Why Vista still Sux

Posted on June 12th, 2008

I hate to sound like I’m just jumping on the band wagon with another Vista rant, the Internet already has enough of those :) but this is just one of those damn stupid things that I just can’t let go, simply because every time I try use my camera I get the dreaded driver disk screen.

Once you’ve been using Vista for awhile you’ll find a few gems that’ll make you want to just stick it out but man, after almost 2 years you would think it was better than this.

So here is the low down. I have a Pentax A20 digital camera – nothing unusual there. Ever since I switched to Vista I’ve been able to just plug my camera in via USB and copy off my images, even using Vista’s new image manager. This camera has no drivers – non were ever made since it uses a generic drive. (SD Chip) – Well last week I plug my camera in and whamo … now Vista says it needs drivers for a device that has NO freaking drivers. No way around it, no fix, no drivers to download – Vista just lost the freaking plot and now I have to take out the SD chip each time I want my pics….

Bravo MS bravo …

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My Vista nightmare loop

Posted on November 9th, 2007

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? ;-)

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