CHEEEEP! HAR! HAR! HAR!
Remember the ridiculously cheap eBay multimeter and D.C. / A.C. inductive meter I said I was about to purchase? I did. They arrived and I ran calibration and accuracy tests on them yesterday and today...
Forum Discussion
MEX wrote:
Laff-Top. A local offered me his "beee UUU tee full HP laptop". Starts right up when it's plugged-in. Never tried Windows VISTA before. Special deal only 350 dollars. Computers are stupidly expensive down here. Yes this was written on Niner's Fartsmone.
Good luck with Vista!!!
That's all I've had on my high-end HP laptop for years, and boy ... does Vista develop/cause problems over time. Microsoft and all the software applications companies are REALLY trying to get us off Vista and onto at least Windows 7 ... or preferably Windows 8 ... and then onto their next big (money making) thing.
Here's the 800 lb. gotcha in the room ... it's so complicated changing over to a new operating system that most folks buy a whole brand new computer with a later operating system on it in order to get rid of the problems with an "older" operating system. I wonder how many computers have wound up on the world's scrap piles still with perfectly good hardware in them - including even fast (enough) processors, large (enough) memory banks, and large (enough) hard drives? What a waste of the world's resources.
I've spent hundreds of hours over the years keeping Vista - and the applications running on it - performing reliably day after day the way I want them to on my laptop. By "running", I mean the way I want them running instead of the way Microsoft and/or the applications-creator-geeks think we should want them running.
Here's two small tips - don't try to mess-with/change/improve Vista's "Users" configurations or Vista's "Networking" configurations. If you do, we'll cease seeing posts from you here, again, for long periods. :(
Ooooh ... I almost forgot: Be very careful with what virus protection software you try to use with Vista ... it can be very finicky.
