Bye Bye XP?
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Still, the German guys at Cleverbridge in Brabanter Str Köln are doing a good job, as are the ones at The Documentation Foundation, Kaufbeuren.
Each one of them knows that complex software inside out, left to right, upside down and absolutely love a good problem to chew on which they take ownership of and will ruthlessly see through until the problem is fixed. Of course they speak absolutely spotless fluent English too ! Truly some of the best vendor support I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
It was with a heavy heart I shut down my friend, Windows XP, last night, for the last time. A bit like a funeral; we'd done so much together, had a few trials along the way but overall, rock solid with no complaints.
So now I'm off on a PITA "adventure"; where's this, where's that, how do I do this, how are my elderly friends going to cope...
Apart from getting full access to my 3tb data drive, nothing's new (OK, I accept there may be some under-the-hood stuff which needed updating) so to the nerds who like re-arranging the interface every couple of years to look nice n pretty...thanks for nothing!
So now I'm off on a PITA "adventure"; where's this, where's that, how do I do this, how are my elderly friends going to cope...
Apart from getting full access to my 3tb data drive, nothing's new (OK, I accept there may be some under-the-hood stuff which needed updating) so to the nerds who like re-arranging the interface every couple of years to look nice n pretty...thanks for nothing!
Well the nightly news got my wife's attention regarding the demise of XP. Of course the first question was what's XP
After explaining to her that it was what makes her computers work, she then asked what she should do about it. Simple I told her we could just replace the whole box with a new-use computer that doesn't run on XP.
She immediately replied why don't you
I advised her that she would then lose all those programs she had come to love along with all her imbedded passwords since she could never remember where she got the program from or even what her password was at the time.
She decided to keep her old computer and ignore the warning.
After explaining to her that it was what makes her computers work, she then asked what she should do about it. Simple I told her we could just replace the whole box with a new-use computer that doesn't run on XP.
She immediately replied why don't you
I advised her that she would then lose all those programs she had come to love along with all her imbedded passwords since she could never remember where she got the program from or even what her password was at the time.
She decided to keep her old computer and ignore the warning.
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Well - I've just done the last XP updates so, presumably, that will last for a month. I have now managed to get a new hard drive installed in my main machine with a working, fully updated copy of XP on it and the Linux Ubuntu or maybe Linux Mint disc is just waiting to go in. If it all goes pear shaped then the old hard drive goes back and the opinion on the block seems to be to shell out for Win 7 until Microshaft issue an OS which everybody likes - er like DOS 6.22!.
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I advised her that she would then lose all those programs she had come to love along with all her imbedded passwords since she could never remember where she got the program from or even what her password was at the time.
I'm sure if you wanted to you could have migrated your wife over to Windows 7/8 without much effort.
I'm sure if you wanted to you could have migrated your wife over to Windows 7/8 without much effort.
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Only a single man could make such a statement
Only a single man could make the stupid statement you have.
I really truly am done with this thread now.
OK, I apologise. It was an error of judgement and a total loss of SA.
I had come straight from Jet Blast where flippant off the cuff remarks are more or less SOP. I moved to this Board and failed to flick the switch. I had briefly forgotten that this is a very serious thread and any attempt at humor will not be well received. Again, I'm sorry. It won't happen again.
And just for the record - married 45+ years - to the same girl (and I'm still trying to get he to check her own email).
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I had come straight from Jet Blast where flippant off the cuff remarks are more or less SOP. I moved to this Board and failed to flick the switch. I had briefly forgotten that this is a very serious thread and any attempt at humor will not be well received. Again, I'm sorry. It won't happen again.
And just for the record - married 45+ years - to the same girl (and I'm still trying to get he to check her own email).
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its an attribute of certain techy admin types Full.
It can get quite amusing sometimes when things don't quite go the way they should with them.
Its actually a big difference between Connys and perms.
As a conny you get over ruled with something which is blatantly stupid, and you just shrug your shoulders and move on with the knowledge that its not going to be your problem or if it does you will make a tidy sum sorting it out.
The joy of submitting your invoice at the end of the month and thinking
"h'mm that's 25 billing days, 15 mins per day sat on the throne squeezing one out. That will be over 6 hours and 300 quid, they want it they can have it"
And that can be XP or some dodgy ****e subnet setup and even that device of Satan an exchange server. But I did threaten to walk out when they said they were getting a Mac server on my Unix server subnet until I had seen that we had a decent cisco router coming in and I could gag the bastard into solitary confinement with its own line to the backup robot tape drive.
But some of the permys get their knickers in a right twist over things. Sometimes months after an "argument" it will be brought up even after the whole setup had been evicted from the enterprise. There are some conny's like that as well but they are really not very happy individuals and suffer from permanent failure of contract renewals.
It can get quite amusing sometimes when things don't quite go the way they should with them.
Its actually a big difference between Connys and perms.
As a conny you get over ruled with something which is blatantly stupid, and you just shrug your shoulders and move on with the knowledge that its not going to be your problem or if it does you will make a tidy sum sorting it out.
The joy of submitting your invoice at the end of the month and thinking
"h'mm that's 25 billing days, 15 mins per day sat on the throne squeezing one out. That will be over 6 hours and 300 quid, they want it they can have it"
And that can be XP or some dodgy ****e subnet setup and even that device of Satan an exchange server. But I did threaten to walk out when they said they were getting a Mac server on my Unix server subnet until I had seen that we had a decent cisco router coming in and I could gag the bastard into solitary confinement with its own line to the backup robot tape drive.
But some of the permys get their knickers in a right twist over things. Sometimes months after an "argument" it will be brought up even after the whole setup had been evicted from the enterprise. There are some conny's like that as well but they are really not very happy individuals and suffer from permanent failure of contract renewals.
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I even had it on my CV for my last 2 jobs as a conny.
"No knowledge what's so ever about exchange server, any mention of it by references is a complete lie"
It was asked about in interview. Only thing was the last job I ended up in for years outlasting quite a few perms. And I did end up having to fix the bloody thing though when the raid went tits up and the ickle button clickers managed to screw up pressing a button waiting for a light to stop flashing and going green. Then pulling a drive pressing another button pressing the button again and then leaving it completely alone until its happy.
That was 18 hours billable.
Thankfully the sparc2 with 1Gb of ram and a 500mb local disk was configurable in 10 seconds with a pre-prepared script to take the load and only 6 hours worth had been lost. Which I sorted for the next time by buffering 24hours to the exchange server in the future. It did happen again after I had left.
When met up with mates from that contract 4 years later they had dumped exchange. And apparently my sparc2 was still going strong. With its lead weighted keyboard, laser mouse on a mirror grid. Those Keyboards were something else you could bang nails into walls with them. It might even be still working 14 years on as I had soldered in a paper clip instead of the slow blow fuse in the power pack.
"No knowledge what's so ever about exchange server, any mention of it by references is a complete lie"
It was asked about in interview. Only thing was the last job I ended up in for years outlasting quite a few perms. And I did end up having to fix the bloody thing though when the raid went tits up and the ickle button clickers managed to screw up pressing a button waiting for a light to stop flashing and going green. Then pulling a drive pressing another button pressing the button again and then leaving it completely alone until its happy.
That was 18 hours billable.
Thankfully the sparc2 with 1Gb of ram and a 500mb local disk was configurable in 10 seconds with a pre-prepared script to take the load and only 6 hours worth had been lost. Which I sorted for the next time by buffering 24hours to the exchange server in the future. It did happen again after I had left.
When met up with mates from that contract 4 years later they had dumped exchange. And apparently my sparc2 was still going strong. With its lead weighted keyboard, laser mouse on a mirror grid. Those Keyboards were something else you could bang nails into walls with them. It might even be still working 14 years on as I had soldered in a paper clip instead of the slow blow fuse in the power pack.
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Moving XP programs to win7
Hi all,
Is it possible to move programs I have on Xp to Win7 such as all the Oxford cbt stuff I own, RANT XL, Bristol GS course etc.
If it's going to be impossible can anyone suggest the best way to run a dual system whereby I don't allow XP to connect to the internet. Is it best to get a new HD to install internally or just install win7 to the same internal HD as XP.
There is a lot mentioned in ealier posts but if one can skip the IT jargon that would be super. Also happy to be recommended to a decent site for a tutorial if it's to complex.
Thank you.
Is it possible to move programs I have on Xp to Win7 such as all the Oxford cbt stuff I own, RANT XL, Bristol GS course etc.
If it's going to be impossible can anyone suggest the best way to run a dual system whereby I don't allow XP to connect to the internet. Is it best to get a new HD to install internally or just install win7 to the same internal HD as XP.
There is a lot mentioned in ealier posts but if one can skip the IT jargon that would be super. Also happy to be recommended to a decent site for a tutorial if it's to complex.
Thank you.
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Its a bit of pain to be honest. What size is your current disk?
You can't just move the programs you have to reinstall them again.
If you still have all the disks etc it won't be to bad.
You can't just move the programs you have to reinstall them again.
If you still have all the disks etc it won't be to bad.
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Mad jock
Thanks for the feedback.
I have 50 gb left out of 120 gb but I can move loads of stuff to an external that I've got. Can't really re-install as Ive got to provide unlock keys again.
I think I'll run two systems MJ. Any gotchas?
Cheers
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Thanks for the feedback.
I have 50 gb left out of 120 gb but I can move loads of stuff to an external that I've got. Can't really re-install as Ive got to provide unlock keys again.
I think I'll run two systems MJ. Any gotchas?
Cheers
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get a new large disk for internal and clone the current disk onto it.
How to Clone a Hard Disk | eHow
Then install a copy of win 7 on as a dual boot.
Then go into XP and disable the network.
its pretty easy to be honest.
How to Clone a Hard Disk | eHow
Then install a copy of win 7 on as a dual boot.
Then go into XP and disable the network.
its pretty easy to be honest.
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Your going to run out of space very quickly if your running two OS's and wanting to install programs in win7 as well.
Better to bite the bullet and get a bigger disk before you put all the effort in moving everything.
Better to bite the bullet and get a bigger disk before you put all the effort in moving everything.
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Get a new hard disk (makes life easier), install Win7 on it, and install something like VirtualBox or other virtual server software, then follow the relevant instructions to either set up a VM using the old hard disk or clone it as a virtual disk image. This method leaves your XP data intact.
That lets you run XP stuff at the same time as Win7. You can set up the networking for the XP side so it can't see the outside world too. You can use your stuff on XP until you get around to installing and configuring it on the Win7 machine. It's possible to set up folders on the Win7 machine that appear as shared drives on the XP machine so moving data between them is relatively easy if you want to copy application data across.
That lets you run XP stuff at the same time as Win7. You can set up the networking for the XP side so it can't see the outside world too. You can use your stuff on XP until you get around to installing and configuring it on the Win7 machine. It's possible to set up folders on the Win7 machine that appear as shared drives on the XP machine so moving data between them is relatively easy if you want to copy application data across.