...nuking and restoring a trashed Windoze machine. Warning: geek content. I got to do that with my sister's comp today. Oh yeah, my definition of fun. I wanted to nuke it back when I was still using it, before I got my Mac, but never got around to it. Well, I was finally forced into it after she picked up a virus. I've spent parts of the last 7 hours getting everything back up and running. The experience reminded me of just how much of a pain M$ is. Example: it took me all of 30 seconds to get wireless networking running on my iBook. It took closer to 30 minutes on the peecee tonight. I had to disable SSID hiding on the router and re-enable it once I got the peecee up on the network, whereas on the Mac, I could just manually enter the SSID. Much easier. Making matters more difficult were repeated crashes, most of which saw the machine spontaneously reboot, but one was a full-on attack of BSOD. Yep, the Windoze install was not even two hours old and it already bluescreened on me. Go figure. Well, at least it's done now and I'm back in my OS X comfort zone. :)