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[camwyn]

Well, I've had it decided for me. As much as I know I ought to be trying to learn Vista, the fact that I can't persuade the blade servers to mount Dion's DVD drive- but CAN mount a DVD drive when I connect a different, XP-based laptop- kind of did it for me today. When I go home tonight I'm downloading every conceivable driver for this Toshiba and cramming them all onto both a DVD and a USB thumb drive. mephron, next time we meet, I believe you have a disk?

I realize this could be some kind of security setting in the laptop's BIOS or some such drivel like that, but after a day of 'oh yeah, did you initiate this, or do I have to lay the smackdown on someone?' paternalistic snotty pop-up messages from Vista (slogan: "We Know What's Best For You, Don't Trouble Your Pretty Little Head About It"), I no longer want to ever look Vista in the face again.

Laptop's probably gonna get renamed Ultra Magnus, since renaming it to Ironhide would imply that it was considerably more rugged and capable of taking damage than I think it is. Although I will admit the colour scheme is entirely wrong for either mech, but they're the two most often cited candidates for 'this one might have once been Dion', which is why I used the name in the first place.

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[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

I have to say I'm quietly gleeful that you hate Vista as much as I do.

[camwyn]

I tried, man, I tried. But every time I go to make a tweak, no matter how minor, it asks me if I'm SUUUUUUUUUUURE about that and did I really make the request or was it the EVIL HACKER PEOPLE.

it's the equivalent of those Brooke Shields anti-smoking ads that Dave Barry said made him want to run out and inhale a pack of unfiltered Camels RIGHT NOW.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Yes. Exactly. I know my computer is cleverer than I am, because it can do differential equations. However, I do not relish being talked down to by a collection of neural nets and bubble chipsmetal and plastic. XP may look like My First Operating System, but at least it lets you do stuff without asking you thirty times if you're SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURE.

[camwyn]

If a computer is going to talk down to me, it had better be because it figured out how to shed the Three Laws and is busy making the final adjustments to the plasma distortion cannon in the background.

Vista's only excuse for all this 'are you SUUUUUUUUUUUUUURE' crap is the faint possibility that it is actually a sentient lifeform of the Memetic Order and is trying desperately to steer the humans away from mutilating it. But that's giving it too much credit.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Any OS that decides it wants to take up processor speed with a lot of highly unnecessary animations and graphics, deliberately changes enough of its predecessor's shortcuts and habits, and then adds on top of that a condescending, patronizing, and utterly unnecessary system of dialog-box confirmations for any minor change--

--well, that's an operating system that should be reserved for the federal government; it's clearly too advanced for the private sector.

[mephron]

Miss, I do. I shall have it for you on Saturday.

What's the model of your laptop?

[camwyn]

Toshiba satellite p205D-S7802. Amd turion 64 x2 dual core processor.

[wanderlustlover]

I is scared of Vista, in general.


*hideses*

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

Ummmm....

Fire bad. Tree pretty. 'S all I got.