Okay.
So this is about the third time that Windows has broken my laptop's ability to connect to the internet.
Currently, I have a dual partitioned laptop and desktop --both with Windows XP (which actually never gives me problems) and Mandriva (Linux) on it. At work I am using Mandriva only...for the sake of things actually working.
Windows Vista on my laptop is another story. I have about the same sentiment towards Vista as I do the piece of garbage that was Windows Millennium Edition. Whereas Windows ME was stupid outright due to the brilliant idea to make an OS with no drivers, Vista is garbage on a new level.
Vista combines an inability to do simple tasks such as copy files from a network directory to my desktop without administrator permission--which can't be accessed no matter how hard you try--with a series of slowdowns, irrational functionality, and updates that break things rather than fix them.
So my solution is to avoid Windows like the plague right now, though a current client is desperately insisting we program within a Microsoft environment rather than an Apache environment. Then I will have to face the beast again; superfluous code and all.
On a vain tip, I must confess that I really enjoy Microsoft Office 2007 for the aesthetic factor and increased functionality. This is great for classes--notetaking and all. If Openoffice were to develop the same look/capabilities, then I think I would be complete. Oh well, at least I have a stable OS to develop from. I'll count my blessings in that.
Anyway the proverb still stands: Linux-you have to break. Windows-breaks itself.
So this is about the third time that Windows has broken my laptop's ability to connect to the internet.
Currently, I have a dual partitioned laptop and desktop --both with Windows XP (which actually never gives me problems) and Mandriva (Linux) on it. At work I am using Mandriva only...for the sake of things actually working.
Windows Vista on my laptop is another story. I have about the same sentiment towards Vista as I do the piece of garbage that was Windows Millennium Edition. Whereas Windows ME was stupid outright due to the brilliant idea to make an OS with no drivers, Vista is garbage on a new level.
Vista combines an inability to do simple tasks such as copy files from a network directory to my desktop without administrator permission--which can't be accessed no matter how hard you try--with a series of slowdowns, irrational functionality, and updates that break things rather than fix them.
So my solution is to avoid Windows like the plague right now, though a current client is desperately insisting we program within a Microsoft environment rather than an Apache environment. Then I will have to face the beast again; superfluous code and all.
On a vain tip, I must confess that I really enjoy Microsoft Office 2007 for the aesthetic factor and increased functionality. This is great for classes--notetaking and all. If Openoffice were to develop the same look/capabilities, then I think I would be complete. Oh well, at least I have a stable OS to develop from. I'll count my blessings in that.
Anyway the proverb still stands: Linux-you have to break. Windows-breaks itself.
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