A Two-Days-In Windows 8 Product Review

[Beagle]

Ken voodoo hexed it. That's what happens when your bastard hacker cat takes over your computer chair. I could fix your computer, the vet can fix your cat, but that vooooooodoooooo? Hmmm.

[pdub]

Ken voodoo hexed it. That's what happens when your bastard hacker cat takes over your computer chair. I could fix your computer, the vet can fix your cat, but that vooooooodoooooo? Hmmm.

Poor Ken doesn't have anything to do with this. He's just a cat. He does indeed steal my chair, and only when I'm sitting in it. He doesn't want it any other time. And then he wants to walk on the keyboard.

But he only wants to log onto the Cat Channel, and with Windows 8 this computer can't get to that unless he holds down 6 keys at one time and then left-clicks the mouse and he only has 4 feet.

Don't blame Ken. Seriously.

[Beagle]

denial.

They can send you to a class at work to help you handle denial. Check with your HR representative.

[pdub]

denial.

They can send you to a class at work to help you handle denial. Check with your HR representative.

Beags, if you're anything, you are at least tenacious. And I'm not buying a blower, either!

[Beagle]

[pdub]

I wish I had a real computer right now, I'd post a photo of a blower with the big red circle and the slash through it, like the highway "no" signs....

[Beagle]

Seems to me like what you really need now is a kitty blower.

[pdub]

Seems to me like what you really need now is a kitty blower.

They use giant versions of that on the NASCAR tracks, so that is actually a manly thing.

[pdub]

I guess I've spent more than enough energy just stomping and snorting and cussing and pointing out how much I don't like Windows 8. But now I need some real advice, beyond what I can figure out. Is anybody here familiar with 8. I think I've come to a point where I've discovered a fatal flaw, for my purposes only.

Here's how it goes.

I want to update my website, I think I've finally got the tools together to do it. Had to down load the photo editor, I have that now.

Folks send me emails with jokes and funny photos, got that piling up. So I start today, let's go to the bottom of the inbox. First one, oldest one. I'm reminded that I have that on my site already, those are the ones I like to put in the archives section when I do an update.

I go to the page on my site to prove to myself that I already have it... I think there is not an internet/file/find function on 8. Like, if you have an internet page lit up you can do that and find a keyword you type in, on that one internet page.

Does anybody here know how to do that on 8? I can't see how to do that. If I can't do that, .... well, I never got past the very first email in the pile because I couldn't do that. I can't roll without that.

[Monster]

I recommend that you pick-up the "Windows 8 For Dummies" book ... a fantastic reference that will show you how to get to everything you want (yes, it's all still there).
Good Luck !!!

Repeat.

[pdub]

Repeat.

It's looking like it ain't always that easy.

Steve, you said "It's all there." I don't think it is, and I'm not too stubborn to buy a book, although I've never had to buy a book for an operating system before.

DB sent a page from Dummies that said you just do "this" to capture a photo, but it did not say how you have to go 4 layers deep to change a setting from the default to make that happen.

I don't believe 8 has a file/find function on it, and I'll bet they don't have that little technical secret in the Dummies book, even if it WILL do it.

Did I ever say I'm not liking this brand new operating system? After all that, after a week, now it's got me stymied, sure enough.

[Deaf Bob]

Maybe the dog is too old to learn new tricks?

[Beagle]

Hell, I've watched teenagers get lost with that turd. The point is you shouldn't HAVE to go hunt every new shiney bullshit thing down. That is all.

[pdub]

Hell, I've watched teenagers get lost with that turd. The point is you shouldn't HAVE to go hunt every new shiney bullshit thing down. That is all.

turd: " terd' "
- A Microsoft computer operating system released after Windows 7, solely for corporate profit and the frustration of its buyers.

[pdub]

I'm sittin' here just flabbergasted, actually trying to extrapolate my situation into what's going on all over the world.

So, what's going on in the Board Room in Seattle? Surely a wireless Office 2010 PowerPoint show (you have to buy that extra), and the charts and statistic show that 50 million users are so mad they could just shit on the MS building, and another 100 million users are completely thrilled at how easy it is to synch up all their devices together.

I guess I've just been using a computer wrong for all of these years, and they decided what I should be able to do with a computer based on the 20-somethings they have writing code. I'm just about tired from being mad.