Day 15, Temperament

Today marks the half way point. Only 15 days remaining until Vista, assumingly, shuts itself down.

As some of you have have noticed, I didn’t make a post yesterday. There are a number of reasons for this. One of which is Vista’s seemingly experimental wireless capabilities. People complain about bad wireless support in Linux, the resources are there, but the wireless manufacturers don’t get off their fat arses and actually code something that complies to kernel standards (ie, RTx00 cards). But at least the cards that are supported in Linux are supported well (except WPA). In Vista hardly any drivers ‘officially support’ the operating system, and when I awake from power saving mode it fails to connect to my wifi network with an ‘unkown reason’.

This isn’t the only thing that is iffy about Vista’s prolonged stability. In the past 15 days I have 3, yes 3, Blue Screens of Death, and a total of 5 forced restarts because of the whole computer freezing up for no visible reason. This makes me worried about doing anything important on Vista, just in case I haven’t saved in the past ten minutes and Windows decides it’s time for an unscheduled restart.