The 'Joys' of Vista!

Well, as some of you should know, Vista has been out for awhile and people have mixed feelings about the new OS from our friends at Microsoft. I've been running it since it came out, the Ultimate edition, and so far I've had good luck with it. Graphics drivers are o.k. at best, they need a whole lot of work before they're ready to compete with XP though. Now, I can live without perfect 3D accelerating graphics driver, but so far their new networking stack has been a thing of horror for me. Random black outs where I can't make new connections (exmp. A program already connected will stay open and online, such as a messenger program, but if you go to make a new connection, such as opening your BROWSER, you get a 'so sorry' message about not being able to connect, and the only cure is a restart) to a limit of 10 tcp/ip half open connections, which is great and dandy for people who are 'virus prone' and it limits the spread, but borderline riot-tastic for those of us who can keep clean computers and need more but can't get them; Oh joy, Error 4226 again!? TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts! Really? You don't say? Who's security limit? The National Organization Of People Who Believe Everyone In The World Should Be Controlled By OS Limitations For Security Because We Are All Too Dumb To Make Safe Choices? (just for the heck of it) The TNOOPWBEITWSBCBOSLFSBWAATDTMSC? I guess they figure 10 is enough for all of us, you know, or they just don't want people to be able to use non-server copies of vista to be run as a server OS. They don't call you M$ for nothing do they Microsoft? Anyways, I found a way around the random blackout by disabling one of their own, apparently incompatible, services: the infamous ICS (Internet Connection sharing) service, and for some unknown reason that helped, I tried replacing the tcp/ip.sys file with an 'improved' one from XP with 50 connection limit, and managed to get my favorite color screen of all time, the blue one, (I know! don't you just feel warm inside knowing they kept it!) so guess I'll have to find another way around that. So, if by some very very random and unlikely chance someone sees this and says in their head "hey, wait a minute, I KNOW HOW TO FIX THE VISTA TCP/IP.SYS FILE!" you, that person, should totally leave me a comment telling me how to do so.

In other events of my grand existence my friend dropped of a drive with a "Directory is Corrupted" error (forget the exact wording) so I'm doing the a scan (with one of my old programs of choice) that checks for existing files without using the file table list and all that other good stuff that tells where, what, who of files and generates the files by guessing more or less where they start and end and what they're called, I don't know the exact details, eh, it's worth a shot though because I've had luck with it in the past.

Alrighty then, I better get to posting about things I'm actually supposed to be posting about.
Vista blackout,
er,
Lukas out.