Fat, dumb and happy.

[susandennis]

I'm a software bigot. I get attached to software and if forced to use something else I have no capacity for embracing diversity. I fell in love with DOS 2.11. I tried Windows 3 and went back happily to DOS. I installed Windows 95 and used it when stuff wouldn't run in my DOS but I wasn't happy. I loved WordPerfect although I did get over it. And I love Windows XP. I've had it at home since the day it came out.

But, at work I had to use Windows 2000. It's ok but it's not XP. Today that ended. I've had the XP CD for a couple of weeks but Kenny kept saying that upgrading was a bad idea and I should wipe out my harddrive and since this machine maxes out at 512 of memory, I'd probably be better off not even trying XP. Finally today I just decided screw it.

I slapped the XP CD in and selected upgrade and 51 minutes later I was back in business only this time running with XP. The only thing that didn't translate was a little HP Deskjet that is on the network that I use to make labels. Kenny needs to update the driver there.

During the 51 minutes, the geeks from engineering gathered around to tell me how misguided I was and how upgrading was dumb and running it on 512 was dumb and running beta software (my graphics program and office 2003) was dumb.

So... here I am fat, dumb and happy...

Comments

[estis.livejournal.com]

Only 512MB of RAM? And they don't think that is enough? Geeze.
Just seems like yesterday (1993 actually) when I got my first Mac with an 80MB hard drive and 4 megs of RAM (for $108 I later added 2 megs more...what power lol)

[mindme.livejournal.com]

If I had my way, all would use Mozilla.

oh dear god ...

[henare.livejournal.com]

i run XP on 384MB just fine ... on several platforms.

[suifu.livejournal.com]

hehe - good for you!! :)

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

LOL!!

[kyrielle]

XP will do fine in 512, I could have told them that. 256 might be enough, maybe not. 512 is good. But I would have advised against the upgrade, too. XP handles dll's differently than earlier Windows OS's and the translation effect didn't always work so well - upgrading to XP tends to break some programs (mostly non-Microsoft programs), so you may want to make sure you run everything. That way you'll know soonest if anything needs to be reinstalled.

Congrats on what sounds like a very smooth upgrade, though!

[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

God, you are so dumb!

[idajo.livejournal.com]

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now."

There's a literary tempest in a teapot raging over whether - or not - Goethe penned those words. Regardless, the sentiment expressed applies; bold is beautiful! BRAVA!!

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

I sure don't miss dos anymore. I did at first. I also had a problem using a mouse. I don't anymore and sure would not want to go back.

[minimac.livejournal.com]

...and don't forget..."you know everything"!

[dlanor.livejournal.com]

Way to go. I have not got back to the problem of the other day, maybe later this week.