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Tonight I received a lovely BSOD from Windows Vista.

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BlueScreen

OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3

Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:

BCCode: 1a

BCP1: 00041287

BCP2: 00000000

BCP3: 00000000

BCP4: 00000000

OS Version: 6_0_6000

Service Pack: 0_0

Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:

C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini100709-01.dmp

C:\Users\Richard\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-79279-0.sysdata.xml

C:\Users\Richard\AppData\Local\Temp\WER5ED1.tmp.version.txt

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I also found the cause!  Yes, since I applied all Windows updates to a newly formatted laptop, the whole thing has turned to crap.  Well done guys.  You`ve pushed me one step closer to moving to Apple.  Cunts.

… don`t care, more like

Class in a glass. Microsoft releases its superly duperly awaited OneCare “protection and maintenance service” shortly.

Clicking through the OneCare web site to order the software, you`ll understand the type of people they hope to fleece out of a few bob.

“In order to complete installation of Windows Live OneCare, you must be running Internet Explorer 6 or later as your Web browser. Please switch to Internet Explorer and then restart Setup by typing http://www.windowsonecare.com/purchase into the browser address field.”

Not a chance, my fine furry friends at Microsoft. I`ll stick with Firefox and apt-get.

So not only do they produce shite software that`s falling apart at the seams, but they want to charge you for any fixes [...]

Bluetooth`s victory over graphics cards. RARRRRRRRR!

The nice thing about having a PC is that you can buy software and hardware and plug it in and make it do stuff. Well that`s the theory anyway.

This morning I plugged in my little USB Bluetooth dongle thingie. It`s nothing flashy, but is useful for transferring files between the computer and phone. Plug it in, and it just works. Usually. Today, Windows decided to fart in its general direction.

Install completed, reboot required. What is it about Windows and reboots? You don`t get this crap with Linux. Machine starts up, and wooooo – 8 colour display! Obviously you`d expect a USB Bluetooth device [...]

Bill Gates finally tries to own the world and its wife by pissing on XML document formats

Microsoft has recently been going on a patent spree, trying to patent the likes of the FAT file system, through to patent 525484 – `Word processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML`. What does this mean? It means he wants to stop any word processor being able to read, write, or update XML, and claim the idea as Microsoft`s.

This is absolutely crazy, yet worrying, knowing the types of ridiculous patents granted in the States. The man (and whoever thought up this bright idea) is nuts. Time to buy him a [...]