Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet

Lund, Sweden refuses to work around a Vista bug, so people who live there must choose between Vista and internet access. It's nice to see the right people being held accountable for a change.

The only thing that could make this better

[Nero Nimbus]

Is if the city offered free Ubuntu CDs as "Windows Upgrades."

So...

[MadFarmAnimalz]

Their internet is b0rked?

Re:Oh no, there's more.

[phillips321]

Why can't they just download the CD?

JOKE!!!

"so people who live there must choose...

[ettlz]

"..between Vista and internet access."

Fucking tricky one, eh?

Like choosing between an anal probe and a cream bun.

Re:So...

[ettlz]

Their internet is b0rked?

No, it's b0rk-b0rk-b0rked!

How's this funny again?

[Wilson_6500]

If this happened in my town--and if I were using Vista--I'd be pretty damn unhappy. Usually a story is funny because someone got what they deserved in a particularly humorous way, or because someone subjectively considered evil takes it in the pants. Here I see a bunch of people getting shafted by two corporations that don't want to play nice, and this perhaps for the crime of simply owning a new computer.

Re:"so people who live there must choose...

[quonsar]

cream buns often follow anal probes.

Re:"so people who live there must choose...

[ettlz]

To be fair: im sure there are more sex lovers in Sweden then there are Vista users worldwide, so your comparison is not very accurate.

I think you're labouring under the false assumption that the cream bun is for eating.

Security feature

[davidc]

This is another example of how Vista has better security than previous Windows releases. It won't let you connect to the internet, by design. Another problem solved!

Re:router

[Chris Mattern]

A router just passes packets verbatim from one place to another verbatim

I dearly, dearly hope you are not in charge of any network apparatus anywheres.

Chris Mattern

Re:router

[somersault]

He works in marketing for Verbatim

Re:router

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

It was clearly a simple typo.

Re:router

[gkhan1]

The keys are like all next to each other!

Re:The article you reference contains the solution

[oliderid]

It almost sounds like a Linux "A feature not a bug"(tm) :-).

IE:
Of course there is no bug! You just have to open /etc/thisdamnconfigfile.conf with vi.
change the "DearGodPleaseMakeSureIWillBreakNothing" flag to 0
Close the file. Kill the daemon and restart it.

In the real world:
Oh my God how does this text editor work? Insert not Delete! How do I save eh? :q!? What's the? Stop Editing!

kill thedaemon
daemon restart

Error line 26458: : unrecognized command ":q! :forcequit :DearMisterViIreallyWantToLeaveYou :letmeoutyoupervert! :helpVItrappedme man vi reboot Emacs"

Re:So...

[geobeck]

Their internet is b0rked?

It was bitten by a m00se.

Re:Not their problem.

[rawler]

Of course, not being able to get on the web does decrease the malware they get infected by.

Too late, they're already running malware. That's what killed their internet connection.

Swedes are Evil, o.k.?

[WED Fan]

Do you really want Swedes on the Internet? I mean, aren't they like the Canada of Europe?

Re:The only thing that could make this better

[ozphx]

So... the point you are trying to make is that a 3 or 4 year old OS with a SP doesnt support as much as your fresh Ubuntu download? Guess MS should be buying those magic hologram stickers they sell to audiophiles that can dynamically rewrite the CD or some crap.

Don't buy a shitty wireless adapter. I don't buy shithouse third world crap, and everything works out the box.