Yay for Windows 7!
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October 24th, 2009New Project
April 8th, 2008Oops, been a little while since anyone has written anything. We have been pretty busy with wedding stuff. Well that an playing WoW and going out with friends. No excuses though.
I’m stating a new project at home. Going to write a program to keep track of our vehicles. Installed Options, mileage, MPG, maintance, after market parts, and probably much more will be stored by this program. I have a begun thinking about it. I know it will be written in C# with a SQL database attached to it. I’m thinking of using SQLExpress since it is free and I can tie it into the install program. » Read more: New Project
Ubuntu Purtiness!
March 13th, 2008So, after messing around with an attempt at installing Mac OS X 10.5.2 (using the OSX86 project as a guide) on the laptop, I gave up. Certain things were just not working. Namely sleep, fan control, and the wireless card. Also, it took a lot of work to get the network card and sound working. After all this, I decided to give Ubuntu a try. Katie could really use a linux distribution on the laptop to help with her modelling anyway.
I have been running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) on the server for a while and it runs flawlessly. I really didn’t have high expectations when installing it on the laptop, but I was impressed. Everything, except for adjusting the screen brightness worked out of the box. The screen brightness was just a quick python script install and then that worked too. I decided to make it look and partially function like Mac OS X to a degree and I am very satisfied with the results.
For starters, the visual effects seem to run flawlessly on this machine. Really fast and not using many resources. Good job on the Compiz team in creating an excellent piece of software. I enjoy eye candy, so having my windows fold up into airplanes and fly away when I close them is fun.
Microsoft. . .GRR!
February 13th, 2008I’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.
