They say two things in life are certian – death and taxes. They are, of course, wrong. There are three things in life that are certain – death, taxes and having to reinstall Windows at least once or twice a year.
The first one I don’t plan on experimenting with quite yet, the second one is the bain of my life (but keeps me in a job) and the third one … well, it’s been a good six months since I last had to install Windows on my desktop so it’s that time again.
With the usual lack of foresight I butchered the Windows installation on my desktop to make it smaller and faster which involved, amongst other things, ditching wireless support. Which was fine until I bought a laptop. Now I have a wireless hub and the desktop refuses point blank to do anything other than get an IP adress off it.
So, I’ve blown the dust off the Windows installation disc and with a bit of luck I’ll have a lovely fresh copy of Windows on it that actually works in about half an hour and after another couple of hours downloading critical updates and patches it should be safe to use without the widow of the Nigerian oil minister (not to self: don’t join the Nigerian civil service) hijacking it to send 3 million emails to specially selected people asking them to help her smuggle $8.5m out of the country.
I am glad I do not use that piece of American crap, good old English Operating System for me.
Yes but you’re a nerd. 🙂
It took about an hour and a half all told. Windows Update installed 60 critical updates straight away.
Linux — you know it makes sense.
Ignore these linux thugs. They will have you wearing sandles and socks and sporting a pony tail before year end.
Lets write a driver for our power switch !!