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Friday night in Columbia South Carolina, ex-law enforcement officer Ray Jackson lost his temper while trying to repair his girlfriend's computer. Computer Shooter After installing Windows Vista on the girlfriend's 2 year old computer Jackson was trying to get some of her older programs to work with the new operating system. "He couldn't get anything to work like it was supposed to", said girlfriend Wanda White. "He just kept screaming at it and smacking the side of the computer". After about 20 minutes White and her friend heard gun shots from the apartment where Jackson was working. "We both ran over there to see what was happening", said White. When she opened the door there sat Jackson with his pistol in his hand.
Trackback C BD said, in August 7th, 2007 at 5:52 pm I swear I almost did the same. IE7 shuts down unannounced and it does it 100's times per day. I plan on unhooking nd reformatting my entiire HP pre installed vista computer and go back to XP professional. I will never upgrade to Vista PAtrick said, in August 10th, 2007 at 4:47 pm Ubuntu ftw! Bruce McGoose said, in August 10th, 2007 at 5:25 pm LOL It's your fault for buying a HP, esp without wiping it, and installing the OS yourself first. I've had vista for 6 months and the only problem I had was the nVidia graphics driver kept crashing the system.. Justin said, in August 11th, 2007 at 1:45 pm So did that fix it? Steve said, in August 11th, 2007 at 5:46 pm Got a word for you: Ubuntu. Or, if you insist on sticking with Windows, Firefox has a Windows version. Drew said, in August 11th, 2007 at 5:51 pm Bruce: My HP laptop worked just fine with the preinstalled system for the longest time. The only reason it stopped working is that i installed linux over it. HP provides the scsi drivers i needed to reinstall xp and it worked fine. That being said, I installed xp on my mother's laptop (she had vista) and experienced a significant boost in operating speed. It was like seeing for the first time when you've been in a cave for hours. Syona said, in August 12th, 2007 at 9:49 am I wouldn't be surprised if they sue Microsoft... Jay said, in August 12th, 2007 at 12:07 pm XP is infinitely better than Vista. I would advise anyone with an ounce of sense NOT to upgrade any time soon. Dr3z74 said, in August 14th, 2007 at 1:11 pm easier said than done it your serious about games, all the good commercial ones have started including vista as a requirement thebinaryman said, in August 16th, 2007 at 9:27 pm linux > bsd > mac > xp > vista why on earth are people using vista? i could use it for free, but i choose not to for obvious reasons. i await the day everyone realizes they don't need microsoft. Kate said, in August 16th, 2007 at 11:02 pm If a game requires you to have Vista, then it must not be a very good game. I had my laptop replaced recently, and I fought hard to have XP. grumble said, in August 17th, 2007 at 9:56 am If youre serious about games - get a game console But If youre serious about computing, and you THINK you cant live without WinDoze - Get a Mac, and use Boot Camp, VMware, or Parallels-- Really- do you really need this kind of frustration from a machine ? Adeus666 said, in August 18th, 2007 at 5:56 am I still can't figure out if the wow' thing about vista ad campaign is meant to represent the amazement of how bad vista is, or if it's an acronym for Worthless Obsolete Wanker Gordon said, in August 18th, 2007 at 2:51 pm Mac OS X, Mac OS X, Mac OS X... Michael said, in August 28th, 2007 at 9:51 pm That's why I am leaving XP on mine, the wife can keep her Vista PC. Ian said, in August 29th, 2007 at 10:58 am Vista is horrible. An operating system that requires morej resources per consecutive release, or an operating system that's faster and cleaner with each release. Vista is really nothing more than Windows and it will remain that way. Yes, having a kernel-based graphics subsystem can be appealing to gamers, but in all truth (And you can check my facts on this) OpenGL has been proven time and time again (Except in Microsoft's OWN qualifying tests) to be faster AND more standards compliant. If more game designers took this into account, there would be more games for every platform. If more programmers looked towards OpenGL for their Jim Smith said, in August 29th, 2007 at 3:42 pm I begged my wife not to buy this HP with Vista, but, "the case looks nice" and that was all it took. HP builds crap systems and Vista is clearly the worst piece of software even Micro$oft has ever released. It seems that, anything that worked fairly well in XP, had to be changed for something that does not work at all. Anything else had to be hidden in a new location so you can't find anything. Darian said, in August 29th, 2007 at 7:42 pm I've had vista installed on this laptop since it arrived. I refuse to use Internet Explorer since around Windows 95 onward and use Firefox with IE Tab as a last resort. After disabling UAC (that annoying and time wasting "Need Your Permission" dialog that interrupts everything - Vista seems to be running just fine. I run AVG Antivirus because it's free and updated daily. Adaware 2007 takes care of spyware should I manage to get any (AdBlock Plus is installed on Firefox). And the firewall only gets exceptions when I use BitTorrent. Some programs don't run right because - face it, it's vista and thats like saying lets run DOS. In any event, I've been severely ticked at my computer a number of times - would I shoot it? Only when the previous laptop died after 5 years and took the hard drive with it mechanically. When I can run Mac OS, Windows and Ubuntu all at once using Fusion then I will be happy. Till then I stick with Vista as the middle ground option. Tom said, in August 29th, 2007 at 7:59 pm I purchased and installed Vista on my laptop. Kept it on there for 2 months I just don't see the benefit of running a processor at 15%+ and using more than 700 megs of RAM @ idle. It's a hog went back to XP Pro and will never go back to Vista land. Conan said, in August 31st, 2007 at 10:46 am It's funny I was a die hard PC user. I was beginning the process of building my own dream pc when my brother in law bought an iMac I made fun of him for a week and then after using it a couple of times went out and bought a MacBook Pro. We need the competition for things to evolve so kudos to Apple and Microsoft for making computers something we can all use and enjoy. Bob demonspork said, in September 1st, 2007 at 12:09 am Vista is a display of Microsoft trying to hard (as stated by Ian on the 29th) it is like watching someone with muscular dystrophy trying to sprint a mile, no matter how hard they try, they eventually get slower and slower. Peter said, in September 1st, 2007 at 12:22 am One word here: Ubuntu. bjornTFN said, in September 1st, 2007 at 5:25 am O wait - a reason to buy Vista - they finally changed the "What you can do with this version of Windows" texts in the install :-) They had to delete it all :-) Kat said, in September 1st, 2007 at 2:42 pm You still use IE? Kevin said, in September 1st, 2007 at 3:47 pm I don't blame the guy. Linux Abuser said, in September 1st, 2007 at 5:11 pm Hey Bob... "I know that Macs are less able in terms of functionality" You got any examples, other than blanket assertions with no evidence? This is just precious: "because what they don't tell the public-they are no more secure than Windows" Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Macintosh users (and basically anyone else that doesn't use Windows) can surf the net with impunity, not caring one whit about drive-by installs and not caring that the spammed mail attachment is a Windows executable (and by default all other sane OSes don't assign executability to files unless _assigned_ by the user, _especially_ when it comes in off the wire). I had some hopes for Longhorn aka Vista, and Jim Allchin even _said_ that it was a "total rewrite," but the results are simply more of the same. You guys are stuck with the same bogus design decisions that make Windows a gigantic security hole for the next 5 or 7 years. It doesn't crash and true some things don't run on it very well but if you were smart, which I'm assuming most of you w...
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