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Well over my reading week I decided to make the transition to Windows Vista. I had recently been running Ubuntu Edgy exclusively on my desktop, but decided that I wanted to see what Vista was all about. I picked up a copy of Home Premium (Legally!), and installed it on my box. I must say that I was very impressed with the changes to the Windows Installer. The image based install went smoothly and I was up and running in just over 30 minutes.

Once Vista booted everything just worked, I didnt’ need to download any drivers everything was done for me, which was a pleasant change from what I remember installing when I last installed Windows XP. Although Vista doesn’t have any services packs yet I think this will eventually change but we will see.

I was concerned about how my box would handle Vista, my computer is by no means old, but at the same time it’s definitely not bleeding edge. Currently I am running 1.86gz Centrino Processor with 1gb of PC3200 Ram, and an 80gb Sata Drive with a 120gb IDE storage drive, and I have an AGP 6600GT Nvidia Video card. Vista actually runs quite nicely on this setup. The overal experience seems very “snappy” everything opens quickly, and my memory usage is usually between 500-750mbs of my overall 1gb. I did however make the upgrade to 2gb recently just to give myself that extra “room” just incase.

Overall I really do enjoy the UI changes that have been made, and with the system in general. The search improvements are a blessing, and it’s nice to just type what I’m looking for in any window and have it just come up. Overall the Vista Eye Candy is nice, but is by no means as good as Beryl in Linux, however I do find that it is a lot more stable.

I really enjoy the integration of windows media player and the improvements they have made to it. I was always a fan of windows media player when I used windows. I liked it’s small memory footprint, library folder watching, the only thing I didn’t ever really like was the UI and they have definitely improved in that department.

All things considered if would definitely recommend anyone who is still running windows xp to go out and make the switch. I find that Vista has given me a reason to enjoy windows again, for now, but that definitely does not mean I spend a lot of time in it. I still use Linux as my main OS and would say I’m in that at least 85% of the time.

So yeah I guess that’s my pseudo review of Vista. I hope it helps some people make the decision to make the switch.

I almost forgot here’s a screenshot

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What vi would look like if Microsoft had developed it

There’s no where to run and hide from the vi assistant!

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Well I came across this absolutely hilarious video on youtube that really spoke to me. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m seriously going out of my mind from lack of sleep and stress, or maybe it’s because I’m taking an operating system course this semester so some of the things this guy spits really speak to me. Whatever it is this has to be one of the funniest, geek, gansta raps of all time. This guy’s name is Monzy and if you checkout youtube you’ll find a wealth of other just as funny raps. “I do a bounds check before I write to an array”! Foo!

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Well this week has to be one of my hardest weeks here at York. I have back to back to back midterms followed by more midterms and assignments. I’ve been multitasking between Operating Systems, Theory Of Computation, and Logic, trying to remember as much as I possibly can. I just want the madness all to end, but at the same time I enjoy the stuff I’m learning so I guess it’s not all that bad. Hopefully I will be making some more posts on there in the next couple of weeks as things settle down a little bit. I can’t believe this semester is almost over and I’ll be writting exams again, but hey that also means that summer is on its way

Back to studying …

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Well when you are taking as many math courses as I am you start to go a little crazy. We were working on a proof in my logic course and my teacher told us this one, and for some reason I thought it was one of the funnier math jokes I’ve heard in awhile.

When doing a bullet proof of weakening we can experience the joys of immaculate conception. If you have never seen the proof you might not understand, we are trying to proove that A proves A v B, and in order to do so we must create a new something from nothing. If this doesn’t describe immaculate conception I don’t know what does.

Although now that I’ve type this out I don’t think anyone is going to find this funny, but I did! Maybe it’s a sign that my mind is beginning to warp under the pressure of midterms.

Anyway back to studying … and counting the days

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