Monday, August 15, 2005
Microsoft fucked me over (again): If you have, like I do, a W2K machine SP4, you might not want to install security updates. I did it this evening, in reaction to the news that the ZOTOB virus was something W2K machines were vulnerable to. This is unbelievable. A Microsoft security update, which you can't ignore, causes machines to break (in my case with problems of Internet and local-net access). Where the hell is the Q/A? My machine is a run of the mill Compaq, a very standard machine, yet it is broken and may have to be completely reloaded since it appears the updates can't be backed out. I'm posting this here to let off steam. How can anybody take Microsoft seriously as a vendor of dependable software? They have tons of cash, but can't seem to be bothered with spending it to make their overall design robust (and comprehensible - does anybody really have a sense of what's going on with the OS?). Thanks, Billy Gates. Now my home office will be down for two days. Minimum.
posted by Quiddity at 8/15/2005 11:57:00 PM
7 comments
Ah, but you keep on buying his shit and the machines that run it, don't you?
Sorry, but I always find it amusing when I read one of my favourite bloggers bitching and moaning about how his computer has been rendered useless by the latest Windows virus or Microsoft screwup, and then immediately follows up with a posting telling all those Mac guys who responded with the usual plug to stop, because he's not going to buy a Mac, because, well, because -- um -- well, just because, so stop already.
I've had Macs for twenty years now, and have never -- repeat, never -- had the need or even the urge to buy a Windows box. Problems? Sure, who hasn't got them? But, man, it's just so much nicer. And I don't miss any of that great Windows-only software one bit.
Okay, I'm done. I'll say no more.
Yah. And I ain't gonna say it, either. (The thing about "get a Mac..." Oooops! Sorry. Just said it.)
I use to defend Bill Gates all the time until I got an XP-home machine.
As for you Mac users (of which my wife is one). I sure was nice when I upgrades her to System X and it made her entire Office Suite unusable.
And yet the best selling MacOS software is Microsoft Office. You keep buying it.
Q -
WinXP does create restore points, can you get to one from "safe mode"? Hold down F8 after the PC POST's and before it starts to load XP. You should get a DOS menu asking what you want to do. Pick "boot to Safe Mode" or however that choice is worded.
Go in there, and see if your control panel will allow you to pick a restore point from some recent time before the 'upgrade'. If it does, you may be in business, having lost only any software/third-party software updates to programs that were installed before XP trashed your machine.
Two other things you can do to protect yourself against future MS "improvements", if you didn't have restore points set up, always make one before doing any MS updates, or you can have your PC do one say, every night at 1AM or something as well. Second, create a "rescue diskette", a compaq should still have a floppy drive built in. BTW, I think "rescue diskette" is a misnomer, I think it's more like "rescue diskettes" in XP. You might want to see if the rescue disk function is supported via user-created CD's.
I have both Macs and PCs here at Casa Fish, and although I have been a Mac User since just after the famous 1984 commercial, I feel (have in fact, felt) the pain of the XP "update" debacle.
Good luck. Drop me an email if you need more help, if I can help you out, I will.
Jo
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