wrap yourself up

[Listener]

It takes an inordinately-long amount of time to make a new computer like your old one -- to wrap it around yourself, as it were.  Has anyone else noticed that?

I swapped out my old work computer for a new one yesterday, so I could have MS Office (the new one had it, the old one didn't; it had *barf* OpenOffice).  It took about three hours from start to finish to back up my files and settings, clear personal and incriminating info off the old work computer, load all my programs and files and settings on my new work computer, and reset all my Firefox, AIM, and Outlook Express preferences.  I still haven't finished the Start menu yet, either.

At least I have a thumbdrive.  It'd be a bitch to put all that stuff on 300 floppy disks.

[ReBurn]

That sucks at home.  At work it isn't so bad because we work in Virtual PC development environments, so I just plug my external drive into whatever box they drop on my desk and there's no change.  I have very little software loaded on my actual PC.  It's all on the VPC image.

[Bennyhana]

It takes an inordinately-long amount of time to make a new computer like your old one -- to wrap it around yourself, as it were.  Has anyone else noticed that?

I swapped out my old work computer for a new one yesterday, so I could have MS Office (the new one had it, the old one didn't; it had *barf* OpenOffice).  It took about three hours from start to finish to back up my files and settings, clear personal and incriminating info off the old work computer, load all my programs and files and settings on my new work computer, and reset all my Firefox, AIM, and Outlook Express preferences.  I still haven't finished the Start menu yet, either.

At least I have a thumbdrive.  It'd be a bitch to put all that stuff on 300 floppy disks.

First of all, other than taking awhile to start up on slow machines, what is wrong with openoffice?

Second, It is indeed annoying to do all of the resetting of things, but I still do it probably once or twice  a year because I'm always finding things I can get rid of to speed things up, or new settings that make things work even better for me.  It can be somewhat cathartic.  I have all my home PC's partitioned so that I can reformat the C: partition and still have all of my data intact. 

[Gamplayerx]

I hate to get a new computer at work.  It takes me around 6 months to finally get everything back on.

[nishi]

It takes an inordinately-long amount of time to make a new computer like your old one -- to wrap it around yourself, as it were.  Has anyone else noticed that?

First of all, other than taking awhile to start up on slow machines, what is wrong with openoffice?

well, it's not actually "take awhile" on slow machines. it's "takes an unbelievable amount of time", and i've also had difficulties opening open office documents when i'm not on that same machine. it's also a very aggressive piece of software, in terms of what you have to do to back out of using it - it really doesn't like giving documents up to other default options - and i HATE the way it supplies words for me in the word processing application, and i've never been able to figure out how to turn it off.

i love open source. even on a more powerful machine - i've run it on another machine besides this creaky destop - i'm not much of a fan of open office.

[Listener]

It takes an inordinately-long amount of time to make a new computer like your old one -- to wrap it around yourself, as it were.  Has anyone else noticed that?

First of all, other than taking awhile to start up on slow machines, what is wrong with openoffice?

well, it's not actually "take awhile" on slow machines. it's "takes an unbelievable amount of time", and i've also had difficulties opening open office documents when i'm not on that same machine. it's also a very aggressive piece of software, in terms of what you have to do to back out of using it - it really doesn't like giving documents up to other default options - and i HATE the way it supplies words for me in the word processing application, and i've never been able to figure out how to turn it off.

i love open source. even on a more powerful machine - i've run it on another machine besides this creaky destop - i'm not much of a fan of open office.

ABOMINALLY SLOW to load.  And the autocorrect feature is nigh-impossible to turn off. 

I prefer Corel Office, but I'll use MS Office if there's nothing better.

[nishi]

It takes an inordinately-long amount of time to make a new computer like your old one -- to wrap it around yourself, as it were.  Has anyone else noticed that?

First of all, other than taking awhile to start up on slow machines, what is wrong with openoffice?

well, it's not actually "take awhile" on slow machines. it's "takes an unbelievable amount of time", and i've also had difficulties opening open office documents when i'm not on that same machine. it's also a very aggressive piece of software, in terms of what you have to do to back out of using it - it really doesn't like giving documents up to other default options - and i HATE the way it supplies words for me in the word processing application, and i've never been able to figure out how to turn it off.

i love open source. even on a more powerful machine - i've run it on another machine besides this creaky destop - i'm not much of a fan of open office.

ABOMINALLY SLOW to load.  And the autocorrect feature is nigh-impossible to turn off. 

I prefer Corel Office, but I'll use MS Office if there's nothing better.

what the hell is with that auto-correct? that thing drives me batshit insane - it was the final deal breaker for me with open office. when i have to spend more time un-doing the auto-correct than i do typing, that's it.

[Listener]

It takes an inordinately-long amount of time to make a new computer like your old one -- to wrap it around yourself, as it were.  Has anyone else noticed that?

First of all, other than taking awhile to start up on slow machines, what is wrong with openoffice?

well, it's not actually "take awhile" on slow machines. it's "takes an unbelievable amount of time", and i've also had difficulties opening open office documents when i'm not on that same machine. it's also a very aggressive piece of software, in terms of what you have to do to back out of using it - it really doesn't like giving documents up to other default options - and i HATE the way it supplies words for me in the word processing application, and i've never been able to figure out how to turn it off.

i love open source. even on a more powerful machine - i've run it on another machine besides this creaky destop - i'm not much of a fan of open office.

ABOMINALLY SLOW to load.  And the autocorrect feature is nigh-impossible to turn off. 

I prefer Corel Office, but I'll use MS Office if there's nothing better.

what the hell is with that auto-correct? that thing drives me batshit insane - it was the final deal breaker for me with open office. when i have to spend more time un-doing the auto-correct than i do typing, that's it.

It kills me when I'm trying to put times in... you can't put 2:00pm because it autocorrects to 02:00:00pm and screws up your tables.  You have to put 2:00p.  I always forget.

[nishi]

It takes an inordinately-long amount of time to make a new computer like your old one -- to wrap it around yourself, as it were.  Has anyone else noticed that?

First of all, other than taking awhile to start up on slow machines, what is wrong with openoffice?

well, it's not actually "take awhile" on slow machines. it's "takes an unbelievable amount of time", and i've also had difficulties opening open office documents when i'm not on that same machine. it's also a very aggressive piece of software, in terms of what you have to do to back out of using it - it really doesn't like giving documents up to other default options - and i HATE the way it supplies words for me in the word processing application, and i've never been able to figure out how to turn it off.

i love open source. even on a more powerful machine - i've run it on another machine besides this creaky destop - i'm not much of a fan of open office.

ABOMINALLY SLOW to load.  And the autocorrect feature is nigh-impossible to turn off. 

I prefer Corel Office, but I'll use MS Office if there's nothing better.

what the hell is with that auto-correct? that thing drives me batshit insane - it was the final deal breaker for me with open office. when i have to spend more time un-doing the auto-correct than i do typing, that's it.

It kills me when I'm trying to put times in... you can't put 2:00pm because it autocorrects to 02:00:00pm and screws up your tables.  You have to put 2:00p.  I always forget.

you already know more than me - i type something, it types something else, and i scream and backspace until the thing i do not want goes away. it seems totally random to me and i want it killed. who likes that? and why? i have no context for when something like that would be useful.

[swolt]

It takes an inordinately-long amount of time to make a new computer like your old one -- to wrap it around yourself, as it were.  Has anyone else noticed that?

I swapped out my old work computer for a new one yesterday, so I could have MS Office (the new one had it, the old one didn't; it had *barf* OpenOffice).  It took about three hours from start to finish to back up my files and settings, clear personal and incriminating info off the old work computer, load all my programs and files and settings on my new work computer, and reset all my Firefox, AIM, and Outlook Express preferences.  I still haven't finished the Start menu yet, either.

At least I have a thumbdrive.  It'd be a bitch to put all that stuff on 300 floppy disks.

First of all, other than taking awhile to start up on slow machines, what is wrong with openoffice?

Second, It is indeed annoying to do all of the resetting of things, but I still do it probably once or twice  a year because I'm always finding things I can get rid of to speed things up, or new settings that make things work even better for me.  It can be somewhat cathartic.  I have all my home PC's partitioned so that I can reformat the C: partition and still have all of my data intact. 

none of the Excel files I have work right with OpenOffice. We used to install it on users PCs but we quit because so many people were getting confused with the interface.

I tend to format about once every 2 months so I have everything set so I can get back up and running pretty fast. Reinstalling WoW is the only real bitch. All my files and settings are stored on my website and I can restore in less than half an hour.
I download and infect myself with all the new viruses and spyware to see if I can get them off, hence the formatting so often.

[BigDun]

It takes an inordinately-long amount of time to make a new computer like your old one -- to wrap it around yourself, as it were.  Has anyone else noticed that?

I swapped out my old work computer for a new one yesterday, so I could have MS Office (the new one had it, the old one didn't; it had *barf* OpenOffice).  It took about three hours from start to finish to back up my files and settings, clear personal and incriminating info off the old work computer, load all my programs and files and settings on my new work computer, and reset all my Firefox, AIM, and Outlook Express preferences.  I still haven't finished the Start menu yet, either.

At least I have a thumbdrive.  It'd be a bitch to put all that stuff on 300 floppy disks.

First of all, other than taking awhile to start up on slow machines, what is wrong with openoffice?

Second, It is indeed annoying to do all of the resetting of things, but I still do it probably once or twice  a year because I'm always finding things I can get rid of to speed things up, or new settings that make things work even better for me.  It can be somewhat cathartic.  I have all my home PC's partitioned so that I can reformat the C: partition and still have all of my data intact. 

none of the Excel files I have work right with OpenOffice. We used to install it on users PCs but we quit because so many people were getting confused with the interface.

I tend to format about once every 2 months so I have everything set so I can get back up and running pretty fast. Reinstalling WoW is the only real bitch. All my files and settings are stored on my website and I can restore in less than half an hour.
I download and infect myself with all the new viruses and spyware to see if I can get them off, hence the formatting so often.

What an interesting hobby you have. The viruses and spyware must appreciate the effort you go to in getting them off. I know I would.

[Mr. Ubiquity]

I tend to format about once every 2 months so I have everything set so I can get back up and running pretty fast. Reinstalling WoW is the only real bitch. All my files and settings are stored on my website and I can restore in less than half an hour.
I download and infect myself with all the new viruses and spyware to see if I can get them off, hence the formatting so often.


What kind of work do u do? or is it strictly personal hobby?

[ReBurn]

swolt's just weird.

[Mr. Ubiquity]

Thats obvious as he joined junto, but i was looking for somethign specific.

[meredith]

i never do that format-reinstall crap with windows.  i was told to do so once during a support call for Windows 2000 Server.  my response: "fuck you, buddy"

has anyone tried OOo 2 yet?  i was giving them advice on how to get it loading faster on both windows and linux.  their biggest issue, IMO, is that every "application" of OOo is in a single executable file.  few people need to load all of OOo at once -- most just have writer and calc open if they do have more than one.

[Mr. Ubiquity]

i never do that format-reinstall crap with windows.  i was told to do so once during a support call for Windows 2000 Server.  my response: "fuck you, buddy"

has anyone tried OOo 2 yet?  i was giving them advice on how to get it loading faster on both windows and linux.  their biggest issue, IMO, is that every "application" of OOo is in a single executable file.  few people need to load all of OOo at once -- most just have writer and calc open if they do have more than one.

its funny how many people adopt that mindset through.  I talk to alot of customers who said they couldnt get their email so they reinstalled the OS or performed a system restore.  Why is it that people will educate themselves about ANYTHING in the world, but when it comes to computers they prefer to remain ignorant?

[ReBurn]

I do the format-reinstall thing on my Windows 2000 box about once a year.  The problems with Windows as a desktop OS is that over time it slows down so much, which I think is inherent to the ineffecient registry database.  I've been running an XP Pro install for nearly two years that is as swift today as the day I installed it, so they must have fixed something.

I've never had to wipe and reinstall a Linux image.  It just keeps going and going and going...

[Mr. Ubiquity]

I do the format-reinstall thing on my Windows 2000 box about once a year.  The problems with Windows as a desktop OS is that over time it slows down so much, which I think is inherent to the ineffecient registry database.  I've been running an XP Pro install for nearly two years that is as swift today as the day I installed it, so they must have fixed something.

I've never had to wipe and reinstall a Linux image.  It just keeps going and going and going...

Im usually surprised when people tell me they had to reinstall their mac OS.

You are also someone who probably doesnt click yes to every single pop up msg or reply or d/l anything from their emails either.