I have a Compaq Presario F500 laptop, which comes with a built-in Broadcom wireless network adapter. Vista Home Premium came pre-installed, but the system only has 1Gb of RAM, which is the it's maximum.
Vista is so power-hungry that things were never going to go well. The straw which broke the camel's back came one Sunday afternoon when I was surfing the web while listening to music on WMP. I navigated to a site with an embedded flash video and the system froze, completely. I rebooted and tried again but got the same problem, the system was totally maxing out. It's worth mentioning that I already had Aero and all the fancy, (read sparkly; pointless), effects turned off. I came to the conclusion that Vista had to go.
I've been working on a site which uses the CodeIgniter PHP framework for a few days.
I added a custom CMS area to the site, which I wanted to place in a password-protected directory. I needed to turn the Rewrite Engine, (which CI uses extensively), off for the CMS' URL but for some reason Apache throws a spaz if you try to use the 'RewriteEngine off' directive along with the 'require valid-user' directive.