Windows Eight

[Margaret Pilkington]

I am going to have a look at it when the tinlids go back to school...it is hard to concentrate and follow instructions when a six year old and an eight year old are also trying to press the letters on the keyboard.......that kind of help I don't need.

[Restless]

LOL you certainly don't want a 6 year old touching mouse when you are using USB installer deluxe to copy an OS to USB stick. One wrong click and your copying it over ur C Drive :P

[Margaret Pilkington]

When I am doing that bit of work they will be at home with their Ma and Pa......nowhere near the mouse(please God).

[entwisi]

call me old fashioned but I still like burning a CD of my Linux installs......


Always thought that USB creators under Windows should specifically block C drive unless you jump through at least 4 hoops of pain... there is so little chance of wanting to splat a C drive that its surely better to block it and make those who really know what they are doing jump through a few hoops that have the pain of an accidental wipe of a OS





its part of the ritual dont you know....

A bit like I prefer

a pot of tea with milk in the cup first....

[Restless]

I might just do that

But. Why bother to burn them when you could buy them cheap; good deal too

£5 for this--

x2 Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop Edition CD
x2 Ubuntu 11.10 Server Edition CD
x1 Kubuntu 11.10 Desktop Edition CD

You can give a copy away to somebody for xmas

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by entwisi

call me old fashioned but I still like burning a CD of my Linux installs......


Always thought that USB creators under Windows should specifically block C drive unless you jump through at least 4 hoops of pain... there is so little chance of wanting to splat a C drive that its surely better to block it and make those who really know what they are doing jump through a few hoops that have the pain of an accidental wipe of a OS





its part of the ritual dont you know....

A bit like I prefer

a pot of tea with milk in the cup first....

Now you are making me nervous........

[Restless]

They do block the C drive but there is an option to show all drives-- I suppose they have to do this because the odd drive doesn't show up in there(it did that with me on the 8GB one i have)

[Restless]

No need to be nervous afterall if it went over our C drive vista would be gone. Perhaps then you could put another HDD in your pc and then use the HDD that was already in there as an installer (not sure if that would work...it prob would).

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Now you are making me nervous........

[entwisi]

Margaret, don't panic, it's me being as you would say "of advancing years" I like being old fashioned in so many things. burning a CD to me is how it always was so I'm just like you, I do stuff how I always did it

[Restless]

I was burning CD's till I got the "disc is dirty" message off one of my ubuntu discs(also I have tried that many distros lately-- Burning them all to disc is not an option! lol)

[accyman]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I like 7....hated Vista......I have it on a laptop and I hate using the laptop because Vista is so unfriendly to users.
Don't see me getting Windows 8 anytime soon.

stick win7 on yer lappy in 99.9% of cases anything with vista can take win7

the only time i have not been able to do so was with a fijitsu laptop and that was because fijitsu were stubborn and refused to fix a glitch with the keyboard that occured when you put win7 on their laptop.

by rights anyone with vista should have got a free download of win7 as an appology but hey ho downloading a copy elsewhere and calling it even will have to do

[Restless]

A good video showing how horrific 8 looks

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Restless

A good video showing how horrific 8 looks

I've just got a Dell Inspiron this week with Windows 8, accyman was good enough to set it up for me although I had managed to get on line prior to his visit, at first I though what have I done but after playing about with it and learning more about its capabilities I really like it, all my fans from jaysayism web site will be pleased to hear there is an inbuilt spellchecker which actually corrects any mistakes as your going along a bit like Microsoft Word its also like grease lightening, can recommend it to anyone

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by jaysay

I've just got a Dell Inspiron this week with Windows 8, accyman was good enough to set it up for me although I had managed to get on line prior to his visit, at first I though what have I done but after playing about with it and learning more about its capabilities I really like it, all my fans from jaysayism web site will be pleased to hear there is an inbuilt spellchecker which actually corrects any mistakes as your going along a bit like Microsoft Word its also like grease lightening, can recommend it to anyone

Just a message to mods I've noticed that on two posts this morning, there has been an automatic link inserted in my post, it wasn't done by me, will try and find out if I can stop this in anyway

[maxthecollie]

I know the feeling John. I am slowly getting used to windows 8,although my 7 year old grandchild will teach me this weekend as I think windows 8 is on her I pad