On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:37:45 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Eventually went and got a keyboard and monitor and plugged in - Vista
>> had reverted *every* *damned* *change* *I* *made*.
> 
> Weird. I've occasionally had it happen where it "couldn't load my
> profile" when I remote loggined, leaving me with everything as if I was
> logging in for the first time. But logging out and logging back in
> always fixed that. I figured a temporary timing failure somewhere.

Huh, yeah, I tried rebooting the machine a couple of times, and it just 
completely forgot what it was supposed to do.

>> HP very *helpfully* requires that you use the actual OS the drivers are
>> written for in order to extract them.
> 
> The abusiveness of HP's "rescue disks" are one of the many reasons I no
> longer will buy any HP machine. :-)

I can understand that.  If I weren't running Linux, I think I'd probably 
do the same.  I have to admit, though, I really like the machine I 
bought.  It runs Linux very nicely. :-)

Jim

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