Yeah, about that freedom of speech and religion thing, it goes both ways, dipshit.

Might have to explain that to the younger crowd. I haven't had the blue screen of death in years. It's good one though, I like it.

When I told my young son (possibly 3-5years old at the time) about the BSOD, he got really scared it would hurt him. It took a couple of years to undo that damage.

_"It took a couple of years to undo that damage."_
Could have been worse.
You could have mentioned Jesus's love - and the hell that comes with it.

Heh, just had one at work today.

Me too yesterday. Literally the first time it's ever happened to me on Win7.

It's a sign of the end-times! Thanks, Obama!

Omg lol, thank you for my laugh of the day (now I have to wipe my coffee off the screen)

I'm sure it was God punishing you for doing something 'Atheist' and gay on your computer... That's what would have caused it... Nothing technical. Certainly not a hardware or software fault.

That was research!

I believe you mean Thanks, Bush! Thanks, Reagan!

I once got a BSOD on the Midgard weather server when spring crashed and we got snow in May:

Hell. Post Win 7, BSOD's don't even look like that anymore.

Fun exercise: Leave a public computer sitting around with a BSOD it is incapable of producing, such as a linux box.

There's a linux screensaver for that. Produces authentic-looking BSODs for pretty much every computer there's ever been.

Yea, but the BSOD changing while they are trying to figure out what is going on kind of gives the game away.

Great screen saver though. Trolls the heck out of anyone sitting behind you in class.

Seldom do I see a public computer running linux. The computers on my old college campus were running linux natively but loaded up a VM running windows at boot. Only reason I knew it was running linux is because I caught one that failed to connect to the server hosting the VM.

In France for a few years now some big government institutions like the army and national education have been switching to Linux. It takes some time though. In sensitive government agencies there is a distrust of Windows and other American proprietary software because of worries of spyware.

The NSA was just caught spying on the President of France. So the NSA said we won't do it anymore. I'm sure you believe that.

NSA promised not to spy on someone after being caught? Yup. Totally buying it. They have given me absolutely no reason to think they are full of shit.

Hang around a physics or CS department. Lots of them run Linux because that is what their students need.

It's amazing how much more we do and how fast we do it with computers.

I was a comp sci student with a dual math physics minor :P

Weird. All 3 universities I attended had linux all over those departments.

I'm not saying my University had shitty STEM departments... but my University totally had shitty STEM departments.

I still use XP. I can't believe it's been around for fourteen years. Maybe it's time for a change. I'm embarrassed about how far behind the times technologically I've become in my oldish age. To think I use to be the go to guy for advice and computer repair. Sigh...

If you're still using XP, you're a high-productivity genius who requires optimal resources to attain/maintain your true potential. And Microsoft hates you, a lot. Which is fine: you hate them too.

Srsly, just re-installed XP (SP1a) plus SP2 & 3 onto an older box. Thankfully, one can still Activate an XP installation. It's for an off-line machine (so: activated by phone, NOT the net) which means I don't need updates, as long as I'm careful with the thumb-drives etc.

XP ROCKS.
As a hobby-dev, I was beyond stunned when I noticed some of the features that have been removed from W7. TRY THIS: you're searching for a file that starts with a "Z" and that you remember was created a year ago. So (in Explorer) you sort files on Name, highlight all files starting with "Z" and click Date to re-sort by Date Created. Works beautifully in XP - and NOT AT ALL in W7, because the previously selected files get DE-selected if you try to do a re-sort.

How the fuck is anyone supposed to get any damn work done? Windows XP was the PEAK of the Windows world, it's all downhill now.

BTW: I can't remember the last time I got a BSOD from XP, or any other kind of system-wide crash. OTOH, had a couple of BSOD's while installing/tweaking W7 a week or two ago.

For your example; find a file that starts with Z created a year ago. In the search bar on the windows explorer window type:
z* datecreated:2014

You don't even need to be in the subfolder with the file. If you know it's somewhere in a particular directory tree, start at the top most level. Though, the farther up you go the longer the search will take. Took my computer less than 3 seconds to give me every C language source file in my programming directory created between in 2014 (approximately 100 files)

edit: the only feature I miss from Windows XP is the availability of a full screen command window. But, Window's built in console host is a piece of shit all around and I just use ConEmu anyways.

I have the Windows upgrade for XP, but using "Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor", I find that some things like my scanner may not work with 7. So I am stuck.

How old is your printer o.O?

My printer is an ancient Epson Stylus Color, much older than my Canon Cano Scan. I haven't used it in years since I got a laptop that doesn't connect. In principle it should work with an XP desktop a friend gave me as I have the intsall CD. It may also work with another computer I have which runs on Ubuntu. I have been lazy about testing.

My new-used XP desktop regularly gives a BSOD. Trying all the advice I found on the net, it seems apparent that the only solution is to find an XP CD and re-install.

Aslo my Unbuntu machine is now too hardware old to install Unbuntu beyond 12.04. But that is supported for a couple more years so I won't send it to recycling heaven until then.

You must be lucky. I had one just a few months ago.

There is a cure for that! Using a robust operating system.

http://distrowatch.com/

A robust operating system that nvidia gutted their driver support for to make it match with their windows support, but actually ended up being less functional than their windows drivers.

Unfortunately, I'll pass.

Or ditch the stupid hardware manufactures...

Yeah, because the nouveau drivers perform so wonderfully...

I said ROBUST, not vista with a custom theme. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comic...

Just stop lol

Is it bad that I'm feeling a bit nostalgic, seeing that BSOD?

'Cuz, dude, that brings back memories.

This is funny...am I a nerd?

"Amyx, who is Baptist, says he’ll sell to gay people as long as they “behave” and don’t express their opinions in his store."

Customer: Hello, could you tell me if you sell any styrene roof sheets?
Store owner: Yes, how many would you like?
Customer: Four packs will do. Oh, and I love cock. Just sayin'.

Because that happens all the time, of course.

Ah, so he has first amendment rights, but not his customers?

Typical Baptist hypocrite.

I think he's confused about the definitions for "speech" and "hearing."

He seems to be exercising his free speech pretty, um, freely. What he wants is to abridge other's free speech in such a way so that he doesn't have to hear any gay people exercising their free speech. Like a hypocrite.

I can't tell you how many times I've gone to the grocery store and ended up going into a frenzy in the seafood department. And I'm a vegetarian.

I have a huge problem with anyone preemptively telling me to behave. That is a sure-fired way to get this normally very well behaved gal to misbehave OR to just not patronize your store at all - even though I never had any intention of misbehaving.

With that said, I am in a long distance relationship. I see my girlfriend a day or two on the weekends and we hold hands every chance we get. We don't kiss in public, just good old fashioned Sunday school hand holding. I'm sure that is exactly what this Fuck wad would classify as "misbehaving."

"I aim to misbehave"
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Yes! This makes me want to watch Firefly for the millionth time.

"Amyx, who is Baptist, says he’ll sell to gay people as long as they “behave”

The image of two men passionately embracing in a darkened aisle of the store and this guy suddenly coming around a corner would be classic. What's he gonna do? Start screaming or avert his eyes and mumble something? I figure the former rather than the latter.

Oh baby, is that wood glue you're wearing? That scent is driving me wild!