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"SC Tom" wrote:
"John Doe" wrote "SC Tom" sc tom.net wrote: "John Doe" jdoe usenetlove.invalid wrote "SC Tom" sc tom.net wrote: Davej wrote: Davej galt... hotmail.com wrote: Can this really be done without screwing things up? [...] Ack, I've regained my sanity. I don't want to buy an upgrade. I tried that once and it was a long-term pain-in-the-ass. I have never done a full install of a Windows OS; I've always upgraded and have not had any major problems at all. That was starting from Win3.11-to-Win95 through now. Your alleged personal experience and trolling aside, the vast majority of us skilled users know that a clean install of Windows is always best. That is well-known and well tested advice. Use an incremental backup of Windows, and the trouble will be more than worthwhile. I have no reason to lie about anything I have done, The point is that the vast majority of skilled users know better. And you probably know that. You changed the point when you started the name-calling. I have not yet begun to start name-calling. I know that a number of skilled users recommend a clean install, but an almost equal number have upgraded with no problem. That is easily proved false by a little research. You don't have to be a skilled user to know better. If you have problems before you upgrade, you'll continue to have problems afterwards; an upgrade isn't going to "fix" anything. Fixing something is not the most common reason for upgrading. But there are many things that can be wrong with an installation without anything that is wrong being majorly evident. But there is always a chance of a clean install failing, too. Anything is possible, but an upgrade is more likely to fail. I've seen both scenarios often enough An upgrade is easier (unless and until things go wrong), but a clean install is better. That's the way it's always been. and unlike you, have no reason to troll either. The OP posted, and I replied; you tell me why that is trolling. I see you've nym-shifted again. Probably have to plonk this nym, too, but I'll wait for some responses first. Have at it :-) I never nym-shift. Your imaginary kill file friend ran away from you (as I predicted). You are an unskilled user with an attitude. I don't have an attitude- you're the one that started attacking me, not the other way around. And you have no idea how skilled a user I am. I've seen your boasts before, but have never seen any proof of your extraordinary skills. At least I could manage an imaginary kill file friend, if I had any. Have a nice day :-) Guaranteed. And if I caused you to not see this post, I sincerely apologize for anything I did wrong. |
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On Feb 7, 4:03*pm, "SC Tom" wrote:
Mark Orrin Bender (of San Antonio, Texas), aka "John Doe" jdoe at usenetlove.invalid, aka ultraport at mail.com (iphone), aka lshaping at hotmail.com wrote... I never nym-shift. Your imaginary kill file friend ran away from you (as I predicted). You are an unskilled user with an attitude. I don't have an attitude- you're the one that started attacking me, not the other way around. And you have no idea how skilled a user I am. I've seen your boasts before, but have never seen any proof of your extraordinary skills. Have a nice day :-) SC Tom You just have to ignore ol' Mark Bender here; it's the best way to deal with him. -- // T.Hsu |
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A stalker troll.
Ting Hsu ting thsu.org wrote: Path: news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com! news-out.octanews.net!indigo.octanews.net!news.glorb.co m!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!18g2000y qe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ting Hsu ting thsu.org Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Subject: Vista Upgrade to Win7 ? Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:04:45 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 18 Message-ID: 5a56f8e1-f62b-4c11-889a-5958fc71d0d2 18g2000yqe.googlegroups.com References: 4f028898-2b66-430b-98ec-1662acdb7bf4 t2g2000yqk.googlegroups.com c1ba4038-37b4-4587-a915-b5c8022d2362 p21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com jgr6el$59a$1 dont-email.me 4f314167$0$2240$c3e8da3$76a7c58f news.astraweb.com jgrqtm$1b7$1 dont-email.me 4f318e2f$0$20343$c3e8da3$9deca2c3 news.astraweb.com jgs3i9$vn3$1 dont-email.me NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.144.137.185 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1328665640 1630 127.0.0.1 (8 Feb 2012 01:47:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 01:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse google.com Injection-Info: 18g2000yqe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.144.137.185; posting-account=_kCIMgkAAABKpecs-acDs_7_34Dc8Y-E User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALENKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0,gzip(gfe) On Feb 7, 4:03’pm, "SC Tom" s... tom.net wrote: Mark Orrin Bender (of San Antonio, Texas), aka "John Doe" jdoe at usenet love.invalid, aka ultraport at mail.com (iphone), aka lshaping at hotmail.com wrote... I never nym-shift. Your imaginary kill file friend ran away from you (as I predicted). You are an unskilled user with an attitude. I don't have an attitude- you're the one that started attacking me, not t he other way around. And you have no idea how skilled a user I am. I've seen your boasts before, but have never seen an y proof of your extraordinary skills. Have a nice day :-) SC Tom You just have to ignore ol' Mark Bender here; it's the best way to deal with him. -- // T.Hsu |
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By the way, Thing... Are you annoyed by the fact that I could play
World of Warcraft by voice, without depending on a limited supply of obscure keystroke shortcuts? Does that rub you the wrong way? It's only a matter of time. Voice is being used on ultraportable computers. And that is impressive, considering the fact that speech recognition requires significant hardware/processing overhead. Speech recognition automation will pry its way into Windows and gaming, someday. But by that time, Thing, you will be an old man unable to do anything but whine about it all, still being stuck using a keyboard and mouse. |
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On Feb 7, 3:48 pm, (GMAN) wrote:
Speaking of Darth Vader, why do you speak like Yoda? Perhaps because Yoda rose above it, to dissolve into the stuff of oracles... 'Speaking [. . .for no more than you need to hear, comparatively in relative mortal or humanistic terms] is like wiping my ass with silk.' -A rogue program from the Matrix. |
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On 7/02/2012 11:46 PM, SC Tom wrote:
Davej wrote: On Feb 4, 10:18 am, Davej wrote: Can this really be done without screwing things up? [...] Ack, I've regained my sanity. I don't want to buy an upgrade. I tried that once and it was a long-term pain-in-the-ass. I upgraded my Gateway laptop from Vista Home Premium 32-bit to Win7 HP 32-bit (even though there were no Win7 drivers for it) and have not had any problems with it so far. That was in October 2009, so if I'm going to have a problem now, it's MTL not going to be from the upgrade ;-) As a side note, I have never done a full install of a Windows OS; I've always upgraded and have not had any major problems at all. That was starting from Win3.11-to-Win95 through now. Of course, YMMV and the choice is yours. I would prefer not having to reinstall all my programs. Given the differences between 3.11 and Win95 and all subsequent Windows versions, I can see a lot of potential for upgrade issues. Obsolete software being just one. -- Krypsis |
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On 8/02/2012 8:03 AM, SC Tom wrote:
rant snipped I know that a number of skilled users recommend a clean install, but an almost equal number have upgraded with no problem. If you have problems before you upgrade, you'll continue to have problems afterwards; an upgrade isn't going to "fix" anything. But there is always a chance of a clean install failing, too. I've seen both scenarios often enough to know that nothing is fool-proof. If a clean install fails then you have either a hardware issue or you did something wrong. An upgrade has way more opportunities to fail as the existing system is not guaranteed to be stable in its current state. I do clean re-installs of Windows on a regular basis. I can only recall doing an upgrade from Win98 to Win98SE and that only because 98SE was little more than a bug fix. rant snipped -- Krypsis |
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John, if that is your real name, why do you always FU a topic.
"John Doe" wrote in message b.com... "SC Tom" sc tom.net wrote: Davej wrote: Davej galt... hotmail.com wrote: Can this really be done without screwing things up? [...] Ack, I've regained my sanity. I don't want to buy an upgrade. I tried that once and it was a long-term pain-in-the-ass. I have never done a full install of a Windows OS; I've always upgraded and have not had any major problems at all. That was starting from Win3.11-to-Win95 through now. Your alleged personal experience and trolling aside, the vast majority of us skilled users know that a clean install of Windows is always best. That is well-known and well tested advice. Use an incremental backup of Windows, and the trouble will be more than worthwhile. -- Of course, YMMV and the choice is yours. I would prefer not having to reinstall all my programs. -- SC Tom Path: news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com! feed.news.qwest.net!mpls-nntp-06.inet.qwest.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "SC Tom" sc tom.net Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Subject: Vista Upgrade to Win7 ? Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:46:12 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: jgr6el$59a$1 dont-email.me References: 4f028898-2b66-430b-98ec-1662acdb7bf4 t2g2000yqk.googlegroups.com c1ba4038-37b4-4587-a915-b5c8022d2362 p21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="zK9Dvxs7WpZ2Kfm5muMghg"; logging-data="5418"; mail-complaints-to="abuse eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18tHeS+S6OUk72D3wBmGDJL" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kMWoR2acqZWO5aDb/0kcApAouY4= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal |
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On 2/8/2012 3:55 AM, Krypsis wrote:
Given the differences between 3.11 and Win95 and all subsequent Windows versions, I can see a lot of potential for upgrade issues. Obsolete software being just one. Interesting experiment on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14 |
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Pointing out that someone is clearly misleading
is hardly improper. "Jumbo Jack" Me btinternet.com wrote: Path: news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com! news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com! news.glorb.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nn tp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.n ntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp .ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!n ot-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:35:56 -0600 From: "Jumbo Jack" Me btinternet.com Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt References: 4f028898-2b66-430b-98ec-1662acdb7bf4 t2g2000yqk.googlegroups.com c1ba4038-37b4-4587-a915-b5c8022d2362 p21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com jgr6el$59a$1 dont-email.me 4f314167$0$2240$c3e8da3$76a7c58f news.astraweb.com Subject: Vista Upgrade to Win7 ? Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:35:54 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: k8idnaJay7TxtavSnZ2dnUVZ7s-dnZ2d bt.com Lines: 78 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-BpncJoC/Z1zWvt+WOei9KB7Bjxuvo7+fpGTlviqe5SgtHZz6oPa7eyC+ow eVMi67HrhzE18oewM+e9d!YUvk7nT5Mfxyz06mu0P5iVNdoWf9 DE5t8B4acEcGlMib/06aA67LMS2uqFVZXurA8cE6MXGeu9c= X-Complaints-To: abuse btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3761 John, if that is your real name, why do you always FU a topic. "John Doe" jdoe usenetlove.invalid wrote in message news:4f314167$0$2240$c3e8da3$76a7c58f news.astraweb.com... "SC Tom" sc tom.net wrote: Davej wrote: Davej galt... hotmail.com wrote: Can this really be done without screwing things up? [...] Ack, I've regained my sanity. I don't want to buy an upgrade. I tried that once and it was a long-term pain-in-the-ass. I have never done a full install of a Windows OS; I've always upgraded and have not had any major problems at all. That was starting from Win3.11-to-Win95 through now. Your alleged personal experience and trolling aside, the vast majority of us skilled users know that a clean install of Windows is always best. That is well-known and well tested advice. Use an incremental backup of Windows, and the trouble will be more than worthwhile. -- Of course, YMMV and the choice is yours. I would prefer not having to reinstall all my programs. -- SC Tom Path: news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com! feed.news.qwest.net!mpls-nntp-06.inet.qwest.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "SC Tom" sc tom.net Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Subject: Vista Upgrade to Win7 ? Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:46:12 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: jgr6el$59a$1 dont-email.me References: 4f028898-2b66-430b-98ec-1662acdb7bf4 t2g2000yqk.googlegroups.com c1ba4038-37b4-4587-a915-b5c8022d2362 p21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="zK9Dvxs7WpZ2Kfm5muMghg"; logging-data="5418"; mail-complaints-to="abuse eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18tHeS+S6OUk72D3wBmGDJL" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kMWoR2acqZWO5aDb/0kcApAouY4= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal |
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