The Case of the Crooked Burger Part One

It was a dark and rainy night. I'd just left the office for a late night meal. My pretty redhead secretary winked at me on the way out the door. Luckily she was too caught up in typing things to notice me meet the lovely black-haired beauty outside in the hall.

The two of us travelled across town to our favorite greasy spoon. An inauspicious joint run by a fella named...

... McDonald.

McDonald must have had something up his sleeve. Some kind of dirty past, because his boys were always lookin' over their shoulders. I knew this because of one important clue. The burgers they served were never straight. Cheese lyin' off to one side, meat not on the bun.

After the last time, I just couldn’t stand it no more. I went inside and showed it to Ronald who just shrugged and said, “I can’t help ya, mack.”

After straightening my hat, I just stared back for a moment before telling the strangely dressed man how I felt. “Ya hear me, McDonald? I’m gonna put the feelers out on you. There’s somethin’ fishy about this outfit and I’m gonna find it.”

With that, I turned and left the building.

Windows Vista Sucks? NOT!

I'm so absurdly tired of hearing the words that I'm ready to tear my ears off. I'm so tired of reading them I'm ready to pour acid in my eyes.

Windows Vista Sucks.

Sick. Sick sick sick sick sick. People who've never even used the damn thing badmouth it. People who've never even seen it badmouth it. Tech pundits slammed it from day one because they wanted to do one thing...

Drive blog readership.

That's it. That's the secret, folks. Somebody wants to fan the flames so that they can get readers to visit their blog and look at their ads. It's 100% commercial.

Let me explain what real world experience is like...

February 2007 - I purchase a brand new, dirt cheap computer. $500. Dual-core Pentium 4 at 3GHz. I immediately upgraded it to 1.5GB of RAM. It had Vista Home Basic installed. Just as quickly as the RAM was upgraded, I installed the 64-bit version of Vista Ultimate. I ran audio production, Internet utilities, World of Warcraft, some older games like TIE Fighter in DOSBox, and other junk.

There has never once been a compatibility issue with anything I use.

March 2007 - Sammi gets her new computer. Identical model to mine. She upgrades to 1.5GB of RAM as well, and moves up to Vista Home Premium to gain the advantages of Aero. She has found only one piece of software doesn't function, that is OpenCanvas. She runs WoW, Halos 1 and 2, Internet stuff, more games, and watching some vids.

Be mindful, that both of us were required to remove gigabytes worth of crapware that the OEM felt obligated to foist on us. Norton 360 of Suck AND McAfail were installed. They were instantly removed in favor of AVG Free for Sam and Avast! AV for me.

Some annoyance called BigFix was installed, chomping up 30% of system resources. We nuked it in favor of the superior error-fixing features BUILT IN to Vista.

Oh yeah... You'll never hear that in any of the whine articles. Windows Vista WILL FIX ITSELF.

Read it again.

FIX ITSELF.

Let it sink in.

FIX ITSELF.

Let's see XP, or Mac OS X (which I also like) do that. So, real world experience isn't enough... hmmmmmmm. Knowing that it can fix itself... Convinced yet? No? Read on.

Poor performance is a whine I hear quite often. Our housemate owns a 1.8 or something GHz box. She ran Vista Home Premium on it for months. World of Warcraft ran excellently.

Next, I own a 1.2GHz Dell Latitude D600. 768MB of RAM. Not great at all. Vista Home Premium runs like a dream. A damn sight better than XP which is hang-crazy. No matter how many times I've installed XP, it hangs too much. It sucks. WoW runs smooth as glass on this notebook. Only issue is sound. The makers of the audio chipset, the SigmaTel C-Major, are too damn lazy to update their driver.

That's another problem. Lazy developers. That's always a Windows problem. 3rd party developers suck and are always too lazy to update their products. Cheap and shitty if you ask me.

Okay... now, finally. This thread is for people who agree with me. I ask this because I'm simply tired of hearing people whine. Call me crazy, I'd like to discuss this rather nice piece of technology with other persons who can appreciate quality software.

Thanks.

Fuck Hollywood

I just had to see something... that honestly nearly made me sick. I had to take a dose of Pepto before I lost my dinner.

I'm referring to the remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still."

This is quite possibly the most awful thing ever. There's a "rebellious stepson", Keanu Reaves, glassy energy spheres, suck, modern filmmaking, more suck, emo music, lack of theremin music, and other suckage.

Is there a certain reason why these halfass Hollywood cretins think that coming and jizzing 21st Century Suck all over everything is a great idea? Seriously... they've taken out all of the parallels between Klaatu and Jesus. They took out the famous "Klaatu Barata Nikto" out. Gort? I dunno. Not there? There's some other shitty robot called "The Totem".

I hate this film already. I don't want to hear a single person give me that tired, trite line about giving it a chance. Hollywood remakes no longer deserve a chance. They're guilty until proven innocent, shoot on site, worst case scenario hate-deserving suckfests.

Please... the day it comes out... let Gort walk into the theater and destroy the film.

Please?

http://screenrant.com/day-earth-stood-remake-worse-imagined-vic-1498/

When Linux HowTos are WRONG

http://forumubuntusoftware.info/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1047

This answered a question I'd been trying to figure out ALL DAMN DAY. Broadcom b43xx "Air Force One" WiFi card on Fedora Linux 9. The bulk of the instructions out there point to this page at Linux Wireless...

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

The important things on that page aren't there as of July 29, 2008. The links to the actual Broadcom drivers don't exist, but yet everybody points to the document. IT'S WRONG!

Follow The Joker's howto at the Ubuntu Software forum. All you need are the parts about downloading the driver and installing the firmware if you have Fedora 9, as the requisite firmware loader, b43-fwcutter is part of the standard packages.

A vic'try for all mankind, goddammit.

Make Mine Rock

Well, I think that rock and roll is the greatest form of popular music ever.

Nothing else to say.

Wendy's French Fries? Suck.

Well, went to Wendy's for lunch today. They forgot my straw for one. Good work, guys. Had to drink my Diet Coke with my lips.

Bleh.

But that's not why I came to speak to you today. No, I want to talk to you about french fries. Wendy's has quite possibly the WORST fast food fries available in the world today. When they're done right, they're really good. It's just that it seems to be next to impossible for that to happen. One time of ten perhaps, they're worth eating. The rest of the time, they end up soggy and mushy, sometimes underdone... or they're hard, crunchy, all burnt to that caramel shade of brown... or they're just plain stale.

Everybody I know says "HEY JIIMEY JUST PUT TEH SALTE NO TEHM!!!" I say, "No."

The reason? I shouldn't need to. Besides, I'm going to slather them in ketchup or barbecue or sweet and sour or ranch or caesar or maybe even MOTHER FUCKING ALFREDO. So why salt? I dunno. That just makes me drink more drink.

Which leads me to another Wendy's hassle. Refills. Every other place on Earth has a drinkbar now. But Wendy's? You gotta go flag down someone up front to get you more.

Jesus.

Just look at this crap.

Why the Hell couldn't I remember to get a fuckin' baked potato? Damn. Now I want the sour cream and onion deliciousness.