Comment On Blaming XP

"I got this on my Vista machine recently," Jing Zhang writes. "I guess Vista is now blaming XP for failure?" [expand full text]
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Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:24 • by hmm (unregistered)

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:25 • by I don't get it (unregistered)
I don't get it

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:25 • by non - sensical (unregistered)
nonce - sense!

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:27 • by snoofle
So Vista blames XP, implying XP's problems are the fault of NT, implying NT's problems are the fault of 98, implying 98's problems are the fault of 95, implying 95's problems are the fault of 3.1, implying 3.1's problems are the fault of DOS...

Hey, we *KNOW* who wrote DOS. Let's just hunt him down and make him pay!

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:30 • by zokar
Awesome, April Fools is over. No more of this Twitter nonsense.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:31 • by anonym (unregistered)
I blame this comment

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:38 • by MrBester
253136 in reply to 253132
snoofle:
So Vista blames XP, implying XP's problems are the fault of NT, implying NT's problems are the fault of 98, implying 98's problems are the fault of 95, implying 95's problems are the fault of 3.1, implying 3.1's problems are the fault of DOS...

Hey, we *KNOW* who wrote DOS. Let's just hunt him down and make him pay!


NT != 3.11?++

...from my experimental language that allows inline regexes for comparators, extrapolated from x = y = z + 1 (VB). Ternary operators have known bugs atm

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:44 • by Mike-RaWare (unregistered)
253138 in reply to 253133
Twitter nonsense? I blame you for thinking this is a 'serious' Error'd article.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:45 • by Mike-RaWare (unregistered)
253139 in reply to 253138
Mike-RaWare:
Twitter nonsense? I blame you for thinking this is a 'serious' Error'd article.

*facepalm* This was a reaction to this comment.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:51 • by Charles400
So? Call 04786 8E+11 for support help.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:52 • by Gordon (unregistered)
253141 in reply to 253132
snoofle:

Hey, we *KNOW* who wrote DOS. Let's just hunt him down and make him pay!


Well, we really know - it's Tim Paterson from Seattle Computer Products.
Now what will you do?

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 08:55 • by Just Sayin (unregistered)
If it was -196 in Clearwater, don't you think they should have changed the town's name to Solidice?

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:00 • by amischiefr
253145 in reply to 253142
What is wrong with 0478680000000000 as a phone number?

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:00 • by snoofle
253146 in reply to 253141
Gordon:
snoofle:

Hey, we *KNOW* who wrote DOS. Let's just hunt him down and make him pay!


Well, we really know - it's Tim Paterson from Seattle Computer Products.
Now what will you do?

That's precisely the person to whom I was jokingly referring.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:05 • by Warren (unregistered)
Many might argue that SQL Server is redundant, but it tends to consume more power than it supplies.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:07 • by Warren (unregistered)
The dialog box doesn't have scrollbars either. No-one ever cares about dialog boxes.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:21 • by jo-82
Seriously: a defective temperature sensor is not a WTF anymore, its just sad for this kind of electric components that they break so often. ^_^

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:22 • by kastein
It always amuses me when things like that happen with Windows. All it's doing is blindly reading the resource info that says who wrote it and what app it was... I had Windows Explorer get closed to prevent a data execution exploit yesterday. Microsoft rather handily laid all the blame at their own feet.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:23 • by From the Dept. Of Yup (unregistered)
253151 in reply to 253149
jo-82:
Seriously: a defective temperature sensor is not a WTF anymore, its just sad for this kind of electric components that they break so often. ^_^


I've seen so many Temperature based WTF's, whether on the news, weather forecasts or outdoor displays like these that they should all be saved up and made into one giant world map of screwey temperatures, bundled with cited sources and added to wikipedia as proof of climate change.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:26 • by J (unregistered)
This comment does not have scroll bars.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:27 • by Rene (unregistered)
253153 in reply to 253151
From the Dept. Of Yup:
jo-82:
Seriously: a defective temperature sensor is not a WTF anymore, its just sad for this kind of electric components that they break so often. ^_^


I've seen so many Temperature based WTF's, whether on the news, weather forecasts or outdoor displays like these that they should all be saved up and made into one giant world map of screwey temperatures, bundled with cited sources and added to wikipedia as proof of climate change.


That sounds like a great idea. Could be a getting quite a large page so don't forget the scrollbar

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:31 • by whatever (unregistered)
253154 in reply to 253152
J:
This comment does not have scroll bars.


Your mom doesn't have any scroll bars

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:38 • by Jean Dixon (unregistered)
253155 in reply to 253152
J:
This comment does not have scroll bars.


I knew you were going to say that.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:39 • by bannedfromcoding
253156 in reply to 253150
kastein:
It always amuses me when things like that happen with Windows. All it's doing is blindly reading the resource info that says who wrote it and what app it was... I had Windows Explorer get closed to prevent a data execution exploit yesterday. Microsoft rather handily laid all the blame at their own feet.

You'd prefer it to make a special exception for a Microssift app and allow the execution?

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:39 • by Anon (unregistered)
253157 in reply to 253154
whatever:
J:
This comment does not have scroll bars.


Your mom doesn't have any scroll bars


Yo momma's so fat she has horizontal scroll bars!

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:39 • by Just Sayin (unregistered)
253158 in reply to 253154
whatever:
J:
This comment does not have scroll bars.


Your mom doesn't have any scroll bars

Yeah but your mom is so big her scroll bars have scroll bars. Plus, when I double-clicked her, she just gave me a bunch of dialog boxes.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 09:48 • by From the Dept. Of Yup (unregistered)
253159 in reply to 253158
whatever:
J:
This comment does not have scroll bars.


Your mom doesn't have any scroll bars


No, but Octomom has scroll bars.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:00 • by dtech
First one looks like a virus/spyware/other malware to me, trying to disguise itself so the user notices less fast...

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:03 • by suscipere (unregistered)
"I can't help but feel that the dialog box would have been improved by the addition of a "So?' button."

It does, just scroll down and to the right a little bit.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:05 • by Observer (unregistered)
Wow. The quality of the comments is astounding this morning. It's like everyone is still using the twitter style of doing things, and the comments are getting closer to the quality you'd find on YouTube...

Common -- I know we can do better!

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:07 • by suscipere (unregistered)
253163 in reply to 253162
Observer:
Wow. The quality of the comments is astounding this morning. It's like everyone is still using the twitter style of doing things, and the comments are getting closer to the quality you'd find on YouTube...

Common -- I know we can do better!

MY RACE IZ BTTR TN YRS! U R NAZI! I HTZ U N YR KND!!!! HAHAHA LOLCATZ!

(I've not read the commends on YouTube for a while, is that better?)

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:08 • by jonnyq
Was this information helpful?
○ Yes ○ No ◉ LOLWUT?

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:10 • by whatever (unregistered)
253165 in reply to 253163
suscipere:
Observer:
Wow. The quality of the comments is astounding this morning. It's like everyone is still using the twitter style of doing things, and the comments are getting closer to the quality you'd find on YouTube...

Common -- I know we can do better!

MY RACE IZ BTTR TN YRS! U R NAZI! I HTZ U N YR KND!!!! HAHAHA LOLCATZ!

(I've not read the commends on YouTube for a while, is that better?)


Ladies and gents! Welcome to Barrens Chat!

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:12 • by WeatherGuru (unregistered)
253166 in reply to 253151
From the Dept. Of Yup:
jo-82:
Seriously: a defective temperature sensor is not a WTF anymore, its just sad for this kind of electric components that they break so often. ^_^


I've seen so many Temperature based WTF's, whether on the news, weather forecasts or outdoor displays like these that they should all be saved up and made into one giant world map of screwey temperatures, bundled with cited sources and added to wikipedia as proof of climate change.


How would that be any different then the claims for man caused climate currently there? :D

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:15 • by jimlangrunner
253168 in reply to 253133
zokar:
Awesome, April Fools is over. No more of this Twitter nonsense.

Yeah, well at least TDWTF's April Fools was a joke on a non-serious site to begin with. Half the headlines I read yesterday I held in doubt

(Damn. 140 characters already)

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:16 • by jimlangrunner
I blame XP every day.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:18 • by bdew (unregistered)
I've got the scrollbars error once too when calling some totaly unrelated API on windows.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:23 • by Sandor (unregistered)
[At] Jing Zang
I am dying to know if the information was helpful?

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:25 • by The General
253173 in reply to 253157
Anon:
whatever:
J:
This comment does not have scroll bars.


Your mom doesn't have any scroll bars


Yo momma's so fat she has horizontal scroll bars!

FTW

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:27 • by Someone You Know
253174 in reply to 253157
Anon:
whatever:
J:
This comment does not have scroll bars.


Your mom doesn't have any scroll bars


Yo momma's so fat she has horizontal scroll bars!


Yo momma's so fat she sat on a binary tree and turned it into a linked list in constant time!

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:48 • by tekiegreg (unregistered)
For those of us who've been to Clearwater, MN and lived to tell about it, I'm fairly sure that was the real temperature there :-p

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 10:51 • by kastein
253176 in reply to 253156
bannedfromcoding:
kastein:
It always amuses me when things like that happen with Windows. All it's doing is blindly reading the resource info that says who wrote it and what app it was... I had Windows Explorer get closed to prevent a data execution exploit yesterday. Microsoft rather handily laid all the blame at their own feet.

You'd prefer it to make a special exception for a Microssift app and allow the execution?
Nah, it always makes me laugh... I like that. Also, I'd have to guess on this particular one being a result of an XP-to-Vista upgrade install instead of a clean install; one of the XP system files is causing the problem and as a result the version/author tags from that file are "Microsoft Windows XP" as it is a system component.

Note: I have inserted at least one intentional mistake to keep the grammar nazis interested in this thread.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 11:00 • by Professor Jones (unregistered)
253178 in reply to 253147
Warren:
Many might argue that SQL Server is redundant, but it tends to consume more power than it supplies.


Welcome to Thermodynamics 101.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 11:00 • by Anon (unregistered)
253179 in reply to 253174
Someone You Know:
Anon:
whatever:
J:
This comment does not have scroll bars.


Your mom doesn't have any scroll bars


Yo momma's so fat she has horizontal scroll bars!


Yo momma's so fat she sat on a binary tree and turned it into a linked list in constant time!


Yo momma's so fat she got more bandwidth that the local telco

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 11:03 • by nonny nonny (unregistered)
What's the problem, that SQL server costs $12,000 (probably way more than the cost of the Dell)? I suppose you could do it for free with a non-Microsoft solution. Obviously MS wants to take advantage of vendor lock in.

But, it sounds like there's probably some additional hardware too, so it's not like that $12,000 is all going to MS.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 11:18 • by merpius
253182 in reply to 253174
Someone You Know:

Yo momma's so fat she sat on a binary tree and turned it into a linked list in constant time!


I think this is the best example of geek/ghetto fusion I have ever encountered.

I hope you don't mind when I spread this to everyone. If you do, too bad, I'm doing it anyway.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 11:59 • by IT Girl (unregistered)
253194 in reply to 253175
tekiegreg:
For those of us who've been to Clearwater, MN and lived to tell about it, I'm fairly sure that was the real temperature there :-p


Hmmm, I assumed it was Clearwater, FL which would make it quite shocking.

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 12:28 • by For the Horde! (unregistered)
253199 in reply to 253165
whatever:
suscipere:
Observer:
Wow. The quality of the comments is astounding this morning. It's like everyone is still using the twitter style of doing things, and the comments are getting closer to the quality you'd find on YouTube...

Common -- I know we can do better!

MY RACE IZ BTTR TN YRS! U R NAZI! I HTZ U N YR KND!!!! HAHAHA LOLCATZ!

(I've not read the commends on YouTube for a while, is that better?)


Ladies and gents! Welcome to Barrens Chat!


Naah, not enough Chuck Norris facts. But close...

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 12:50 • by operagost
253208 in reply to 253157
Anon:
whatever:
J:
This comment does not have scroll bars.


Your mom doesn't have any scroll bars


Yo momma's so fat she has horizontal scroll bars!

This needs to be a featured post!

Re: Blaming XP

2009-04-02 12:58 • by J. B. Crawford (unregistered)
253212 in reply to 253176
kastein:
bannedfromcoding:
kastein:
It always amuses me when things like that happen with Windows. All it's doing is blindly reading the resource info that says who wrote it and what app it was... I had Windows Explorer get closed to prevent a data execution exploit yesterday. Microsoft rather handily laid all the blame at their own feet.

You'd prefer it to make a special exception for a Microssift app and allow the execution?
Nah, it always makes me laugh... I like that. Also, I'd have to guess on this particular one being a result of an XP-to-Vista upgrade install instead of a clean install; one of the XP system files is causing the problem and as a result the version/author tags from that file are "Microsoft Windows XP" as it is a system component.

Note: I have inserted at least one intentional mistake to keep the grammar nazis interested in this thread.

I actually get that exact same problem report on my computer, and it came OEM with Vista.
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6808/04022009095754.png
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