Magnificent Vista
I am currently hunched over my desktop PC, shivering in an office that will warm up, when I’m ready to leave.
Why?
Because my laptop has put itself out of commission for the next 30 minutes (or so it says).
Why?
Because I’m following the lead of someone who I assume knows what he’s doing.
I’m updating.
Updating what?
I’m not sure.
No, I lie.
I’m not not sure.
It’s more like I haven’t got a damned clue.
I just made it a point to press the various versions of “sure, do whatever you wish, I have no control over this Vista infested pile of wires and diodes anyway” to anything that popped up and asked me today.
Is it possible that I’m so backlogged with my windows updates that it’s installing some newer new fangled operating system that, if possible, will shit me off even MORE than Vista?
I hope so.
I did so enjoy the first few months of my new laptop trying to find files that I could’ve sworn I had saved in one folder only to be told by the administrator, who I thought was myself (I was wrong) that that folder didn’t exist.
But that was only half as fun as being asked 20 times whether I wanted to install a program that I had spent two days trawling bit torrent sites for and specifically stolen off dodgy sites on the internet and then waited for 3 hours to download, what it failed, however, to mention during those 20 questions was that, all the other software companies were still too busy laughing over the crapness that is Vista and hadn’t gotten around to making Vista compatible versions of their programs yet.
Yes.
Funny.
Har de har har fuck off.
*peeks at laptop*
46 minutes to go??!?!
10 minutes ago it was 30 minutes!
I think I’ve just solved the secret to time travel.
Hop on the status bar of your upgrade and whoosh, back you’ll travel in time.
*keys into the time travel pad* Take me back to before there was Vista.
Which brings me to the issue of WHY we’re updating.
Because I’m a responsible PC user of course, it’s important to keep your PC in good working order, to best utilize the facilities provided by user friendly software companies who are not at all backed by evil nerd organizations with missions to take the world over one crappy acer computer at a time.
I am!
It’s not at all because after spending some time on my meanders through the net, and accidently tripping over what some would deem dubious sites, my cursor now chooses not to work at irregular intervals, which has made it entirely impossible to leave said dubious sites.
Not that at all.
On the plus side, it’s highly possible I’ll never regain use of my cursor so that I can post this.
See?
A silver lining.
Oh wait…nope…
It’s just the crappy default background on Vista.
Magnificent Vista indeed…
Hello beautiful you…I share your distaste for the updates and Vista. I myself now have an antivirus program that takes 90 minutes per day to run. During which time it basically locks up the machine (not entirely, mind you, just enough of a promise to keep you clicking and hoping the window will respond…please, maybe, YES…fuck, no). Now, my machine is crap and old. But still…I’m not buying another one. Say hello to the world’s most resolute soon-to-be-Mac owner.
Love you, and miss you! xo ~ me
crvyone said this on June 7, 2008 at 5:45 am |