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.

I Was Born to Go Down Fighting

So yeah.

Via the omnipresent Digg: Vista is here. Who cares?

I just finished my first class of the semester, USSY 220 Digital Storytelling. All in all, not a bad course and I wouldn't mind reccommending it to other people. It's fairly work-free as far as seminars go. Plus, you get to make goofy videos (I'll resize my group's and post it eventually). The rest of the semester's classes shall proceed to pass into the night with nary a care. All I care about now is a.) finishing the season of Heroes so far and b.) exams.

Time now for c.) sleep.

Vista and PNRP

A day or two old, but interesting: every Vista computer can (via the magic of PNRP and IPv6) have its own domain name. Basically, anyone using Vista can relatively easily host their own website with a domain name using IIS, as well as access anyone else's website who is doing the same.

I'm sure someone will try hosting some awesome site with no router and their firewall turned off and no antivirus...

New Vistas

I downloaded Vista 5744 and am currently trying it out on my Inspiron. All I can say is, it runs a crapton better than the first release candidate did and actually includes drivers for most of my hardware. Quake 3 won't run, though...

So, birthday. I guess I'm 20 years old now. My mom and sisters came to Case and brought some goodies as well as a present and birthday cake. The present was a pair of AKG K81DJ headphones, which are performing admirably. We then went shopping for random odds and ends (a new umbrella since my old one got shredded via wind, and new warm slippers), followed by dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. I then proceeded to have the most expensve steak I've ever eaten. Spoiler: it was delicious.

Laura got me a Digg t-shirt, which is awesome.

Now to continue doing nothing...