Thursday, June 14, 2007
Windows Vista, the saga continues...
Ok, so I found out that many of my problems stem not from Windows Vista sucking to an extent that I have not seen many things suck before but from Microsoft doing even more sucking than I have felt that Windows Vista was doing.
Why do I say this? My issues stem from the fact that I have Vista Home Premium installed on my machine and not Business, Enterprise or Ultimate. The ability to access the security policy control panel has been deactivated in VHP and can not be activated or installed. Instead the security changes that would be accessible through it are only able to be altered through editing of registry keys.
I have also found out that another "feature" that has been crippled is the ability to rollback a file's version in Vista. Vista stores backup copies of individual files in the same way that XP stored backups of the system configuration. This allows you to get a past version of any file you have edited back. It also takes up disk space. This has been deactivated in the lower three versions of Vista (Basic, Home Basic and Home Premium. They should be called Sucks the most, Sucks more, and Sucks badly). Deactivated? Well, not so much. Hidden. Apparently if you use the temporary "trial upgrade" thing you can access past copies of files you had edited before you did the trial upgrade. This means that while I can not access these past versions of files at the moment they are being stored on my hard drive and taking up space.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of suckage, I am sure.
I understand offering versions of the software with limitations and fewer features than more expensive versions of the software would have. However, security features shouldn't be one of the things that is turned off, and there shouldn't be disk space used up for a function that you can not access.
This little marketing scheme by MS doesn't make me want to spend more money and upgrade my OS to the Ultimate version. Instead, it makes me want to run as far away from Microsoft as I possibly can.
Microsoft, you have created another Linux user. Good job.
Ok, Sibelius does, indeed, work with Vista as far as I can tell. Now here is to hoping that Ubuntu or Debian like my laptop and that I can get Sibelius to work inside an emulator.
Windows Vista Security
While I appreciate all the trouble MS has gone into making Vista more secure than their past operating systems... I really, really would love to be able to change things that I want to change. I don't want to have to go AROUND things to fix them. I want to have full control of my OS and computer thank you very much Acer and MS.
So I will soon be among the users of Linux, I think. As long as I can get my wireless card to work in Linux. I'll keep Vista to dual boot in case Sibelius doesn't like Linux. Actually, I'm not even sure if Sibelius likes Vista... I should find out soon.
For now my download of Debian continues and I will soon be backing up the entire C drive to DVD, just in case. I'm also going to try to back up that evil hidden restore partition that Acer makes insanely hard to get at.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Stupid Windows Vista
Well, I had hoped that the ISOs for Debian would have downloaded wile I slept last night but apparently after I told Vista not to reboot to install the updates it wanted to install it went ahead and rebooted without my permission. Bad Windows Vista! BAD! Go to your room!
We hates it we does.
I have 2 of the three DVD ISOs for it.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Stupid people on the internet
It was so nice when it was very, very hard for stupid people to get online. But I had a revelation today about how important Myspace is in this new world of a massive population of stupid online. It is the flypaper of the internet, attracting the stupid people and holding them there. One day they will all be trapped there and unable to bother me
Also stupid people built Windows Vista.
Why, why are there links (shortcuts) to folders in my user directory that I can not open from my user directory (apparently I do not have privileges to do so when logged in to the account for which the user directory belongs) but I can open them from their original locations? Why would c:\users\Nick\My Documents\ (My Documents) actually be located in c:\users\Public\Public Documents\ (Public Documents) and only be able to be opened from the real location of it? Why? Why??? Why even put the link there if it isn't able to be accessed?
Klasinc&Loncar Duo (Just trying to help it get picked up by Google spiders, I maintain it for them)