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Windows 7	[Jul. 3rd, 2009\|08:51 am]Footpad
[Tags\|geek, scraps, windows, windows 7] [Current Mood	neutral]As thewerewolf pointed out a while ago, Microsoft is offering discounts on pre-orders of Windows 7. As thewerewolf's post shows, the price for the upgrade I want is 99intheUS,€109incontinentalEurope,and£99intheUK.That′s99 in the US, €109 in continental Europe, and £99 in the UK. That's 99intheUS,€109incontinentalEurope,and£99intheUK.That′s99, 152or152 or 152or162 depending on where you are.Microsoft has the nerve to say that we European clients won't pay for the European Union judgement against the company for their anti-competitive practices. Damn right we won't. At these markup rates, we must have already paid for it many times over.Anyway, in the best serf tradition, I'm going to complain about their practices and then give them more of my money. So, um, ( will any American order a copy and send it to me?Collapse )
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[Jul. 3rd, 2009|08:51 am]Footpad

[Tags**|geek, scraps, windows, windows 7] [Current Mood**

neutral]As

thewerewolf pointed out a while ago, Microsoft is offering discounts on pre-orders of Windows 7. As

thewerewolf's post shows, the price for the upgrade I want is 99intheUS,€109incontinentalEurope,and£99intheUK.That′s99 in the US, €109 in continental Europe, and £99 in the UK. That's 99intheUS,€109incontinentalEurope,and£99intheUK.That′s99, 152or152 or 152or162 depending on where you are.Microsoft has the nerve to say that we European clients won't pay for the European Union judgement against the company for their anti-competitive practices. Damn right we won't. At these markup rates, we must have already paid for it many times over.Anyway, in the best serf tradition, I'm going to complain about their practices and then give them more of my money. So, um, ( will any American order a copy and send it to me?Collapse )

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Dear Vista	[Jan. 29th, 2009\|12:58 pm]Footpad
[Tags\|grrr, vista annoyances, windows, windows vista] [Current Mood	annoyed]Dear Windows Vista,I have to say that in some ways, I find it very comfortable to use you as a platform for the Linux virtual machines in which I do my actual work. You handle the stuff like graphics and wireless networking which STILL didn't work out-of-the-box under Linux, while I can enjoy the flexibility, convenience and extra security that virtual machines bring.However, what the hell is with this continual slowdowns and hard-disk thrashing? For the love of Dog, you're running with a recent dual-core processor and 3 GB of RAM. What have you got to do that's so damn' urgent that you've got to stop my system almost completely for whole minutes at a time while you bottleneck on the hard disk, with nothing but the NT kernel actually using any CPU time? Would it really be so difficult to schedule these things in the background so they don't get in my way? You are my operating system; that means you're supposed to support the things you're running, not spend so much time actively obstructing them!
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Dear Vista

[Jan. 29th, 2009|12:58 pm]Footpad

[Tags**|grrr, vista annoyances, windows, windows vista] [Current Mood**

annoyed]Dear Windows Vista,I have to say that in some ways, I find it very comfortable to use you as a platform for the Linux virtual machines in which I do my actual work. You handle the stuff like graphics and wireless networking which STILL didn't work out-of-the-box under Linux, while I can enjoy the flexibility, convenience and extra security that virtual machines bring.However, what the hell is with this continual slowdowns and hard-disk thrashing? For the love of Dog, you're running with a recent dual-core processor and 3 GB of RAM. What have you got to do that's so damn' urgent that you've got to stop my system almost completely for whole minutes at a time while you bottleneck on the hard disk, with nothing but the NT kernel actually using any CPU time? Would it really be so difficult to schedule these things in the background so they don't get in my way? You are my operating system; that means you're supposed to support the things you're running, not spend so much time actively obstructing them!

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