windows rattle
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ceagleAs many uvs ya know, I work with both MSoft and Apple stuff, and each have their pos n neg aspects. Today's lil' expose is dedicated to the lovely and talented... Vista. ;P (as Charlie Brown used to say to Lucy, "That's Sarcasm!!") :D
Any of you working with this thing yet?
arrgh... It's got some annoyances that I'm surprised they haven't solved yet.. you seen these?.....
1. JUNCTIONS! .. blecch.. these are probably the biggest issue. They cause Vista to lie a LOT, and say things are a place they really aren't. Therefore one has to use Search a lot more to locate items that a dialog says was saved to a place where it really isn't. Which leads to...
2. SEARCH. geeeeeze.... this really suxxorz. it's Sooooooooooo slow (like at least 10 to 30 seconds for most things, even longer in many cases), AND, often it doesn't eeeeeeeven find things you KNOW are there, if you don't get the balance of asterisks and indexing right. Even Apple's old System Eight FIND was blaaaaaaazingly faster than this (AND XP too), but this is even slower and less accurate than XP (which Spotlight in Tiger can also be in some cases).
3. FILE ASSOCIATIONS. This one just seems like the Twilight Zone (unless this is also related to Junctions.. not sure). In some cases a dialog will say it's gonna open a file with one program, and it flat-out opens in another. Sometimes it will even say it's going to open it with some convoluted 'process' which is rather odd also.
No major issues yet though, just these oddities.
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In other Windozian news, I'm starting to have doubts about the ole standard Symantec Norton GoBack, which I advocated for years since it was more powerful than standard restore. It says it is fine with XP, and I have it installed on my XP machine, but after over two years of running that jes' fyne, the registry got corrupted yesterday, and GoBack didn't fix it (luckily restore worked fairly well though).
Also, GoBack (for the first time I've ever seen it happen) fairly well hosed oen client's computer last month, on XP. True, their HD was going on them, but I would've thought GoBack shouldn't make matters worse (which it did).
Last consistently effective performance from GoBack I've seen was on WIN2k machines, so I may have to adopt that policy for the time being, unless I hear different. It's $50.. it should work right. grrr.
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And in furrrther news, one of our catz was sick for a few days... just wanted to stay outside in my car and not eat. After 3 days in the hospital, he's back (was a gum infection), so hopefully he'll be his fluffy self again shortly.
Finally, in the techno-goodness realm... a great big *wag and flap and hug* THANKS to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
saharalion for magically exorcising the ghosts from my iPod! ^V^
Take Care, y'all... :>
Any of you working with this thing yet?
arrgh... It's got some annoyances that I'm surprised they haven't solved yet.. you seen these?.....
1. JUNCTIONS! .. blecch.. these are probably the biggest issue. They cause Vista to lie a LOT, and say things are a place they really aren't. Therefore one has to use Search a lot more to locate items that a dialog says was saved to a place where it really isn't. Which leads to...
2. SEARCH. geeeeeze.... this really suxxorz. it's Sooooooooooo slow (like at least 10 to 30 seconds for most things, even longer in many cases), AND, often it doesn't eeeeeeeven find things you KNOW are there, if you don't get the balance of asterisks and indexing right. Even Apple's old System Eight FIND was blaaaaaaazingly faster than this (AND XP too), but this is even slower and less accurate than XP (which Spotlight in Tiger can also be in some cases).
3. FILE ASSOCIATIONS. This one just seems like the Twilight Zone (unless this is also related to Junctions.. not sure). In some cases a dialog will say it's gonna open a file with one program, and it flat-out opens in another. Sometimes it will even say it's going to open it with some convoluted 'process' which is rather odd also.
No major issues yet though, just these oddities.
In other Windozian news, I'm starting to have doubts about the ole standard Symantec Norton GoBack, which I advocated for years since it was more powerful than standard restore. It says it is fine with XP, and I have it installed on my XP machine, but after over two years of running that jes' fyne, the registry got corrupted yesterday, and GoBack didn't fix it (luckily restore worked fairly well though).
Also, GoBack (for the first time I've ever seen it happen) fairly well hosed oen client's computer last month, on XP. True, their HD was going on them, but I would've thought GoBack shouldn't make matters worse (which it did).
Last consistently effective performance from GoBack I've seen was on WIN2k machines, so I may have to adopt that policy for the time being, unless I hear different. It's $50.. it should work right. grrr.
And in furrrther news, one of our catz was sick for a few days... just wanted to stay outside in my car and not eat. After 3 days in the hospital, he's back (was a gum infection), so hopefully he'll be his fluffy self again shortly.
Finally, in the techno-goodness realm... a great big *wag and flap and hug* THANKS to
saharalion for magically exorcising the ghosts from my iPod! ^V^Take Care, y'all... :>
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Date: 2007-08-17 03:42 pm (UTC)They are even more "fun" in XP, where deleting a junction in Explorer can mark everything the junction points to be deleted next time the recycle bin was emptied (ooops!).
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Date: 2007-08-23 02:00 pm (UTC)It's just rather weird to see this misdirection stuff happening in Windows suddenly.. truly, they've got theirselves a new OS element ;>
...and seriously, they otter figure in some future builds that get around these flaws, ... for example, even the standard Music, Videos, and Pictures symbolic links which are pre-built-in don't work in some cases! :D *slaps knees and caws!*
You've forgotten how Micro$oft does things...
Date: 2007-08-17 04:00 pm (UTC)Have the best
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Date: 2007-08-23 03:04 pm (UTC)Have the best
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Date: 2007-08-17 07:29 pm (UTC)In Snoopy Come Home, Charlie Brown says "I'll NEVER give up, I have a philosophy that tells me no matter how bad things get, they'll always turn out good in the end!"
Lucy: That's not a philosophy, that's stupidity!
In a Charlie Brown Christmas he tells Violet "Thanks for the Christmas card ya sent me!" "I didn't send you a Christmas card, Charlie Brown." "Don't you know sarcasm when you hear it??"
As for Vista, my family isn't touching that with a 10 foot pole. Pirated software is a bad idea, and as I understand from my sister, when you try to install something, Vista not only tries to validate the new software, but searches everything else you have, and freezes the installation. It gives you the "option" to pay for the license for the bootlegged software.
My uncle shortens it akinning it to handcuffing utility that is just short of clapping cuffs on the user and calling the police right out of the box!
Maybe the computer will be faster with more speed? Vista is such a hog to run the operating system by itself. I've even heard the graphics are fuzzy because vista slows the computer down so much the graphic card can't keep up!
As far as file associations and where the file was saved... I think the problem might be Vista itself. We resisted 98, ME, then XP, but in waiting, MS realized the bugs in the launch OS program, so we got a better OS by waiting for updates.
Good to see your kitty is back!
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Date: 2007-08-23 02:05 pm (UTC)Yeah... it seems like every operating system change seems to add more BULK.. they rarely seem interested in trimming down.. *bleh!*.. ah well.. yesh, I still do a great many things on XP and previous incarnations, as well as on Mac. *hugs*
The latest thing I encountered (after I wrote this entry) was VISTA's built-in Inability to play MP4 files in its version of Windows Media Player (documented too!). I found a workaround with some programs I found online.. but sheeeesh!
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Date: 2007-08-23 04:40 pm (UTC)mymy family's (17) cats:And the second looks (a bit) like
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Date: 2007-08-24 12:56 am (UTC)We also had one other calico.. and they are a trip! They sure love to purr and lick!.. This one is a LOUD purr, and it loves to lick my arm and ankles raw... :D
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Date: 2007-08-18 12:09 pm (UTC)I prefer Acronis Backup :) And never trust registry rebuilders including system restore. I have a backup system which is a bit elaborate but it works well :)
Almost everyone I know after 2 weeks of using vista on their "new" computer they've gone back to XP ^.^
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Date: 2007-08-23 02:36 pm (UTC)Interesting comment on the Vista folks, running screaming after just a couple weeks! I am sticking with so that I can learn about it, prod and poke and dig around in there... ;>
Thanks for the Acronis recommendation!... I've hearda that, but never tried it. I will say though that I've never been disappointed when the restore systems *do* work. Many times they don't, but when they do, they haven't corrupted anyteeng as far as I knows...