generaleclectic

I've been working in IT for about 8 years now, and have found that there is one universal constant as far as end-users, or as Scott Adams puts it, induhviduals go. Everyone p155es and moans about OS upgrades, including me. When I beta tested Vista, I hated it with the firey, white hot passion of 1000 suns. I thought that the way the folder structure was laid out in the GUI was straight trash. I was super p155ed that I kept asking if I wanted to allow stuff to run or make changes... I mean seriously Bill.... I'M A NETWORK ENGINEER! I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING Windows Defender didn't have an easy off switch to turn off those freakin messages and half of my programs didn't work. Needless to say, I was happy that I had my happy-go-lucky, low maintenance, non resource intensive Linux box sitting there oh but a single flick of the KVM switch away. It's now about a year and a half later. I stuck with the Vista on that one machine after all this time and after I got rid of the release candidate and actual bought a release, I must say that I'm happy. I find that I am able to do 90% of what I want to do under Vista, which is about the same percentage of what I could do under XP. I have Vista on my business laptop (which I use most of the time) and I have it on one of my three workstations at home. The only thing that I can't do under Vista that I can do under XP is administer to Active Directory from my local machine and I can't use SQL Query Analyzer without having to fire off a Virtual PC. Oh well... That stuff will change when we get into Server 2008 in about a year.

US: Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart UK: When A Child Is Born - Johnny Mathis (ARe you SERIOUS?) AUS: Money, Money, Money - Abba

Jynxie: You Spin me Right Round Me: Another Saturday Morning Confusion - Bobby Vee

Driving with muh BF to Orlando to meet up with the Order of the Turkey. Boy is my sister pissed.

Perhaps Nipsy Russell can offer us some words of wisdom... ::turns:: "If you owe too much on American Express and your Discover bills are too hard just take a loan on your Visa and pay it off with your MasterCard!"

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