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| 10 years of Windows XP | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 29 2011, 12:06 AM (384 Views) | |
| jon-nyc | Oct 29 2011, 12:06 AM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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Interesting. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/10/ten-years-of-windows-xp-how-longevity-became-a-curse.ars |
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| Improviso | Oct 29 2011, 04:30 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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First thing I did when I started using XP, was to turn all that crap off. Same thing on my laptop running Vista. It really did make it look Mickey Mouse. |
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Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism. We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. | |
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| Axtremus | Oct 29 2011, 04:34 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I usually customize my new Windows systems, be they XP or Vista or 7, to take on the "Windows Classic" theme and go from there.
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| Copper | Oct 29 2011, 04:36 AM Post #4 |
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Shortstop
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Improviso | Oct 29 2011, 04:46 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism. We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. | |
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| jgoo | Oct 29 2011, 04:49 PM Post #6 |
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I always preferred "classic theme" myself, with classic start menu and all. Windows 2000 and Windows XP were the best! Windows 98SE was good to me too though. Never used Vista, and Windows ME lasted for less than a day for me (used it for all of maybe three hours before reformatting and going back to 98SE). My current laptop runs Windows 7 and its alright, though I still can't run some of my old programs that ran perfectly under XP (even with compatibility options enabled), and therefore still have my old laptop with XP for those programs. I haven't used Ubuntu in a while, mainly because I've been too lazy to repartition my Harddrive and install it. Very interesting article. I don't think XP will be fully dead for a loooong time, even after support ends for it. |
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| Improviso | Oct 29 2011, 04:53 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Think about it. 10 years with XP and they're still issuing security patches.
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Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism. We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. | |
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| jgoo | Oct 29 2011, 04:57 PM Post #8 |
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Just looked at some of the comments and followed a couple of wikipedia links to XP and 2000. Seeing the screen shots of 2000 in particular is making me miss the old look of windows. lol |
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| Copper | Oct 29 2011, 05:02 PM Post #9 |
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Shortstop
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| kenny | Oct 29 2011, 05:10 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Somone still has a PC? |
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| George K | Oct 29 2011, 05:26 PM Post #11 |
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Finally
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m1n3$w33p3r RULEZ! |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Copper | Oct 29 2011, 06:08 PM Post #12 |
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Shortstop
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I just figured out it comes with Windows 7 - I'm hooked again. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| jgoo | Oct 29 2011, 09:13 PM Post #13 |
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I had windows 3.1 and preferred MS DOS! Lol! Though minesweeper was THE awesome. Haven't played it in a long time though it still comes standard with windows I believe. Windows 2000 had a pinball game that was very addictive too! |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 30 2011, 06:43 AM Post #14 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Don't laugh. i will be buying a refurbished XP laptop this week. Mine finally died and I need it to run conversion software for my business. Won't run on 7. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Axtremus | Oct 30 2011, 08:37 AM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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May I ask why you choose to buy refurbished XP laptop instead of running XP in a virtual machine? |
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| Mark | Oct 30 2011, 08:38 AM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I have OS-9 running under Lion! Oracle client works and everything!
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 30 2011, 08:47 AM Post #17 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Simplicity and deductibility, lack of cluttering our personal systems. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| KlavierBauer | Oct 30 2011, 08:48 AM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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92% of someones it turns out, and ~99.9% if we limit that to Enterprise level usage. Edited by KlavierBauer, Oct 30 2011, 08:49 AM.
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| George K | Oct 30 2011, 09:03 AM Post #19 |
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Using Parallels, Mark? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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