It's getting close to the end of the year, and I need to spend some office money or else give it to the gooberment in April, so I decided to buy myself a new desktop and laptop.
Well, I'm getting more and more aggrivated with SP2. It seems noting wants to work right and that confarnded firewall in it is driving me nuts. I use a wireless network in the office. I know it's not 100% safe, but really, there's not much I'm worried about being stolen that way. At any rate, the dip darn firewall on the laptop won't let me connect to the network printer that is hardwired to the router.
It says printing is a security violation.
The desktop is another aggrivating sole. Hewlett Packard has put enough spyware, advertising bots, pop up programs and more crap that a computer could catch wide open on the internet over the next 5 years. In addition, XP says the D-link wireless card I put in it hasn't passed the Microsoft scam artist test yet and shouldn't be trusted. It's already locked up once because of the w-lan card. :
The HP machine doesn't like the fact that I don't want AOL, MSN or whatever internet service it's pushing and doesn't want me to connect to the internet via the LAN card.
On the right side of the screen, I have this doohickey thing that says "Organize" which to me looks like an excuse to put about 25 things in the start menu that is no doubt the cause for the computer taking 5 minutes to boot.
I know what the solution is, I just don't see why I have to buy a new computer with Windows XP included, then go out and buy a clean Windows XP disk with no garbage attatched to it, buy a spare mouse because they won't sell the $89.99 version unless you buy a piece of hardware, all so I can fix my brand new gosheens.
Would someone please come up with a version of Linux that will readily accept such things as printers, cameras, and other necessary devices so we can quit putting up with the garbage put out by Microsoft.
Skipper
Well, I'm getting more and more aggrivated with SP2. It seems noting wants to work right and that confarnded firewall in it is driving me nuts. I use a wireless network in the office. I know it's not 100% safe, but really, there's not much I'm worried about being stolen that way. At any rate, the dip darn firewall on the laptop won't let me connect to the network printer that is hardwired to the router.
It says printing is a security violation.The desktop is another aggrivating sole. Hewlett Packard has put enough spyware, advertising bots, pop up programs and more crap that a computer could catch wide open on the internet over the next 5 years. In addition, XP says the D-link wireless card I put in it hasn't passed the Microsoft scam artist test yet and shouldn't be trusted. It's already locked up once because of the w-lan card. :
The HP machine doesn't like the fact that I don't want AOL, MSN or whatever internet service it's pushing and doesn't want me to connect to the internet via the LAN card. On the right side of the screen, I have this doohickey thing that says "Organize" which to me looks like an excuse to put about 25 things in the start menu that is no doubt the cause for the computer taking 5 minutes to boot.I know what the solution is, I just don't see why I have to buy a new computer with Windows XP included, then go out and buy a clean Windows XP disk with no garbage attatched to it, buy a spare mouse because they won't sell the $89.99 version unless you buy a piece of hardware, all so I can fix my brand new gosheens.
Would someone please come up with a version of Linux that will readily accept such things as printers, cameras, and other necessary devices so we can quit putting up with the garbage put out by Microsoft.
Skipper
