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"jmfbahciv" <jmfbahciv@aol> wrote in message
news:ginuh211su2@news7.newsguy.com...
> philo wrote:
> > "jmfbahciv" <jmfbahciv@aol> wrote in message
> > news:gilh5b2f50@news1.newsguy.com...
> >> Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
> >>> "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in
> >>> news:WbmdnV8eb4a2HdDUnZ2dnUVZ_gKdnZ2d@ntd.net:
> >>>
> >>>> "Bluuuue Rajah" <Bluuuuue@Rajah.> wrote in message
> >>>> news:Xns9B7AB9C822192fdgdfjhsrtg@207.115.17.102...
> >>>>> Evwere installed.
> >>>>> erybody rightly criticizes Micro$tiff for selling a crappy OS, and
> >>>>> Linux is obviuosly better, if you have the time and the expertise to
> >>>>> use in it, but until this week I didn't understand exaclty why
> >>>>> Windows is such a POS.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When I had to uninstall the Google toolbar because Google installed
> >>>>> an update tht I didn't ask for, which overrode IE5's ctrl-f command,
> >>>>> the reason beame clear.  Windows' install/uninstall method causes
> >>>>> bugs to accumulate, if programs are not ununstalled in precise the
> >>>>> reverse order of which they
> >>>>> The problem is that terrible method of saving old copies of system
> >>>>> files, like .ini files, as backups, to be restored when software is
> >>>>> uninstalled.  So the more apps you uninstall, out of order, the
> >>>>> buggier your system becomes, until you finally have to reinstall the
> >>>>> OS.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Linux apparently doesn't have anything resembling this problem,
which
> >>>>> makes me wonder, how did the Linux designers (Torvald?) handle this
> >>>>> problem, and can we learn anything from their solution to help
> >>>>> minimize the problem with Windows?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Your thoughts?
> >>>> I've been using Linux almost as long as I've been using Windows.
> >>>>
> >>>> Linux is not immune from it's own problems...
> >>>> and unless one is very familiar with Linux...the problems can
> >>>> sometimes be harder to sort out.
> >>>>
> >>>> That said, with a little bit of common sense, Windows should not
> >>>> require a re-install.
> >>>> I run mainly Win2k and XP and they have both been running 99% +
> >>>> trouble free for *many* years.
> >>> You're living in a fantasy world.  Everybody knows that Windows slowly
> >>> accumulates bugs.  They've known almost from day one, when people
> >>> started griping about what a POS it was.
> >> Every OS accumulates bugs.  That's reality, son.
> >>
> >> /BHA
> >
> >
> > Wow...where the hell did you come from...
>
> Massachusetts.
>
> > and when are you going back there?
>
> Never.
>
> >
> > Many years ago you gave me the best insult I have ever gotten...
> > so I honestly respect you for that. <G>
>
> I don't recall.
>
> >
> >
> > I still chuckle about it from time to time.
> >
>
> <grin>  good.
>
> /BAH
>


You don't???

It was a few years back and we had gotten into a huge argument
about something...what ever that was I've long forgotten...however:

You were the one who accused me of *pretending* to be stupid.

I had to assure you that if I made a post that was stupid...
it was for real. <G>