ex-law enforcement officer 'murders' vista ... ;-P

Story: Linux: Hasta la Vista, Microsoft!Total Replies: 7
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henke54

Sep 03, 2007
5:55 AM EDT
Quoting:July 7th, 2007

Friday night in Columbia South Carolina, ex-law enforcement officer Ray Jackson lost his temper while trying to repair his girlfriend’s computer. After installing Windows Vista on the girlfriend’s 2 year old computer Jackson was trying to get some of her older programs to work with the new operating system. “He couldn’t get anything to work like it was supposed to”, said girlfriend Wanda White. “He just kept screaming at it and smacking the side of the computer”. White had heard enough cursing from her boyfriend and went next door to her friend’s apartment. After about 20 minutes White and her friend heard gun shots from the apartment where Jackson was working. “We both ran over there to see what was happening”, said White. When she opened the door there sat Jackson with his pistol in his hand. He had just shot the computer 5 times and missed once. The miss had gone into the neighbors apartment and the bullet was lodged into their refrigerator.Jackson is being held at the Corrections Department of S.C. His bail hearing will be held Monday morning.Courtesy of The State Paper.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=539962
Sander_Marechal

Sep 03, 2007
6:59 AM EDT 		Perhaps he can claim self defense? At the very least temporary insanity :-)
Abe

Sep 03, 2007
7:27 AM EDT 		It sounds like he installed Linux and was trying to get Windows apps. installed on it. Can some one verify?

Is Vista so different from XP or that bad? I hope it doesn't catch on!
Sander_Marechal

Sep 03, 2007
7:30 AM EDT
Quoting: Is Vista so different from XP or that bad?


What rock have you been living on since december 2006?
salparadise

Sep 03, 2007
7:37 AM EDT 		Vista is even worse than Windows 95.
Sander_Marechal

Sep 03, 2007
9:01 AM EDT 		They don't call it "Me too" (a.k.a. ME two) for nothing :-) It's as buggy as ME and only offers features that were long ago implemented by other OSes (e.g. Aero).
Abe

Sep 03, 2007
10:36 AM EDT
Quoting:What rock have you been living on since december 2006?


Actually under the XP rock. :)
dinotrac

Sep 03, 2007
11:07 AM EDT 		>Actually under the XP rock

XP was like a giant false alarm. After all the product-activation crap, etc, XP actually turned out to be...OK. Certainly better than many a Windows version before it.

Vista seems determined to live up to the hype, just not Microsoft's hype.

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