Mostly a rant …. one of those days ;-)

So we all know that networking in Vista is screwed up and I am amazed that 1 year after release it still doesn’t work. What happens to me? well after about 8 hours of use most applications loose their internet connection (wireless and lan) - Most? you ask … yes - things like outlook still get/send mail, IE/FF stop working, chat stops etc. maybe office just “wishes” the data over the air

So I need to reboot to get back my connection - great, here is the problem. After getting the “logging off” and then “shutting down” for an un-determined amount of time my machine just blue screens … awesome.

That means for one I can never “shutdown” as the blue screen causes a restart. Now lets compound this - if I resume from Sleep or Hibernate I get an ACS (acs.exe??) crash and guess what - no internet. So I need to do the above BSOD sequence - (left eye twitching).

This is Vista certified hardware from Lenovo - “certified” I guess means Vista will run … what it does while running isn’t “certified” but at least I know my drivers are pretty good.

So once or twice a day I must force a BSOD to keep surfing, I can’t resume,sleep,shutdown or restart with a BSOD so installing updates is fun.

Boot-> Trash Network-> Reboot-> BSOD-> Recover-> Shutdown-> BSOD-> Recover-> Work-> Trash Network-> Reboot-> BSOD and so on …. how much asprine can you take in a day? ;-)