Linked by Kristofer Jarl on Fri 23rd Jul 2004 05:38 UTC
The smell of newly purchased stuff... So, there I was, Hauppauge WinTV board in hand, Mandrake 10 installed and ready to rock! Little did I expect that it would come to this. But first things first. 
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What the hell are chumpy panels? and where can i find them i'd like to see these.
Sorry to use slang, I meant cumbersome. You usually can find it at the bottom of your Windows desktop on a default installation.
Not sure what system you're running but my start menu seems to be responding just fine. Its much faster than the KDE or Gnome menu's thats for sure.
Unfortunately my doesn't, it tends to lag badly quite occasionally. Maybe you got a faster machine than me (athlon XP2500+ on nforce2, 512mb ram). I don't use KDE or GNOME menus, but in windows, it's the primary way of starting programs, so it should be as fast as possible.
again what the hell are you tlaking about? what icons flash every 1-2 hours?
It was a typical effect in win2k, but it can be seen on XP as well. All icons on the desktop disappear and reappear almost instantly, while some parts of the windows shell reboots itself during work. It especially happens after a longer uptime on heavy-loaded boxes with lots of concurrent applications. Sorry if you didn't meet this one.
You know 90% of people would never use them, why install them if you dont want them (oh wait thats the Linux mentality, install as much grabage as possible by default even if 90% of it is totally useless to the average user).
4 out of my 5 collegues in the same room use windows for the desktop. 3 of the 4 use some 3rd party virtual desktop software for effective desktop usage. I didn't know it's available from microsoft too, thanks for that piece of info, I'll tell them.
Actually if you go to the "processes" tab and kill the task it'll die imemdiatly.
..or it does not. Either it dies immediately or will go on a long wait and ask for confirmation on the kill, or nothing will happen. Stacked processes tend to go with the last two ways usually according to my experiences, but I'm pretty sure it has happened to you too.
At last, I would really appreciate getting closer to a tech discussion and lower the flame rate of these posts. (== watch your language). Thanks.