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2009-10-25 Science & Technology

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-10-25 09:30|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 They stealed the name from an Apple Product.
I hate dem all, Lionsux, Winder$ and AppFail,

Ima going to pen and paper.

/damn that covers all the kooks don't it?

Posted by .5MT 2009-10-25 13:12|| 2009-10-25 13:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow! Printer sharing. That's what I call a technological breakthrough.

Seriously, I'd switch for much better security. That's about it.

Posted by Phil_B 2009-10-25 13:17|| 2009-10-25 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Think I'm gonna wait a while and see how it goes.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-10-25 13:38|| 2009-10-25 13:38|| Front Page Top

#4 I bought one of the $49.99 pre-release specials from Amazon (Home Premium). I'll install it when I get around to upgrading my system to more modern hardware. Windows will still be a secondary OS though since I primarily use Ubuntu Linux.

Posted by john frum 2009-10-25 17:24|| 2009-10-25 17:24|| Front Page Top

#5 "Printer-sharing" > read, SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH the FBI-CIA-DHS knows what you're doing, as based on recent MSM-Net Artics.

Which of course, cannot be confirmed or denied, + mainstream America = Amerika, USA = OWG-NWO Strong USSA/Weak USRoA, didn't vote on.

D *** NG IT, THANX AGAIN FOR THE NON-INFORMATION!

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-10-25 20:39|| na]">[na] 2009-10-25 20:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Or visit the Apple store for laptops and iMacs that just work.

I thought about it. But then I decided I couldn't deal with the terminal smugness.

Posted by Pappy 2009-10-25 21:55|| 2009-10-25 21:55|| Front Page Top

#7 I've been using Windows 7 for a few weeks now. Seems _much_ better than the Vista which was on the machine before.

The upgrade from Vista took a *long* time and, as I recall, a number of reboots. Also as I recall there isn't a direct upgrade from XP.

Since then I haven't had any problems.

The XP mode is kind of nice. Its kind of a hybrid Virtual machine where you can launch XP applications from Windows 7.

Having said that, I'll wait to install it on my XP boxes unless I had to. If I had Vista I'll consider it since (as least in my experience) its far better than Vista - even with service packs.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-10-25 22:56|| 2009-10-25 22:56|| Front Page Top

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