As usual, Vista sucks

Just spent over four hours trying to get things to work with Windows Vista. First, the desktop wouldn't recognize the network hard drive, then the Vista backup program wouldn't work with it. Finally got the thing to see the drive (so it can be used for storage and what not) but it turns out there's no fix for the backup program issue. Guess I'll have to invest in Norton Ghost or something.

And then I couldn't get Apache installed on the laptop. Installing Apache on Windows XP is trivial. Not so with Vista. Turns out that some of the package programs with Apache + MySQL, PHP, and Perl don't even work with Vista at all--specifically Wampserver and Apache2Triad. Finally got XAMPP to work though and it was even fairly painless. Used to use Developerside.net, but they've gone to a paid version only now.

Bah. I'm exhausted. I think its time to call it a night.