Let me start my saying today’s topic is not about vermin, although the occasional carcass has been found in the basement.
I really want to expound the the virtues of Windows Vista:
Hear the crickets?
Oh, that’s right, there are no flipping virtues, because it’s a bug ridden, poorly written operating system that requires so many work arounds and incessant tinkering that it could drive a person insane!
Here’s the message that Windows put up on my screen yesterday:
OK, I took some creative license, but it may as well have put this message up.
You see, apparently Vista doesn’t like it when you have too many things plugged in, and by too many, I mean three things:
A mouse
A printer
A Camera Cord
It seems Vista is a weakling that has to be coddled. So when I unplugged my camera, the laptop gave a proverbial burp, and said, oh sorry, you must want to use that tiny laptop mousepad the turns your hand into a claw instead of your nice ergonomic mouse, right?
So here’s my workaround:
So for now, I can get a mouse to work by plugging it into a USB, and then plug the wireless USB into that USB, and then plug the USB into the laptop USB.
Got that?
Next step perhaps:
It’s really so not on my Christmas list.
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That looks like the setup that spent the Holidays last year on my dining room table….so NOT festive.
I can’t even use my own computer this year because the port for the power cord is broken for the third time in 3 years.
If you want to drive my brother crazy, go to Staples in Cambridge. He’s the Asst Store Mgr. He’ll be the one trying to stab people’s eye’s out with a Sharpie.
I can only imagine what your poor brother is going through at this time of
year! At least my PC is stashed away in an office upstairs so it doesn’t wreck my karma.
I just got a new laptop loaded with Windows 7, so I thankfully jumped from XP without having to dip my toes in the cesspool of Vista!
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