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But the whole machine tends to hang when booting in normal mode, they can boot into safe mode however.

Looks like a day lost reinstalling, in the hope that, that will fix the problem.

My boss gets very defensive when I try to talk about the problem, he knows my thoughts on Vista, and Windows in general.

From the "If you thought wireless was bad on Linux" department.

Our bloke from Perth is having problems keeping his Vista 64 machine connected to our Active Directory network, it keeps dropping the connection, and then requiring that he re-enter the WPA key.

Sorry to bore you all, but I find it quite amusing.

> Sorry to bore you all, but I find it quite amusing.

Not at all, keep them coming!

It appears that the problem on the Vista 32 bit machine cleared itself as mysteriously as it appeared, all it took was several reboots.

Quoting:all it took was several reboots

The intervening profanities and threats probably helped as well.

Quoting:Our bloke from Perth is having problems keeping his Vista 64 machine connected to our Active Directory network

What AD version? Server 2003? Server 2008? And do you have any XP machines on the network as well?

At my company they threw out *all* the Vista machines. As it turned out it's nigh impossible to run a mixed XP/Vista network when the AD server is 2003. And if you have roaming profiles then it's impossible no matter what version you have on the server.

So, the Vista machines got converted partly to XP Pro and partly to Ubuntu. There are now 4 or so people running Linux here and another 5 have bought Macs. Not bad out of a total of 40 people or so.

Server 2003, yes 3 XP machines, mine work desktop, the media processing machine and one of the bosses laptops.

XP... XP... Xeroderma Pigmentosa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeroderma_pigmentosa

If you have XP, it's best not to go into the sun. And it could lead to cancer. I read it on the Internet, so it must be true.

Quoting:As it turned out it's nigh impossible to run a mixed XP/Vista network when the AD server is 2003.

Gotta love those Microsoft Open Standards and compatibility efforts.

> The intervening profanities and threats probably helped as well.

People keep telling me that threatening machines doesn't work. I look at them and say "Of course it doesn't work. They don't believe YOU." Then I threaten the machine and it starts working. :)

I just slap it around a bit. One smack to fix a monitor was very impressive to my factory cow-orkers.

I've never been in a factory with cow-orkers. What's it like?

Pretty much the same as in tech support: "I'm surrounded by idiots!"

And, just like in tech support, the feeling's mutual.

Hey, don't dis cows. :)

Here in SA we have a rather shocking amount of pedestrians that get killed every year while crossing the highway. Yet, I have seen an entire herd of cows cross an eight lane highway by making use of the pedestrian bridge.

I dunno... to me that reads: cows: 1 - humans: 0

( I have serious difficulty posting anything on-topic this week )

LOL jacog.

> I just slap it around a bit.

Why do you think the machines believe me? I've tried telling folks, they all talk to each other when we're not around. If you simply beat up a few of them (complete destruction works too, but is usually frowned upon by your employer), then word gets around and they start listening. I'm not sure if the other people believe me or not though. However, the machines do.

Exactly jdixon. How else do you explain machines that stop working for the user and then suddenly work perfectly again as soon as you are standing there? They KNOW that if they misbehave with you standing there they are gonna get at minimum prodded around in and quite possibly reloaded. mwahaha.

Just left the son-in-law, that msce ^&$*((_(*&@#$% with his desktop running Debian Lenny. Oops, well I didn't know he wanted that winders partition. lol

He still claims that Linux TCO is higher than his choice of dreck software. Cause it is so HARD to learn. It did take him 15 minutes to get his networked multifunction printer to work. A company would need more admins too????

g-3 >I just slap it around a bit. Some day son you will get b/slapped into to the underfloor ductwork.

Quoting:It did take him 15 minutes to get his networked multifunction printer to work.

Not bad for a Linux newbie. Try asking the same thing of a Windows newbie.