For years now, I’ve been kidding myself, hiding behind my secret envy of Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, opting to use Macs & Linux at home, as well as Symbian-based mobile phones. I just can’t stand living the lie any longer.
I am a PC!
I’m reformatting our Macs at home, and they will henceforth run nothing but Windows Vista. Ultimate 64-bit, of course. No Boot Camp, VMware Fusion or Parallels. Just Windows Vista. The sheer beauty of the Vista desktop, laden with all of those oh-so-cool gadgets, the Aero Glass look, and the Control Panel, oh, the sheer bliss of it all! So what if I’ll need to run full-time anti-virus and anti-spyware apps to protect us and our data? Honey, I’m home.
And the server, what a colossal mistake it was running Ubuntu’s Intrepid Ibex 64-bit release on there. What on earth was I thinking??? All of that idle CPU time just going to waste doing nothing. Why, by installing Windows Server 2008 on the system, I can give that CPU an actual workout. You know what they say about muscles that go unused.. I figure the same thing applies to the CPU’s power starting to atrophy from lack of use. So what if I run my phone system out of Asterisk, and have a VPN server that runs in a VMware Server instance? Again, I’ll have the blissful joy of Windows at my disposal.
And the phones. We’ve suffered for too many years with S60 devices. Back when I worked at Nokia, I didn’t have an excuse, but now I can finally break free after all these years! By moving to Windows Mobile devices, I can now take the nirvana that one can only experience with that stunningly gorgeous Blue Screen of Death out and about with me, right in my pocket. That BSOD is so invigorating, I think we should change it to the BSOL, Blue Screen of Life!
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