No, this isn't a post about the T2 blu-ray I was wittering about a couple of weeks ago (although it is rather good). You may recall I was in the process of fixing an old laptop for TotOne to learn to use the internet on, basic IT etc (and for Daddy to use when MeWife is allegedly 'social networking'). I had also been wrestling with reinstalling Vista on that laptop, which was itself an irreversible upgrade from Windows XP, so that once you install windows vista, something bad happens and you can't reinstall windows xp. Yeah, you can tell this is going to be a red-hot post already can't you?
Anyway, the thing was working but then kept dying after a while. So I'd curse the thing and reinstall it, but then as anyone who has 'upgraded' to Vista will know, you spend the next 4000 years downloading 300000 updates and getting any work done is secondary to installing windows vista security update eijrfioweurw4i9rulswef. And, inevitably, some of the updates didn't install properly or crashed.
And so it was at 3am earlier this week whilst tending to TotTwo that I decided to order a new hard drive and a copy of windows xp (the existing hard drive already had rather a lot of bad sectors on it anyway due to an incident involving an attempt to bash the computer into submission having gone slightly awry). Seems odd you can now get a 250GB hard drive for £40 but there you go.
48hrs later, the old laptop now works perfectly. No update problems, and it's waaaaay faster than Vista. So the moral of the story is, don't upgrade your OS to Vista, especially if the manufacturer certifies your laptop is ready for Vista. For Vista is evil. Like the water that escapes from a pipe in your kitchen, it is an uncontrollable force of destruction which must be destroyed.
By the way, to anyone who sees me in the next few weeks: my Latvian hairdresser recently misunderstood the instruction I gave her for a number 4 cut (despite me having four fingers to emphasise the four-ness of the four) and given me a number two cut. So the Klan look is not deliberate, OK?
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Vista is without a doubt the worst piece of software ever created. The Devil was no doubt involved in the early planning stages and then a succession of monkeys presumably did the programming.
This is the price we pay for Microsoft's monopoly. I think we should all go out and by Macs en masse.
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