Vista Sucks - I hate Vista
Hey it's 2008 and I still hate Vista, there I said it.
Windows Vista, for all it's prettiness is a POS (that means piece of shit for all you polite folks out there). Windows Vista sucks--why the vitriol? Every damn time I perform a "Windows Update" my network driver gets fudged and I can no longer connect to the network, or the Internet. It's been more than a year and this problem seems to happen every single time I get an update.
Why would that bother me? Well, now instead of getting my email and working, I get to fix this stupid problem yet again. Thanks Microsoft!
Ok, I get that it's challenging to manage n-zillion vendor relationships, and that lead painted chinese network cards are probably not at the top of your support list...but I paid you, and this card worked fine under XP. By the way have I told you how much I like XP?
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Windows Network Diagnostics
There are driver or hardware problems with the network adapter "Marvell Libertas 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Client Adapter" on this computer.
The network adapter "Marvell Libertas 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Client Adapter is experiencing driver or hardware related issues.
Click here for information -->
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"Clicking here" of course launches the useless troubleshooting sequence that ten minutes later essentially tucks tail and mopes off like that annoyingly unhelpful animated dog character in XP ...wasn't his name Poochy or something... good lord folks, all I wanted was a Pepsi! And, an operating system that doestn't continually reintroduce the same problem I've corrected umpteen times now. Wait, this just in... I bet I'll be doing this again!
I wouldn't feel so bad except that--I PAID TOO MUCH MONEY FOR THIS POS. When Firefox does something that pisses me off, I'm still inclined to lick my picture of Mark Andreessen....er, too much information... ok, ok, I kid (and perhaps through far too incorrect a reference). I can't remember the last time I licked a picture of Bill Gates....ew (ok, this is creepy... but I feel better now).
Fortunately I've almost successfully made the switch to Ubuntu...now if only I can give up the games, applications, functionality, and productivity I've acquired from software investments sadly trapped in the Windows world in order to use a 'nix cousin. I can see all the women swooning when I regale them with adventures of command line hacks I keep in an encrypted mount and exchange with members of the nerd priesthood after validating our ssh keys.... hyuck hyuck hyuck, snort!
posted by "Ivan" @ 3:49 AM
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