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Manly Things

March 8th, 2008

So, Katie went with Mom, Sister, and some of our friends to her Bridal shower today in Nothern Virginia.  This left me in Richmond.  That left me with only one choice. . . to do MANLY things.

First, I went to the Virginia Auto Show.  It was good, but nothing there was that impressive.  Worth the $7 though. I forgot the camera in the car, so no pictures.  Dustin and Gareth (Gee) came along, it was a good time.

After that, we headed over to Buffalo Wild Wings in the bottom.  Justin came and joined us and we had a good time sitting around eating good food and drinking beer.  We bet Gee $7 to snort a line of salt and pepper.  Well, he did it.  The face he made almost killed all of us from laughing.  After that we played some foosball on a really crappy table.

After that I came home and have spent the past 3 hours sitting here using my computer and talking to Josh.  It’s been a good evening.  Katie and the gang are almost here now. So, I am out.

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Posted in Computers, Fun, Guys Only

Vista is (Relatively) Good.

February 20th, 2008

I frequent this so-called social news sites (Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, etc), and the amount of FUD and outright lies posted about Microsoft’s Windows Vista is amazing. These posts seem to clog up the decent and informative Tech articles and it is really starting to annoy me. I would like to take this time to respond to some of the complaints about Vista.

  1. “Vista is a resource hog!“ — This is true when people compare it to Windows XP, but I was taught that an OS should use all available resources. Why have 2 to 3 gigs of RAM in a machine if the OS is only using a quarter of it. My desktop has 4 GB of RAM, at idle it uses around 1.5 GB if not more. This is because of the new technology Microsoft implemented called SuperFetch. Superfetch actually learns what programs are being run and when, this helps Vista run faster. It also uses RAM, but when you launch a memory intensive program, this fetched content is released. » Read more: Vista is (Relatively) Good.

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Posted in Computers, Microsoft, Vista, Windows

Microsoft. . .GRR!

February 13th, 2008

I’m sitting here at work, attempting to install another lovely piece of Microsoft software for the 2nd time.  This one is Microsoft Project Portfolio 2007.  Of course this one doesn’t work the way it should, just like when I tried to install Microsoft Project Server 2007.  That one took, combined with SharePoint Server 2007 (which didn’t work and I don’t think I will need), at least three days.  Sigh. . .not much I can do.  Microsoft has a pretty good lock on this specific part of the market.

Now, don’t get me wrong.  I don’t hate Microsoft, but sometimes installing these things makes configuring programs in Linux look like child’s play.  Soon I will be posting about my pleasant experiences with Windows Vista, despite what has been said elsewhere on the Internet.  Yet, now I have to attempt install number 2 of Portfolio Server.

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Posted in Computers, Microsoft, Rant

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