Comments on: Technnoyances

By: Sabriath

Sabriath — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:46:04 +0000

I agree with everything you said except for the problems you are having with win7. I honestly have not come across that error ever (are you using it under admin rights? and have you done a full sweep of the drive for privies? *shrugs*).

Someone has already mentioned it, but the whole “you do not have permission” is a little bit excessive in my opinion. I understand the protection aspects of someone possibly “stealing” someone else’ harddrive and stealing their work, but really? All you have to do is say “take over permission” and bam, you are privied to the data. I got a virus in my old computer and switched it over to this new drive, decided to buy win7 for the upgrade and piggy back the old drive…had to do a full sweep (took half an hour) to privy myself for use, and STILL once in awhile, I get the message on some of the data. O well, it’s only a small price to pay for it.

While I’m at it, there’s actually 1 more area I dislike….mspaint! ARG!! I can’t do pixel art anymore with this version of it, I have to download an older version just for that alone….o well.

By: SoulRed12

SoulRed12 — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:59:57 +0000

I’ve never actually seen the unboxing videos, but the whole idea of watching someone else unwrap an electronic you want kind of reminds me of single guys going online and downloading a bunch of…well, you get the picture. (LOL PUN)

In regards to the networking thing, I can’t really comment because I don’t network with my mac. But it is my primary comp and my favorite OS (running 10.5), at least in regards to that for which I need it. I’ve never had any major problems, whereas windows (all versions, though I haven’t really tried Win7 yet) tends to give me grief at least once a week.

As for the moving files thing, that’s one thing I really like about OSX. In my experience, it’s been quite understanding in that area. Aliases tend to get automatically updated to point to the new locations (as do dock icons), and I can even move files while they’re loaded in a program (like a video in quicktime or a doc file in MSWord), something that would NEVER fly in many cases on windows. I also never (okay, not never, but VERY rarely) get “in use” errors like I always do on Windows when I’m trying to “safely remove” USB drives or external HDs. It’s quite nice.

And LOL at the purposefully misspelled websites thing. I never really thought about it, but they’re starting to bug me now too =p There’s also “pixlr” and “resizr”, two websites for editing and resizing photos. >_<

By: kc lc

kc lc — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:09:34 +0000

Who would think anyone would want to watch that, and who are these people watching them?
– xot

Apparently, it’s you and Fred.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:42:32 +0000

I might have to try that – in the worst case scenarios, I usually end up force-closing Explorer and then deleting everything with the command prompt…

By: xot

xot — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:32:18 +0000

Just came across this utility called Unlocker that seems to free up files so that drives can be removed and files can be moved or deleted. Can’t vouch for the author but it seems to work.

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker

By: SunnyKatt

SunnyKatt — Sat, 15 May 2010 11:06:46 +0000

I’ve never had windows yell at me about moving a file on my computer, but it has on other people’s. I just pop in an ubuntu disk, boot from it, access the hard drive, move all the crap while windows isn’t even “awake”, then take the disk out and boot up again.

This also is wonderful for deleting a virus that tries to prevent you from doing so (even though I haven’t gotten a virus since I switched to windows 7…)

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:27:51 +0000

It’s there now!

By: Dangerous_Dave

Dangerous_Dave — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:19:47 +0000

Where did my…Oh that’s right, WordPress thinks I’m spam if I post a link…

By: Dangerous_Dave

Dangerous_Dave — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:17:57 +0000

I longed for Expose in Windows as well, so I went out and found a program that did it. This is switcher: http://insentient.net/
It seems to work ok. I had to edit the settings a bit to set it up like I have on Mac OS, but I had to edit the Mac OS settings to get it how I wanted as well.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:19:22 +0000

Regarding “the growing number of pointless infographic”, that was more a complaint about the internet… not sure if Windows has any infographics included with it or not!