Etherpunk

So, yet again, I'm left disappointed with Vista Business. Sure, it's pretty. Sure, it has many features that I enjoy that XP doesn't have (out of the box).

• It does not have proper OpenGL support (or at least with my Radeon X1600 Mobility, for my Sager NP 5760 Notebook).
• It's still a good bit of a memory hog
• Watching clips from across my wireless network is a pain in the ass at times. More specifically, everything *but* watching them is a pain in the ass. For example, right-clicking on a file to see how big it is or wanting to append it to WMP.
• iTunes still seems flakey is shit. In fact, I've even had it lock up explorer pretty bad -- to the point bringing up task manager was impossible (or took longer than 5 minutes; which at that point I deemed it never coming up) and required a reboot via holding down the power button for 4-5 seconds... This, at one point, caused my iPod to lock up and I had to Google to see WTF happened and I then learned how to force iPod's to reboot.. which seemingly fixed my iPod that was locked up.
• I almost feel like learning .NET 3.5, the new compact framework for .NET 3.5, and all that new fancy stuff is a little too bleeding edge. In fact, I'm seriously considering bailing off the .NET train and going to some OS independent language -- perhaps Mono or Java. I have no problem programming in VI or notepad. IDE's are nice, but I'm not willing to buy Visual Studio 2008 when it comes out, I think. We'll see if I actually hold to that though...
• Not enough vendors are caring about Vista users *fucking still*. Some are still pointing fingers... yeah.. I got a finger for them... (this one isn't Microsoft's fault, but it still hurts my impression on Vista)
• If I leave my printer unplugged (from the USB) for a few minutes, when I plug it back in I have to reconfigure the damn fax... every...freaking...time. WTF is up with that? Again, probably not Microsoft's fault -- probably HP's. Perhaps even mine for missing some "save this forever-until-it-becomes-rust-or-bad-plastic" setting...
• This one is VERY minor, but something I noticed -- Gimp doesn't take entirely correct screen shots -- the mouse pointer seems to have a strange black'ish circle or something. I wonder why...

So, at this point, one may be wondering why I'm even running a Microsoft OS instead of Linux. The answer is -- Microsoft Office 2007 rules. I really enjoy it. It took me a while to get used to it, but I really do enjoy it. I don't recommend it for people who are slow on computers, however, but I do recommend it for advanced users. Another reason is I'm hoping SP1 will fix a lot of the weirdness, although I doubt it. I want to give them the best shot they have. Alternatively, I could just wait until June '08 and see where it's at there. I seem to hack off the "activiation" wizard because I format and reinstall every 6 months or so... they don't like that. They can bite me. Without teeth. Gums only. :-P