Drivers

They are those little portions of code without them our shiny operative system and his thousand utilities would be nothing. Working with Windows Vista Beta has reminded me how important drivers are. When everything is perfectly configured it's easy to forget they exits but Windows Vista gives me problems so I was put before the fact that they are extremely necessary. After installation, many pieces of hardware weren't configured, I was aware of it, but I didn't realize how I would miss some things.

From everything I couldn't "drive", Ethernet adaptor and sound card were on top of the list I needed to get working. Nowadays, a computer without Internet access is useless, and the Ethernet adaptor connects my PC with my router, which is connected to Internet, so I have nothing. Without Internet I wouldn't be able to fix these drivers problems. I needed it to not having to switch between Windows XP and Windows Longhorn (I mean... Vista), every time I wanted to search and try drivers. After many hours I found the solution in a page that recommends trying a specific Windows 2000 driver, so I do and the way to Internet got opened.

About the sound matter I will prefer not to talk, there's nothing, nothing at all. So what is the point of new wonderful functionality to organize music files, if I can't listen to them?

We are in the hands of the companies that made our hardware.