Since I decided not to blog about work, I’ve found myself rather lacking in posting topics. Not that there aren’t blog worthy items around the office but what would it mean to you. Now that I think of it, what does this mean to you?
You know, I don’t want to slip into that blogging, death spiral where I only post about how I have nothing to say. Nor do I want to bitch about the minutia of my work life. I mean, who doesn’t have something to complain about?
Can I tell you something? Do we have that sort of relationship where I can trust you with something like I’m about to tell you? Here’s hoping…
I hate Microsoft. When I say hate, I mean I reallyhate Microsoft. I also suspect that my festering hate might have brought on a mental unbalance. Is unbalance a word? Should I use imbalance like someone who has a minimal grasp of the English language?
Vista is such a POS that it keeps me awake at night. Then I start to hear about the licensing restrictions that come with Vista. Now keep in mind that I have little desire to use Vista because it’s a POS and I don’t know what sort of blunt force trauma it would take to cause me to pay for it. Of course I haven’t paid for Windows since 1998 but that’s a whole other story…
Anyway, I’ve decided that I need to let go and try to get some balance in my computing life. So I installed Ubuntu. It’s simply wonderful! I had my first good nights sleep in months after I exorcised Windows from my home. Nothing but *NIX for me from this point on.
So that’s it. This should really end better. But it never ends well…
I’m settling into a weekly posting schedule and I still have nothing of interest to say… With that being said, let’s begin.
I was chatting with the wife on the weekend and we were discussing all the stuff that we should be thinking about buying. Furniture, dishes, pots & pans, you know, domestic crap. She has it in her head that she’s going to buy all these Korean pots & pans and then bring them here. This likely is why she wants me to go to Seoul and pick her up…
Then she said it… “I want to get an LCD TV” Dear God… and here I was trying to come with ideas to slip that one past her. I figured that leaving large, open coffees on the TV would be a good start. “Hey MiHwa, whatta ya say we toss the old pig skin around? Wanna wrestle?”
[startTech] Tech squimish readers can now go away. “Thanks for visiting Biff!”
I’ve been testing Windows Vista at work. It was my suggestion so I openly declare myself an idiot… Three days of attempting to get it to install finally culminated in the PC blue screening. I tried it on different machines, including a server class box, followed by VMware and Microsoft’s own Virtual Machine.
I downloaded it twice and yes, I did confirm the checksum. So then a dev walks by and mentions that he was able to install it in VMware. After I finished banging my head on the desk, I asked him to put the image on the server so I could download it.
Today was my first full day using it. Oh. My. God. This is a release candidate? This is what you have to show for 5 years of dev work? I understand that most of the years were spent crippling the feature set but it’s more like a beta than an RC. Picture XP with a new theme and all the menus moved around and there you go. Except that the requirements for Vista are so high that even a 3GHz CPU cause it to stutter and chug away.
Now it’s only been a day and I’m not a big fan of Microsoft so I guess I’m biased but really… Moving stuff around and then creating a new control panel so the user can now control all the items that used to be together is not moving forward, it’s busy work.
The good news is that our stuff works on it. That’s Java for you… Good enough; let’s not speak of this again. [/startTech]
