yet more complaints about Windoze

I am sooooo sick of this stupid problem on my Thinkpad. I think it's primarily a Windoze bug. Some programs like ot remember wherever they were on your desktop last time you ran them. When you have a different display setup, this can lead to problems. For instance, usually my T-pad is connected to an external display. Today it's not. So when I try to run my md5summer program (the DVD/CD writer on the T-pad seems to be jacked, so i thought 'I'll just scp this iso image to the Mac, and burn it there." but i'm paranoid- so i wanted to take the md5 sum to make sure it transferred ok... but i digress) I CANNOT SEE THE PROGRAM.

Now, I've had this problem before. Usually I can hit ALT+M and some arrow keys and manage to move the window until the program comes into view. For some unknown reason it doesn't work w/ this program. Maybe it's a combination of Windows window manager crappiness (I've already blogged to whine about that before) along w/ lazy programming on the part of whoever wrote the sum program.

Ugh. I am sooooo ready to get onto my mac, full-time. I've got ALMOST everything working on it now. I installed a new version of WinXP within VMWare Fusion this time and so far I like it better than Sun's Virtual Box. But I haven't yet coughed up the $80. Too bad my company that's doing so well is too chintzy to buy any decent software for their employees. They are soooo cheap. Ok I'm done complaining.

...By the way, I think I'm finally ready to take the plunge. as soon as i get off this blog, I'm going to re-image my craptastic thinkpad in the (vain?) hope that it will start sucking a little bit less. Don't even get me STARTED on all the bizarre problems I've been having with it... Like yesterday, when Elluminate froze up on me and the computer actually GAVE UP (evidently) and powered itself down. I kid you not. Didn't even bluescreen, it just shut itself OFF. That was a new one, even for ME. I think my Thinkpad needs therapy- it's clearly having suicidal tendencies. (If these problems don't start to clear up soon, I'm going to have computercidal tendencies toward it....)

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