Vista is a bunch of shitty tools whose reason to exist is to drive you nuts.

As soon as I started Vista I realized that having the harddisk led blinking every often would have driven me crazy in a couple of days, then I found out that my laptop had Norton installed and it is a very well known fact that after you install something from Symantec you simply can’t get rid of it, they love you and they’ll stick with you….forever.

But you know….I have paid for a license.So the next thing was trying to shrink that smart 120Gigs partition and try to make things a little bit more clever and wow! Vista as its own partition utlity that actually is able to shrink the only filesystem it can read, for once it seemed that MS had done something almost right. Nope. That Shrink utility is (again) stupid and the best that it can do is shrinking your partition to half of what it was so I had to reboot with gparted live who actually did the job. Not completely because Vista didn’t like those changes and some repairing utility started ( by itself) that after 3 hours let me boot Vista. So as a start if Packard Bell had provided me a damn windows install cd I was done in 1 hour by instead they had to do things the cool way with their own Master DVD.( that you must make it yourself and if you lose it your fucked because you can’t make another one).

Then usability: Vista is secure , it comes with a *nix like hierarchy , in fact when you want to do operations that could potentially destroy your computer your screen turns gray and you have to click two times rather than one and in my home this is a cracker safe environment.

Software: the only software I use on windows is SolidWorks that does’t work on my Vista, no wonder why in April the solidworks guys said that they are going to make a linux version of it (maybe because they use opengl?).

Solution: format and classical winxp install on is tiny 10Gigs in NTFS and the rest in something that Virus called windows can’t understand.

P.S. btw the laptop itself as far i can tell is not bad, the Atheros wireless seems less powerful that the intel one….

Weird …..the page rank misteries.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post concerning how much vista is expansive compared to computers shipped with linux where you just pay the hardware and you get a bunch of good free software.

Nowadays when you go to a computer shop you find a lot of laptops with big “Ready for Vista” stickers so i called my article “Get Ready for Windows Vista” that is in italian “Preparati a Windows Vista”, just for the sake of joking .

It happens that if you search for “Preparati per Windows Vista” instead of seeing results from shops, newspapers, magazines that actually talk about getting ready for vista you see the first result from Microsoft and the second one is from my blog where I actually tell people that buying Vista is stupid, expensive and in the case you still want it I left there a link to a financial institute that make loans and I called it “Preparati a Windows Vista”.

Here you are , “Get Ready for” or “Preparati a ” Windows Vista” using google.

P.S. What happens when you don’t know this stuff and you look for “Get ready for Linux”? And mostly “How the hell is possible?”

Ubuntu Computer:

Processor: AMD Sempron TM 3000+ – 1,8 GHz – L2 cache: 256 kB

RAM : 512 MB DDR400 (max. 2 GB)

Hard disk: 80 GB – SATA – 7200 RPM

Video: Integrated GeForce 6

Audio: Integrated Realtec ALC655

Ports: 1 x parallel – 1 x serial – VGA – PS/2 Keyboard – PS/2 Mouse – 6 x USB (2 front; 4 back) – RJ45 LAN jack

Drives: floppy – combo: DVDROM / CDRW

Accessoires: Keyboard (Belgian Azerty) / Mouse (optical)

Operating system: [tag]Linux[/tag]

[tag]Software[/tag]: Openoffice, Koffice, Kmail, Kontact, Cad, Thunderbird, Amsn,
Gimp, Groupware, un vero firewall.

Prezzo: 510Euro

[tag]Windows[/tag] [tag]Vista[/tag] Ultimate (solo software senza Office senza antivirus) : 570 Euro (misco , 1/2/2007)

PREPARATI A WINDOWS VISTA