Today I reinstalled Windows.

• As j4 says, Lamebook supplies 750% of your RDA of stupid.

• Microsoft to Windows XP users: no security fix for you, and fuck you.

• NotN: Republican in "heterosexual" sex scandal; Apple saves world from Commodore 64 nuclear attack; CRB checks expanded to entire UK population; Jordan drunk-texts her old shag; Alan Turing apologises for Gordon Brown ; Microsoft Bob Hope gains "visual search" feature; Yet another amazing Bush Whitehouse tell-all released.

MY FUCKING GOD I HATE WINDOWS AAAAAAAAGGGGHHH FUCK.

I'm currently demonstrating the definition of "true love" by reinstalling XP on the PC belonging to the older teen, at the request of arkady, her mother. This is because Windows 7 RC mostly worked straight off the DVD, except sound. Update: Turns out the sound cable wasn't attached to the board! It works better now it's plugged in.

I have found the use case where Windows 7 clearly beats XP and you would benefit from buying it! It’s when you’re reinstalling a supar-l33t gaming rig with rare and custom drivers galore. XP can't find the drivers either, and at least Win7 mostly works instead of mostly not working.

It turns out this is because it's her dad’s old gaming rig (2004-2005 vintage), which has ridiculously custom hardware that was l33t of the l33t four years ago and is now in the "legacy" section on the nVidia and ATI websites. I was reduced to looking at PCI IDs in the Hardware Manager and Googling on the magic numbers (perhaps I shoulda Bung) to work out what half this crap was.

Oh, and frequent MACHINE_CHECK_ERROR bluescreens, even with the CPU and memory clocked at half speed. That's an error message that means "stop overclocking so much you smelly nerd" or "your l33t hardware is wearing out from heat stress." In this case it'll be the latter. Said loved one can reseat all the cards and RAM, I've done my day on this thing. I killed most of a £3 bottle of petrol-flavoured red wine on the Windows Drinking Game.

One more virus and she gets Ubuntu whether she likes it or not ...

Exercises in temper control: not striking down teen with lightning from above when she calls James Brown "chav music."