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enhzflep wrote: WINE is becoming good enough these days
It has been for centuries! I personally enjoy few glasses of a nice Cabernet Shiraz...
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I'm surprised it took this long for someone to come at the recursive backronym from this angle. Fun.
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Sounds like a win-win to me!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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OriginalGriff wrote:
FORMAT C:
I know, I know, and this will come back to bite me, I'm sure.
I need the machine up and running yesterday, though, so I'm taking a chance.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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- Make a backup of the entire disk
- Clean install your O/S of choice and any desired applications (including the backup utility)
- Restore any data required from the backup
- Profit!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I always buy a copy of windows to install onto a new laptop. Their pre-installed windows is usually polluted with crap that doesn't work all the way. I understand the reason they (the laptop manufacturers) do it, but they should also provide a restore point that allows you to eliminate the crap-ware in one fell swoop instead of forcing you to either a) delete each crap-ware package one at a time, or b) force you to do it the way I do it - with an unfettered copy of Windows (which takes a LOT less time).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Somewhere Mr. Norton is tied up and duct taped with only the muffled "Let me go! - who are you people"
audible from him.
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Norton was gold back in the day.
The Peter Norton assembly language book and "programmers reference" were just awesome.
Seems like nothings that damn good anymore.
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Chris Maunder wrote: It says "Get layered protection You know, when the rest of the world says this... it means something totally different.
Jeremy Falcon
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For Chris it means he's going out for a long bike ride in -10°C temperatures.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I think about -4C was my coldest this season. I am getting soft in my old age.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Same here. I haven't run outside in over a month, for largely the same reason.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I can't believe it took 13hrs for someone to make that joke.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Better late than never.
Jeremy Falcon
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Some years ago (XP days?) I had a Norton infestation. They actually had one good and useful (free) product. A "remove everything Norton" tool. No idea if it's still there, but it might be worth a look.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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There was a time when Norton was good and loved by all. Norton Commander anyone? It could be removed simply with del *.*
Ok there were some people that used xTree Gold but we don't talk about them.
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When I buy a new machine like this, I blow out everything and start fresh with a clean install of the OS, then take it from there.
IMHO, you are wasting your time trying to delete from the machine what you don't want; some of which, will never leave.
Just a thought.
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I just gave up on trying to be Mr Nice Guy.
Blowing away partition and starting from scratch.
Why does this have to be so painful?
(and as a Windows user I have to say: Apple does this WAY, way better)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Why does this have to be so painful?
I often ask myself the same question, and I often get no answers.
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That was when he was an elite programmer/writer/teacher. Now he's a rich company owner, what did you expect? Also, I bet he's not remotely involved in the software design/functionality - probably spends most of his time in his beach mansion on some fancy pacific island.
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Peter hasn't been involved with Norton Utilities for aeons. Unfortunately.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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They'll say the same about you too soon I'd imagine.
Remember Chris Maunder, the Aussie MFC hacker who wrote all those neat controls. Well, now he's a fat middle aged beer drinker living in Canada
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Hey - I didn't call Peter fat! (But if being fat and drinking beer is what's needed to be as successful as he is, where do I sign?)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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