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 and an AGP graphics card to conflict with each other, wouldn`t you? Well maybe not, but Windows XP seemed to think so. Let`s use the System Restore feature. One reboot later, and things are still knackered. Yes, rather predictably, System Restore is as much use as a chocolate tea pot.
OK, I`m techie enough to have sorted this crap out in 10 minutes, but why should two devices sharing nothing but the same PC be fighting with each other, and why does Microsoft include this System Restore thing that`s absolutely useless?
Apologies for Dr.Who Cybermen wallpaper.. I don`t know what came over me. Trigger`s metal army, probably.
