y’know, I was kinda figuring I’d weather this new OS out – I mean, after all in 5 years time I’m probably not going to have the choice of xp or vista, right?

but no.  the time has come.  this os is just shit.  plain and simple.  last night I was trying to play a dvd in my machine.  how very low tech of me.  now I’m no computer scientist, but to me, trying to watch a dvd shouldn’t HANG your ENTIRE computer, right?  I mean ENTIRE.  i could ctrl-alt-del and get the stupid menu to open task manager, but task manager would never arrive.  and then the shell died, so I couldn’t do anything.  I tried to get something happening for a full 10 minutes before giving up and hard rebooting my machine.

now, I’m a glutton for punishment, I thought – surely its a dirty disk and my dvd drive is cheap and causing the OS greif.  so I cleaned it and tried again.

same thing.  now even IF it was a dirty disk and even IF I have cheap crappy dvd hardware, isn’t vista supposed to stop this basic sort of shit bringing down your entire OS?  maybe I just don’t get it…

you have been warned.  avoid vista at all costs…