• whatever (unregistered) in reply to Chuck Norris
    Chuck Norris:
    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!

    You called?

    '

    Fuck you Chuck Norris! GTFO and take your fail with you!

  • Mankirk (unregistered) in reply to whatever

    Has anyone seen my wife lately?

  • Confused (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that 3 Mobile lists account extras as 'Lovely Stuff'

  • Smyle (unregistered)

    I submitted a screenshot nearly identical to the Dell one here a couple of months ago, but it didn't get posted.

    OK, I'll quit whining now.

  • (cs) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    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.
    Whatever. Kudos to both of you.

    Although I can't help but feel that the world we live in would be a better place if Paterson had just eighty-sixed the sodding thing.

  • (cs)

    Vista has lots of problems and strange error messages, and it gets worse with every system update.

    Ever since the latest update, I can't shut down normally anymore. Vista gives me an error saying that it can't shut down properly, because the Task Scheduler is executing shutdown tasks.

    (screenshot)

    And this isn't a one-off, I get this every time.

  • (cs) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    Vista has lots of problems and strange error messages, and it gets worse with every system update.

    Ever since the latest update, I can't shut down normally anymore. Vista gives me an error saying that it can't shut down properly, because the Task Scheduler is executing shutdown tasks.

    (screenshot)

    And this isn't a one-off, I get this every time.

    Of course it's not a one-off, it's a turning-off!

    Also, my install of Vista has yet to give me any problems other than Creative's lack of drivers. PEBKAC?

  • (cs) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    Vista has lots of problems and strange error messages, and it gets worse with every system update.

    Ever since the latest update, I can't shut down normally anymore. Vista gives me an error saying that it can't shut down properly, because the Task Scheduler is executing shutdown tasks.

    (screenshot)

    And this isn't a one-off, I get this every time.

    Reminds me of the suicidal MS Office installer.
  • MarkKelly (unregistered) in reply to Mankirk
    Mankirk:
    Has anyone seen my wife lately?

    Yes. From orbit.

  • (cs) in reply to Sutherlands
    Sutherlands:
    Also, my install of Vista has yet to give me any problems other than Creative's lack of drivers. PEBKAC?
    I have been using computers for many decades, and have seen many flavours of Windows, and I can speak from experience when I say Windows Vista exceeds even Windows ME in its shittiness!

    Bu the way, I usually boot up in Linux. Linux works fine. it's just that Vista came preinstalled, and I've been trying to give it the benefit of the doubt.

  • (cs) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    What is wrong with 0478680000000000 as a phone number?
    Maybe using "number format" for telephone numbers in Excel? I even know someone who was fighting with this "dissapearing calls" problem in inter-telco reports.
  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    Sutherlands:
    Also, my install of Vista has yet to give me any problems other than Creative's lack of drivers. PEBKAC?
    I have been using computers for many decades, and have seen many flavours of Windows, and I can speak from experience when I say Windows Vista exceeds even Windows ME in its shittiness!

    Bu the way, I usually boot up in Linux. Linux works fine. it's just that Vista came preinstalled, and I've been trying to give it the benefit of the doubt.

    Your experience with Vista != everybody else's

    Personally, I've had no problems with Vista.

  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to Smyle
    Smyle:
    I submitted a screenshot nearly identical to the Dell one here a couple of months ago, but it didn't get posted.

    OK, I'll quit whining now.

    TDWTF all a scam! They never send out any stickers! They just take people's posts, wait a month or two, photoshop them a little, then claim they came from someone else.
  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Pim:
    Sutherlands:
    Also, my install of Vista has yet to give me any problems other than Creative's lack of drivers. PEBKAC?
    I have been using computers for many decades, and have seen many flavours of Windows, and I can speak from experience when I say Windows Vista exceeds even Windows ME in its shittiness!

    Bu the way, I usually boot up in Linux. Linux works fine. it's just that Vista came preinstalled, and I've been trying to give it the benefit of the doubt.

    Your experience with Vista != everybody else's

    Personally, I've had no problems with Vista.

    Just a guess: might this be why you're not registered, and you sign in as Anon?

    No matter. We know where you live (thanks, Google!), and we can track you down and beat some sense into your silly ignorant little head without mercy.

    Unless Microsoft gets there first, of course.

  • (cs) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    ...and we can track you down and beat some sense into your silly ignorant little head without mercy.
    Is that the god with the foreskin obsession? The one that gave instructions on how to sell your daughter into slavery?
  • (cs) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    pink_fairy:
    ...and we can track you down and beat some sense into your silly ignorant little head without mercy.
    Is that the god with the foreskin obsession? The one that gave instructions on how to sell your daughter into slavery?
    Well, I chose the shortest fucking psalm I could, what with having to look "Mercy" up on Google (" Results 1 - 10 of about 45,300,000 for mercy"). But thank you for clicking.

    Your foreskin may vary. And, re daughters and slavery (which is a partial interpretation), what is this obsession with American mothers mutilating their male children's penises for no obvious reason? Do they love y'all, or is this just an early introduction to the idea that "Life sucks"?

    (BTW, if life does indeed suck, then you get a lot more out of it when you're still the master of your own foreskin.)

  • (cs)

    THIS IS NOT THE FIRST POST

  • Real-modo (unregistered)

    Two non-failing copies of Vista in the world... unless Anon === Sutherland.

    Wow.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:

    Your experience with Vista != everybody else's

    Personally, I've had no problems with Vista.

    Your experience with Vista != everybody else's

  • blamer (unregistered) in reply to snoofle

    Windows NT is not based on Windows 98 btw. Windows NT was released before Windows98...

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    Anon:
    Pim:
    Sutherlands:
    Also, my install of Vista has yet to give me any problems other than Creative's lack of drivers. PEBKAC?
    I have been using computers for many decades, and have seen many flavours of Windows, and I can speak from experience when I say Windows Vista exceeds even Windows ME in its shittiness!

    Bu the way, I usually boot up in Linux. Linux works fine. it's just that Vista came preinstalled, and I've been trying to give it the benefit of the doubt.

    Your experience with Vista != everybody else's

    Personally, I've had no problems with Vista.

    Just a guess: might this be why you're not registered, and you sign in as Anon?

    No matter. We know where you live (thanks, Google!), and we can track you down and beat some sense into your silly ignorant little head without mercy.

    Unless Microsoft gets there first, of course.

    Wow! Fuck you!

  • midnightmotion (unregistered)

    Hmm, I'm kind of surprised nobody noticed the read WTF with the phone number? Well, here we go than:

    The real WTF is you have a Nokia 6600.

    :-|

  • BBT (unregistered)

    Your momma so fat every time she walks she causes a segmentation fault.

    Your momma so fat the recursive function computing her weight causes a stack overflow.

  • nogo (unregistered) in reply to J. B. Crawford
    J. B. Crawford:
    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
    So, it's a feature?
  • Bill Gates (unregistered)

    The above spam should be blamed on XP, Vista has nothing to do with this.

  • Bonker (unregistered) in reply to Bill Gates

    The cryptic dialogues and baffling errors in XNews make a little more sense when you realize it was a (HUGE!) one-man project written entirely in Delphi.

    I say 'Was' because the author, Luu Tran, doesn't seem to be actively maintaining it any more. It's still one of the best apps available for dedicated nntp surfing and binary downloading. Despite nntp's decline in the face of modern file sharing and Google Groups, the newer newsreader apps still don't work quite as well.

  • schnizzle (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    Yo momma's so fat her horizontal scroll bars have horizontal scroll bars!

  • schnizzle (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    nizzle:
    schnizzle:
    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 her horizontal scroll bars have horizontal scroll bars!

    Yo momma's so fat her horizontal scroll bars have horizontal scroll bars that have stretch marks!

  • johnny jones (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    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

    this is sooo gd whack!!! my mom does have scroll bars

  • (cs)

    The -196 is not a WTF but advertisement.

  • (cs)

    This is now my homepage: http://wer.microsoft.com/responses/Response.aspx/95/en-us/5.1.2600.2.00010100.3.0?SGD=53f06881-097b-436b-bede-420623ad034f

    It only appears when I open a new FF window, and I don't do that often, so it's a nice little bit of fun. :P

    There are other permutations available too.

    BTW, it seems that if you edit any wer.m$.com URL to drop the "?SGD=..." the "Was this information helpful?" stuff disappears. O.o

    -dav7

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