realize their usefulness on some level.
It boggles the mind how something like this got out of the door. Seriously. Many of us here on
I don't see that anywhere in this effort. It is so laughably bad, that I almost can't believe it's real. Puzzles? Cards? A party for an operating system? WTF is going on here? Is this serious? Or am I being punk'd? Where's Ashton?
The worst product launch I ever went to was the OS/2 Warp 4.0 launch. I was working for a guy who was an "official" IBM reseller, and we got invited to a big launch event at IBM's offices in Vancouver. They had a video feed to wherever the hell the official launch was happening.
Anyways, the food sucked (crappy little deli sandwiches, bad coffee and weird fruit cake squares), and instead of handing us copies of Warp 4 (which you would think they would have done, considering they wanted us to go out and sell it), they handed us a CD that contained a fucking advertising video.
The moral of the story is "Don't waste your time and money on launch parties".
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Yeah, since Windows 7 has so many different editions, the should also have a Windows 7 Debauched Launch Party Edition. All you need is lots of booze. And I mean 64 bit proof booze. Gallons of it. When your guests get tanked enough they won't give a shit about food or . . .
You have balloons,
Blow up some condoms.
streamers,
Put a bunch of razor blades in your printer, and print out a bunch of shit.
a deck of cards,
A stack of CD-ROMS and a marker. Make your own.
and a puzzle.
The desire and ability to do a puzzle can be quashed with more booze. Followed by some flaming shots, more booze.
It's like they want you to throw a lame children's birthday party.
If children are present at the Debauched Launch Party, you are going to be doing time.
I really have to wonder how this got through without anyone noticing how terrible it is.
At the Debauched Launch Party, most people won't even remember being there.
And the goodies you're supposed to give to guests? Two of them are cards for antivirus software. I guess that's being responsible, but pointing out ways to fix your software's faults is still a funny way to market a new product.
At the Debauched Launch Party, you give your guests STDs
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Yeah, but ours goes up to 11, its one louder.
I mean really, what's a party without beer?
... if that's your best, your best won't do... - Twisted Sister
My first copy of 7 ultimate came from attending a launch party, look for those in your area, I got a snack pack and got to enjoy hanging out with about a thousand other geeks. I would look for "the new efficiency" as part of this. I of course called this "training" The second copy I got was from this launch party. I plan to have over my geeky buddies to drink heavily and use my new windows 7 (installed and ready to go) laptop to surf via my hdtv and play online poker and try to get banned from them all. The box had streamers, playing cards, some balloons, about 6 tote bags, a poster, some napkins with windows 7 on them, the signature edition ultimate, a whole bunch of worthless promo crap which I for one will be using for coasters. My third copy of 7 (home premium only) I will be downloading for $30 since I am a student as well and will be installing it on my wife's old vista machine which causes her fits.
I received my package yesterday and it had everything mentioned in the article plus balloons, streamers, and a few more goodies. Sounds like their package wasn't complete.
The way we're going to do it is I'll install a temp copy of 7 on my laptop, show a few things I know, and then let my guests play with it. We're also hosting a BBQ, playing some GH, RB, Wii Sports, and just plain chilling out.
I'm still undecided on whether to raffle off the single goodies (e.g. playing cards) or do some kind of trivia game: what kind of car was BG driving when he got hauled for the infamous mugshot?
After everyone's gone home I'll simply put my production hard drive back in the laptop and start using with my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. :)
All in all, it should be a good time just getting together and hanging out.
I thank God every day there are people crazy enough to fall for a companies latest marketing scheme. You can think ironic, you can think drinking game you can think whatever you want. Just keep buying the crap with the logo. I need my stocks to rebound!
Regards,
-An American Day Trader
They didn't fill it with mounds of brochures, trialware or aol cds. It's a big step in the right direction. And, as far as I can tell, no EULA on the party favour pack. Kudos where due, guys.
elton john albums, tubes of lube and aids testing kits. who woulda thunk it?
It seems like everyone had expectations that the party pack would be free copies of Windows 7, free food, free decorations, free ...
Are you seeing a pattern? I guess people thought that the Launch Party was a time where Microsoft could give away lots of free stuff. I'm not sure that's the point.
I still think it failed and was pretty bad marketing, but I don't think the point of the party pack was to give away free copies of their software that they want people to buy. And I wasn't expecting them to give you brownies.
Oh well. The summary writer had a pretty obvious slant/bias. Pin-the-chair-on-Ballmer game? Right...
The best thing in the pack (other than the free Windows) I received was a package of 10 reusable grocery bags. My wife was honestly more excited about getting those than she was about the Win7 Ultimate.
I got my party pack and it did in fact include streamers and balloons, so let's not jump on them for a made up reason.
If you hate Microsoft, you're going to continue hating it no matter what was in the Party Pack. But give your argument based on a real piece of meaningful evidence.
Now, I'll be honest, the only reason I signed up to throw the party was to get a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. Who can complain about that?
Dammit, MS wasn't smart enough to wander a few towns over to Wizards of the Coast and get them to make a game!
"You have three flavors - "Easy" 32 bit - you can get it going, but it's short term ish, "hard" 64 bit - the future is 64 bit, but there's glitches, and the UltraTough 128bit that was leaked... it's not here, because nothing from MS is ever here, but if you can compile enough leaks to do it yourself and make games for it, you'll pwn in 2018.
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Wait? No Condoms?
You bastard!
My pack just had branded napkins and the bags...
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Perhaps balloons and streamers will come in the first Party Service Pack.
So host gets it - and guest get... well shit.
My top tip to MS next time would be to:
a) Include a copy for everybody - either a nice copy in the bag, or a voucher they could register for a download, or even just a couple to raffle off. b) Include alcohol - parties need alcohol, or they're "a meeting"
Just so you know there are balloons or streamers in the pack. Get your facts before talking. Slashdot has really gone down in qualities nowadays.
I see blogs and sites like this harping on the stupidity of the Windows 7 launch party package all over the place, meaning that Microsoft's marketing has done its job - everyone and their dog now knows not only that Windows 7 exists, but that it is launching soon.
Seriously, if they wanted you to have a party they would have put alcohol in it. They wanted to get people talking, and they did.
Well they didn't pick me at all, so now I will hate M$ until the end of time. Windows 7? Bah -- Vista ME.
Right, because the Apple and Linux party packs each included a tin of Beluga caviar and bottle of Dom - damn Microsoft for being so cheap and lame!
Back in September, Chabil Ha said on Slashdot that he was planning a Windows 7 party, which would include comparison demos of Snow Leopard and Ubuntu. Did anyone hear if he ever actually got around to doing his Windows 7 Launch party? His party sounds like more fun, especially they have some good Pizza and beer.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1385089&cid=29574345
If they wait till the end of this month, they would have the 9.10 Karmic Koala version of Ubuntu to use in the comparison, too.
If you brought the party pack in Akibahara, Japan, you get Nanami Madobe OS-tan themes voiced by Nana Mizuki instead, which is better than what the English-speaking gaijins have ever gotten locally...
Wait... are you telling me I could have gotten free stuff by signing up as a host?
Damn it, if I'd have known that, I would have signed up for it! The Windows 7 playing cards would be great for work, since we're not allowed to have Solitaire on our computers!
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
I'm betting it's printed with LSD-based inks!
Sure would make it fun to play with whatever flashy version of aero they'll include in Ultimate!
They've only got at least 3 Windows 7 launch party stories on slashdot plus countless on other news sites, they've got people showing others how lame the Windows 7 launch party ads are. Some are even signing up for the Windows 7 Party packs with no intention of holding a Windows 7 party or just holding regular parties. Just so they can get a free copy of Windows 7 and tell people how stupid it is they're expecting people to hold parties for something as geeky as the Windows 7 launch.
What are they thinking?
Yeah, can't someone crack it open with a low level decompiler and see all the awesome comments the devs left in there for us?
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OH....... MY.......... GOD....... This is the stupidest thing I think I've EVER seen.
I just can't get excited about an OS that will always require resource hoging third party software to protect it from the "evils" of the Internet....
"I bow to no man" - Riddick
I'll sit this one out. I'm holding out for the Service Pack 1 party. Now that one will ROCK!
i actually got a party pack and mine had streamers in the windows colors...I also got balloons (also in the windows colors). So i am either on the beta for SPP1 or they got screwed.
i made a video about it even...albeit i dont seemed thrilled. i did bet a few decorations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj7AdGww2-Q
they say it is often more relevant then the comment above, all we know is its called the Sig!
if you're having a party that involves this "party" pack then you might as well slit your wrists and flush your head down the toilet.
You don't really understand comments or decompilers, do you?
touche. This does bring up a problem Linux has and Windows doesn't have. Most likely, when you run into a problem on Linux, you've not run across it before and so it's new and may take some time to find a solution. Once it's fixed, you're not likely to run into it again. Now, on Windows, you are very likely to run across the same problems over and over again so after a short time you feel like you're really getting to know Windows. This also makes people look like super stars and guru's when the neophytes go looking for help to fix the same stuff.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
http://www.google.com/trends?q=microsoft+fun&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
I don't know what happaned at Microsoft's headquarters in 2005 but I suspect that Steve Ballmer must have used it all up during this charming episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
Well, I also found a card for free Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 for a year and some other neat offers inside as well. And there were balloons and streamers :P Win7 Ultimate Retail runs better than the RC, so I'm thoroughly pleased.
and it isn't so bad. I actually changed my mind about throwing the party and e-mailed Microsoft asking them to cancel me as a host. They replied saying I did not need to throw the party but they had already sent the pack out and to "use it responsibly". It has ten tote-bags with a cool psychadelic picture (one of the new windows 7 wallpapers), a pack of cards with a similar picture on them, some coupons for third-party software, a centerpiece, and some napkins. The only thing I found odd was the balloons and streamers were not branded, just solid colors like you'd get at any party store. I gave away the signature edition of Ultimate because I already get plenty of copies for myself from MSDN.
Although they got a lot of flack for the house parties because the idea is pretty lame to the initiated, any publicity is good publicity. I also liked the fact that they included the third-party coupons. To me it shows that they are trying not to shut others out as they used to. One could just as easily use the built-in disc burning in windows, so giving a coupon away for Nero is at least a nod to the competition.
http://clubhouse.microsoft.com/Public/Post/0d492d1c-3769-4247-9069-5805e618c0cb
A few days ago I received my confirmation to host a Windows 7 Launch Party. I’m very excited and I’m now in the process of getting it all planned out. If selected, you were given several options for a party theme and I ended up choosing the Family Friendly Fun theme. I chose the 24th for my party, which also happens to be my birthday. Hey, that is how we geeks roll! They are using houseparty.com to coordinate the activities, but I’m going to use Windows Live Calendar and e-mail to coordinate most of my party. I’m not quite sure what type of party supplies they are sending, so I’m anxiously awaiting that package to arrive. Regardless, it’s going to a be a fun time to hang out with family and friends, and share tips and information about Windows 7. If you are hosting a Windows 7 party, what are you doing to prepare?
Mine arrived Thursday. It's contents included:
- Balloons, napkins, and streamers
- A giant poster for Windows 7
- 10 giveaway totes with Windows 7 branding
- a deck of cards
- a puzzle
- Signature Edition Windows 7 (64 and 32 bit)
- Dozens of coupons for Norton AV and the Zune Marketplace
There might have been more, but I don't recall.
It might matter how many people you invited. I've invited about 60 to my party and am waiting to hear back how many will make it. If I have more than 20 confirmed, I'm going to ask MS for more giveaways.
-David
Well maybe there are at least some interesting debugging symbols? You know they don't strip stuff, how else could an OS that comes with hardly any software applications save for a media player and word process that does not even spell check need to ship on a dvd.
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All hail the sacrement of Patch Tuesday!
Say hello to my little sig.
The instructions say that, in lieu of a fishbowl, use the box to collect car keys for pairing up at the end of the party.
The way we're going to do it is I'll install a temp copy of 7 on my laptop, show a few things I know, and then let my guests play with it. We're also hosting a BBQ, playing some GH, RB, Wii Sports, and just plain chilling out.
This sounds like fun.
It also sounds like you have an instinct for this sort of thing.
The geek sees only the gimmick.
But hand a salesman the simplest of props and he'll be off and running - drawing in the crowds - and making them his own.
I made it to the fourth picture of the box about to open, and realized that RTFA would be as grievous an error as watching that advertisement was. No way.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
That's because Mac users need Win apps, but Win users don't need Mac apps...
Unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me. But imagine something like the following picture but with a foreground full of smoke, laser beams, and a drunk crowd on the brink of passing out. http://blog.internetnews.com/apatrizio/nin-bsod.jpg
Office supply company Microsoft has reassured consumers and industry analysts that its decline will continue with the new video on how to run a Windows 7 house party, whose "viral" nature goes beyond "herpes" or "swine flu" to "SARS."
Originally thought to be a devastating satirical spoof before being confirmed as genuine, the video features Stepford wives and husbands reading lines off the autocues in each others' blank eyes on how to hold a party. The digital clock on the cooker in the background jumps around at random. The black guy and the MILF go off to fuck. Finally, everyone drinks the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid and looks forward to being one with Steve Jobs in the next world, before discovering that they have been judged unworthy and will spend eternity with Steve Ballmer instead.
The video was produced by the same team that advertised Vista with comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, working again with abnormal psychology researchers from the University of Washington. "Count the headlines!" shouted one of the marketing department’s several thousand monkeys with video cameras. "Count the YouTube views! It's clear that my work gets the brand out, and if I don't get appropriate compensation in my annual review I'll be suing." The Polish version of the video features a white face crudely cut-and-pasted over the black guy's head.
"Windows 7 was getting great reviews," said completely independent ZDnet marketing marketer Mary Jo Enderle, "even the geeks loved the preview versions, everyone was amazed that Microsoft appeared to have successfully grown past the Vista disaster. But the mind-sodomising cluelessness of thinking this video was actually a good idea has firmly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, blessed Windows 7 with the stench of death, confirmed that it really is just Vista with a coat of paint and set everyone's mind at rest.
"That's why my column this week talks about all the great stuff coming in Windows 8. Windows 8, that's the one to beat! It'll work on netbooks! It'll be secure! It’ll have a database filesystem! Snow Leopard can't touch it! Businesses should definitely move from XP!"
Microsoft has previously shown its deft ability to drop the ball two yards from the end of the field with the XBox 360, in which a powerful and popular game console was manufactured so shoddily that over 50% of machines turned out defective, and the Zune, in which an MP3 player of decent hardware capabilities at a good price point was crippled with bad firmware and unusable software and sold in a package the color of baby shit. "In a stroke of genius, they put in wifi but not a web browser, so the iPod Touch could steal their thunder six months later. You don't get brilliance like that for free."
The new, abbreviated Windows 7 house party instructions have been sent to marketing: "Here is a Windows 7 DVD. Here is a bottle of vodka. Here is a gun with one bullet."
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Do they expect you to play Solitaire manually now?
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
No one complains Linux is free but all complaint when Win7 is free. Fear? Jealousy?
God, you linux buffs are touch-y.
You are welcome on my lawn.
So I'm wondering what is actually inside the party pack. Since I'm wanting to abide by the rules around here, can someone please read TFA and tell me?
It has been said that 63% of all statistics are made up
I would bet if you could see the win7 code, there would be some very interesting comments left there.
/*This in an ugly hack (which I'm not proud of at all) just to make the thumb drive mount, but what the hell, they only gave me 4 hours to rewrite some shit code from Vista, I'll rewrite it again for SP2; Job security*/
/*Goddamn Balmer, what a fucking douchbag! Fuck it, this is my last day here at this shit job. Fuck all of you. This last line of code is a tribute to my best friend, buddy the dog. Good boy Buddy, Good boy! Now for another back door to let the bots in*/
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
What, no Kool-Aid?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
My mates and I are still mystified how they went about picking hosts. We work at a large international technology-based establishment with 500+ people,. most of whom are technically inclined. Across the way we have a sister establishment with 700+ people of a similar nature. That's 1200+ software geeks and nobody got picked to host a Windows 7 party despite plenty of us applying. Pretty lame marketing....
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Play with Windows 7 *before* the party.
Best advice you could ever give.
Ah, see, but getting the same problem over and over again just means you never really fixed it.
so when Vista screws up and won't get the time from the BIOS correctly and even though you have it set to automatically get time from an NTP server it too fails, the only option for "fixing it" is to manually set the time.
There are soooo many things in Windows which repair is just a repairing of the symptoms and the cause if left to repeat again at some unknown time/date. And, only Microsoft can fix these because they are the only ones with access to the source.
"never really fixed it"... must have been stated by someone who's not repaired a Windows box or works for a PR firm.
LoB
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