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April 30, 2007
OK. That is a slight exaggeration. But it has done its best to piss me off. Piss me off so badly that I actually, for at least 10 minutes, considered throwing my machine out the window, jumping in my car and driving to the Apple store where after purchasing a new Macbook I would then don a black turtleneck and go door to door on my bicycle and try to convert people to the word of Steve. Seriously. Vista is just that bad.
I can’t believe that any company can get away with releasing a giant, steaming hunk of shit like this operating system - let alone having the audacity to charge people for it. Someone needs to nuke Redmond and and the entire engineering team responsible for making my last 2 weeks a living Microsoft hell.
This entire journey is my own fault. Despite what anyone told me about not installing it, I just couldn’t help myself. Yes, I have a rebellious side. And something about thinking that you are a total geek makes you think that you are somehow immune to the issues that every other non-geek might have faced when installing the OS. So I had a copy burning a hole in my nightstand for the last month or more thanks to Bob. I held out for that long. It sat in its sealed packaging taunting me with its promise of smoother graphics and other useless features.
i clearly have downloaded the entire internet on itunes…
Then it happened. The temptation became too great. Someone from work pinged me with tales of their new Vista upgrade. And, damn it. I hate to be out-teched by a non-geek. After a few glasses of wine, I decided to delve into a fun Friday evening project. I cracked the seal and began the install process. No looking back now…
When I awoke the next day and tried to open up my iTunes for my usual Saturday morning dance around my room, I discovered the greatest of sins.
Yes, a new OS on my machine.
It is like a really bad drunken one night stand that won’t go away. There is no going back. You just have to learn to live with your mistakes. Be polite and try to go on.
But God damn you, Vista. You just keep wrecking my life. My iPod hasn’t been synced in weeks. None of my fucking programs work anymore. I just barely got iTunes semi working again so I can listen to my tunes.
To sum it up. I HATE YOU.
I hate you and your smoother graphics. I hate you and you stupid useless fucking widgets or gadgets or whatever they are called. I hate you because you have taken my 3.2 ghz processor and turned it into a wimpy pile of shit that is equivalent to my 400 mb processor of my teenage years. You can barely recognise my usb mouse. You mistake my DVD player for a floppy disc. Need I go on?
I want you to leave me alone. I want XP back. I want anything but you.
Please Steve Jobs, come and save my sanity.
Thank you and goodnight.
Horaayy..there are 6 comment(s) for me so far ;)
you better take your steps to the Mac store!
Less stress, more sex(y OS)!
XP is still there unless you deleted it. There is a MS document explaining how to get it back. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find it.
Oh, yeah, by the way, don’t let it be said that I didn’t tell you.
Also, you do need the latest version of iTunes which may then work properly, but I’m not sure as I’m back on XP.
Shouldn’t there be an appendix to this post? Like a rookie(ish) mistake by nerdgirl which would not allow the ipod/itunes to be recognised?
maybe you should have had it done by a man
So you’ve finally seen the light, eh? Bill Gates is the only CS’er I’ve ever heard of to name his company after his lil’ wee-wee. Oh, and his public displays of his bukkake fetish (the recipient) are also quite disturbing, to say the least.
That SOB bought DOS and then basically stole everything else from his competitors after that (cloned GUI’s but with much shittier unstable code). Then the pole smoker runs them and their superior product lines outta business and forces the rest of us to upgrade to the latest shittier stolen versions. Good thing the US DOJ ain’t yet thought of charging the entire US citizenry with receiving sto.. er, I mean purchasing The Fourth Reich’s fenced stolen apps..
As for Vista, it’s a frickin’ given that it’s even more of a system resource and stability black hole of death than previous Windoze versions, despite Bill’s Divine Propaganda?
There’s a damn good reason you’ll hear us LAN boys refer to Bill’s crapola as “Internet Exploder”, “Device Mangler”, “Turdpad”, “plug and Pray”, etc, etc…
If you want reliable Windows, load NT4. Just be ready to spend some time tracking down NT’s quite dated device drivers then manually loading and configuring them. Wonder Bill and his thieving elves..er, I mean his team of top notch programmers, hadn’t developed Plug and Play yet.. I think, right?
Other than the PITA drivers, NT4 is a damn solid “MothaFu..”! Imagine only having to reboot 2-3 times…..a frickin’ year! No Shite!! With 2000, I found myself rebooting 2-3 times a week. The XP “upgrade” had me rebooting 2-3 times a day, literally, losing my work when that POS F’er spontaneously aborted itself in some cache or just hard locked ‘cos a driver or whatever..
Driver and dll problems are usually MicroSoft’s F’up. They license code and their own dll’s to the HW vendors they let play along with their monopoly. And more so now, they write their own drivers for most of the HW out there and package them with Windoze..
So anyway, is Vista really all that MicroSoft Willy claims it to be in their sales pitches? The sites in the google link up above are ALL mistaken? Must be, after all, Bill is the man!
haha, i hear you. dont touch vista, i have a basic copy i need to dump. cant wait to upgrade to xp 64bit, it ROCKETS lol!