When I shopped around for the laptop I wanted... I settled on the HP dv9000z. So far, a nice machine. I dislike that even with the 64-bit amd processor they installed the 32-bit vista. But most of all I dislike that vista sucks so bloody much. Periodically some portion of the network layer becomes unglued. The shared dialup connection on the network still works. Other workstations get out just fine. The putty ssh session to the box running airodump and aircrack-ptw is still open... but trying to open a new session fails with permission denied. All sites come up unknown host in a browser. My active login session or whatever vista wants to call it has lost all rights to any network access. No amount of disabling and enabling the related devices or connections has any effect... but a reboot fixes it. I hate vista.
Once I get enough arp packets for the aircrack-ptw I'll be off dialup and then comes the gentoo install.
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