Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 16:31:39 CST 2012
I made the mistake of installing the trial version of Office 2010 atop my solid 2007 installation. DO NOT DO THIS! If you want to test out this stuff, do so inside a VM and leave your native installation clean and free of the brown-shirt preferences of MS; otherwise suffer numerous reboots to try and return to where you were previous to said installation. Microsoft, you suck! I wasted over three hours today attempting to recover from your inanities. NEVER AGAIN! From now on, every new MS software I install shall be inside a VM that I can blow away in an instant! Thanks for wasting my Sunday, MS! Thanks, thanks, thanks! If only I could bill you for time wasted! Maybe the best response is a class-action suit, and that has possibilities! I'm back to my plan of a month or two back: 1. Never install any version of Windows as the native boot. 2. Install Ubuntu as the native boot, and then install a VM manager (mine happens to be Oracle's VirtualBox). 3. Install every instance of various Windows versions as VMs that I can blow away whenever I wish. I've had it with MS and its rapacious claims on my box. Fork this! From now on, MS, you are destined to be a VM on my boxes, so I can instantly nuke your bad plays. Consider yourself a baseball player this team has decided to trade. See ya! -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. -- Joan Didion