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Let me digress from this political clutter I have inadvertently tangled myself up with and take a few moment to rant and rave about the latest crap from our good friends in Seattle. The “new” and “improved” Windows Vista. The next generation of operating systems or the new vessel that will take us back into the tempstous sea slew with patches, fixes and major service packs that were the hallmarks of the XP era. Just when XP was getting secure and comparatively stable, Captain Bill has decided to abandon the ship and jump on to a new boat, or life boat if you will to face the storms of new cutting edge viruses, worms and trojans. As far as security is concerned, maybe its as secure as XP. I will give it the benefit of the doubt. For now. Also a little bit of credit where credit is due eventhough its a knockoff from Macs GUI. However, aegis from malwares while providing an exquisite mac like graphics does come with its cost. Not at the cashier but at the banking center close to the heart of the processor called RAM. Im not an operating system architect but its common knowledge to everyone that Windows has always been plagued with a poor design and unnecessary processes muddled in leaky code that its real world counterpart is anarchy in a banana republic. Just to get this junk up and running takes about 800MB of the RAM. Im a user who is more oriented towards the performance of my PC rather than its aesthetic looks. Im the type of user who uses XP in Windows 2000 theme. Im the the type who chooses 256 colors settings over true colors just because it gives me extra crunching space on the RAM and CPU. So, when I bought this new laptop that had 2GB of RAM with an Intel Duo 2 Core processor humming at 1.6Ghz and caching at 2MB, I was salivating on how much RAM space I will have to work with once I format the drive and put a fresh install of Windows XP. A pure 1.7 or plus Gigabyte of RAM for me to prance around from processor to processor, while I open and shut my all my memory hogging applications. But when I realized that the whores who build the PCs while pandering to Microsoft dont provide drivers for most of the hardwares, it sent a cold shower down my back. I can understand Microsoft’s intention to move users to vista but I don’t understand the pc builders like Toshiba coercing users not only to use Microsoft products but specifically vista from their panoply of garbages. Im planning to load Ubuntu on my other laptop (HP) and I can already forsee the difficulties looming ahead trying to get drivers for each hardware. I have already checked the HP website and they dont provide one for Linux. Thats was expected. I will have to go to each hardware’s website or even delve underground to get those. The revolution will not be blogged…