The pessimist's thread

[ZiSunka]

Pessimists only:

Post your gripes here so that they don't have to infiltrate every thread in this forum.

 

[aReformedPatriot]

hmmm... Are you upset about something LL? I dont think its honoring to the Lord to wallow in a perpetual state of pessimism not to mention the ulcer that might develope from it.

Hope you have a good day.

 

[ZiSunka]

It's not for me, TLE, it's for those people here at CF who just can't seem to look on the sunny side of anything. This way they can post their grouch notes here instead of in every thread on this forum.

 

[aReformedPatriot]

oh ok. Maybe I should go re-read the threads then because I havent seen very many in particular.

In anycase, Have a Good One.
Bro. Mark

 

[ZiSunka]

Wow! They whole forum has been fraught with grumpy posts this week.

 

[Gold Dragon]

It is always difficult to determine tone, mood and body language over text. That's why emoticons are so helpful.

oops, sorry to disturb the pessimism.

This should help.

 

[ZiSunka]

I don't think it's difficult to understand the tone or mood of posts like, "You people don't agree with me so I'm going to just stop talking to you," or "The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and only I seem to care."

Thanks for the sigh! That's a good job keeping with the spirit of this thread.

I really just wanted to make a place for people to leave their bad moods so they can go on and enjoy the rest of the forum.

 

[Terri]

Well, I'm not pessimistic, but I do have a gripe against Microsoft.

We got the lastest Windows security update for Windows 98 yesterday. Yes, I know I need to update to a later version, but was waiting for them to get all of the kinks out of XP.

Well, the computer ran fine yesterday. We turned it off last night. This morning it would turn on, load everything and then just totally freeze where you couldn't click on anything.

Dear husband figured out it was the windows update. Once you get rid of that it is fine. So, if you have Windows 98 I would suggest waiting for a while to see if they figure out what is wrong with the update.

I don't know if this would affect XP. Figure that is probably a whole different update system for all of you hip XP people!!

 

[Gold Dragon]

We got the lastest Windows security update for Windows 98 yesterday. Yes, I know I need to update to a later version, but was waiting for them to get all of the kinks out of XP.

98!

XP released its second major service pack two years ago so I think it is pretty safe to say they have worked the major kinks out of it.

I have XP on all my computers and love it. It is a huge improvement over the 9x/ME family and also significant improvement over the NT/2000 family.

Even if your computer is older, you should still see performance increases despite the fact that XP is a larger program than 98. They added some pretty nifty optimization features to XP.

Being a guy who works in Unix environments, I shouldn't be pimping XP but having endured so many years of torture in the 9x family, XP was a breath of fresh air.

 

[Lockheed]

Cool... this is my kind of thread.

 

[Terri]

98!

XP released its second major service pack two years ago so I think it is pretty safe to say they have worked the major kinks out of it.

I have XP on all my computers and love it. It is a huge improvement over the 9x/ME family and also significant improvement over the NT/2000 family.

Even if your computer is older, you should still see performance increases despite the fact that XP is a larger program than 98. They added some pretty nifty optimization features to XP.

Being a guy who works in Unix environments, I shouldn't be pimping XP but having endured so many years of torture in the 9x family, XP was a breath of fresh air.

Are you making fun of me and my ancient Operating System??

Windows 98 has been berry berry good to me. But, I guess we will have to eventually update--probably everyone that gets this Microsoft update and can't figure out what went wrong with their computers will be updating soon too.

My dear husband was wondering if you have an opinion on the Linux Operating System that you would like to share. Apparently Dear Husband isn't as happy with Windows as I am.

 

[Gold Dragon]

My dear husband was wondering if you have an opinion on the Linux Operating System that you would like to share. Apparently Dear Husband isn't as happy with Windows as I am.

My unix experience is mostly with Sun Solaris. But I've used a fairly old RedHat Linux.

Linux is far superior to Windows in stablity. However, if you aren't too computer savy, stick with Windows because it is still superior in terms of user friendliness and compatibility with popular software. Although the newer ones may be improved.

If he is really frustrated with Windows, a Mac might be a consideration for your new computer since I believe Mac OS X runs on top of a UNIX. It might take some adjusting and will cost a bit more, but the stability and usability are loved by Mac Users (my sister is one).

 

[aReformedPatriot]

My unix experience is mostly with Sun Solaris. But I've used a fairly old RedHat Linux.

Linux is far superior to Windows in stablity. However, if you aren't too computer savy, stick with Windows because it is still superior in terms of user friendliness and compatibility with popular software. Although the newer ones may be improved.

If he is really frustrated with Windows, a Mac might be a consideration for your new computer since I believe Mac OS X runs on top of a UNIX. It might take some adjusting and will cost a bit more, but the stability and usability are loved by Mac Users (my sister is one).

I am not extremely computer saavy though I probably know more than most. Part of me wants to just get linux for a change. What would make it frustrating for the average person?

 

[Terri]

My unix experience is mostly with Sun Solaris. But I've used a fairly old RedHat Linux.

Linux is far superior to Windows in stablity. However, if you aren't too computer savy, stick with Windows because it is still superior in terms of user friendliness and compatibility with popular software. Although the newer ones may be improved.

If he is really frustrated with Windows, a Mac might be a consideration for your new computer since I believe Mac OS X runs on top of a UNIX. It might take some adjusting and will cost a bit more, but the stability and usability are loved by Mac Users (my sister is one).

Thanks for the info Gold! We definitely need to consider getting a new computer. I think it would be fun to have one of those where you partition it off and have different operating systems. I'm sure that would make for some fun times!