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finally I understand the top $$$ for winblows tech
I've just spent the last 3-4 days friggin with my winblows dev box.

Until now I couldn't believe that win tech folks were allowed to charge outgrageous prices for support (ie ... $100+ in Japan) .... today ... I came to understand why.

The break down for a $100 charge (ie ... simple sys install)
the actual amount is realistically $10 but the extra $90 comes from dealing with ...
- wanting to smash the computer physically
- totally unreliable sys / mo board installs
- wintech.com help just blows
- time googling to find some poor's soul outrage help ....

if it wasn't for this link ... little dog I'd still be crawling the net for an answer.

lol ... I even found this bill gates is .... .

why? why? why? does dealing with windows has to be such hell?

wouldn't it be some much nicer be able to :
- burn a iso cd without going through acrobatics
- installing new hardware works from the restart
- being able to duplicate a file with a keystroke?
- errrrrr ... copying to a floppy does die cuz you got too much data?
- drag and drop doesn't end up being an alias
- you don't need 3 different software packages to do something

... of course ... I haven't tried XP at home so ... XP might be the answer for many ....

Mad

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You a Mac fan by any chance? Tongue

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Re: [Andy.] finally I understand the top $$$ for winblows tech In reply to
me a mac fan ??? how did you guess Angelic

let's add more to the list.

having a command to entirely erase a HD would be nice ... I erased my drive with w98 and lol and behold the partion I made with mandrake 8.1 left grub in the boot sector.

duh ... just after I sat through 2 full fdisks / formats ... to upgrade the drive to NTFS.

Can't you just zero the "whole" drive with out dinking around?

I wanted to partion the drive but I'm soooo pissed / stressed / tired that ... I'm not even going to bother.

Crazy

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Re: [QooQ] finally I understand the top $$$ for winblows tech In reply to
If it makes you feel any better I find it very annoying that Mandrake has made my HD's co-dependent. I can't take either hard disk out and still be able to boot. I get screenfulls of lovely garbage text in POST when trying to boot. This wasn't a problem in older mandrakes. Plus since I have XP in NTFS, Mandrake can't read my other drive.

--Philip
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