Re: XP won't boot, keyboard dead and stripey screen

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Hi Claire,

I find these groups a god-send. As you can obviously tell I'm no whiz on the
hardware (or software for that matter) side of things. Prior to Malke's
comments I was beginning to wonder whether I'd fried my motherboard. It is
nice to still see some egalitarianism online rather than being given a dose
of spyware or something nastier.

I've never tried Linux as it's always looked too complicated, at least in
terms of support for printers, scanners, etc. As someone who is scared of
Dos, Unix is certainly a no go area. Funnily enough though when I was a kid I
really enjoyed playing around with programming...OK, to the extent that I
could send swear words around my screen on a Dragon 32.

Somewhat paradoxically I've always bought into the Microsoft anti-hegemony
stance but at present I don't see Apple doing anything different (I also
cannot stand that ad line "Think Different", who are they trying to kid?).
They've carved themselves a market share and are enjoying their own market
dominance within the iPod market. Given the opportunity for dominance within
the home PC market would they toss it out the windown in the name of
creativity and exclusivity? I think not, hence the Mac mini.

Although I must add, Apple do known how to spot a good idea idea when the
see one, e.g. the GUI ala Xerox Parc and cool interfaces since. Shame they
got rid of Jeff Raskin, how cool could things be now?

However, I'd also be interested to know more about Monsieur Jobs
philanthropic activities as Mr Gates is pumping a lot of money into well
deserved activities. Shame he doesn't have Sir Bob's zeal though as he could
truly change the world for all and not just for us people with water coolers
and PC terminals.

Regarding the Mac vs Pc debate: I love my Mac (especially my un-Tigered G3
ibook). However for the work that I do which varies form Word to heavy duty
video stuff my PC (believe it or not home built!) is eminantly more powerful.
G5's are way too expensive and more expensive to upgrade.

And then there's the Intel conversion.....!

Hopefully more sun on the way soon,

Andy

"Claire McIvor" wrote:

> Malke wrote:
> > Andy wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Malke,
> >>
> >>Let me decree sainthood on you right now. After running the memtest
> >>floppy things are as they should be. Even if things go pear shaped
> >>hereafter I can
> >>still get my valuable data off this machine (i.e. my PhD data!).
> >>You've saved me a lot of work and quite a few quid (I'm from the UK).
> >>
> >>All the best and I'll be sure to pass on the karmic favour to the next
> >>person in need.
> >>
> >>Andy
> >>
> >>P.S. Just in case you are a Microsoft employee (donn't worry your
> >>sainthood still stands), I would like to add that I own a couple of
> >>Apple's. I have never had such good service from them. As we say in
> >>the UK, I owe you a couple of pints.
> >
> >
> > Bless you ;-). Seriously, I think sainthood is Right Out. I'm not a
> > Microsoft employee. Here is a link explaining what an MVP is. Apples
> > are nice, but I prefer Linux (SuSE 9.3). XP is nice, too.
> >
> > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?
> >
> > Back up your data and go have a drink. Since I'm in California, USA I
> > won't be able to join you, but I appreciate the offer.
> >
> > Malke
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm now a Mac user although previously I've used OS/2, Unix, Linux and
> Novell for a vafriety of purposes. I found myself headed for the Mac
> after so many frustrations with Windows although in fairness XP has been
> better than before and Windows 2K wasn't too bad.
> What really surprised me here was finding two guys having a sensible and
> pleasant conversation. I'm in the U.K. too and have actually limited my
> use and input into some of these newsgroups because of the types of
> individual you find there.
> Breath of fresh air you guys.
>
> Claire
>
.

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