Wooo College

Another year, another bout of freaking out wondering where I'm going to get the money from.

Vista Upgrade: Bad Decision or Worst Decision?

Yesterday, Case Western Reserve University overhauled its internal software-providing website with a new design and, among other things, upgrade editions of Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate.

Clearly, your God is a soulless pit of hatred for humanity.

Users, on the whole, are not smart. Microsoft's Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor certainly isn't infallible. And, luckily, there exists at least one program on the Case Software Center that, if you don't uninstall it before upgrading, will render your Vista upgrade hosed upon booting it the first time. This, friends, is what as known as a "recipe for disaster". We've already gotten our first ticket in about an issue in Vista, and it quite certainly won't be our last. I'm betting we're going to have to issue some sort of report on common issues in Vista and how to work around them, or we're going to be stuck reinstalling people's operating systems ten thousand times because they didn't uninstall Symantec Antivirus before they upgraded their system. This isn't even taking into account the number of people I've seen buying half-baked "budget" systems that come pre-installed with Vista Home Basic to go along with their Celeron M processors and 512 Mb RAM and onboard graphics (yes, someone brought that base system above in - I'm still trying to wash my hands of it) that will inevitably lead to a sour Vista taste in people's mouths.

If there's any upside to this, it may drive even more people over to the Mac side of the fence. One can only hope.

Here's to a long eternity of bailing users out of poor decision-making and worse operating systems.

Obese

I successfully gained over a pound this weekend just by attending a party on Saturday and attending KFC on Sunday.

In my defense, many were powerless to resist the Stancato's at the party.

Also, regarding this, I switched back to XP myself. It's like putting on a well-used baseball mitt: a little rough around the edges but oh-so-worn-in. Can't say I miss Vista much.

Windows Vista vs. Windows XP

Warning: very long.

Thinking of switching back to XP myself :/

This Is Stupid

Attempt to get more sleep = wake up with a headache.

Cool.

Whoops

This is why I drink regular pop.

Working Hard

Playing with our new Nerf guns.

Also, a user just called in who tried to install Office 2007 and somehow ended up reinstalling Windows.

What.

Diving In Slow Motion

Yeah, playing through Max Payne again.

I had three fillings done yesterday, which required my jaw to be fully extended for something like an hour and a half. As of lunchtime, I can just about open my mouth far enough to slide a sandwich in and take a bite. Hooray for lockjaw.

I scored a free LCD monitor today while performing a computer setup. It was cool with the IT people there, so I guess I lucked out (the power switch is broken so they probably would have tossed it anyways).

Besides that, work is going well. We're at record lows here, in the tens of tickets (fifteen, now). Of course, work is still diligently being done, as you can plainly see by this blog posting. At the very least, unlike Nick, my work does not consist of hours and hours of Wabble - just some Doom every now and then.

Back to reformattings.

Lord God,

Please make it stop.

Isolationism

No travel, no parties, no fireworks, no celebrations. A quiet observance of liberty by my lonesome.

Back to work tomorrow.

Conclusion: Yope

"Scooter" Libby walks free (minus $250000). Obviously, some people are up in arms about this.

This country is a joke.

Today, In The News

Man asks us to make his program install faster. Film at 11.