Since installing Vista 2 weeks ago, my view on Vista have changed drastically. It is less of a resource hogging, flashy overloaded OS packed with useless features and overdone security, and more of a pleasent interface designed to utilize as many resources as possible in order to provide the best experience. All the while ensuring that all resources are still available when needed.

After installing it initially, the OS failed to run smoothly at all. It took many adjustments:

Updating Motherboard Bios (the update was actually a pre-vista release)

Installing Vista service pack 1& other updates

Disabling  search index

disabling windows defender

I wont go into detail about those since there are so many articles on the net which already cover the topic. Of course, there is the debated topic of the security messages which popup pretty much whenever you do anything. Ya, I disabled that too. Not that it slows me down, but that I’m literate enough to know what I am doing in the system, and what goes on when I do things like download and run files. Though I won’t argue that it is too much protection for the average user. The average user /is/ pretty dumb afterall.

So this is just my update. I’m running vista and it’s working extremely well. I have only had some issues with iTunes and certain dvd burning software like infrarecorder, which supposedly is Vista ready…. totally free burner works well for those who are wondering.

In conclusion Vista is a great OS. If you’re looking for a new computer now, I wouldn’t be afraid of getting the OS. If you’re currently running XP I wouldn’t reccomend upgrading unless you have a reason to, or just want the latest OS. However you must make sure you have some fast RAM, and Fast hard drive at the least. Since My harddrive is IDE not SATA 150 or 300, it runs a bit slower. This is the reason I had to disable search index and defender. Also for the full Aero effect, I would suggest a dedicated video card. Right now I’m running a 7800 on AGP and everything seems great! It doesn’t take something as powerful as a 7800 however. Just so long as it’s a dedicated video card with 64 meg of ram or more and hopefully higher than a geforce 4700.

All in all Vista rocks. The people who downplay the OS as being a disaster probably have not tried it for themselves on a machine which it is designed to run on. There is also a great number of people out there who generally will say and do anything just to get traffic. The net is a nasty place and most of what is popular is usually rubbish.

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It’s been what? 31 years? since the wow signal, the unexpected discrepancy caught by SETI on August 15th 1975. Who knows what caused it or how!

As I watched the countdown near the last few seconds, the only thing I could think of was if the whole thing exploded. Or fell. Or did nothing. That’s pretty much what it did! They had a discrepency in the first attempt to launch, and so it was delayed probably another 30 mins. Watching the launch live on their website, I was impressed they got the thing off the ground. And Judging by the cheers and yells of everyone in the company, so were they. Too bad it didn’t make it to where it was going… All I know is that NASA lost a solar sail, and that would have been pretty sweet if it had made it.

Best desk ever. Only $99.

Not just any Clouds… Noctilucent clouds!

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2008/24jul08/rethans1.mpg?PHPSESSID=58rj4cfk9tb3a69pdeipch2l51

This message from Congressman Dennis Kucinich appeared recently on Youtube. Apparently George Bush is going to be impeached for war crimes and lying on Friday. Isn’t it a bit late? Bush is almost gone! What is the goal of impeaching now? We can’t accomplish much because the damage has already been done. We’ve essentially failed already no matter what the outcome of impeachment is. Let’s look forward instead of backward and just get over the past. We can’t change the past, only the future. It just seems to me that he wants revenge on Bush. Which I hope is not the case. I hope his intentions are to make clear what Bush  did and why it is wrong so that it doesn’t happen. It’ll be a sorry day when we go after presidents for their mistakes.

This video of the moon transiting earth brought to you by Deep Impact:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/mov/260503main_red_green_blue2.mov

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1059242,blago071608.article

National Guard help needed in the city? Really? It doesn’t feel that bad when I’m down there. If I just were to join the police force, it would save us all this fuss and tax money.