after the last post a week ago i spent the entire weekend trying to install that darn vista. here's what happened... i bought my new laptop computer around october or november last year, knowing that the whole vista thing was gonna come out at the beginning of 2007. but i said, forget it, i wanted my own laptop and i found one i really liked (which doesn't happen very much) so i bought it. so since it was just a few months before vista came out, the deal was that they'd sent me a copy of the vista program when it came out so i could upgrade for free. sounds like a sweet deal huh? that's what i thought.
first of all, i had to back up all my data. fine, not too horrible, plus it was a good idea to burn all my pictures and stuff onto back-up discs anyway. then i tried to install vista. stopped in the middle. great. tried it again. everything installed, then when i tried to turn my computer back on, poof... blue screen... nothing worked. great. gotta reinstall AGAIN. the thing said it takes about 20 minutes to install vista... bullshit, it took like three hours, so by this time it was like 1 am on sunday night and so before i went to bed i uploaded it one more time and let it run while i slept. in the morning... still not done.
well, after working on it for the entire weekend, i would've been crapped if i was gonna let that damn computer beat me. so... i took it to work. haha. so there's me at work, clicking through here and there between therapies... then by some miracle by the time i left work i had managed to FINALLY install everything from the installation cds and it looked to be working okay.
but of course that can't be the end of the story... so i go home and notice... the internet doesn't work. hmm... okay... that took another afternoon to fix. then i notice... the webcam (the one that's BUILT-IN to the computer) doesn't work... fine, that one took another evening to "fix." then, even after installing all the drivers and whatever, vista says that it doesn't have a program to open it's own frickin' webcam (y'know, the one that's BUILT-IN to the top of my computer screen, genius right?), so i have to use some other media/movie making program to open it (which, of course, is only a trial version that you need to buy later if you want to keep using it). on top of that, it takes pictures in .bmp format when in windows XP it was taking it in .jpeg format... well, blogger doesn't recognice .bmp, so my pictures come out like this:
wonderful
yada yada yada, everyday this week i found another program that stopped working or something else i can't connect to, blah blah. sigh... now it's saturday and at least it's working well enough for me to post. big question now... is vista worth it? hell frickin' NO! okay, the see-thru windows are kinda neat, i never use that 3D flipper thing (why take a simple concept like clicking on the tabs on the bottom of the screen and turn it into something that's flashier, but takes more mouse clicks to use?), the little gadgets on the side are neat but not so useful. and i'm still pissed about my webcam (the one that's BUILT-IN)... anyone know of a program i could download or something to run the camera on it's own?
the morale(s) of this story:
1. vista sucks
2. can microsoft get it's monopolizing butt off it's fat ass corporate chair and make these things actually work for once?
3. it's not a good idea to pretend to punch your computer screen in anger after reinstalling programs for the 5th time because you might have bad depth perception and actually hit the screen
4. never take a system on a computer that works just fine and switch it out for one that has no guarantee of working right ever again
5. heed these words or you might wind up like this:
ha, can you tell what i'm doing in this pic?
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