[TriLUG] Rant: VISTA OMG PLEASE SHOOT ME

[Douglas A. Whitfield]

I had TONS of issues like this when I was running Vista at work for test
purposes..ESPECIALLY when working over Novell network shares (I know,
Novell, everybody's favorite company...).  Though we're Windows only here
except for the IT playground, the people in charge here have wisely sworn
off Vista for the time being.  Not that I'm not thrilled to see Microsoft go
down the tubes, but lets up for all the people that have Vista forced upon
them that SP1 fixes some of this nonsense.

Soon I'll be getting a new machine at work and will be giving a Vista
another shot while having my trusty ubuntu on my laptop.  We'll see how it
goes.

As far as Outlook 2007, I like it better than 2003, though I've had more
trouble with IMAP.  The quote from our system admin here was something like,
"Microsoft not fully IMAP compatible?  Why, it can't be" (fully sarcastic in
case that's lost).  I've played around with Evolution for Windows but never
got it to actually work.  The (unfortunately closed) Evolution plugin for
Exchange servers interests me greatly.  For now, I'm happy with Thunderbird
in ubuntu and XP.


On 9/11/07, Cristóbal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Yet another tale of Vista weirdness:
>
> Last night I was in a classroom for a work session with a student
> group. I decided to put some music on, so I got out my keys. I've got
> a 1GB USB stick on my keychain, and it has three albums of music on
> it. I stick it in the machine at the front of the class. Vista gives
> me an XP-looking popup asking me what I want to do with the new drive.
> So far, so good. Everything sounds normal, right?
>
> So's not to leave my keys dangling and risk leaving them, I copied the
> contents of the music folder to a new folder on the desktop. Still
> kosher.
>
> I highlight all the songs, right click and "play" and up comes Windows
> Media Player. No weirdness yet.
>
> Meeting wraps up, everybody heads for the door. I kill WMP and then
> right click on the new folder on the desktop, delete. There's a
> progress bar.... and then a permissions error? WTF? Try again: right
> click, "Move to Recycle Bin" or whatever the verbiage is. Again,
> permissions error. Huh?
>
> Open folder, highlight all contents, right click, move to recycle bin.
> That works. (?!)
>
> Close folder, right click, move to recycle bin. That works. (?!)
>
> WTF was that?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Cristóbal M. Palmer
> celebrating 15 years of sunsite/metalab/ibiblio:
> http://tinyurl.com/2o8hj4



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