New computer solves no problems

[slofox]

Well, not quite - it doesn't run Vista for a start (W7 64bit now).

But the usual shit still happens - this or that software won't run, have had to change away from Chrome back to Firefox due to issues with video replay, the laser printer wouldn't work for a bit but miraculously cured itself of the problem when I was away for four days and switched the whole rig off at the wall...(how the fuck does THAT happen?). The other printer (inkjet) is too old for the makers to support on a new OS (although windows will happily use it to print but won't use the scan function despite spending a weekend looking for appropriate drivers). One month down the track and it is still a pain in the arse sorting shit out.

On the plus side, it gives great graphics playing Far Cry 3 and has oodles of RAM and HDD space.

Usual fucking windows shit I suppose.

[Moi]

Don't start me... had Firefox update itself automatically [yeah, I know, should have turned off the auto update] to version 15. Adobe Flash had also updated earlier and ran ok until Firefox did its update. What a pain in the butt! Firefox crashed and ran slow with Flash. Finally had enough last night, so dumped version 15 for an earlier version and did the same with Adobe Flash and it seems to be ok now... fingers crossed...

Mozilla and Adobe products have been very reliable in the past - so why can't they get their act together over this problem?

[Akzle]

http://distrowatch.com/

i'm glad to hear you've ended your term in vista hell, slo.

get xp. get virtualbox. get linux. get a new color laser printer (inkjet is massive waste of everything unless you're running continuous ink and printing photos every day)

run devmgmt.msc and remove the entry for your scanner, run the xp diver install in compatibility mode... somewhere i heard tell of people forcing 7 to use other drivers one way and another.
ahh drivers. i remember the bad old days. fuck windows is stupid.

oh yeah, if something doesn't work, reboot. it's the windows way.

[Akzle]

here's some linux that comes with winblows tucked safely in a box where you can just close it when it fucks you off.

http://www.robolinux.org/

[Tazz]

[Akzle]

[ IMG]

not to me they dont...

[R650R]

It always seems you people who like the fancy browsers are the ones that have problems. I tried chrome and firefox and couldn't see the point, just a new interface to learn which means time wasted.

Internet explorer has always pretty much done the job...
Had Vista on laptop and no real issues.

Now running 8 core Win 7 professional 16GB ram and 64bit and internet explorer. I don't install a lot of junk though, pretty much just all my Adobe photo stuff and couple games, NFS Rivals hot pursuit and BF3.
Did initially have Epson driver issues as older printer/scanner but awhile back there was an update that fixed that, not easy to find, more epsons fault than windows. Then the print head died anyway!
I think a big problem these days is malware/spyware sucking system resources and people don't know.
Stay off dubious websites and don't click anything free games etc.....

My only complaint is the hard drive constantly spinning due to the Google, NSA and GSCB spying and the computer self starting from sleep when it shouldn't....

[Tazz]

It always seems you people who like the fancy browsers are the ones that have problems.

ha.

http://pressupinc.com/blog/2014/07/s...rnet-explorer/

[bogan]

W7 is the solution to the problem that is vista, as for drivers, was it a clean instal or did your old stuff just get upgraded? Also scanners are dicks anyway, get a usb capable one and just scan as tiff/pdf to a usb drive.

It always seems you people who like the fancy browsers are the ones that have problems. I tried chrome and firefox and couldn't see the point, just a new interface to learn which means time wasted.

...

My only complaint is the hard drive constantly spinning due to the Google, NSA and GSCB spying and the computer self starting from sleep when it shouldn't....

Stop using crapware so that shit can de-spool


peaking of shitohuse updates though, while back some numpty coked up the FTDI drivers for arduino chips, bricked the device when it was plugged into compy, so you'd then plug in another one to try and fault test, and so on...

[Akzle]

My only complaint is the hard drive constantly spinning due to the Google, NSA and GSCB spying and the computer self starting from sleep when it shouldn't....

internet explorer is basically a virus. hell, windows is a virus. but internet explorer is an horrendous piece of shit.
opera had tabbed browsing from, liek, version 2.0 (think windows 95) microshit didn't incorporate it until like, fucken last year.
also, have they removed the 'internet settings' dialog out of MSPAINT yet?

fuck knows how in winblows (in linux it's a nifty file called hdparm, whence one sets APM and/or acoustic management (or any other fucking setting you want, actually) for the drive's board.) but look for something like that... i'm picking deep in the guts of the diskmanagement snap in for compmgmt.msc, or a registry tweak.
god what a heinous piece of shit the rigstry is.

[bogan]

internet explorer is basically a virus. hell, windows is a virus. but internet explorer is an horrendous piece of shit.
opera had tabbed browsing from, liek, version 2.0 (think windows 95) microshit didn't incorporate it until like, fucken last year.
also, have they removed the 'internet settings' dialog out of MSPAINT yet?

fuck knows how in winblows (in linux it's a nifty file called hdparm, whence one sets APM and/or acoustic management (or any other fucking setting you want, actually) for the drive's board.) but look for something like that... i'm picking deep in the guts of the diskmanagement snap in for compmgmt.msc, or a registry tweak.
god what a heinous piece of shit the rigstry is.

Farkk, we get it already, you're a linux hipster. I think though, for mr slofox, the hipster thing is not an option.

[Akzle]

Farkk, we get it already, you're a linux hipster. I think though, for mr slofox, the hipster thing is not an option.

i prefer the term fanboy, and being what i've linuxed before linux was hip (remember when red hat was free?), i think i qualify.
and linux is an option for many many people. most people. even. they just don't bother to try.

[AllanB]

I laughed last week. Got Mrs B a laptop for work - came with a instruction 'page' - basically one sheet in multi languages stating, place battery in rear, turn on.

Modern world presumes you know what to do re set-up from there.

[Gremlin]

Looks like you're one of those people that break nice things just by looking at it. Unfortunately for you... the computer is beating you

Use IE? Urgh, hell no. It may have other reasons, but mostly, those that get viruses are those using IE. It could be that the less savvy stay with whatever was installed... who knows. IE Tab 2 gives you IE rendering in Firefox for those instances that you really need it.

That said... Firefox isn't as good as it used to be... but I still definitely like it more than Chrome...

[R650R]

Looks like you're one of those people that break nice things just by looking at it. Unfortunately for you... the computer is beating you

Use IE? Urgh, hell no. It may have other reasons, but mostly, those that get viruses are those using IE. It could be that the less savvy stay with whatever was installed... who knows. IE Tab 2 gives you IE rendering in Firefox for those instances that you really need it.

That said... Firefox isn't as good as it used to be... but I still definitely like it more than Chrome...

You seem quite techy, can you explain in computers for dummies level exactly what REAL advantages their are for using these other browsers.
As all I want to do is type in a web address to browser or click on bookmarked links and the frequent sites tabs.
99.99% of the time the computer goes to there no problems, now and then windows 'stops working' like any software etc...

To me these other browsers are like buying a blingy set of brake calipers, on paper their probably 'better' but in the real world the average joe is not going to use the potential.