From: Timothy Knox Date: 01:41 on 11 Apr 2008 Subject: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless WinXP Monitor Drivers So unfortunately, for divers and sundry reason, I am forced to run Windows XP Professional at work. That is in and of itself monumentally hate-worthy. But today's specific hatred is for the part of Windows that decides, periodically, that I don't have a Dell2001FP monitor attached, but just a generic monitor only capable of 1024x768. So about once per week, I am forced to "Add New Hardware" and re-add my my monitor driver. Come on, Windows, I know you have a lot to remember, but can't you find a few bytes on your disk somewhere to remember what sort of monitor I have? I don't really ask you to do much, I know, and perhaps you do this as a form of retaliation, but keep it up, and I shall banish you to to the Hell of Being Skinned Alive*. * http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728
From: Gerry Lawrence Date: 02:41 on 11 Apr 2008 Subject: Re: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless WinXP Monitor Drivers Timothy Knox wrote: > So unfortunately, for divers and sundry reason, I am forced to run Windows XP > Professional at work. Hey -- a gig is a gig. Never apologize and let no one suggest that it's your fault for not running something else... > That is in and of itself monumentally hate-worthy. But > today's specific hatred is for the part of Windows that decides, periodically, > that I don't have a Dell2001FP monitor attached, but just a generic monitor only > capable of 1024x768. So about once per week, I am forced to "Add New Hardware" > and re-add my my monitor driver. Come on, Windows, I know you have a lot to > remember, but can't you find a few bytes on your disk somewhere to remember > what sort of monitor I have? I don't really ask you to do much, I know, and > perhaps you do this as a form of retaliation, but keep it up, and I shall banish > you to to the Hell of Being Skinned Alive*. > I have not encountered this particular hate situation yet. I have almost figured out how XP decides to take over devices such as the Verizon wireless broadband device, (and therefore screw everything up). So much hate and so little time...... > * http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728 > >
From: Chris Devers Date: 04:18 on 11 Apr 2008 Subject: Re: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless WinXP Monitor Drivers On Apr 10, 2008, at 8:41 PM, Timothy Knox wrote: > I don't really ask you to do much, I know, and > perhaps you do this as a form of retaliation, but keep it up, and I > shall banish > you to to the Hell of Being Skinned Alive*. > > > * http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728 What does that button say? "Hell of boiling oil." You're kidding. Yeah, I am. It says "Start".
From: Philip Newton Date: 05:43 on 11 Apr 2008 Subject: Re: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless WinXP Monitor Drivers On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Timothy Knox <tdk@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > today's specific hatred is for the part of Windows that decides, periodically, > that I don't have a Dell2001FP monitor attached, but just a generic monitor only > capable of 1024x768. So about once per week, I am forced to "Add New Hardware" > and re-add my my monitor driver. Come on, Windows, I know you have a lot to > remember, but can't you find a few bytes on your disk somewhere to remember > what sort of monitor I have? About once a week? Luxury! Ever since we migrated to a new domain, Windows decides to stop the "Designs" service, about once a day, causing everything to fall apart graphically. Even though it's set to auto-restart if there's a problem. Cheers,
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