The Design and Implementation of laffer1

So far I've been installing various applications and drivers.  Here's what i've learned about vista.

1. Intel bios updates for my DP965LT will not install and give me a programming error.  (windows installer version)
2. The network card, chipset inf, and other updates seem to work.  I have not tried the integrated sound as i have an audigy.
3. The audigy beta driver works well so far.
4. I installed the nvidia driver from january 5 and it seems to work although i have not tried opengl apps yet.
5. Star wars KOTOR2 (knights of the old republic 2) does not work.  Lucas arts can't seem to make a game run on more than one OS release.  I'm not surprised.
6. Office 2007 Ultimate works well.
7. Firefox 2 works fine.
8. IE 64bit works better than the 32bit version but lacks some compatibility with certain plugins.
9. steam will install and download games.  I have not run anything yet though.
10. There doesn't appear to be ANY antivirus that will run on this yet.  It includes windows defender for spyware prevention.
11. Putty works but seems a little slow drawing the screen.
12. The just journal amd64 release works fine.
13. Quicktime seems to work.
14. The windows firewall allows traffic to pass for some time before it actually prompts you to block anything.

Users directories have a hidden folder called AppData which contains all the crap that used to be in C:documents and settingsUsername

Roaming contains the mozilla firefox and other profile directories... I couldn't just dump my firefox backup in there and have it work. I'm still working that out.

Its shitty.

"Its gonna suck me dry"

"It takes an hour just to bring up the screen!"

OK. I feel a little better. ET doesn't work.. powered by nvidia. Its BSD time.