windows 8.1 question..

Discussion in 'Off Topic International' started by Mcloud, Jul 20, 2014.

  1. hezey

    hezey Well-Known Member

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  2. Red Ant

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    Freeeeeedommmmmmmm!!! :D
     
  3. hezey

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    Mac, did you ever get your MSWindows 8 to do anything ??????

    Well, you used your talents for other things, eh? Like money.
    Good for you.
    No, really, it is good to be able to trip over to The Guggenheim any old time eh?

    Me? I have the Guggenheim in my head [because I had all that time to READ STUFF, while broke. Stuff like, uh, computer operating systems use and uh, (deleted)....].

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    I am interested. I want to see the words, from you:
    Oh, Windows? A cinch, works fine, no problems!
     
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  4. hezey

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    See the numbers?
    RAM is good, and not too expensive, less than Scotch [well, maybe not]
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    Sorry Google's fuckin' Piccassa thing fuzzies pictures.
     
  5. Mcloud

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    Hez, I have these damn things:
    Yo Yo Ma inspired by bach.. all 3 DVDs. they are expensive. Store bought, original Sony things.

    These things, can change your mood, like a drug. They actually go good with hard liquour and a cigarette. (native brand, no fire retardants)

    uhh anyway. I got my computer with the i5 chip and windows 8.1 and I spent a bunch on blank dvds too. I have a stack of them, sitting here, doing nothing...

    know why?

    Because I don't know how to RIP or burn dvd's. I am scared to even try cuz (apparently) once you write to these blank dvd's they cant be unereased or written over. I mean, I can't screw up stuff. wasting dvds.

    I literally Don't know ho to rip or burn a dvd. I will have to go back to the store soon and make a mockery of myself and offer to buy the chinks who assembled this PC 10 bucks to make me copies of my own fuckin dvds, cuz I don't actually know how.

    if you are interested you can go back to find out that I "use" the cyberlink stuff that came with my pc. I refuse to put any more SHIT on my pc..

    One little piece
     
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    I don't know how to use that software. It is yours though, so:
    RTM
     
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    Windows 10 64 bit, evaluation thingie. Installed in a VM [and tonight, on a little hard disk I have].
    I don't have opinions about it yet, seems pretty.
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    Anything majorly different from Windows 8?
     
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    Is fast. And not unattractive.
    NO metro or whatever. Menus windows and start button.

    I am install it in a spare hard drive. It is being run in a VM right now.
     
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    I cannot get past the Blackscreen after hitting ENTER when the Install DVD boots, indicating that the graphics cards are not supported. I could tear out the graphics cards I have in slots, but I don't like to, so I won't.
    SO, for now, the Windows 10 will remain in Virtual Machines....
    Untill there is a NVidia Driver inluded IN the install binary... I won't tolerate having to fiddle with MSWindows installations.

    Remember the fuckin SATA support not in the XP installers?
    I HATED THAT and is one of the reasons I took a six year break from using MSWindows.

    It is a stripped down Testing platform, seems pleasant.
    I love playing around with VirtualBox, two computers I have bought, in-a-row have hardware support for virtual machines, so I really like that - a reason why I bought so much bloody RAM.
    That said, I can play around with this WIN10, and use up 2+GB or memory [+the overhead - it is in a VM] or I can fiddle around with XP in a VM, and use up 192 MB, and it just works fine, no glitches at all, so, I prefer XP Pro as a MSWindows guest OS.
     
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  11. Mcloud

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    Don't mean to go off topic or anything on you guys, but, like I still haven't learned how to rip and burn dvds to my hard drive and to these dvd's that I bought. They are the right dvd's, the long ones that are DL 8.5 gbs.