What Annoyed You Today?

[Escuadrilla Azul]

I did the rush hour on I-10 with less than ten hours on a stick-shift 73 Toyota Corolla.

Too bad it wasn't a Land Cruiser, you could had made a technical, altough maybe you can try with your current truck.

 

[GrauGeist]

You think I haven't driven the Sepulveda Pass? Or San Fran?

I was talking about boot camp, not tech school. I did the rush hour on I-10 with less than ten hours on a stick-shift 73 Toyota Corolla. I can still throw elbows like a mofo, indeed my current truck is a stick. I only do three pedals.

It just doesn't have a .50 pintle mount, damn it.

Born and raised in Orange County - when we had to foray into L.A. or San Berdoo, we'd slap our "Caution! I Brake To Reload" bumper stickers on our cars.

 

[MIflyer]

WINDOWS 10 is the worst operating system ever created! I thought that Windows 2000 was POS and MS eventually admitted that they should never had released it. Now, Win 10 seems to have been "upgraded" and when it goes to sleep it will not wake up. The last two nights in a row I finally had to give up and push the power buttn to shut it down. The same thing occurred with a friend's computer on Sunday. They did something to Win 10 last year that forces you to touch the power button to get it to wake up and now it wakes up in terms of giving you the screen saver but becomes totally unresponsive.

 

[Snautzer01]

WINDOWS 10 is the worst operating system ever created! I thought that Windows 2000 was POS and MS eventually admitted that they should never had released it. Now, Win 10 seems to have been "upgraded" and when it goes to sleep it will not wake up. The last two nights in a row I finally had to give up and push the power buttn to shut it down. The same thing occurred with a friend's computer on Sunday. They did something to Win 10 last year that forces you to touch the power button to get it to wake up and now it wakes up in terms of giving you the screen saver but becomes totally unresponsive.

I think it goes hiberating not sleep.

Ajust settings i would advise.

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[Wurger]

I agree. Also go to the Device Manager and check if all drivers there are installed correctly. The one/nes installed incorrectly has/have the yellow triangle shield with the exclamation mark added to its icon.

 

[MIflyer]

The 405 or I-5 is where the wheat gets separated from the chaff...

I recall driving from El Segundo up to VAFB late one afternoon. I tried the 405 but then heard KNX say there was a wreck at the top of the Sepulveda Pass. I got off the 405 and headed over to PCH. On my way up PCH they were saying that the 405 was one big parking lot from Mulholland Drive to well into Orange County.

Those were the days, my friend! I was afraid they'd never end. But they did and I escaped to Santa Barbara County. Eventually I traded California's freeways for the DC Beltway - and took the Metrorail to work every day to keep from driving.

My last visit to California was 2001. It seems that they were holding a county-wide stunt driving competition on the freeways, because I am sure that what I saw was not normal out there.

 

[Bucksnort101]

WINDOWS 10 is the worst operating system ever created! I thought that Windows 2000 was POS and MS eventually admitted that they should never had released it. Now, Win 10 seems to have been "upgraded" and when it goes to sleep it will not wake up. The last two nights in a row I finally had to give up and push the power buttn to shut it down. The same thing occurred with a friend's computer on Sunday. They did something to Win 10 last year that forces you to touch the power button to get it to wake up and now it wakes up in terms of giving you the screen saver but becomes totally unresponsive.

I beg to differ, Window ME was the worst, it crashed before you even pressed the power button!!!! Followed closely by Windows 8.

 

[jgreiner]

I beg to differ, Window ME was the worst, it crashed before you even pressed the power button!!!! Followed closely by Windows 8.

I sense a theme here....
Let's face it.....pretty much *every* Windoze OS has sucked ass.

 

[manta22]

I sense a theme here....
Let's face it.....pretty much *every* Windoze OS has sucked ass.

Windows 7 was pretty good.

 

[MiTasol]

Every second one for sure.

And Windows 11 is a second one.

Remember they skipped Windows Nien because the name said it all.

 

[MiTasol]

Windows 7 was pretty good.

Yep - the last one where you had control.

According to Desktop Windows Version Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats it is still the third most common Windows in use 11 years after it was replaced by an "improved" windows.

 

[MIflyer]

XP was pretty good. Every one since then has gone downhill. Win 7 was like XP but they added that stupid feature where you clicked on things without actually touching the mouse button. Also a thumb drive that works on XP and Win 10 will not work on Win 7. Win 8 did not work. Win 10 is so friggin' slow and just locks up at times. Win 11 has got to be worse. Me I never screwed with but I got deep into Win 2000 because that was what we used at work; that was what our customer, the USAF, had.

Windows 10 they increased the size of and as a result I now have perfectly good laptop that can no longer run, because it lacks enough disk size for the updated Win 10.

Windows 95 was amazing, in retrospect. Only 150 MB.

 

[fubar57]

Windows 11 is forever updating

 

[MiTasol]

The nightmare bloody network again - although they have learnt a little but they say AEST/AEDT so there is still an hours "flexibility" in there. Starts tonight at midnight or 11pm.

 

[cvairwerks]

Windows 11 is forever updating

It's almost as bad as the collaborative crap software that's being forced on us. I've seen it update 3 or 4 times in a single shift.... And it updates almost every day.

 

[Snautzer01]

Windows 11 is forever updating

I made this my background an dont have to worrie about updates

 

[MIflyer]

Everyone agreed that Abobe Flash was POS and needed to be eliminated because the required "patches" averaged more than one a day. Now, that seems to be the norm.

I have a old Win XP computer because there is one program that our company developed that will not run even on XP SP2 unless it was already installed before the SP2 upgrade. I have been through the MicroClown instructions for rectifying that problem and they don't work. Well, that old XP machine takes longer to start than the Win 10 mahcine but once it is up and running XP and its old version of Firefox does EVERYTHING better and faster and more reliably than the Win 10 machine - except play videos. And my ROKU TV blows the Win 10 machine away when it comes to videos.

 

[MiTasol]

It's almost as bad as the collaborative crap software that's being forced on us. I've seen it update 3 or 4 times in a single shift.... And it updates almost every day.

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[at6]

Continuous worries about the strikes in Hollwood on the news. I don't watch that much TV anymore so the strike is an improvement. The garbage that passes for movies and the TV shows are so cruddy that I hope the strike becomes permanent.

 

[Viking1066]

Continuous worries about the strikes in Hollwood on the news. I don't watch that much TV anymore so the strike is an improvement. The garbage that passes for movies and the TV shows are so cruddy that I hope the strike becomes permanent.

I agree 150%. What passes for entertainment is a joke.