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Humor and Mayhem
Apr. 3rd, 2006 10:54 pmFirst off, last weekend I managed to escape campus. Secondly, I got to see my dad last weekend because he's going to a conference in Boston all this week. Thirdly, I went to see Rusty Dewees a.k.a. THE LOGGER a comedian from Vermont somewheres last Saturday. Lastly, FUDGE RIBBON CAKE! Weeeeeeeeee!!!!
Also in the news, I made my tower a LINUX (Fedora Core 5 x86_64 ) / Windows XP Pro dual boot computer today. I already had XP Installed, and the Linux install wasn't that hard, but it took me about an hour to figure out how to properly configure GRUB to load XP correctly.
And a side note, I don't think I'm ever going to buy Windows Vista, mainly because from what I've seen it is a five times more resource hogging OS that XP and 2000 ever were. It has all of these random "visual enhancements" that don't seem to be worth all of the hype that they're being given. I just read an article about it that says it pretty much requires 512MB of RAM, a DX-9 compatable GPU and a current generation CPU (AMD64/Sempron/Penium 4) in addition to more video RAM and suppport for this mysterious WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model). Ugh. Ever hear of vendor lock anyone. I think over the next year I'm gonna be taking a crash course as to how to use linux... and saving up money so that I can buy like 5 XP Pro liscences immediately after Vista comes out. Microsoft, please get rid of some of the fat in your OSes. I mean, come on, most linux distibutions will run on everything from a 486 with 8MB RAM to a quad Opteron server with 8GB of RAM, yet the oldest think XP will even boot on is a Pentium II. I'm all for advancements in technology and all, but I like my upgrades to not be more bloated than a week old corpse.
Also in the news, I made my tower a LINUX (Fedora Core 5 x86_64 ) / Windows XP Pro dual boot computer today. I already had XP Installed, and the Linux install wasn't that hard, but it took me about an hour to figure out how to properly configure GRUB to load XP correctly.
And a side note, I don't think I'm ever going to buy Windows Vista, mainly because from what I've seen it is a five times more resource hogging OS that XP and 2000 ever were. It has all of these random "visual enhancements" that don't seem to be worth all of the hype that they're being given. I just read an article about it that says it pretty much requires 512MB of RAM, a DX-9 compatable GPU and a current generation CPU (AMD64/Sempron/Penium 4) in addition to more video RAM and suppport for this mysterious WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model). Ugh. Ever hear of vendor lock anyone. I think over the next year I'm gonna be taking a crash course as to how to use linux... and saving up money so that I can buy like 5 XP Pro liscences immediately after Vista comes out. Microsoft, please get rid of some of the fat in your OSes. I mean, come on, most linux distibutions will run on everything from a 486 with 8MB RAM to a quad Opteron server with 8GB of RAM, yet the oldest think XP will even boot on is a Pentium II. I'm all for advancements in technology and all, but I like my upgrades to not be more bloated than a week old corpse.
