Fat, dumb and happy.
Mar. 31st, 2003 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI'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...
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...
