Scrolling in Firefox crashes my system
What follows is likely to be an irrational, emotional and somewhat futile rant. If you are bored, offended or annoyed by such writings, well you’ve come this far you may as well keep reading.
I bloody hate Windows. There, I’ve said it. I am not a linux or Mac fanboy, in fact as I have said before they make me laugh. I just hate Windows.
The source of my current frustration is the fact that the simple act of scrolling in Firefox makes my system completely s@#t itself. It freezes as cold as an Eskimo’s bum during “moon you neighbour” week. So far tonight I am onto my fourth restart and of course each time I see that lovely message telling me “your system has recovered from a serious error, would you like to send a report 5 kiloton nuclear device to Microsoft?”. No s@#t Sherlock - I thought it was perfectly normal that my $4,000 laptop turns itself into a boat anchor every half hour or so. To make matters more frustrating, this is happening on a brand new install of Windows. It is less than two weeks since a complete reformat and install.
So, what do I do about this situation? Look forward to Vista of course. Hang on a minute, what do you mean that my perfectly good 4 year old computer won’t run Vista? It’s an operating system for the love of all that is holy. Isn’t the operating system supposed to make the system operate? Is it too much to expect that the operating system will just do its job in the background and leave most of the system resources to the applications to use? After all, I don’t own a computer to run an operating system, I own a computer to run programs that actually do useful things. Windows only makes it possible for me to run those applications, it is not the primary focus of my computing experience.
I will be forced to update my hardware before too long. At that time I will decide whether to use Vista or stay with XP. I will be forced to use one of these operating systems due to the need to use certain applications. There is little doubt that Linux will also play a major roll in my future computing habits. Dual booting with Windows and Ubuntu is becoming a very serious proposition. I currently use Linux as a test server on my home network so it holds no fears for me. In fact, it is in some ways more simple to use than Windows.
Hmmm, Apple give a 12.5% discount to educators, and a Mac can run Windows. Quad core you say? And that’s about what I would pay for a system from Dell. Food for thought.
“You can’t coach that”
