I use Linux for 99.9% of my PC use. Rarely I boot into my Win partition for
something or other (like converting the occasional .wma to mp3 so I can use
it on Linux). My PC is a newer dual core Pentium from HP. It came with
XP Media Center Edition (or something like that). Anyhow, I hadn't booted
into Win in a long while, and because I'd made the stop I thought I'd do a
few updates. What a mess!

I'd created a .pdf using OpenOffice and wanted to check it out on a Win
machine. The Adobe reader warned me of some patches, so I proceeded to
update Acroread. 3 updates were required, and all 3 downloaded at the same
time. But, for some reason, each installed sequentially requiring 3
separate reboots! Uhggg...

Then, an intrusive message kept popping up telling me that Win had some
IMPORTANT updates. Every time I'd tell it to go away the warning came back
in about two or three minutes. I was feeling beat, so I clicked to see
what was so important. It was the Win Genuine "we own your PC" Advantage.
I was not interested in this crap, even though my copy is legit. But there
was also the nice new IE7. Since surfing the Net using IE6 is like having
unprotected sex with a street hooker, I decided that THIS upgrade might be
worth it, even if I don't use it much.

So I clicked to install. Guess what? The damned thing wouldn't download
without WGA! Great. Those bastards at MS really have Win users by the
balls. Knowing that my copy of Win was OK, and feeling more beat up than
ever, I consented. The download went OK, I didn't have to call some phone
jockey at MS in order to activate what I already paid for, however once all
was finished another reboot was required: I guess because IE7 loaded a
bunch of other junk, too, which needed refreshing.

So, after two routine upgrades this is the score: 4 reboots and agreeing to
give MS control of my PC. I felt like I was living in some bizarre cross
between The Outer Limits (WE are in control of your PC) and the movie
Groundhog Day (didn't I just experience this reboot a few minutes ago?).

And, finally, after all this sh#& was complete, another pop up kept
interfering with my work telling me that new software had just been
installed. Duhhh! Why people put up with this on a daily basis is beyond
me. The last decent OS MS produced was DOS 5, and that wasn't even as good
as DR-DOS 6. So now, I'm dreading the day I have to take Win for another
drive. At least the updates didn't hose my Linux bootloader... I was half
expecting THAT.

mp

mpresley@earthlink.net wrote:

> I use Linux for 99.9% of my PC use. Rarely I boot into my Win partition for
> something or other (like converting the occasional .wma to mp3 so I can use
> it on Linux). My PC is a newer dual core Pentium from HP. It came with
> XP Media Center Edition (or something like that). Anyhow, I hadn't booted
> into Win in a long while, and because I'd made the stop I thought I'd do a
> few updates. What a mess!
>
> I'd created a .pdf using OpenOffice and wanted to check it out on a Win
> machine. The Adobe reader warned me of some patches, so I proceeded to
> update Acroread. 3 updates were required, and all 3 downloaded at the same
> time. But, for some reason, each installed sequentially requiring 3
> separate reboots! Uhggg...
>
> Then, an intrusive message kept popping up telling me that Win had some
> IMPORTANT updates. Every time I'd tell it to go away the warning came back
> in about two or three minutes. I was feeling beat, so I clicked to see
> what was so important. It was the Win Genuine "we own your PC" Advantage.
> I was not interested in this crap, even though my copy is legit. But there
> was also the nice new IE7. Since surfing the Net using IE6 is like having
> unprotected sex with a street hooker, I decided that THIS upgrade might be
> worth it, even if I don't use it much.
>
> So I clicked to install. Guess what? The damned thing wouldn't download
> without WGA! Great. Those bastards at MS really have Win users by the
> balls. Knowing that my copy of Win was OK, and feeling more beat up than
> ever, I consented. The download went OK, I didn't have to call some phone
> jockey at MS in order to activate what I already paid for, however once all
> was finished another reboot was required: I guess because IE7 loaded a
> bunch of other junk, too, which needed refreshing.
>
> So, after two routine upgrades this is the score: 4 reboots and agreeingto
> give MS control of my PC. I felt like I was living in some bizarre cross
> between The Outer Limits (WE are in control of your PC) and the movie
> Groundhog Day (didn't I just experience this reboot a few minutes ago?).
>
> And, finally, after all this sh#& was complete, another pop up kept
> interfering with my work telling me that new software had just been
> installed. Duhhh! Why people put up with this on a daily basis is beyond
> me. The last decent OS MS produced was DOS 5, and that wasn't even as good
> as DR-DOS 6. So now, I'm dreading the day I have to take Win for another
> drive. At least the updates didn't hose my Linux bootloader... I was half
> expecting THAT.
>
> mp

Nobody believes you although you went to a lot of trouble just to post
this
it is the first time you have posted using Linux.

There's something seriously wrong with yanks..
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On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:16:50 +0000, mpresley@earthlink.net wrote:

> I use Linux for 99.9% of my PC use. Rarely I boot into my Win partition for
> something or other (like converting the occasional .wma to mp3 so I can use
> it on Linux). My PC is a newer dual core Pentium from HP. It came with
> XP Media Center Edition (or something like that). Anyhow, I hadn't booted
> into Win in a long while, and because I'd made the stop I thought I'd do a
> few updates. What a mess!
>
> I'd created a .pdf using OpenOffice and wanted to check it out on a Win
> machine. The Adobe reader warned me of some patches, so I proceeded to
> update Acroread. 3 updates were required, and all 3 downloaded at the same
> time. But, for some reason, each installed sequentially requiring 3
> separate reboots! Uhggg...

I'm certainly no MS guru; I've booted it once for about five minutes in
the last year or so, but as I recall, it usually give you the choice of
rebooting now or later. Why not do all three updates first and THEN reboot
just once - still this is pretty ridiculous to have to reboot the machine
because you updated a simple utility like acroread.

>
> Then, an intrusive message kept popping up telling me that Win had some
> IMPORTANT updates. Every time I'd tell it to go away the warning came back
> in about two or three minutes. I was feeling beat, so I clicked to see
> what was so important. It was the Win Genuine "we own your PC" Advantage.
> I was not interested in this crap, even though my copy is legit. But there
> was also the nice new IE7. Since surfing the Net using IE6 is like having
> unprotected sex with a street hooker, I decided that THIS upgrade might be
> worth it, even if I don't use it much.
>
> So I clicked to install. Guess what? The damned thing wouldn't download
> without WGA! Great. Those bastards at MS really have Win users by the
> balls. Knowing that my copy of Win was OK, and feeling more beat up than
> ever, I consented. The download went OK, I didn't have to call some phone
> jockey at MS in order to activate what I already paid for, however once all
> was finished another reboot was required: I guess because IE7 loaded a
> bunch of other junk, too, which needed refreshing.
>
> So, after two routine upgrades this is the score: 4 reboots and agreeing to
> give MS control of my PC. I felt like I was living in some bizarre cross
> between The Outer Limits (WE are in control of your PC) and the movie
> Groundhog Day (didn't I just experience this reboot a few minutes ago?).
>
> And, finally, after all this sh#& was complete, another pop up kept
> interfering with my work telling me that new software had just been
> installed. Duhhh! Why people put up with this on a daily basis is beyond
> me. The last decent OS MS produced was DOS 5, and that wasn't even as good
> as DR-DOS 6. So now, I'm dreading the day I have to take Win for another
> drive. At least the updates didn't hose my Linux bootloader... I was half
> expecting THAT.
>
> mp

mpresley@earthlink.net wrote:

> (like converting the occasional .wma to mp3 so I can use
> it on Linux).

Why not use a native linux script??
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...ert_WMA_to_MP3

Tried it and it works like a charm... :-)

I'm sure there's other scripts and frontends as well. Some might even work
better and faster, but to me, 30 sec is fast enough!
--
Morten Sylte

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:16:50 +0000, mpresley@earthlink.net got out the
hammer and chisel and etched in the wall:

> I use Linux for 99.9% of my PC use. Rarely I boot into my Win partition for
> something or other (like converting the occasional .wma to mp3 so I can use
> it on Linux). My PC is a newer dual core Pentium from HP. It came with
> XP Media Center Edition (or something like that). Anyhow, I hadn't booted
> into Win in a long while, and because I'd made the stop I thought I'd do a
> few updates. What a mess!

<snip>

Heh!

Thanks for reminding the crowd what a mess Wintendo is. I deal with this
stuff every day at work.


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home.home1@virgin.net wrote:


> Nobody believes you although you went to a lot of trouble just to post
> this
> it is the first time you have posted using Linux.
>
> There's something seriously wrong with yanks..


Well, since I've been using Linux for the past five years, and mostly
posting through either Knode of Thunderbird you've gone to a lot of trouble
for a big nothing. Keep up the good work.

mp

ray wrote:


> I'm certainly no MS guru; I've booted it once for about five minutes in
> the last year or so, but as I recall, it usually give you the choice of
> rebooting now or later. Why not do all three updates first and THEN reboot
> just once - still this is pretty ridiculous to have to reboot the machine
> because you updated a simple utility like acroread.


Yeah...that's what I thought, too. But once the downloads were complete,
and once the first install completed I received a msg to reboot. I checked
"reboot later" and guessed everything was installed all at once. So when I
rebooted again the second install started. The way it worked was that each
subsequent patch would not install until the machine was rebooted--which
took three times. I don't know if this is the usual Windows way, but it is
sure a mess.

Now, this seems (I guess) like a little thing. But after using Linux for so
long I guess I'm just too used to software simply installing.

mp

Morten Sylte wrote:

> mpresley@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>> (like converting the occasional .wma to mp3 so I can use
>> it on Linux).
>
> Why not use a native linux script??
>
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...ert_WMA_to_MP3
>
> Tried it and it works like a charm... :-)
>
> I'm sure there's other scripts and frontends as well. Some might even work
> better and faster, but to me, 30 sec is fast enough!


Thanks. I'll check it out.

mp

mpresley@earthlink.net wrote:

> home.home1@virgin.net wrote:
>
>
>> Nobody believes you although you went to a lot of trouble just to post
>> this
>> it is the first time you have posted using Linux.
>>
>> There's something seriously wrong with yanks..
>
>
> Well, since I've been using Linux for the past five years, and mostly
> posting through either Knode of Thunderbird you've gone to a lot of
> trouble
> for a big nothing. Keep up the good work.
>
> mp

A piease of advise if I may. mr home.home1@... is a troll. In Norway, the
home of trolls, we simply ignore them. Eventually, even though they are
known to be veeeery slow and stupid, they get the idea and go away...
Haven't really heard from them here up north for a while ;-) Must have gone
somewhere else :-D So, learn how to smell the trolls, ignore them, and your
life WILL be all that easier!
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mpresley@earthlink.net wrote:
> Now, this seems (I guess) like a little thing. But after using Linux for so
> long I guess I'm just too used to software simply installing.

It is clear that Windows is not ready for the average user or the
desktop.

houghi
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