- Me (at work, Friday): Ooh, Windows 7 Beta out today, let's see...
- *checks sit. Site refuses to open*
- Me: OK, will try later
- Me (at home, Friday): Oh, yes, was going to check that beta out...
- *checks site*
- Site: Erm, we didn't expect this many people to attempt to download it all at once... Come back tomorrow when we've put some more servers up
- Me: Fine...
- Me (at home, Saturday morning): OK, beta thing.
- *goes to site*
- Site: Here, download! Once you log in...
- Me: Yay!
- *log in*
- *clicks download*
- *clicks download again*
- *waits a bit in case*
- *clicks download again*
- Me: OK, you don't like Firefox? How about Safari?
- *loads Safari. Loads site. Logs in*
- *clicks download*
- *clicks on download button many times*
- Me: OK, don't like Firefox, or Safari. Right...
- *opens Fusion, boots Windows VM*
- *loads Internet Explorer. Loads site. Logs in*
- *Clicks download*
- Site: You need special downloader! Gimme permission to install it! It's my friend!
- Me (reluctantly): fine...
- *download finally starts*
- Me (at home, Saturday evening): has download finished?
- *download has finished*
- Me: Yay!
- *copies download out of Windows VM and onto Mac partition*
- Me (at home, Monday evening): Ought to give that beta a try
- *create new, empty VM*
- *Tell it to boot from a disk image*
- *wait 10 minutes8
- *see shiny Windows logo*
- New Windows 7 VM: Ja! Das Hokey Kokey!
- *presses buttons, making Hitler's eyes flash*
- Me: Hmm, still better than Vista*
- New Windows 7 VM: Just works!
* With apologies to xkcd...