Shades of the millineum
Posted in Technology by RB on May 31st, 2008 One of the worst things about losing my job was losing my laptop. Yeah, I know that’s stupid, but it’s true. The more I look back at it, that job and I really weren’t meant for each other, but that laptop, well, it was nice. It ran Microsoft Windows XP. One of the last things I did on it was to master some music.
Before packing up the laptop, I copied all of my files over to my linux server. No problem. Everything worked nicely. Now I need to create some music CD’s from the files I copied to my server. Simple enough. I figured that this morning was a good time to fire up my wife’s laptop, which is running Vista, to take care of that. Sounded easy enough. Nope. So far this morning I’ve had everything from networking problems to having the computer completely hang. At least older versions of Windows had the grace to give a blue screen when things were totally FUBARed.
So now I’m using my ancient XP laptop to get the files I need. I’m having to copy the files to an external drive so I can then connect that to the Vista machine and burn the CD’s. I can’t wait for my new linux desktop to be up and running so I can bypass all of this Microsoft mess.
