As I reboot my WIndows machine, I had a sudden feeling of rage, so I wanted to quickly write a rant about WIndows, one in a series hopefully. I just cannot conceive how people can use WIndows to do any serious work. I want to do music production, and I have begun asking myself more and more why I don’t just find a Linux-based solution. Eventually, it will happen, but right now I have some software on WIndows, including Quick WIndows Sequencer, which I like. I also use vsthost, against which I have fought several valient battles to various ends. It does the job when it works. I use midiyoke to connect the two.
Oh look what happened. It didn’t even reboot, because it had to wait for me to “click” “End Now” to end a program. Of course I want you to end the program, I wouldn’t have told you to reboot otherwise. Duh! Stupid! Getting WIndows to do anything serious seems oxymoronic to me, and I shudder at the knowledge that many top government computers use it, as well as computers to control nuclear reactors. Good Goddess protect us!
I just entered my administrator password. Speaking of, remember the lesson that Gary McKinnon taught us. Always have an administrator password! Just go to the control panel via Start | Settings or “My Computer”, then user Accounts, then find the administrator account, probably the only one, and assign a password. You will then have to enter the password when you boot, plus it makes it a tiny bit harder for hackers to break in. It at least adds a locked screen door, so to speak. That proved enough for many top military computers, however. Sometimes the little simple things make all the difference. And I don’t care that the system has started in selective startup, and I sware that I check the stupid box every time not to run the system configuration utility, but to little avail it seems.
Well well, it seems that VSThost has loaded, so now I will TRY to play an electric piano. I have a song to write which uses a sample from George Carlin. Now I will never have the opportunity to present it to him, but I can still make it. I wrote it during a heinous time, when I let two people who consider me their best friend live in my house, and …. well I’ll have more to say about that at the right time. WIndows sucks!
