This is an unmitigated disaster. I recently bought a new laptop and, as someone I would term a “power user”, I figured hey lets be open and have a personal laptop with Vista on it. I will learn some new tricks and have an install to play with to help me as a penetration tester. Thats the reasons.
The laptop is about 2 weeks in with a fresh install and it has been trying to eat its own head. Every little task has been a total ballache. So I am a vista novice. This new laptop has been crashing a *lot*. I cant tell if it is because there is a hardware issue with the SLI graphics cards or if it is vista eating its own head.
So to remove hardware possibility (i.e. to trust alienware installed things with enough airflow etc, that is to TRUST their reputation) I have decided to roll back to a default install of Vista. It really is crashing way too much and I’ve tried updating the graphics drivers. All I have to do is copy the many many MP3s I spent days ripping onto the laptop (through windows media player, which I hate but in the spirit of using Vista as intended I used it).
To do this I setup a samba share on an XP laptop and copied the directory. I did this fucking 4 hours ago and have watched vista nuke the wireless connection every few seconds and popup a shitting error. The only way I could get this to semi-work was to move the whole rig to the livingroom and get CAT 5 cable love.
This now means that when vista kills the net connection I dont have to walk through and restart the wireless before starting again. Instead I can just ipconfig /renew it. I am not impressed with Vista for the day to day tasks like this. I came in with open eyes and it has just taken a massive shit all over me. It should not take 3 fucking hours to send a few gigs of traffic a few inches over a wireless connection!
Hey, better late than never to review it eh!
Pentesters are often quite fearless and tend to have fun hobbies cause if you don’t live on the edge you are probably taking up too much room.
Some of us enjoy parachuting, skiing, possibly even the odd recreational drug or two. This is all fun. But I can categorically say do not take your life into your own hands and eat at the “Anchor” attached to this Premier inn. There is lots of choice nearby but tonight I thought I’d rock the company credit card and save myself the £30 upfront.
I swear to god. I ordered fish and chips. After 20 minutes a man wearing a heavy overcoat, its chilly outside this close to the thames, walked into the kitchen with what suspiciously looked like a fish supper in a box! So yea, I assume they ran out to the nearest chippy to get it! Sure enough my fish arrives about 2 minutes later. One would hope they were heating up the peas in the 2 minutes though there was no evidence by the time I got some on a fork.
Half way into the fish it becomes apparent its actually frozen in the middle. So not only did they nip out to buy it, they didn’t even go to the trouble of buying it from a decent chip shop! I grumbled on as I wasn’t that hungry.
Got the apple pie which came out and it was actually frozen in the middle too. Even though this wasn’t my cash I still felt the need to make a massive complaint and get the bill sliced in half. I really want to be sick it was that bad.
The actual hotel is lovely and the staff are friendly but the kitchen seems to be a legacy business that’s somehow linked to the premier inn. So for these reasons the “chef” of this place is this weeks n00b.
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I have been tempted back into making n00b of the week. Possibly not weekly but whenever one comes by. So to kick things off with a good un we can all enjoy I propose JUNK MAIL POSTING BASTARDS.
Ok fair enough there must have been a time when popping the odd leaflet through a letter box had an impact on your life. I can guaran-fucking-tee you that this man has never picked up one and done anything other than put it straight in the bin.
When everyone in the world is well up for saving the planet one huggable tree by huggable tree. I have heard reports from the world saving trenches that some people are even resorting to not eating meat! What a sacrifice. Unfortunately their smugness and farts, scientists now believe, cause more CO2 than the cow they should have eaten.
Anyway. We are all supposed to recycle and together we can save the planet. Mmmmm I want to do my part so I left this message on my street door. I am pissed off coming back after a week away and finding a fresh stack of crispy colourful turds on my floor.
You can argue that the leaflet posters are simply looking to earn some money and that if they didn’t do it someone else would. Well history has one group of people as a point of reference and we all know that the next word, rocketing predictably from me, is the word “Nazis”. Only joking, JEWS who have no qualms about making money where lovely Jesus lovers cannot.
Oh ok Nazis. They were also only following orders and they got paid also. Just like you, you unsoliceted mail posting BASTARDS. Seriously save me the trip to the recycle bin the net effect is the same.
Totally fucking awesome. Its just a bourne film with the bond trimmings. But how awesome is that in your head?
