SirGreenThumb
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I have to know, what was the issue with his PC?
Saying goodbye to Windows 8
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I have to know, what was the issue with his PC?
joe macclennan
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really don't know. I wasn't there and listening to him try and explain what was done is worse than trying to learn a foreign language.
I do know they replaced a component of the hardware tho by the sound of it.
SirGreenThumb
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I understand, listening to someone trying to explain computer related issues that have no idea what their talking about can be like nails on a chalk board.
New computer and they had to replace some hardware? Hmmm, sounds to me like the tech got one over on him, unless it was an open box model. I had to replace the hard drive in my laptop after I bought it. I bought it as an open box model and received 100 off the price and exchanged a 750gb to a 1tb. Technically my laptop was free because 2 days before I bought it I won 700 dollars from 2 scratch off tickets.
see4
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No, Im not kidding you. And I wasn't trolling. What I am saying, is if you can't figure out something as basic as the Windows 8 operating system, maybe you shouldn't be banging on a keyboard in the first place.
If you like, I can take you down a journey into my world of computers... you wouldn't last 35 seconds.
What's wrong with learning something new? And if that is your only counterargument, then I stand by my first comment... welcome to 2013, learn how to use a fucking computer. It ain't fucking hard. At all.
Took me all of 12 minutes to figure out Windows 8. And I have it installed on a VM on my Mac.
Im not saying everyone should be like me and figure shit out quickly.. but what Im saying is.. give something a chance before whining about it.
Let me ask you this.. when you first discovered that your penis gets hard and when you touch it gets harder... and the first time or two you couldn't quite figure shit out.. did you give up? Or did you keep at it until you mastered it?
joe macclennan
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I understand, listening to someone trying to explain computer related issues that have no idea what their talking about can be like nails on a chalk board.
New computer and they had to replace some hardware? Hmmm, sounds to me like the tech got one over on him, unless it was an open box model. I had to replace the hard drive in my laptop after I bought it. I bought it as an open box model and received 100 off the price and exchanged a 750gb to a 1tb. Technically my laptop was free because 2 days before I bought it I won 700 dollars from 2 scratch off tickets.
nails on a chalkboard..........you are so right.
nope, the guy didn't charge him a dime. It was still under warranty. the guy actually had to come out twice. First to diagnose and then the next day to install hardware.
I guess that is one benefit to buying a dell. It appears they have pretty good customer service. Course the old man didn't tell them he dropped the laptop on concrete on about day three
It worked for like three weeks after tho.
SirGreenThumb
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Do you work at a place where they are converting to 8 or was it just personal choice to learn the new gui?
see4
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Just a learning experience. I have several VM's on my MBA, I run 3 flavors of Linux, plus Windows 8. I used Windows 8 for Office and some other tools that work better on Windows, and I run one of my Linux VM's as development machine, and another I use when I need to test having two separate servers communicating with each other, and the 3rd Linux is there for compiling Linux modules/apps/etc..
Right now, I am using one of the Linux VM's to compile a mongodb master cluster in parallel with a couple of raspberry pi's for a redundant remote file-store system that is duplicated in a shard cluster.
SirGreenThumb
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Sounds like you are running your own multilevel company with a sophisticated forest. You are either paranoid or have a nice sharing scheme in place. I can only imagine what security you have in place. I need to build my own personal server but don't have the funds to do so atm.
see4
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Sort of, but all this is running on one computer. VM's or Virtual Machines all run on the same computer, just run on its own environment.
blacksun
New Member
Yea, vm's are cool.
Also, you can literally revert win 8 back to win 7's layout by running a simple and FREE program.
Click download, double click the file, click yes a couple times and a little bit of extra shit and BAM!
Back to win 7 layout exactly.
No tiles, no apps, no sidebar, DOES have a start menu and everything is laid out exactly like in win 7.
As opposed to all the hoops you have to jump through to actually format and reload with win 7, finding compatible drivers...a bios update?...fuck all that.
It's called "classic shell".
Also, you can literally revert win 8 back to win 7's layout by running a simple and FREE program.
Click download, double click the file, click yes a couple times and a little bit of extra shit and BAM!
Back to win 7 layout exactly.
No tiles, no apps, no sidebar, DOES have a start menu and everything is laid out exactly like in win 7.
As opposed to all the hoops you have to jump through to actually format and reload with win 7, finding compatible drivers...a bios update?...fuck all that.
It's called "classic shell".
