I have Vista on my laptop and am fine with it.
All right, yes, date and shop and hang out and go to school and save the world from unspeakable demons. You know, I wanna do girlie stuff!
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Dana - Nov 05, 2010 7:08:39 am PDT #15365 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
omnis_audis - Nov 05, 2010 7:39:11 am PDT #15366 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
as a mac user, I have a win7 Compaq laptop. It's a single core processor. It works just fine. It's almost like MacOS-lite. Some frustrating things every once in awhile, but nothing like 95 days. I think its a better interface than XP. Mind you, 90% of what I do on it is e-mail and cruising the internet. Occasionally I try to stream a video to my xbox. It has moderate success with that. But I blame the single core processor on that.
- * reason for getting win laptop instead of mac? Price. This little puppy was on sale for $300 at Best Buy. I was looking to replace my iPod for travel. $50 more, and got a full computer. I got it in February (I think).
Theodosia - Nov 05, 2010 7:59:31 am PDT #15367 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Heh. Noticed when I went to Vividcon last year that vidding fan girls squee over cute little notebook computers just like they were babies. These women (and a few men) are the exact Venn diagram intersection of computer savvy and "feminine" aesthetics.
Laga - Nov 05, 2010 8:13:49 am PDT #15368 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm mad because we bought a computer with Vista on it at Best Buy and they told us that it came with a free upgrade to Windows 7. When Windows 7 became available we called Best Buy and they told us the software was free but we had to pay to have someone from the geek squad come out and istall it. I don't hate Vista that much.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2010 8:16:35 am PDT #15369 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When Windows 7 became available we called Best Buy and they told us the software was free but we had to pay to have someone from the geek squad come out and istall it.
Ooh. That ain't right.
Is there a term for that? Sorta' like "bait-and-switch"?
Gudanov - Nov 05, 2010 8:24:52 am PDT #15370 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
7th Guest is coming to iOS. Cool. Not enough for me to justify buying an iPod Touch, but cool nonetheless.
Laga - Nov 05, 2010 8:53:40 am PDT #15371 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Is there a term for that? Sorta' like "bait-and-switch"?
Fine print.
Vortex - Nov 05, 2010 9:59:54 am PDT #15372 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Is gmail screwing up for everyone today, or is it just our craptastic internet?
Laga - Nov 05, 2010 10:03:14 am PDT #15373 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I can't find anything wrong with Gmail.
edit: at the moment.
Typo Boy - Nov 05, 2010 6:39:59 pm PDT #15374 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I'm towards the end of uploading 15,000 emails onto gmail ( I never delete an email unless it is spam or virus ridden or something.) While I do back up my computer, I decided it is time to get as much stuff backed up to a separate location. Since my critical files word,pdf, excel ect. files plus bookmarks, application setting and so on I'm considering paying the $55 per year for carbonite. My backup needs seem exactly what carbonite is built to handle, not a ton of data total, no really large files, total megabytes of incremental changes per day very small, so once backup is in place should have no problem keeping it updated.