re: Is Doctor Ballmer in the house?
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 3:23 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joe Hepperle
(73 messages posted)
Wow "gewg", I am saddened. Here I was busy peeling apples.
And I had a "pick-up" request put in to Fed Ex for tomorrow...
I guess I can cancel the Fed Ex and put the apples away?
Let's reason together. You wrote,
>>You seem to have a problem with the *FULL DISCLOSURE* thing
Let's see if this helps you. Full disclosure starts with what I actually wrote.
"You may have a virus if you are getting Kernel error messages.
Have you an antivirus program installed? AVG antivirus is a free,
very good antivirus program available from http://www.grisoft.com
if you need one."
"I hate to ever tell someone to reinstall Windows 98 but sometimes it
is necessary.
If the computer in question does not yet have important files on it,
or if you can off-load them to a disk, or another partition,
then reinstalling windows 98 may be the quickest way to get where
you want to be."
Now, let's juxtapose what I wrote with your whin complaints.
Joe wrote,
"You may have a virus if you are getting Kernel error messages.
Have you an antivirus program installed?"
"gewg" complaint is,
"You seemed to say that AN INFECTION **may** be the source of the problem and
that a reinstall of Windoze would clear it."
Honestly "gewg", that is garbled nonsense. It looks like I wrote, "Have you an antivirus
program...?"
Let's look further in the interest of Full Disclosure.
Joe wrote,
"If the computer in question does not yet have important files on it...
...then reinstalling... may be the quickest way..."
"gewg" complaint is,
"...The part you AVOIDED saying is that ANY PROGRAM THAT MAKES CHANGES TO THE
REGISTRY WHEN INSTALLED WILL HAVE TO BE RE-INSTALLED (AND RE-CONFIGURED) AND THAT
ALL THE SETTINGS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE TO WINDOWS ITSELF WILL HAVE TO BE RE-DONE."
Honestly "gewg", that is garbled nonsense. It looks like I wrote, "If...(it) does
not yet have important files on it..."
Let's look further in the interest of Full Disclosure.
Joe wrote,
"I hate to ever tell someone to reinstall Windows 98..."
"gewg" complaint is,
"Most people WANT TO AVOID REINSTALLING TONS OF APPS if they can..."
Honestly "gewg", I'm not sure why you complain here. It seems we are agreeing?
You went further, with the comments that I had supposedly, "...noted
(in a round-about way) that this will nuke the Registry..." and that you
"...wouldn't want to have (Joe) for a physician".
What I proposed was worse than that, "gewg"! What I proposed was equivalent to throwing
the baby out with the bathwater, and then make a new
baby... one that will act right.
As far as comparing computer repair with physicians and the practice of medicine,
we all got a laugh from that one. They are two separate things and can't be intelligently
compared. Like trying to compare apples to oranges.
As a demonstration, let's see how any person would fare if a Micro$soft certified
computer repair shop started a sideline business as physicians.
MICRO$OFT NURSE: Doctor Balmer, patient is complaing about his arm. Says it
hurts and he can't use it.
DOCTOR BALLMER: Okay nurse -- have X-Rays taken and report back.
MICRO$OFT NURSE: Doctor Ballmer, the X-Rays are back and nothing appears to
be wrong.
DOCTOR BALLMER: Hmmm... Nurse, is your arm working good?
MICRO$OFT NURSE: Why yes Doctor it is. I work out at the gym and my arm is
in tip-top shape.
DOCTOR BALLMER: Okay nurse. The X-Rays were inconclusive so I can't tell if
the problem is the patient's arm, or if it is just in his head.
MICRO$OFT NURSE: What do you propose doctor?
DOCTOR BALLMER: Well, according to the Micro$oft A+ certification manual,
if we can't tell whether the problem is hardware or software, we are advised to swap-out
the suspect part with a known-good part.
MICRO$OFT NURSE: You're scaring me Doctor Ballmer... what are you proposing?
DOCTOR BALLMER: Well nurse, since you have a known-good arm, we'll remove
your arm, and the patient's arm, and swap them. If the patient no longer has problems,
using your good arm, then we'll know his arm is the actual culprit. But if he still
is experiencing problems after the swap-out, then we'll know that the problem was
all in his head.
MICRO$OFT NURSE: Huh?
***(N.B. computer repair technique taken from page 1053 of the A+Certification Exam
Guide by Michael Myers)
See how computer repair and the practice of medicine are two separate things? What
is good technique for computer repair does not fit into any practice-of-medicine
scenario. On the other side, we don't want our physicians fixing our computers either.
If that were to occur, we would start seeing wooden blocks (prosthetic devices) replacing
our failed hard drives. We would see chunks of motherboard missing because they were
"cut out" as a solution to the last virus infection.
Nope -- they don't mix and you can't intelligently compare them.
Moving on... Thanks for the online-jargon lesson. As a return favor, I'll give you
an English lesson.
COLUMN noun (Merriam-Webster)
1 a: a vertical arrangement of items printed or written on a page
c: an accumulation arranged vertically
We HAVE to use English. We don't have to use jargon. One is required,
the other is optional. Keep in mind that what we write here should be understandable
to everyone -- from the computer novice, to the computer savvy, to the computer burn-out.
And finally, I don't admonish anyone to "image" their hard drive. I do advise
it sometimes. But I have never advised anyone to "image" their hard drive as a solution
to get Open Office to install. Do you think that is the solution? Should I start
advising to "image" your hard drive if you have problems installing Open Office?
<3 <3 Joe Hepperle
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