Henry is nerdy

Is it just me or are tech companies with a proven track record trying to undo their own good reputation just to get it back again? I feel like I’m in the twighlight zone. I don’t normally complain. I look at it from both points of view. No it’s not Microsoft’s fault when you get a blue screen of death. It is usually the manufacturer of device that failed, the driver that failed, the computer that failed, or the piece of software you were running that failed. Ok Ok fine…… the other 1% of the time maybe it is Microsoft’s fault. But let’s be honest here; if Bill knew all the bugs in the 100,000 some lines of code in Windows he wouldn’t be CEO of Microsoft. He’d instead be working the stock market knowing ahead of time what’s going to happen (making more money than he is now) so stop blaming the guy for someone else’s mistakes damn it.
But I digress; my real beef is with those stupid decisions that go unchecked by stupid (unqualified) people in important positions. First, if Asus’ USA Website Webmaster is reading this: GO AND FIX YOUR WEBSITE. No I do not want a new window to open every time I click support. I first bought an Asus motherboard in 2002. It was an A7V266-E. I loved it. I love everything about it. Getting drivers was a joke. The website was fantastic. Since then I the Asus website has gotten worse with every year. Maybe this is my punishment for that one MSI board I got…yea the one that fried after a month….

Next on my list is Adobe. Adobe is the big fish on my list; a big BAD fish. Seriously guys, what gives? Adobe was good around the time of Photoshop 7. Now it just makes me want to question that Macromedia buy out. Around the time Macromedia Flash became Adobe Flash; the internet; as a whole got a lot more dangerous and Adobe as a whole; got a lot more pompous. What the hell am I talking about, you ask? O why only the shit they call software Adobe has been releasing lately. Today I was installing Adobe Reader 8 on my laptop (with Vista) so I could read a PDF. And two minutes into the install I questioned whether anyone at Adobe actually tried installing the program on Vista before releasing it. Maybe this just happened to me but honestly what the hell. After the initial install file uncompressed the real installer from its self and placed it into the temporary windows folder it failed to launch giving me an error telling me the temporary folder was full. As if the installer requires any writing back to the temporary folder. Being good at computers I grabbed the location of the running executable from Task Manager after it displayed an error and without hitting OK on the error I copied the executable before it could delete itself. Lovely. And what was the total time to start up the program from nothing? 2 Seconds. What? Not everything about this new version is bad. But I must say. Would someone at Adobe please tell the people who make the installers to make a checkbox for “Would you like to install Adobe Speed Launch?” I realize you’re making this for stupid people but the tech guys got to use it too…..

Ah yes Nvidia, how I love you so. You have never failed me before but now you did. Why oh why? You knew Vista was coming. We called it Longhorn back then but even so you failed so horribly at being prepared.

And finally Hewlett-Packard is the last on my list (for now). I realize you make no money making drivers for five year old products but I also don’t need one of your printers as a paper weight. I have plenty of your ink cartridges for that. No Vista drivers for my Photosmart 1000? Fine, there are plenty of other printers on the market as well.