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The Future Of Windows Update

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December 8, 2011

Dear Microsoft,

The Windows OS needs an update service.

I am not referring to the Windows Update.

It’s either Windows Update will be expanded for all other software vendors to subscribe their information to it and then their applications will be updated trough a single service instead of having countless nonsensical services running at the startup.

Or Microsoft can create an entire new service.

These days each application has its own updating service which is loaded with windows startup programs next to other idiotic services. That is why powerful computers are brought down to a crawl just after a few months of use. The main culprits are all the garbage toolbars, the extra fluff from essential applications, and system integrators or OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers). Besides all the necessary applications, the OEMs install all kinds of crap trial software. Even if you buy a new computer you still have some work to do to clean it up. It is no surprise that Apple computers are gaining  market share, they’re headache free. And for a non initiate it is the most important aspect.

ITunes,  Adobe reader, Flash player, Java, and so on.

These are only a few of the countless applications that add a few services to start up. I still consider Adobe reader the champion because it enriches your system with a whopping record of 5 services. I commented on that abomination of an application before and I am still hung on it. So in order to prevent this garbage, Microsoft can have an update service which will resolve all the problems. Wouldn’t that be cool? In addition Microsoft can try and impose rules to software integrators  when they design software. Moreover Microsoft can eventually do the same thing as driver signing, only this time they can digitally sign the application too, if it is deemed to be up to par with the imposed Microsoft standards.

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Adobe Reader Install

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December 6, 2010

I was trying to install adobe reader X on a computer and it worked like a charm. The only problem is that if you want to install it on a second machine you have to go trough the same online process again. Imagine if you have to do multiple machines, terrible.

Moreover you can’t even see the adobe reader installation kit anymore because there is a weird download butler that has to install too before you can install adobe reader. I’m not sure how is this supposed to be easier than just download the damn file and install it, but adobe has done it again. In addition you have like 4 services wanting to start up after the adobe reader installation. I don’ t even know why businesses choose adobe, but from now on I will use anything else but adobe.

So in the following two locations you will find the installation kit:

windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\NOS\Adobe_Downloads 

Windows 7: C:\users\all users\nos\adobe_downloads

While the download butler is downloading the applications you can browse to find the files being downloaded, after they have finished downloading, the icons are going to change, so just copy them in different locations, because they will be erased after a restart.

Adobe reader has become a garbage application, no wonder PCs crash and burn constantly, it is because garbage apps like acrobat reader that have dimwits designers behind them.

Adobe reader services, adobe reader start up, adobe reader update

Adobe Reader – terrible application, I hope someone else is going to come with a better standard, because their acrobat reader is such an ass backwards design. Now in 2010 you have 4 services that are installed and are running at log on. I am speculating by 2020, they will have perhaps 10.

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Xbox 360 vs PS3

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November 9, 2010

Allow me to demonstrate why Xbox is the superior system vs PS3. First of all the controller in the PS3, I don’t know how to say it… would TERRIBLE be an alarm signal for SONY? I mean how could you not see that it is terrible? Too small firstly, ask anyone, bigger and more are better. This is not one of those wierd cases where less is more, naaaa… This is the actual case where more is better. So chap chap SONY, or whoever is going to take over them. As a bit of information, my hands are normal size.

The Controller

Controller, analog thumb controllers too close, thumb fatigue, too symmetrical, leaves no room for hands relaxation. Forces the user too a limited range of use, because of the symmetry of the thumb sticks.

Forward triggers, too close to each other on each respective side. Since we have TEN fingers we would like to use as many of them as possible. So interface people take note. I use only 4 out of 10. The 6 remaining fingers get tired holding the controller in an awkward position since it is too small, lacks in girth for palm support.

Try holding the controllers while assigning 6 fingers to it and 4 just for holding so the finger assignment should be like this:

Thumbs on the sticks and index and the middle fingers on the 4 triggers. Now try to move your hands with the controller side to side over each hip, which one feels more comfortable? The XBOX controller needs improvement too. I personally think they should come in sizes, not one fits all. If a pair of running sneakers costs 50 bucks and they come in sizes, why not a controller.

Much more care should be in the design as how much dexterity people have in what fingers. So the most functionality should be added to the first 3 fingers of each hand, decrementing from thumb, index and the least should be for the middle finger.

They should come to me before taking the decision of designing a controller. :D

User friendliness and quirks

Now, how can I explain to these people that work in designing user friendly technology? It’s not user friendly, at all.!!! Every time I leave a game to return to the main menu, my TV flickers, and makes noises, annoying noises. The XBOX 360 is just so suave switching from one to another. I guess the Windows team should learn a thing or two from the XBOX OS team. Xbox can improve on the theirs, which they did ’cause I just downloaded a hole new OS the other day. Way to go SONY on the last place there. I guess is good when you let other people do the thinking for you. I see SONY is just copying the Wii’s idea blatantly, with all the new plastic toys. Way to go there buddy, Nintendo should charge some royalties there. I can gladly applaud Microsoft here for coming with their own system. Honorable thing guys!

More on the user friendliness, every time I am on a debate about this i hear that PS3 is a more powerful system, has wireless included, has this and that. But all that power but, really uncomfortable to drive the damn thing. I mean just now, I was trying to send a voice message to my buddies who all are playing Black Ops, since it the release day, and because I have that stupid looking, and so difficult to operate the official, supposedly, bluetooth headset, I wanted to send a voice message. But na-aahh, guess this one could not be stolen, ha? Or the free network doesn’t support that? Well that’s too bad. See, the PS3 is like supped up sports car, but lots of loose ends in handling. There was a plane back in the fifties I think, super fast for that time but poor handling, really short wings to generate less drag. XBOX is like a well rounded minivan that smoothly takes you there. This is not the only analogy that can be made. In addition, what will PS3 do when the new XBOX comes out, and everyone and their mother jumps on it? Oh, how I want to see the bashers then? And is not that I am a fan of one or the other, I just want improvement.

You see, I don’t usually vote, because it’s usually choosing the least worst. Is not like the candidates all have all the good attributes and I have to make up my mind, No. Is like I have to figure out who’s the least worst so it doesn’t destroy what’s left over. It seems that politics has a shortage of good people, always! Or the bad ones fight too dirty and drive them away. But with consoles, since they do satisfy some kind of need, I bought them both. One was to play games and the other is my Blue ray player.

XBOX already has the network, they have the superior OS, they have all the little quirks tight, basically they have their shit together.

In the end I will see the guy from the SONY move commercial, with his hand melting down, because Microsoft will have the last laugh on this one.

I think Apple should take on a new challenge to come up their console, and their bad-ass controller, and none of that garbage move, kinnect stuff unless is totally awesome. Google could join the fight, since they love statistics, I already have a system for them to implement. It’s a whole new network idea. I just want to see a whole new system wow me.

Apple snatched the No1 phone company from Nokia, who is perhaps alive since in Europe they’re a bit more cheap with free services, and bandwidth, but everyone there has a decent vacation time, it is understandable after all.

The challenge is open for wowing the masses.

Aaaa and one thing that I forgot, it seems that if the PS3 dies on you because of overheating, you don’t get the super extended warranty, like the XBOX ring of fire. Ouch!

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Remote Desktop and Exchange 2010 in Windows Server 2008 R2

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August 17, 2010

I’m not sure if the problem has been encountered by many, or if this is an unique case, but if you are practicing with the Exchange 2010 and your RDP with a domain account is not working, then read on.

As I installed Exchange 2010 on my non domain controller virtual machine I could not RDP into it with a domain account. (for the really novice RDP = Remote Desktop Protocol, or Remote Desktop)

As any lazy person I looked it up online to try and find a quick fix so I don’t have to fix it my self. In addition I didn’t even got really acquainted with Windows Server 2008 and I did not want to search and find the fix on my own. But eventually I had to find it on my own since it wasn’t posted anywhere. So if you install Exchange 2010 and you can’t RDP into that server with a domain account, try this .

Start -> Administrative tools -> Remote Desktop Services -> Remote Desktop Session Host configuration

After the window opens double-click the RDP-TCP, and in the general tab under security make sure you have next to  Security Layer -> Negotiate and under Encryption Level -> Client Compatible.

For the really novice but wanting a career in IT, try www.computesimple.com the computer manual for beginners and intermediates.

If you ever wanted to delete the history of hosts you remoted into and for some weird reason cannot. Then try this:

Create a new user account with admin rights and the open regedit. then load the ntuser.dat hive from the other account, search for the host name you connected to, and then when you find it, delete it. Make sure you don’t forget to unload the ntuser.dat hive.
OR….
Try from the new administrative account.
Also you can delete the user profile, and recreate it.

Create a new user account with admin rights and the open regedit. then load the ntuser.dat hive from the other account, search for the host name you connected to, and then when you find it, delete it. Make sure you don’t forget to unload the ntuser.dat hive.
OR….
Try from the new administrative account.
Also you can delete the user profile, and recreate it.

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The Computer Manual, Computer Repair!

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July 12, 2010

The Ultimate Computer Guide since the discovery of Spoon Feeding!

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Is your computer belittling you?

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If you are afraid of your computer? Computer illiterate? We have the perfect solution for you. We have a book which is designed to help you learn how to manage and maintain your computer. The book starts with basic work flows like “copy and paste”, selecting multiple items and browsing your computer for documents and files you create and it quickly teaches you how to restore your computer from the recovery CDs in case it gets corrupted or starts to malfunction, this only in chapter one. Want to keep your computer clean, virus and adware free, I have the perfect steps you need to follow on how to be certain you don’t get by surfing the internet. As the matter of fact you can never get infected with adware and viruses if you use what the book teaches you. The Computer Manual®. The book encompasses the steps I took to learn on my own how to use a computer. Now I work in IT and I deal a lot of times with people which ask me questions about their home computers. Most of the time when I try to help them they can’t even do the basic work with a computer, as selecting multiple files and copying them to another location. That is why I wrote this book and has been writing itself because all the questions I face from users I answer them in this book.

Looking for a career change into IT? I know this is the book you need to read first, if you’re a novice with computers. The more novice you are the better fit this book will be. I only wish I had this guide when I started using computers. Want to understand more on how to set up your wireless network and how? you can find this in the book too. Want to share files trough the network or move your old stuff from your old computer to the new one? Get The Computer Manual®. Want to access your files from one computer to another trough the network? Then read the book and practice the lessons described in it. The book contains a comprehensive network troubleshooter which will teach you how to set up your home network and share files between computers. You will get help on TCP/IP and home network routers.

Don’t know how to burn a music CD, don’t know how to burn a data CD. iTunes helps you easily to burn Music CDs. You can use Windows to burn data CDs, it’s all in the book. Want to download YouTube videos, want to download lists of YouTube Videos and make music or audio CDs. It covers that too.

The Computer Manual®

Do you feel that you don’t know where to start when using a computer? This book will transform you from an intelligent 8 year old into a commanding computer user.

It is you who has to put the time in to do what the book asks of you. Otherwise this book will not help you 100%. It will still help, because you’ll have to search how to fix certain things. That is how you learn.

This book will not get you certified in anything, but it will give you a solid foundation how to approach PCs and manage them. Perhaps it should get you certified.

The Computer Manual®

This book contains work flows we IT people use daily in dealing with PCs. This is not a catalog of spewing out names. We teach you how to use and how to think in troubleshooting your computer. This book takes you from a novice and makes you ready to land an entry level IT position. It contains all the tricks we constantly encounter and fix.

The book that should come with every PC!



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The book is cheaper than the first hour of work you would pay a techie to fix your computer!!! Much cheaper, you could buy 2 or 3 of these with the money you would spend on a techie.

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You can download the photo below the get a better idea about this book. But as I mentioned is unique. It has plenty of photos so you can be guided into what you’re doing. Not like the other boring PC books that are filled with nonsense text. This book has screen-shots for everything you need to get done. Below is a preview of the entire book, all 270 pages.

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Microsoft’s problem, a rant or objective observations

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May 10, 2010

I think, I realized Microsoft’s problem.

They want to have a hand in everything, and it seems to have been working, maybe it’s their way of surviving and staying on top. But it seems to have grabbed them in the wrong direction. I am reading some exam questions to pass the exam for windows 7 to get certified. Specifically, the deployment chapter. And do not get me wrong, but for the wizard company that invented the wizard, this process is more complex than building a house piece by piece. You need seventeen million tools to be ran in a succession of garbage sequence in order to get a certain type of a deployment image. All these tools have 17 names and they all have to be ran for specific reasons at specific times. I really don’t understand why isn’t there one single tool with wizards, that simply displays:

We offer these “flavors” of images to be created.

1. Do you want a DVD that you pop in the drive and after a few answers (custom partition) you get the unattended file – click here.

2. You want the completely untouchable (unattended) Image. pop it in and go – click here.

3. Then you want a spanned image on more CDs click here. !Bam!

4.You want a network image deploy-able with WDS? _ make sure your WDS server its working and you are connected to the network and then click here.! Bam!

And then the program runs all things in the required succession, in order to get what we want. Then we don’t have to go through the grueling process of running 7 different tools in some weird idiotic order. At the end of the wizard we get the image. !BIG Bam!

I strongly believe that’s what Microsoft should be focusing on. Servicing their products to the best possible way, because if there are bad programs out there, Microsoft’s are the worst. You would expect them to make the full use of all the knowledge they have of their own system, but it seems that their products are always unfinished, put together by some unknown shop in Romania. Take for example ORCA, a Microsoft product. Is the worst documented thing I ever found, and is the worst program I ever tried to understand. Now we can look at an InstEdit. A bit better, it even adds itself the right click menu, pretty nifty.

The Task Manager- a lot of potential there but again the most important feature, they leave apart. You can actually put on pause a single process if you use PrcessExplorer from Sysinternals, (kudos to Mark Russinovich) and it also tells you where the hell the running process came from, so if you want to delete the damn thing, you can. Well, that is the most important feature I use to put a good damn spyware in check, so I can run my antivirus as free as possible, on the infected machine.

I don’t understand how they leave this important stuff out and for third parties to discover and/ or implement. So instead of focusing on getting into technology like virtual machines and compete with VMware and who knows what else, they should focus their resources on really supporting extremely well their products, and then you would really want to get your hands on a PC. The commercials would not even be necessary. Until then we will stick with Apple since they have begun to show some stability. They too seem to be getting hasty and established, but my suggestion would be to stick conservatively with their main products and test the butter out of them before they release them.

So I’ve concluded it. People are switching slowly to apples and this will drag a demand of server technology to become more necessary, then MS will lose its dominant spot in the computer market. Now if that will happen then the only way for MS to survive is to get back to really supporting their products qualitatively. I just heard of the upgrades from Mac OSX leopard to snow but I never heard “oh my god this OSX Snow is terrible”. Not a single rumor, or single whiz went by me. But with windows, every time they get something right, then they messed it up in the next version. Look at windows Vista, a garbage failure. Look at the obscure windows ME. What, you never heard of it? Well it has the renowned reputation of the worst windows ever, and I made my point too. On top of all this nonsense you have seven, six flavors of these windowses:

This is what you have to remember to pass an exam in windows 7:

Ultimate edition
Enterprise edition
Professional edition
Home Premium Edition
Home Basic Edition
Starter Edition

Gizmodo explains it too, and there is also a picture with the bald headed dude from Microsoft trying to be all cool and hip. I don’t know what is the reason to be hyped up, but it shouldn’t be the case, he’s people that came up with most of the shit are really not imaginative. Who in its right mind allowed whoever else to come with 6 “flavors” of the windows 7. I mean how much is the starter edition $20, cause I don’t see the point of building one.

I mean if they went so far as to making six editions, oops my bad, “flavors” then why not just customize the damn thing. I think this will be the next step: You will get window 8 without IE 8, just with Firefox. How cool would that be? Lets post the perfect “flavor” of windows 8. So no internet explorer, and no messenger. I see in win 7 they removed the messenger. Finally a good idea.

Look, Windows 7 it even managed to kill the HP slate. I am glad it died because that thing was hideous. That was blasphemous to the Ipad, and I don’t own one, yet (apple should gift wrap one for me since I am tooting their horn here a bit). Also all my HP LJ 1020 fans might agree with me on the fact that HP is slacking off too.I have also to rip on Adobe too ’cause their garbage reader it has become very annoying. Now it has like two residing garbage programs in start up, and when you log on, it takes you another 10 minutes before you are presented with a desktop, because of all the junk that is added to your start up. Sometimes I feel these companies should pay us for just the headache we are putting up because of them. Would we actually have a case against them for the frustration they cause? Destroyers of peace of mind.

Returning to the customization part I want a customized windows 8 or 7. So far, no Internet explorer (that should deduct like $20) and no messenger ($3), the rest we’ll see what the others want in a customized operating system. All you avid readers should post your wishes. Perhaps MS should open a site “IWish” to spite Apple, which seems to be on a rampage.

Moreover ripping on Microsoft.

I can’t believe that MS decided within two operating systems (Vista and 7)to keep the same stupid setting to view your programs within the start menu frame. I mean, I have a freaking 30″ apple monitor, hooked on a PC. All you MAC fans calm down, is not blasphemy for an apple monitor to be hooked up with a PC. Its Preference. And when I am looking to start a new program up from the start menu, because I use lots of them, I want to be able to spread my programs on my entire screen because at that moment I am not interested in what’s on the rest of my screen, I am looking to launch an application and the rest of the software or images running in the background are useless at this point in time. I just need the most comfortable way to get to my application. I even looked in the task-bar and start menu proprieties, you can’t switch back to the old way of doing things (It should be there, and if I did not see it, then it’s not placed wisely).

Mind you now the size of the screens has increased dramatically, and we can have more icons in that start menu items, and they just decided to be cool, and cage the freaking start menu in a box of approximately12 square inches when my monitor is at least 15 times larger than that. These MS employees “the imaginations’ enemies” decided to get some coolness by doing the mini start menu. The more steps are in between the more annoying a computer becomes, morons.

I don’t want to slide or scroll before I am able to see my goal or target program icon. For example Sony lost me as a customer when they decided to keep the PSP go with only one thumb stick but they gained the appreciation of the current owners because they will not be forced to upgrade. Microsoft in order to gain more market they decided to add a who knows what crazy innovation that is not even well thought out, just to get a few more people attracted to their default product. I just dislike the feature and I think the logic I am using is pretty solid, at least they could’ve added the option to switch it back to the windows XP style start menu. The current look of the start menu is poorly thought out. This crappy thought out start menu gives me the sensation that I am trying to build a ship in a bottle. It would be cool, but there is usually no art in the labor process, the art lies in the results.

Now you be the judges of these statements, customize your ideal windows, and say what you think.

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Windows 7

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February 2, 2010

I haven’t worked with Windows Vista extensively because it was terrible. But Windows 7 ameliorated the problems Vista had. I did not notice until the transition to 64 bit that the Winver.exe command has become useless.

I doesn’t make any sense to have that there and not put on it the fact that the OS is either 32 or 64 bit. Microsoft should fix this at once. I can’t live w/o winver.exe.

All you novices run this command at “run” dialog menu in any windows. Anyway this is my February rant after I just managed to fix my WordPress from a terrible error. I am glad it works now, because I can rant, rant and rant some more.

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Windows 7

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October 21, 2009

I have been playing, well not playing, I actually have the release candidate of windows 7 for months now as my default OS.

And yes it is that great, with the exception of those silly categorized groups in control panel and perhaps some other features that I haven’t met. But the worst of the features that I can’t stand on Vista and 7 is the sharing modifications they added. I cannot any longer type the UNC path to the C drive. I had to actually share the folder I needed to get to.

Other tips to play around with is the firewall, Don’t disable it because nothing will work anymore, network wise that is.

If anyone of you have any idea on how to get to the C drive leave me a comment.

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Backtrack 4 – The Intelligent BadAss Linux

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July 29, 2009

I have been playing around with Linux for years now. And I am serious when I am saying that I have just been playing around, because I never got to really master it or work in a Linux environment. Back in 99 when Matrix just came out, there were some features that Linux was interesting for. The startup screen at the time could be interchanged with any picture someone desired. And of course one of the pictures was with Trinity pulling the gun on one of the agents. The screen capture was carrying the inscription “Dodge this, Windows”.

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Well I was excited by that feature but I never got to actually implement it, because Linux was just too much work to implement any single feature. Anyway, all the versions of Linux that I have seen look ugly. I mean the icons on most Linux distributions look childish and put together in a hurry. Even Ubuntu, which I have been using for 2 years now looks bad out of the box. I understand the wobble is a nice feature but that is not enough. I guess that all these programmers have forgotten to ask some artists to design some kick ass icons for Linux.

I have seen some screen shots of Linux desktops that looked good but none of them actually comes out of the box with some bad-ass theme that looks cool. I mean no one out there can actually pick a better theme out of the box for users like me that don’t have the energy to do it ourselves?
So far Ubuntu was the new hype in Linux, but I think if these guys from Back Track keep making their OS better, it has to establish itself like the new de facto Linux OS. I mean this is the only Linux distribution that I was satisfied with esthetically, out of the box.

In Back track the loading screen looks awesome, in addition to that nice motto “The quieter you become the better you are able to hear” or something like that. The text is good too is not like that Ubuntu text that looks fat and too roundish. And that dragon has also flames in the 4th version. This thing looks so good. Even the text in the terminal is nice and neat. Aaa I just realized it. I have a horrible hand writing and very disorganized, and the Ubuntu text it seems to me just as my hand writing text.

Another thing that I like about Backtrack is that it looks good and it is dangerous too. It is the new Linux Bad Ass, in the block. Everyone watch out!!!  The good looking, intelligent and dangerous OS, it is the American Psycho of Linux.

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Creating a Windows XP Automatic installation CD…

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March 20, 2008

The other day I was looking for the name of that file winnt.sif I knew is winnt.something but I forgot the extension since I did that only once and some time ago. So as I was trying to find the name again I found this Technocrat’s blog. You guys might want to check it out if you have trouble with an Automatic Windows XP Installation.

Read the rest of it here

Good luck.

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More Ubuntu

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March 5, 2008

Last night after pretending to be studying for about two hours I needed to use some applications that I am familiar with. I was trying to be fast about what was I doing and not to learn new systems. Therefore I needed to use some Windows native applications.

I already knew about Wine and I did the “sudo apt-get install wine”
after typing just wine. Of course I was prompted that something was locked and I was… what???? Scratching my head. But a spark was produced somehow and told me try closing Synaptic packet manager, and it worked. I was for one second proud of myself for figuring that out, and when I got over it I resumed to my initial plan.

I got wine working, sort of, because I did not do it at all, the credit goes to all the smart dudes that made it so easy for me to install it. So after that I downloaded the Windows tools that I was familiar with and started doing what I needed to have done.

While I was doing that I started thinking (I do that too sometimes) … Ubuntu comes free but you get another OS for free which normally is a lot of money. So basically you get two for the price of nothing.

Thank you Ubuntu!

PS: I hope the professor will not pretend too, to pass me.

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Ubuntu Linux

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March 1, 2008

I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my BigBox. This is not the first time I had Ubuntu on my computer. As the matter of fact I have a laptop which is my server and has Ubuntu on it. I only restarted that laptop a few of times the entire last year and it was because I am also using it as a desktop whenever I need to. I use it as a server to share the internet to my Xbox 360 and my BigBox.

I did have Ubuntu on my BigBox but I could never configure the apple 30″ Apple HD Cinema Display to it to work with all resolutions. Therefore the images were not appealing on this thing. Last night I after baking this idea in my head for some time I just installed Ubuntu (I did save all my precious information on other hard drives some time before). After restarting it, I started playing with the repositories and other settings.

I had some trouble with the flash plugins because I could not see my blog correctly. I mean if it was anything else but not my baby Gameaddict. Others that installed Ubuntu and have the same combination of plugins as I did will not see my embedded videos in the previous post correctly.

But before I even worried about the flash plugins I wanted to see the wobble effect. So I right clicked on my background image like in Windows and I selected change Desktop background from the pop up menu, then I went to the Desktop Effects tab and selected the extra feature. Ubuntu automatically found my graphic card’s driver (Nvidia 8800) and prompted me to accept installation because it was not supported directly by Ubuntu. (I did select all the available repositories before that is why it got the driver).

After I restarted the computer I was pleasantly surprised because my screen was at the maximum resolution. I was very happy. I have tried to get this behemoth screen working for such a long time before this instance, but I never succeeded. Before I went differently about it. I was trying to use the “xorg” configuration and other stuff.

It also possible that at the time there was no good driver for my card and I had the version 7.4 of Ubuntu. I did try to get the driver from Nvidia but that one requires you to do so many other things is outrageous. First it asks you to be in text mode, then after that it asks you to be root, I did stop there because there is no root in Ubuntu so I gave up only to return later but this time it was a breeze. Actually it was a fluke, not some intensive research and compilations of weird scripts and drivers. It did it on its own and I am really glad :) .

Now I just stare at this “acre of accurate vision”. This “acre of vision” is not my line I have seen it on one of the reviews I was reading about this screen.

Today, after adding all available software in the add remove feature and after removing all the flash plugins I have added last night I successfully installed flash player automatically from Firefox and I could get to see my baby Gameaddict.eu.

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Windows Vista Annoyances

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February 26, 2008

Has anyone discovered any bugs in Windows Vista? Of course this is a rhetorical question because I have found some. I have found some despite the fact that I am not an extensive user of Vista, therefore this OS must be horrible.

I have found like 3 or 4 so far. One that is very annoying is when you have a computer that is registered with a domain and you try to authenticate to the local machine and it won’t log you on. The reason is bad user name or password. The more appealing part of it, is that you log in with another administrative account and reset the password for that initial account, then you try to log on with the initial account and … Surprise Bad User / Password. Of course I was sarcastic in the previous couple of lines because when you are actually trying to be expedient about something the freaking OS, the “brilliant” Vista decides to screw you over.

If anyone is asking or wondering, Yes I do have this page to rant and vent about whatever I want. I do pay the domain and hosting fees so I get to say whatever I want.
Returning to Vista and it’s horrible annoyances. Has anyone tried to rename a user profile and have Vista generate the default profile again? Well I have too but this is not like XP, it just tells you some weird error and it does not allow you to log in at all. I even tried to log in with a different user, the same result. ERROR.

I do have one even better than all the others. I was trying to install the latest version of Adobe Reader and all of a sudden I get this error Invalid Mounted Network Drive. I am scratching my head in amazement of how buggy this crappy OS is. So like any other computer person I try to go around the problem and I unmount the mapped network drive and restart setup. What do you think happened? To save you some head scratching, it did not work. I had to log off from that account and log in with local admin and install because to my figuring out the local admin never had the drive mounted. That is Windows Vista for you.

I have been trying here and there to learn some Linux but I always have to revert to Windows because all my other preferred apps only work with Windows. In addition this Vista is the most annoying thing I have ever met. I have worked randomly with it and it always disappointed me horribly. This thing is like Windows Me. My guess is that we have to wait for Win 2010 to fix all the stupid problems. Maybe then we will have something like XP but with all the Vista’s bells and whistles.

Now, I really need a break…

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