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i thought people might like to know that dell helped me sort out my problem, after i basically shouted down the phone (not a good look)
its half sorted, taken 3 hours so far.
never buying a pc again.

You'll be relieved to know that even if you are an expert on them, they are still a pain in the arse.

It's an old adage but you get what you pay for.

This sort of shit is unacceptable in 2009:



Don't get me started on the registry and DLL files.

yes, at no point during my pc problems did anyone say: "oh, that, it's easy to sort out you just do this ---"
everyone said "yeah, that's shit, vista is shit".
i have also bought win7 upgrade for 15 quid. post strike willing that should come in a week or so.
SHEER JOYNESS.

At work some people expect me to defend PCs. "This is shit, everything's slow and nothing works as it should!" they'll say. I don't have the authority to change the way things are, I just agree with them and go back to my desk with my computer which works fine.

get a mac

From http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1...09&cid=29835259

"I get the impression that the Windows 7 launch is a lot like seeing an old girlfriend suddenly show up on your doorstep wanting to get back together. She's had some work done, apparently: stomach stapling to take off some of the weight, breast augmentation, and a radical nosejob to make her look as much like your current girlfriend as medical science will allow.

She's pretty, of course, almost too pretty. She still wears far too much makeup and carries that desperate look in her eyes. The fragrant haze around her is the perfume she overuses to mask the scent of failure.

But standing there in that low-cut top, you'd almost forget for a moment what a psycho she was- how she used to shut down in the middle of a date and forget everything you were talking about and how she was only happy when you were buying her things. You'd almost forget about carrying around her legacy baggage or those nights when, for seemingly no reason at all, she would simply stop speaking to you and when you asked what was wrong she'd just spit a string of hex code at you and expect you to figure it out.

You complained about her for years before finally deciding to get rid of her, and here she is again. Though, somehow she seems like a completely different person now.

"I'm up here," she says when she catches you staring at her chest.

Tempted though you may be, you know that over time she'll get bored and slow down on you just like she always does. And then you'll be right back where you started: trapped. She keeps you by convincing you that you don't have a choice. You're just not smart enough for one option or rich enough to afford the other.

"But I'm different now," she says, batting her eyes innocently. "I've changed."

Indeed she has. Apparently, she's really into Cabala now or something like that. It's helped her discover loads of untapped potential in herself. But it also means that you'll have to buy all new furniture to fit with her understanding of feng shui. That's not the only change she has in store for you. The minute you let her move in, she'll have a new alarm system put in that succeeds only in preventing your friends from coming over on poker night.

She doesn't love you, but she doesn't hate you, either. The truth is that she couldn't care less one way or the other. She's here because she doesn't want to be alone. Like all human beings, especially those well past their prime, she wants to feel wanted and, after a string of lost jobs and bad investments, she needs a place to stay.

But all in all, she's OK. She's a seven. She'll do, I guess."

that's a revolting bit of prose.

Just bought it, comes with Windows 7 preloaded. Thank fuck for that!

I bought Windows 7 on the launch date, to be honest I've been very pleased with it so far. Its best features imitate elements of OS X, certainly, but the start up time is much faster than I expected and I haven't encountered a problem yet.

Now I have a decent OS on my laptop I can ditch my nearly-dead XP desktop, and in a month or two get a shiny Macbook for design work. Hopefully my cross-breeding may help me avoid the sanctimonious prick service pack that gets installed on most Mac users.

And that the truth! That is why techies (me included) should never be allowed to attempt any writing that involves metaphor. Or just any writing.

i just thought: this is mysogenist bull shit. its a OS not a woman.

"im up here" eugh reading it again has made my skin crawl

apologies if you wrote it matt

yeah that's really bad.

Oh god no! I was just being self deprecating It is a truly awful piece of work, I just started rummaging around the site to see who did it and it's some tecchy geek forum, euughhh. I had to click away immediately.

I don't write for any websites, in fact this forum is the only place I post. I do write odd pieces of spoken word, but that's something different altogether, and is a modicum more profound.

Oh god, I feel awful posting that..

...Slashdot is particularly awful though, I think I found that on reddit or somewhere..
Don't hate me!

At least you lot are discussing it, right? And I'm finally making a contribution to this forum instead of just reading it...