Current mood:

annoyed

I rebooted my Vista dev box about an hour ago to finish installing some patches. This usually closes all the applications and briefly displays "logging out" before jumping to the BIOS's entry vector. Instead, it's been displaying "logging out" for over an hour now and the hard drive is going crazy with what sounds like random I/O. I can't even connect to the box because the window shutdown flag has been set and the kernel won't let things like tlntsvr spawn new processes.

I thought that some of the people who have been complaining about Vista were just whiny, but I'm beginning to suspect that avoiding Vista might be a wise decision. Some of the features are genuinely useful, like shadow copy and cancellable I/O, but losing access to my box for an hour trumps any marginal productivity gains.

It's still going...