Hehehehe. Can't upgrade. The law here does not allow for upgrades to the Wife OS. ;)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Björn Helgason Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:20 PM To: Chat forum Subject: Re: [Jchat] Vista at the top and the beginning of the end Maybe you need to upgrade to Wife 2.0? http://www.askstudent.com/funny/tech-letter-upgrade-from-girlfriend-70-to-wife-10/ 2008/2/7, Alex Rufon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You're lucky you got the Vista Home Edition. > > My wife, who's the computer engineer (I'm an economics major) ... > simply would not touch Linux even with a pole much to my distress. So > when I bought a HP Pavillion machine as a replacement to our 3 year > old pc (which she assembled but too lazy to fix/upgrade) last year ... > she forbade me to install linux and just leave the pre-installed > Windows Vista Starter Edition. ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! > > Do you know whats more irritating for me using that version of Vista? > It only allows you to run 3 application at the same time. So let's put > this in perspective ... so I have Yahoo Messenger running, then I have > J running, then I run Word to type something ... then I open up iTunes > to listen to some music while mucking around. Guess what? You can't > open iTunes anymore because you already got 3 application running. > <much hair pulling at this > point> > > So in the end, I just upgraded it to Vista Business edition. I really > wish I can format it and just put gOS or Ubuntu in it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Björn Helgason > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:22 PM > To: Chat forum > Subject: [Jchat] Vista at the top and the beginning of the end > > I bought a very cheap laptop recently and with it I got Vista even if > I did not want any M$ product. > Anyway then I decided to keep Vista to try it out. > Yesterday I was going to install a favorite game Sherlock I have used > off and on over the years. > It is very good for kids to learn about einsteins puzzle. > It is a Dos program and I have installed it in various flavors of Windows. > Not now in Vista. > It seems that Vista has abandoned Dos. > The recommendation I got was to install M$ Virtual Machine and start > Dos there. > I retrieved M$ Virtual Machine only to discover it is not supported in > the Vista Home Edition. > I then looked for a new copy of Sherlock but for free was only a copy > that needed to be paid for. > Then I discovered a free program called > > http://demonews.com/downloadget.php?id=1220&file=9&evp=724e590e7277748 > b7c21aa3bd609f6f2 > It is actually quite good. > It is interesting that Vista does not support Dos anymore. > I guess a lot of programs will have problem running under Vista. > The majority of all Windows programs are really Dos programs. > I guess this fact will move a lot of people over to Linux. > > > -- > Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur > Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Þerneyjarsund 23, Box 127 > 801 Grímsnes ,t-póst: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype: gosiminn, gsm: +3546985532 > Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming > > > Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari > einfaldleikans > > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum > /|_ .-----------------------------------. > ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | > ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | > / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > | ) | (\_ _/) > (`-. '--.) (='.'=) > `. )----' (")_(") > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Þerneyjarsund 23, Box 127 801 Grímsnes ,t-póst: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: gosiminn, gsm: +3546985532 Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) `. )----' (")_(")
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