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Blue screen of death!!!

My PC crashed a few nights ago with a blue screen of death while I was listening to a CD. As a result, the DVD-Rom's driver is corrupt and it doesn't work anymore. So I need to find a WinXP driver for a Pioneer DVR-108 drive. I checked Pioneer's site but I couldn't see any downloadable drivers. "Aha!" I thought - I'll just get the driver from the WinXP install CD. Doh! *sigh*

Emma

Oct 01 08 (2) , originally uploaded by crivens . Emma is so cute I couldn't resist posting a recent picture!

Please, don't make me use Vista again!!

I bought my wife a Lenovo T500 laptop that came pre-loaded with Vista. Oh my. Pass me my razor, load my pistol and noose my rope. Good lord - I think Microsoft finally managed to make the worst OS in the history of makind. After using it for one hour I was wishing I had dug into the line of credit and bought her a Macbook Pro instead. I simply cannot describe how awful I think Vista is. How could anyone at Microsoft think Vista was a good idea? It left me scratching my head so many times, trying to work out how to use it. Took me 10 minutes to change the workgroup. Took me 5 minutes to install a printer. I still haven't found the IE bookmark menu, though that might be because Lenovo have installed the Google toolbar. And if I had $100 for everytime the laptop had to be rebooted because a setting changed, or a piece of s/w was installed (even when I wasn't installing anything!) I'd be rich enough to buy my new house with cash. I lost count of the number of times I had to reb