Re: ** READ THIS BEFORE POSTING - answers to frequently asked questions 2003.10.08

From: JR (hades_at_theofficenet.com)
Date: 11/08/03 

Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 20:11:01 -0800

you should have been around when Dos was popular, hehehehe

Perplexed wrote:

> "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <levinson_k@despammed.com> wrote
> > people who don't read FAQs and documentation tend to
> > have more problems and more frustration.
> > Perhaps you fit into that category?
>
> yeah, i read the FAQ for kb824146 at support.microsoft.wesuck. it read in
> part:
>
> Q) will this patch cause my desktop to become unresponsive and eliminate
> such superfluous features as being able to select properties from the
> right-click dropdown menu for my hard drive?
>
> A) we don't know. we view our customers as beta testers for these hastily
> thrown-together patches. just install it because we said so! it doesn't
> matter to us that this patch might produce more annoying problems for you
> than any of the worms currently wreaking havoc on the landscape!
>
> that's what it said. so, now i suppose i should phone microsoft.wesuck so
> they can piss me off even more instead of just unloading in this newsgroup
> group while i think about having to reformat and reinstall AGAIN!
>
> > Since this is a support forum, if you want to post details about what
> > exactly you mean by FUBAR, that might enable us to help you. Or, calling
> > Microsoft for problems caused by patches has always been free and
> available
> > more or less 24x7. Not sure what else you can ask for, since no other
> > company I know of will provide that for your $200 software. Most people
> > would be happy to hear that they're entitled to something for free,
> instead
> > of angry.
> >
> > Most of the time, when a patch hoses a system, there was a pre-existing
> > problem on the system. But Microsoft will never know, because you aren't
> > contacting Microsoft. Maybe if someone in your situation had contacted
> > Microsoft with this problem, your own system might not have been ruined.
> > You get what you give.
> >
> >
> > "Perplexed" <per@plexed.com> wrote in message
> > news:%rSgb.4956$Eo2.4054@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> >
> > > here's my question! why did kb824146 FUBAR my precision win2k sp4
> > > machine??? can you answer that??? a quick googling tells me that i'm
> far
> > > from alone in this matter! why did that patch FUBAR my machine???
> > > uninstall didn't help! now i have to perform a clean install to get my
> > > machine back! i sure as hell won't be contacting microcrap support over
> > > this! so shove those links up your arse!
> >
> >
> >

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