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"Luc The Perverse" <sll_noSpamli...@cc.usu.edu> wrote in message 
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> Have you ever heard a lot of shit about a certain topic and wondered if it 
> is really as bad as everyone says? Perhaps many people out there are 
> followers as I know many people choose important decisions like heath and 
> similar based solely on anecdotal evidence. I, on the other hand, prefer 
> to approach all information with a grain of salt. Me doubting, so called, 
> fundamental aspects of humanity based on my logical approach has caused me 
> to be labeled some pretty nasty things.
>
> But I am not here to talk about my modus operandi. I am here to talk about 
> my wonderful experience with Windows Vista for the past hour and a half. 
> On overclockers.com an article was posted in which Ed (readers of OC will 
> know him) said he was buying a computer that was coming with Vista and he 
> was going to pay extra to buy an OEM copy of Windows XP to protect his 
> poor innocent friend from the evils he doesn't know about.
>
> Of course, I chuckled. I enjoy Ed's atypical input any day. But in the 
> back of my mind, like most outrageous things I read, a little flag goes up 
> and says it can't really be all that bad.
>
> Well, I hate to break it to you. It REALLY is that bad.
>
> Holy Jesus Fucking Christ I want to kill this OS!!! Vista made me so mad 
> that I was shaking violently and couldn't hold the mouse. Mind you, no 
> human has ever made me that mad.
>
> So I have a job to do - move some files from one computer to another. I 
> take a look at the "new" computer and immediately notice that it's . . 
> just not quite right. Oh God! It's Vista. Well, I knew it was coming some 
> time, so I guess I'd better give it a shot.
>
> So, I am trying to copy some files over to the new computer into my 
> documents. I am moving a file called "My Music" and Windows stops me. It 
> says the files inside the My Music folder will be placed inside the "music 
> folder". So, I'm muttering, looking for the button that's says fuck off 
> and it isn't there. My choices are continue and cancel. WTF? I decide to 
> do a little experiment; I rename the folder and try to copy it in - works 
> fine. So, now windows is telling me that I cannot copy a folder named "My 
> Music" into My Documents??? Where else can't I copy it to? How many CPU 
> cycles are being dedicated to ensuring that what I am telling the computer 
> to do is not what it's going to fucking do? Who does it think it is? I AM 
> LORD AND MASTER OVER MY COMPUTER. Don't tell me you can't do that. (Damn, 
> I sound like Steve Allan)
>
> Is there a list of "forbidden actions" somewhere? Am I allowed to name 
> files "Bill Gates Sucks" or type "Revert to Windows XP" in a Word 
> document?

If there is such a feature, I am intrigue to know more. Folder and user 
rights permissions is what we administrators have been dreaming off since 
day one. For corporate environment, the users are not supposed to have 
administrator's account. THE IT DEPARTMENT IS THE LORD AND MASTER! :

> Fuck it, whatever. You know - it doesn't want a folder called My Music, I 
> can get over that. So, a big ugly ass Try AOL icon is staring me in the 
> face. So I try to delete the bastard and I get some weird Access Denied 
> error. Bof! I remember this, people talking about the "four notifications 
> before deleting an icon" so I go out on a quest to turn off the warning. 
> Except, it's not a warning. I actually did not have permission to remove 
> the icon from my desktop (I found this out after some work) The 
> administrator has to grant me that right - and unfortunately, he didn't 
> leave his password anywhere around.

BAH! Big deal! Even if I were to have read your ranting thus far, I would 
still agree with Bill Gates and install Vista anyway. Users need to be 
controlled (with an iron fists if I may add :P) and that is final!

> You have got to be shitting me?? Users don't own their desktop? (I can 
> understand in a corporate environment where changing desktop icons might 
> want to be explicitly denied - but to deny it by default for non admin 
> accounts. I mean seriously, big-time WTF) I was finally able to hide 
> desktop icons, thank god!

We administrators gets kinda edgy whenever a user calls up and says that 
their icon to the ERP system is missing from their desktop. It makes you 
feel like taking out a shot gun and blow them away in pieces. Of course if 
the request were to be coming from your computer illiterate boss, you have 
to be happy to oblidge (with some self swearing).

> So I am looking in My Documents, swearing like fucking Dennis Leary. So 
> off, to the left, there is this bar in every explorer window - some 
> favorite shit. Once again Windows has decided for me what my favorites 
> are - which of course is reassuring in an age where I am no longer allowed 
> to have preferences. So I try to shrink it to make it go away. Doesn't 
> work. Right clicking doesn't work. There is no fucking menu bar anywhere 
> to get to folder options. Go to control panel (which has had a seizure 
> since windows XP) and I find the folder options in there, and change to 
> classic windows folders and open ever link in a new window option. It 
> doesn't go away. So, close it down, reopen. Still not gone. Try to open a 
> new window . . IT OPENS IN THE SAME FUCKING WINDOW!!!!! And there is no 
> god damned up button, just forward and backwards arrows. (Incidentally, I 
> did finally find a way to get rid of it, but I have to interact with one 
> of those gay drop down button things, which I've trained myself to ignore 
> otherwise. And you can get the menu back by clicking alt, but it goes away 
> as soon as you do anything with the window. You have to have favorites and 
> shitty toolbars shoved down your throat, but if you want something useful 
> like a fucking menu, it has to be gone.)

What feature is that? My time spend with Vista was kinda limited.

> I had more problems related to not having access to admin account. I 
> couldn't install real codec. Yay! You can't do anything - this will 
> certainly keep users safe. Next week - new initiative to induce paralysis 
> in everyone 16 years of age or older promises to virtually eliminate drunk 
> driving! And the best part, is that even with all these things blocked - I 
> was still able to run a copy of putty! I mean - I can't delete a desktop 
> Icon, but I can run an EXE file I downloaded of the net. Whooopdeedo! I 
> mean, come on!

Well, you're not supposed to play with Codecs at work :p

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Steven Ung
Return of the Ignorant Asian!