The wow starts ... when?

Just another gripe, after running on windows Vista for nearly four months now..

I keep running into the most annoying problems:

Driver support (especially printers)
Software support (especially useful programs you would like to run)
Intrusiveness and annoying presentation...

The UAC model where color coded messages pop up and warn you about what you just told windows you want to do makes it frustrating to install, uninstall, delete, move, copy, change a setting, use your computer period. A lot of major software publishers dont have much of an excuse. Everyone's had access to stable betas for about a year, and the final version was released in November.. Drivers and new software should be here by now you'd think...

The more I deal with this, the more I think Vista was named after an internal acronym for: Very Intrusive System That's Annoying.

I'm pretty tired of those wow commercials, so far the 'wow' has been about stuff not working or system crashes (drivers again).. maybe by mid 2007?

baja 'not so' fresh

So there I was, holding this thing 'waiting' for my food... when i read it. The 'waiting device' says -

"No Microwaves, No Can Openers, No Freezers, No Lard..." all sounds good so far...
"No MSG..." sounds good, ok...
"No WAITING" pff! what?! and they wrote it all in caps - No WAITING?! what is it exactly that I'm doing holding this 'thing' then?

maybe WAITING is an acronym for something like:

No 'Walking After Items .. eh i'm done, it's not an acronym.. It is just stupid.

The heart of the question here is... was it coincidence that I got number 42?

my neighbor's Christmas gift..

Well, my internet connection has been shut down recently. Seems like wep keys are being slowly but surely phased out.

On another note, I found out first hand what my neighbor got for Christmas: a new wireless router.. One with WPA+PSK authentication..

listening to music...

public object Crystal() {
return "pun";
}

what a nerdy way to start the day...
I hope not many people get this joke.

Out here in Scottsdale...

just a quote I heard – "…here in Scottsdale, our 90’s Mercedes are the equivalent of your Phoenix Hondas…"

– Very much verified

My two cents on Vista ...

I've been playing with Vista the past few weeks since it was released to manufacturers... There are a lot of quirky things to it.

What I found to be the funniest yet, has been the way Microsoft dealt with some of their new folder arrangements. User profiles are no longer stored under "C:\Documents and Settings\" now they are under "C:\users" - so in a desperate attempt to work with poorly written older applications Microsoft places a hidden shortcut named "C:\Documents and Settings" that basically points to "C:\users" ...

There are quite a few of these hidden shortcuts all over the place which basically tell me that for a while there will be this 'patchy' arrangement where holes are covered up with shortcuts to the new os defined paths... Hopefully what I said made sense...

Usually if a driver installs services (like my lexmark printer for example) you have a pretty small chance it will work on vista.. There are also annoying things like hardware incompatibility issues that still occasionally cause blue screens for that classic Microsoft moment...

I found it most frustrating that installing Visual Studio 2005 does not work very well. You have to go out of your way and apply a work-around to get the desired compatibility.. All the compatibility issues are understandable, but still pretty frustrating until new software is released with vista in mind..

There are a lot of features really that I found pretty cool to have built in, but at the end of the day - you're paying for a more reliable and secure operating system with a rich UI..

I hate to say mac did just that a few years ago.. Maybe I haven't compared it well enough yet - but overall thats what I got out of it so far. For windows people its a great improvement. But mac users kinda had this already...

I dont think my soup's ready yet..

Certification Passed

Yay I passed that cert upon retake... So now I'm an MCP! (such an important title to hold)

no no, not as in Membrane Cofactor Protein.. I mean Microsoft Certified Professional. haha... ha.. ok.

Office 2007 rant

As you can see, Office 2007 uses the finest quality text parsers.

This is just one of many screenshots that leave you wondering "huh?" - working with microsoft beta software can be quite charming...

you are not a winner

this is probably my favorite comic strip out there (src: get fuzzy)