in case there was any doubt whatsoever

[serinde]

Vista does, in fact, suck steaming piles of donkey shit.

"User Access Control", in particular, needs to die a horrible death; something humorous and lingering, perhaps with boiling oil.

Comments

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

Escape Pod's Steve Eley had an amusing skit about Vista.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

"User has applied a boiling oil enema. Cancel or allow?"

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

User is trying to send data over the network to something called Livejournal. Cancel or allow?

You have indicated that you would like to allow posting over the network to something called Livejournal. Click "Yes" if you agree, or "No" if you meant to click Cancel before.

You have indicated that we were correct in our assessment of your wanting to post something over the network to Livejournal. If we are correct in our current assessment, click "Yes" to agree, or "No" to indicate we were wrong.

....

[grin, duck & run]

[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

Is it really that bad? I thought it was a joke with all those cancel/allow things.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

No. That commercial? That is exactly what it's like.

I had to grant it permission to CREATE A NEW GODDAM FOLDER.

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

Really?? I haven't seen that particular annoyance yet.. where were you creating the folder, just out of curiosity?

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

It was someplace I was not supposed to worry my pretty little head about. Somewhere under Program Files, IIRC.

Oh, and even if you say in "Folder Options" to show hidden files and Important System Things, you still can't LOOK at them without frobbing specific permissions on the folder itself. Including such holy places as Application Data. (This was me copying over old Seamonkey prefs.)