The other day my computer seemed to have given up the ghost; I got the "windows protection error" blue screen of scorn and damnation on safety mode on Windows ME and no apparent ability to restart itself. Fantastic. A few months ago, a brand new PC from Dell loaded with the latest Windows Vista/Dell junkware owned by my girlfriend's mother had to be reformatted by my wonderfully intelligent, beautiful gal because it came with malicious spyware and adware, etc. from the factory. Superduper. Today, I find that Windows Vista, in all of its polished magnanimous glory, auto-writes to jpeg images that you review and rotate, without your permission. This seems to format it to the PC you view it on and the one image I had the mistake to play with (though not save, mind you) could no longer play in my K100D and I can only hope it plays in other versions of Windows now. Radical. If my machine were any more unproductive it would be growing moss. It will be missed; funeral services will be July 4th or thereabouts. The Frustration Machine needs a good send off and fireworks just seem kind of appropriate, though so was the treatment of the malfunctioning printer from Office Space. Man, Ken Rockwell is right- they just keep leaving problems in Windows for you to pay up to fix later. I shoulda woulda coulda got a Mac. |