Why can't just ONE SINGLE networking product company make a pledge to stop cutting corners on quality and looking for ways to make a quick buck off their users and just deliver decent hardware!?!?!?!?!?! Don't ANY of these companies' management chains have the SLIGHTEST bit of fiscal common sense?
I support a large network of Dell machines (both Enterprise and Home Use) and have never had a problem with AVG in 4 years of use like you're having. I can count the number of Inspirons that I've purchased for users and the only thing thing that comes to mind is that you are using the Dell Wireless radio (Rebadged Broadcom?) rather then one of the Intel wireless units.
If you do have one of the Intel cards inside your Inspiron, download the latest driver from Intel (the one on Dell's website will be way out of date)
I've seen a range and performance boost going from the Dell 11.5 driver to the Intel 12.1x driver for my Lat D830 which has the 3945ABG card.
If you seriously think you are going to exceed 250GB a month, spend the extra money and get a business account. If you are that heavy of an internet user, moving to 70 bucks a month or so shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Guess what, I have the Comcast Business 16/2 Account at home - and we got the "You now get 250GB of monthly bandwidth " e-mail just like everyone else....
In the first case, he should be removed from his position by the shareholders ASAP, as he is damaging his companies profits. In the second case, he should be removed ASAP and charged with racketeering as well.
Ed Whitacre was "removed" from his position in June of 2007 when he retired with a $158 MILLION golden handshake deal, so I think the shareholders ended up getting shafted in that whole deal...
Whitacre did get hauled into a Senate Anti-Trust hearing in 2006 due to the AT&T and BellSouth merger about something with the NSA and privacy or some such.
We looked at Vista and tried to get it to install on some of our baseline hardware and it didn't run all that fantastically (no surprise).... but when it refused to run with our version of our Project Management Tool (Prolog) without a massive forklift upgrade, nor would it run with our primary scheduling software (SureTrak)... It was doomed. At that point, Vista is relagated to a small partition on my dual boot laptop and that's about it.
I'd be very surprised if anyone in Construction IT is using Vista at all.....Anyone in IT in the Construction arena out there? (Sit down Forguer, I already know you aren't:)
Note to John Riccitiello and the meatheads at EA: Take a page from Brad Wardell and the folks at Stardock Entertainment - DRM doesn't work - his words were....
"Blaming piracy is easy. But it hides other underlying causes. When Sins (of the Solar Empire) popped up as the #1 best selling game at retail a couple weeks ago, a game that has no copy protect whatsoever, that should tell you that piracy is not the primary issue."
I love SotSE and it's about as hassle-free of a game as it gets. WHY does nobody else other then Wardell and his group get this?
No the Network Gnomes and Fairies did it....you know, the ones that make backups go bad, servers tip over in the middle of the night, when they get really drunk, they make your data magically find ways into the hands of the evil Chinese hackers.....
Apparentely this foreign minister needs to go back to Marketing 101 - he missed the week where "how to lie convincingly" was taught.
Disclaimers 1) I am an American who went to Australia (Melbourne) 2) In 1998
I was a SysAdmin at the time and the 1st thing I needed to learn quick fast was there is a MAJOR difference between an American resume and a Australian (or Commonwealth, perhaps?) CV. My American resume wouldn't have landed me anything because of the formatting and the fact that they were looking for. (at the time, I had to convert my 2 page resume into a 10 page CV) and I expounded on on every detail of work I did. I'm sure things have changed in 10 years, so YMMV.
Someone mentioned the laws of what your visa allows. Forgive my ignorance, but aren't folks from the Commonwealth countries allowed to work in other Commonwealth countries with few or no strings? (this was pre 9/11 so I'm sure things have changed) As an American on a Student Visa (I was finishing my undergrad work) I was only legally allowed to work 20 hours per week. The recruiter I worked for found a loophole and I put in 30+ a week. Probably not fully legal but my situation changed where that was a good thing and it didn't affect my grades so it didn't matter as far as I was concerned.
I applied for 3 positions - One I wasn't qualified/interested in, the 2nd was working in the computer lab at the university I attended (Swinburne) but I was overkill overqualified for and I personally believe the head engineer didn't want a lab rat who knew more about Netware and NDS then he did. 3rd job was perfect and I learned an awful lot about Australian Law working at the largest ambulance chasing firm around and put in my 6 months there before going home. The recruiter I worked for was chasing a large contract at Telstra that they'd need lots of bodies for that they were going to bring be back on the Aussie version of an H1-B visa but Telstra awarded the contract to another recruiter and by that point, I'd re-established myself back in the States anyway.
I think one of the big things that impressed the hiring manager where I ended up was the fact I'd actually paid attention to things going on in Australia at the time: When the recruiter took a friendly swipe at me regarding Bill Clinton and his philandering ways, I just said two words: Pauline Hanson. I'd learned something about Footy (and barracked for Collingwood since they had the least offensive uniforms, and the GF followed Hawthorn, who had the most offensive uniforms) and it didn't hurt that he was also a Collingwood fan. I could have a conversation outside of IT regarding what was going on in Melbourne at the time. I guess being a foreigner with a clue helped.
Oh, and I learned -before- I got off the plane that hoopsnakes and drop bears are as real as the chances of Ballmer and Gates getting awarded the Sexiest Couple in IT.:)
What I can really say is know your shit, in and outside of the IT world, figure out what's going on in the local area and be able to talk about it. That's what worked for me.
Find something... ANYTHING... do to outside of IT/Computers/sedentary shit....amazing how it works.
Me? I take care of 3 issues by playing ball (softball/baseball/arena softball) six days a week, 1 to 3 games per night.
1) It's great exercise
2) It's even better of a stress burner... nothing like hitting a round object with a bat and running around the bases.... and if the other team gets chirpy, going in spikes high...
I know EXACTLY the problem you speak of....The whole Moto/Nextel hardware lineup is... well, a waste of PCBs. I had an i58 that did exactly the same thing, but I didn't toss mine through a windshield, I just quit the employer who forced it upon me.
Working for a construction company, we're sort of tied to Nextel since our entire industry keeps Nextel afloat as construction crews love the radio, whereas IT Managers tolerate it, and the fact Sprint is nearly giving away their service. I dropped my radio enabled Nextel Crackberry in favor of a radio-less Sprint Moto Q which I can't complain too much about - since they changed the plan that had me at an all-you-can-talk/text/data/etc at around 300 a month, to 99.99 a month, I'll take it.
That said, the Mil-Spec 815F specification is utter bullshit. These units might not explode into a million pieces if you run it over with an excavator (surprising enough, I've had 3 brought back to me after they met their untimely demises while trying to become one with the tracks of dozers, cranes, etc) and they DON'T break - but die because the LCD has been compressed to the point of being unreadable) but even the newer units (I355/I5xx series units) fall apart when you compress them (IE lean on it) as it pits the SIM card and if it loses contact, the unit immeditately shuts off or complains about "INSERT SIM".... I have 96 handsets under my control and at one point was replacing 5-15 a month due to high failure rates due to this pitting issue that should not be a fucking problem in the first place. Sure, you can't get dust in them, but if your 180lb ass leans on it, or you sqeeze the damned phone too tightly (Construction Supers usually have big hands and do so without trying to) you'll pit the SIM and the $300.00 i580 turns into a small bookend, or one needs to open the unit up and bend down the SIM carriage so it makes better contact with your now pitted SIM. And the clips they charge you $20.00 for break if you look at them sideways.
Pre-EA DICE had a fantastic thing going - BF2 was the last decent product of the Battlefield Series - EA comes along and we wonder why 2142 is a heap of shit....
Yeah, just what my Moto Q9c needs - it's sluggish enough with EVDO Rev 0 with a rather friendly implementation of IE to boot....
Until handset vendors can get an ARM processor or equivelent that has some real horsepower and a memory footprint to support it, I'll leave the Flash on my desktop....or not.
SigmaTel
For x86-based computers: Sthda.sys - version 5.10.5762.0 or earlier
For x64-based computers: Sthda64.sys - version 5.10.5762.0 or earlier SigmaTel
For x86-based computers: Stwrt.sys - version 6.10.5511.0 or earlier
For x64-based computers: Stwrt64.sys - version 6.10.5511.0 or earlier
Biometric (Fingerprint) Sensors
UPEK Fingerprint Sensor with the Tcusb.sys driver file - version 1.9.2.99 or earlier
OK, so that wipes off the entire later model Dell Latitude line from at least the D820 onward (including my D830)
Dell and their hardware subsystem partners don't have appeared to addressed this yet....
For the D820/D830 series the latest SigmaTel drivers are still at v.5.10.0.5515 and the UPEK FS is version v.1.9.2.74
Glad I didn't install it yet.
Get on the ball Michael, Billy and Chair Smasher are one step ahead/behind you now.....
I like it too - I like noise so much I decided to skip rather quiet SATA drives in my box for a pair of 15K U320 SCSI Cheetah's in RAID0. I always know what the box is doing....from 5 feet away:)
I could care less. For all intents and purposes, Trend's software and hardware (Yes, they do build appliances) is, in my opinion, is the best option going for real AV protection. It catches what it can catch, does not bog down your box and when/if you need to remove it, it goes away with ZERO fuss, far unlike that of McAfee and Symantec products.
Trend did have some issues on the consumer payware download where they sort of hid the fact they would re-charge your credit card next year for your renewal and you needed to jump through hoops to undo that, but have since fixed it and when you go to purchase it, there's a link to decide how long you want to renew and if you want to auto-renew/charge your card.
As far as their being called a patent troll by the FOSS community...I think people forgot what a real troll is - Like NTP or the group has recently begun to sue every smartphone manufacturer under the sun (it was on/. a week or so ago). Trend writes the software and builds the hardware they patented. Good for them. Sue Clam if they ripped you off and choose not to license your technology *like most of the major players in the AV industry is currently doing*. They have every right to protect their patent which isn't some vague idea they're camping on but are are actively developing against. Last time I checked, that's what patents were for.
"Clearly biased?" How about clearly dumbass....
1st of all, let's set aside some things. This guy's "test" machine is a laughable 5+ year old dinosaur...If I put Vista on a 5 year old machine, of course things aren't going to work well/at all. Hell, putting Vista on a 5 hour old machine that just came off the fab plant and you're going to get mixed results.
Some of his game choices are suspect. Soldat? I can't find anywhere where it says that it will run under Vista anyway - lots of mention of DirectX 8.1 which is, what, 2004? era DirectX so never compatible with native Vista anyway, it appears...Don't see anything regarding "Compatibility Mode" testing which is what Microsoft codes into everything to give some level of Backward Compatibility.
Civ IV: Yet another game that came out before Vista did. I have the Steam Version which is just fine under VistUlt32- slow, but it works. Might have something to do with his POS he's testing it on.
DOSBOX game testing? C'mon...DOS level games....?
If he really wants to get close, find some games that he doesn't cherry pick that were designed 2 years or more before Vista hit the street...How well does say, HL2 run on it? or HL1?
I'm all for bashing Microsoft - Hell, I'm an IT Manager in a Wintel Shop, and bashing where MS screws up is fine by me. This article was just flaimbaitious(tm) crap.
I'm sending the author a bill for my time....
If I recall, there's an "idol" in South Bend Indiana, at this small little college called...what is it now, Notre Dame, I think it is...and this "idol", has this name... Touchdown Jesus....How do Football and Church NOT go together?
The NFL needs to go to Hell....literally...
Frys DID move in - or as close as you can get...The CompUSA that was in Roseville has the Roseville Frys about 4 blocks away on North Sunrise across from the AutoMall.
There were *TWO* versions of NT 4.0 SP6 - 6.0 which broke things like... Lotus Notes (which I supported at the time) so MSFT came out with 6a since the only thing they fixed was to restore support for Notes working logged in as a non-admin.
As the IT Manager for a medium sized regional construction company, I've played with Vista for a year and frankly, I get frustrated with it - and if I do, I can't imagine how my userbase which has computer savy ranging from "I have servers at home too!" to "How do I turn this on again?" and there's no sense overburdening one's self with a massive amount of support calls with the lesser skilled people fighting with Vista's UI and all the other traps in the OS itself. (Hey, these people build buildings for a living, they shouldn't need to fight the OS on their laptops)
Vista might not be the utter stinking turd that ME was but it's a painful bowel movement nonetheless.
Here's to hoping Microsoft gets on the clue bus with Windows 7...
I've been a subscriber to both the print versions of PCG and MaxPC for something like 8 years now. Back in the early days (I remember the 1st one I looked at had a picture of a then-hot Stevie Case on the cover - maybe I was thinking it was Playboy) you could always count on the same certain writing styles from the various editors - nowdays, I think the EIC moves on every quarter. I think PCG has been through 3 EICs this year - and the current one was a new employee 12-18 months ago.
Hang around for another month Kristen, you actually can form a sentence better then the overly full of himself Vederman ever could.
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I support a large network of Dell machines (both Enterprise and Home Use) and have never had a problem with AVG in 4 years of use like you're having. I can count the number of Inspirons that I've purchased for users and the only thing thing that comes to mind is that you are using the Dell Wireless radio (Rebadged Broadcom?) rather then one of the Intel wireless units.
If you do have one of the Intel cards inside your Inspiron, download the latest driver from Intel (the one on Dell's website will be way out of date)
I've seen a range and performance boost going from the Dell 11.5 driver to the Intel 12.1x driver for my Lat D830 which has the 3945ABG card.
YMMV
BM
Lee Iacocca, is that you?? http://www.calbaptist.edu/dskubik/pinto.htm/
If you seriously think you are going to exceed 250GB a month, spend the extra money and get a business account. If you are that heavy of an internet user, moving to 70 bucks a month or so shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Guess what, I have the Comcast Business 16/2 Account at home - and we got the "You now get 250GB of monthly bandwidth " e-mail just like everyone else....
Ed Whitacre was "removed" from his position in June of 2007 when he retired with a $158 MILLION golden handshake deal, so I think the shareholders ended up getting shafted in that whole deal... Whitacre did get hauled into a Senate Anti-Trust hearing in 2006 due to the AT&T and BellSouth merger about something with the NSA and privacy or some such.
I'm sure JT is happily dancing somewhere in Florida as well, just on his twisted principles.
We looked at Vista and tried to get it to install on some of our baseline hardware and it didn't run all that fantastically (no surprise) .... but when it refused to run with our version of our Project Management Tool (Prolog) without a massive forklift upgrade, nor would it run with our primary scheduling software (SureTrak) ... It was doomed. At that point, Vista is relagated to a small partition on my dual boot laptop and that's about it.
I'd be very surprised if anyone in Construction IT is using Vista at all.....Anyone in IT in the Construction arena out there? (Sit down Forguer, I already know you aren't :)
One little problem - your DI-102 unit is EOL'ed and no longer available.
Is anyone REALLY that surprised?
Note to John Riccitiello and the meatheads at EA: Take a page from Brad Wardell and the folks at Stardock Entertainment - DRM doesn't work - his words were....
"Blaming piracy is easy. But it hides other underlying causes. When Sins (of the Solar Empire) popped up as the #1 best selling game at retail a couple weeks ago, a game that has no copy protect whatsoever, that should tell you that piracy is not the primary issue."
I love SotSE and it's about as hassle-free of a game as it gets. WHY does nobody else other then Wardell and his group get this?
No the Network Gnomes and Fairies did it....you know, the ones that make backups go bad, servers tip over in the middle of the night, when they get really drunk, they make your data magically find ways into the hands of the evil Chinese hackers.....
Apparentely this foreign minister needs to go back to Marketing 101 - he missed the week where "how to lie convincingly" was taught.
Disclaimers
:)
1) I am an American who went to Australia (Melbourne)
2) In 1998
I was a SysAdmin at the time and the 1st thing I needed to learn quick fast was there is a MAJOR difference between an American resume and a Australian (or Commonwealth, perhaps?) CV. My American resume wouldn't have landed me anything because of the formatting and the fact that they were looking for. (at the time, I had to convert my 2 page resume into a 10 page CV) and I expounded on on every detail of work I did. I'm sure things have changed in 10 years, so YMMV.
Someone mentioned the laws of what your visa allows. Forgive my ignorance, but aren't folks from the Commonwealth countries allowed to work in other Commonwealth countries with few or no strings? (this was pre 9/11 so I'm sure things have changed) As an American on a Student Visa (I was finishing my undergrad work) I was only legally allowed to work 20 hours per week. The recruiter I worked for found a loophole and I put in 30+ a week. Probably not fully legal but my situation changed where that was a good thing and it didn't affect my grades so it didn't matter as far as I was concerned.
I applied for 3 positions - One I wasn't qualified/interested in, the 2nd was working in the computer lab at the university I attended (Swinburne) but I was overkill overqualified for and I personally believe the head engineer didn't want a lab rat who knew more about Netware and NDS then he did. 3rd job was perfect and I learned an awful lot about Australian Law working at the largest ambulance chasing firm around and put in my 6 months there before going home. The recruiter I worked for was chasing a large contract at Telstra that they'd need lots of bodies for that they were going to bring be back on the Aussie version of an H1-B visa but Telstra awarded the contract to another recruiter and by that point, I'd re-established myself back in the States anyway.
I think one of the big things that impressed the hiring manager where I ended up was the fact I'd actually paid attention to things going on in Australia at the time: When the recruiter took a friendly swipe at me regarding Bill Clinton and his philandering ways, I just said two words: Pauline Hanson. I'd learned something about Footy (and barracked for Collingwood since they had the least offensive uniforms, and the GF followed Hawthorn, who had the most offensive uniforms) and it didn't hurt that he was also a Collingwood fan. I could have a conversation outside of IT regarding what was going on in Melbourne at the time. I guess being a foreigner with a clue helped.
Oh, and I learned -before- I got off the plane that hoopsnakes and drop bears are as real as the chances of Ballmer and Gates getting awarded the Sexiest Couple in IT.
What I can really say is know your shit, in and outside of the IT world, figure out what's going on in the local area and be able to talk about it. That's what worked for me.
Find something ... ANYTHING ... do to outside of IT/Computers/sedentary shit....amazing how it works.
... nothing like hitting a round object with a bat and running around the bases .... and if the other team gets chirpy, going in spikes high ...
Me? I take care of 3 issues by playing ball (softball/baseball/arena softball) six days a week, 1 to 3 games per night.
1) It's great exercise
2) It's even better of a stress burner
3) It prevents 16 hour workdays....
I know EXACTLY the problem you speak of....The whole Moto/Nextel hardware lineup is ... well, a waste of PCBs. I had an i58 that did exactly the same thing, but I didn't toss mine through a windshield, I just quit the employer who forced it upon me.
.... I have 96 handsets under my control and at one point was replacing 5-15 a month due to high failure rates due to this pitting issue that should not be a fucking problem in the first place. Sure, you can't get dust in them, but if your 180lb ass leans on it, or you sqeeze the damned phone too tightly (Construction Supers usually have big hands and do so without trying to) you'll pit the SIM and the $300.00 i580 turns into a small bookend, or one needs to open the unit up and bend down the SIM carriage so it makes better contact with your now pitted SIM. And the clips they charge you $20.00 for break if you look at them sideways.
Working for a construction company, we're sort of tied to Nextel since our entire industry keeps Nextel afloat as construction crews love the radio, whereas IT Managers tolerate it, and the fact Sprint is nearly giving away their service. I dropped my radio enabled Nextel Crackberry in favor of a radio-less Sprint Moto Q which I can't complain too much about - since they changed the plan that had me at an all-you-can-talk/text/data/etc at around 300 a month, to 99.99 a month, I'll take it.
That said, the Mil-Spec 815F specification is utter bullshit. These units might not explode into a million pieces if you run it over with an excavator (surprising enough, I've had 3 brought back to me after they met their untimely demises while trying to become one with the tracks of dozers, cranes, etc) and they DON'T break - but die because the LCD has been compressed to the point of being unreadable) but even the newer units (I355/I5xx series units) fall apart when you compress them (IE lean on it) as it pits the SIM card and if it loses contact, the unit immeditately shuts off or complains about "INSERT SIM"
Ugh.
Pre-EA DICE had a fantastic thing going - BF2 was the last decent product of the Battlefield Series - EA comes along and we wonder why 2142 is a heap of shit....
Yeah, just what my Moto Q9c needs - it's sluggish enough with EVDO Rev 0 with a rather friendly implementation of IE to boot....
Until handset vendors can get an ARM processor or equivelent that has some real horsepower and a memory footprint to support it, I'll leave the Flash on my desktop....or not.
SigmaTel
....
For x86-based computers: Sthda.sys - version 5.10.5762.0 or earlier
For x64-based computers: Sthda64.sys - version 5.10.5762.0 or earlier
SigmaTel
For x86-based computers: Stwrt.sys - version 6.10.5511.0 or earlier
For x64-based computers: Stwrt64.sys - version 6.10.5511.0 or earlier
Biometric (Fingerprint) Sensors
UPEK Fingerprint Sensor with the Tcusb.sys driver file - version 1.9.2.99 or earlier
OK, so that wipes off the entire later model Dell Latitude line from at least the D820 onward (including my D830)
Dell and their hardware subsystem partners don't have appeared to addressed this yet
For the D820/D830 series the latest SigmaTel drivers are still at v.5.10.0.5515 and the UPEK FS is version v.1.9.2.74
Glad I didn't install it yet.
Get on the ball Michael, Billy and Chair Smasher are one step ahead/behind you now.....
I like it too - I like noise so much I decided to skip rather quiet SATA drives in my box for a pair of 15K U320 SCSI Cheetah's in RAID0. I always know what the box is doing....from 5 feet away :)
Someone pass me the Copenhagen tin....so I can get cancer on the other side of my head and balance it all out.
I could care less. For all intents and purposes, Trend's software and hardware (Yes, they do build appliances) is, in my opinion, is the best option going for real AV protection. It catches what it can catch, does not bog down your box and when/if you need to remove it, it goes away with ZERO fuss, far unlike that of McAfee and Symantec products. Trend did have some issues on the consumer payware download where they sort of hid the fact they would re-charge your credit card next year for your renewal and you needed to jump through hoops to undo that, but have since fixed it and when you go to purchase it, there's a link to decide how long you want to renew and if you want to auto-renew/charge your card. As far as their being called a patent troll by the FOSS community...I think people forgot what a real troll is - Like NTP or the group has recently begun to sue every smartphone manufacturer under the sun (it was on /. a week or so ago). Trend writes the software and builds the hardware they patented. Good for them. Sue Clam if they ripped you off and choose not to license your technology *like most of the major players in the AV industry is currently doing*. They have every right to protect their patent which isn't some vague idea they're camping on but are are actively developing against. Last time I checked, that's what patents were for.
"Clearly biased?" How about clearly dumbass.... 1st of all, let's set aside some things. This guy's "test" machine is a laughable 5+ year old dinosaur...If I put Vista on a 5 year old machine, of course things aren't going to work well/at all. Hell, putting Vista on a 5 hour old machine that just came off the fab plant and you're going to get mixed results. Some of his game choices are suspect. Soldat? I can't find anywhere where it says that it will run under Vista anyway - lots of mention of DirectX 8.1 which is, what, 2004? era DirectX so never compatible with native Vista anyway, it appears...Don't see anything regarding "Compatibility Mode" testing which is what Microsoft codes into everything to give some level of Backward Compatibility. Civ IV: Yet another game that came out before Vista did. I have the Steam Version which is just fine under VistUlt32- slow, but it works. Might have something to do with his POS he's testing it on. DOSBOX game testing? C'mon...DOS level games....? If he really wants to get close, find some games that he doesn't cherry pick that were designed 2 years or more before Vista hit the street...How well does say, HL2 run on it? or HL1? I'm all for bashing Microsoft - Hell, I'm an IT Manager in a Wintel Shop, and bashing where MS screws up is fine by me. This article was just flaimbaitious(tm) crap. I'm sending the author a bill for my time....
If I recall, there's an "idol" in South Bend Indiana, at this small little college called...what is it now, Notre Dame, I think it is...and this "idol", has this name ... Touchdown Jesus ....How do Football and Church NOT go together?
The NFL needs to go to Hell....literally...
Frys DID move in - or as close as you can get...The CompUSA that was in Roseville has the Roseville Frys about 4 blocks away on North Sunrise across from the AutoMall.
There were *TWO* versions of NT 4.0 SP6 - 6.0 which broke things like ... Lotus Notes (which I supported at the time) so MSFT came out with 6a since the only thing they fixed was to restore support for Notes working logged in as a non-admin.
I know, splitting hairs...
As the IT Manager for a medium sized regional construction company, I've played with Vista for a year and frankly, I get frustrated with it - and if I do, I can't imagine how my userbase which has computer savy ranging from "I have servers at home too!" to "How do I turn this on again?" and there's no sense overburdening one's self with a massive amount of support calls with the lesser skilled people fighting with Vista's UI and all the other traps in the OS itself. (Hey, these people build buildings for a living, they shouldn't need to fight the OS on their laptops)
Vista might not be the utter stinking turd that ME was but it's a painful bowel movement nonetheless.
Here's to hoping Microsoft gets on the clue bus with Windows 7...
I've been a subscriber to both the print versions of PCG and MaxPC for something like 8 years now. Back in the early days (I remember the 1st one I looked at had a picture of a then-hot Stevie Case on the cover - maybe I was thinking it was Playboy) you could always count on the same certain writing styles from the various editors - nowdays, I think the EIC moves on every quarter. I think PCG has been through 3 EICs this year - and the current one was a new employee 12-18 months ago.
Hang around for another month Kristen, you actually can form a sentence better then the overly full of himself Vederman ever could.