I was 3 or 4 paragraphs into what was going to be a very long rant about Windows Vista.  About how some programs were crashing and other programs were losing there settings under Vista, and wouldn't you know it, I was trying to move some files around and Vista locks up.  Not a hard lock (nothing works), but explorer got wedged, and then one by one every process on the laptop got wedged.  I couldn't even use taskman to kill off the offending processes.

If things don't improve dramaticly for me this weekend, then I'm either going back to XP, or switching to Server 2008.

I really wanted to like Vista, but right now, I'm inclined to agree with everyone else out there that Vista sucks

I just replaced the OS on my laptop with Microsoft Windows Vista (tm).  So far, I'm fairly impressed with it.  As I'm rebuilding my laptop and installing my software I come across this nonsense:

Mind you, I purchased this software via Digital River almost 1.5 years ago and have used it very successfully.  Why is software that I legally purchased preventing me from installing it?  I used to think that DRM was a minor annoyance.  Now...  I believe DRM is pure evil...

Well, I emailed the folks at Digital River and pleaded my case.  They then looked up my account information and sent me everything I needed to get my copy of MS Money working again.  But still, what a pain in the butt.

I wanted to blog this mainly for my own edification, but I came across something I thought was very strange in the Windows command cacles.

So what's the difference between these two lines:

cacls "c:\temp" /T /G everyone:F

and

cacls "c:\temp\" /T /G everyone:F

If you were you were to point out that one doesn't have a trailing slash on the path, and one does; you would be correct.  You would also be correct if you pointed out that one works, and one doesn't.

Here is the output from the two commands:

C:\>cacls "c:\temp" /T /G everyone:F
Are you sure (Y/N)?

and

C:\>cacls "c:\temp\" /T /G everyone:F
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Seems like such a silly limitation, maybe there is something I'm not aware of?