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Really not liking windows right now

Posted by Skrud at Sunday, April 30th 2006 at 6:51pm

  • 5 minutes to boot up
  • 10 minutes to login (Loading personal settings … Applying personal settings … a half-drawn box with the words “Personal Settings” in it, a blank turquoise screen….)
  • 5 minutes to do the pre-scan
  • 5 minutes later, it’s still “Processing….”
  • 5 minutes later, it’s still “Processing….” and I get bored so I started writing this post.
  • Figured I’d open up Acrobat Reader in advance, it only took a split second to load.

  • OMG THIS SUCKS The scanner still says “Scanning…”

  • Eep, I think it moved.

  • …

  • No, false alarm.

  • Still “Processing….”
  • I need to pee.
  • Maybe it froze?
  • I really don’t want to hit “cancel”. What if it’s about to actually scan?
  • I felt the scanner move again ….
  • …. I think. It must’ve been my imagination.
  • If I hit “Cancel”, it’ll have to start all over again. I’d better not.
  • I want to punch the usability engineers at HP for misuse of the Progress pattern. It’s supposed to show that the program is actually doing something.
  • Goddammit I’ve been at this “Processing…” phase for over 10 minutes already!
  • I hit cancel.
  • The HP PrecisionScan Pro is frozen.
  • Fuck.
  • Task Manager -> End Task. Take that, bitch.
  • “You chose to end the nonresponsive program, HP PrecisionScan Pro. Please Tell Microsoft About This Problem.”
  • FUCK YOU ALL I JUST WANT TO SCAN SOMETHING.
  • Holy crap The Gimp is installed. Yay Concordia!
  • TWAIN Acquire …
  • Holy crap that was FAST. Scanned right away.
  • File -> Save As… TIFF
  • I wish I would’ve noticed the GIMP there earlier.
  • Open Source: 1, Windows: -1, HP: -\infty.

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Comments

  1. WilhelmTell said:

    lol

  2. Ahmed said:

    Well, is it really fair to blame windows, since we all know that those 2 LABS realy realy realy suck!?

    On my laptop windows doesn’t take more than 20 sec for boot i think, and on my home edition partition it takes practicly nothing (shutdown and restart) and thats a year old laptop.

  3. Skrud said:

    You’re absolutely right. Windows is not at fault here. Hewlett Packard is, and Concordia is for having messed up profiles.

    I was just frustrated and angry. Misdirected blame, I guess. :P

  4. FiG said:

    Yeah, windows isnt’ to blame.. Because it’s MUCH easier to misconfigure linux and have exponentially more disastrous consenquences.

  5. Ahmed said:

    What i don’t understand though is why those two labs are SO slow compared to the other ones.

    I mean those are 2ghz computers!? (thats still kinda GOOD)

  6. FiG said:

    I’m happy 2ghz PC’s are still good! Moores law has died, and as a direct consenquence my 3-4 year old PC is still able to keep up with the newest PC’s! All I gotta keep doing is feed it more ram, videocards, and harddrives :)

  7. mb said:

    Gill touched my keyboard today… the computer was running slow, but then it died and would not come back. :(

    (unrelated to your post)

    I’ve been working on my resume and finding that most of them blend together stylistically. I really like the way you’ve simplified your name and contact information at the top. It was made in with Latex?

    cheers, mb

  8. Skrud said:

    Nope it was made in Pages.

    The contact information only shows my e-mail address and website in the online version, since I didn’t want to publish my address and phone number all over the place.

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