System down!

Remember that pretty computer I mentioned ordering last time? It's here! Apparently Vista doesn't play nice if you try to format it off a hard disk, and I'm not willing to render the shiny new machine completely useless attempting it. Stupid Vista. Stupid Microsoft, releasing faulty software and making it harder to shake than a damn leech stuck with Gorilla Glue. Why didn't I learn how to run Linux or UNIX or something that's not Microsoft? *rant rant rant*

It does run the Sims 2 rather nicely, though.

The upshot of this is that I will need to get a KVM switch so that I can go between machines; the old XP-runner will still be my work machine, while the new one will be for games and extra storage. However, genius that I am, I decided to take apart the old tower and put its guts into the shiny new case I'd bought over a month ago (in preparation to build a shiny new machine). Everything went in just fine, but as I am a photo-ninja, not a computer-guts-ninja, I refuse to fire the thing up without confirmation that I've plugged everything in properly (which I know I haven't).

So until my wonderful computer-genius Kit can come over and confirm that it's all together in the all together, and until I get that KVM switch, all of my photographs and Photoshop and NVU and Irfan are all trapped in that powerless little blue box in my living room. Meanwhile, the pretty machine invaded by the evilness that is Vista will let me giddily control the pixelated lives of slackers, business moguls, and pet stars.

*sigh*

I want my programs! :(