“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
— The Continental Congress, July 4, 1776
“The task of statesmanship has always been the re-definition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)
“Roosevelt was wrong! The principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence are the principles of individual liberty. Our unalienable rights, given to us by God are given to us as individuals. Our rights do not come from society or the government, and they cannot be redefined by politicians. The nature of these rights carries with it the implication of individual responsibility, without which we surrender them.”
— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008
Finally!
Published Sat, Mar 17 2007 7:51 PM
Technorati Tags: Computers and Internet, Software Development, Annoyances
I've finally finished installing Visual Studio 2005, service pack 1, and the Vista update for service pack 1. Hopefully this means my system will be stable now.
I'm not counting on it though.
Memory diagnostics didn't find any problems. Disk diagnostics didn't find any problems.
I still don't trust the system to reboot.
I'll give it a couple of days.
When I launch Visual Studio, it recommends running it as an administrator. When I try to do that through the start menu... well... It still tells me I should run it as an administrator.
I'm not too sure about that.
Microsoft has sure found a way to make computing less convenient.
There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of "customer love" in that.
Trackback URI for this post: http://perrinelson.com/track.aspx?postid=536
Permalink URI for this post: http://perrinelson.com/2007/3/17/536.aspx
Subscribe to this entry's
comment feed. (Atom)
Perri Nelson responded with:
Argggghhh!
I can't believe it. Now the stupid system doesn't recognize the DVD drive.
Worse yet, now it doesn't even get past the first bar of the startup progress indicator before it immediately reboots.
I'm running system repair on it now. At least it recognizes the DVD drive when it boots from it.
And Microsoft calls this their most reliable and secure operating system yet?
If I wasn't so angry right now I'd laugh.
Comments to this entry are closed.