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04 Mar, 2004 11:08 pm Warning! Unacceptable technical advice. [sdp=28076]  
Please understand SillyDog701 Message Centre is still pretty much a technical discussion forum, except a few sections.

In technical discussion sections, you should be responsible for what you recommend. Re-install operating systems (e.g. Windows) or even re-formatting harddisk (harddrive) is always the last resort.

If you don't know a better suggestion or solution, please keep quiet. Straight telling people to re-install operating system or re-format harddisk is an irresponsible behaviour, and such act is not allowed.

Suggesting re-installing operating sytems or re-formatting harddisk should only be conducted when all possible solutions have tried and you are very sure re-installing is the only way to try.

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04 Mar, 2004 11:41 pm [sdp=28081]  
Maybe suggesting that reinstalling is what you think the only way of doing it is?

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05 Mar, 2004 2:33 am [sdp=28085]  
If your car has some problems, do you just dump it and get a new car?

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05 Mar, 2004 6:22 pm [sdp=28118]  
if it has enough problems yes, for example if its blowering oil out the exhast pipe and water out of the valve covers you have a serious problem and it should be dumped

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05 Mar, 2004 6:34 pm [sdp=28120]  
And you are telling me screensaver in Windows not working is as serious as "blowering oil out the exhast pipe" in cars?

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06 Mar, 2004 12:06 am [sdp=28134]  
Sure, you may burn the desktop image into your screen if you don't have screen savers.

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06 Mar, 2004 5:52 am [sdp=28142]  
And if your car stereo does not work, you have to get a new car, right?

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06 Mar, 2004 7:19 am [sdp=28148]  
djv1 wrote:
Sure, you may burn the desktop image into your screen if you don't have screen savers.


This is not neccessarily true, modern monitors automatically power off after a certain period of time (By default on Windows XP Professional this is twenty minutes), thus eliminating the need for a screensaver, although most people still use one.

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08 Mar, 2004 9:40 pm [sdp=28309]  
Antony wrote:
And if your car stereo does not work, you have to get a new car, right?


ok whatever but thats the only way that i could think of fixing it!!

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08 Mar, 2004 10:22 pm [sdp=28327]  
So whatever settings have been adjusted, the only suggestion you offer is to re-install?

In the other thread,
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those mac's that you are talking about suck I worked on one of them to they don't work worth a rip, they really need to be wiped and reinstalled.


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09 Mar, 2004 11:33 am [sdp=28363]  
it's true though they suck, they are slow and don't work worth a rip because they are loaded with so much crap!

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09 Mar, 2004 4:16 pm [sdp=28375]  
djv1 wrote:
it's true though they suck, they are slow and don't work worth a rip because they are loaded with so much crap!
They are not suck, they runs UNIX and of course native Mac application very well; they are not slow, the world's third fastest supercomputer is powered by Macs.

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09 Mar, 2004 9:11 pm [sdp=28396]  
Antony wrote:
djv1 wrote:
it's true though they suck, they are slow and don't work worth a rip because they are loaded with so much crap!
They are not suck, they runs UNIX and of course native Mac application very well; they are not slow, the world's third fastest supercomputer is powered by Macs.


i think that you maybe missing my point here, I didn't say that ALL MACS ARE SLOW, I just said that the ones that he is talking about are slow because they are loaded with crap.

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10 Mar, 2004 5:41 pm [sdp=28430]  
I am also going to say about the screen savers not working, I talked to 4 other computer tech. experts and they told me that you had to reinstall, So I was right in he first place!!! Laughing

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23 Jun, 2004 6:45 am [sdp=36030]  
djv1 wrote:
I am also going to say about the screen savers not working, I talked to 4 other computer tech. experts and they told me that you had to reinstall, So I was right in he first place!!! Laughing


This is old, but I don't believe a word of that. There are many causes of a screensavers not working, such as a bad video driver. If you re-installed, who said you wouldn't accidently re-install the faulty video driver?

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