Thursday
And another week has almost past. A lovely week I suppose it is, lots of quizzes and business. And as for my utter enjoyment, comes an invitation to join the Virtual World Summit. I suppose it's nothing big, it's merely people talking about how our future's going to be affected by technology, entertainment and the games that we play. Nothing really earth shaking, IF your a ROCK.
I'm like so excited I'm going to be able to be involved in this summit. No doubt I'd only be an audience, but I'm allowed to ask questions! Questions are best asked when it provokes alot of thought. It doesn't have to be controversial or silly, it just has to make people think about what it means. I have asked a good many questions in my life and I only hope that I don't try and take everyone else's turn.
If my predictions are correct, I would have at least one question that would be answered. And if I'm lucky, probably I could ask up to three before they ban me from asking more. There are so many things I would want to know. What better opportunity, than to ask the people who are involved in the creation of our technological future? Oh glee, oh my, oh yes! I'm going to have so much fun. If words were like a sword to minds, perhaps my questions would be a form of ritualistic torture for thine.
I intend to encircle what is said, then come up with a question thus barbed and tender. Maybe if they answered, they'd barbeque a blender! Hahaha, enough nonsense said! Mayhap I should just go to bed? Nay! I got knowledge to gain! There's a fun thing called a quiz tomorrow, it's never getting me dead! Alauz Out!
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Evil Vista
So it is proven, my mother's laptop has suffered much under Vista. And there seems to be a new problem that I discovered today. The laptop has started mysteriously going onto standby all by itself when I attempted to use it. And to make matters worse, the laptop came back from standby with no backlight. I somehow figured that by opening the laptop out to the maximum would help and viola, the lights came back on.
I thought that that was the end of it but I am to be proven wrong again. The occurance repeated itself over 10 times in a span of 3 mins soon after. I am seriously considering returning this laptop due to Vista screwing up the hardware. Even if it wasn't Vista's fault, there obviously is a gigantic problem on my hands if I don't return it. What if it start doing this non-stop when someone is attempting to use it? I'm testing the laptop right now, with and without the battery, on hard surfaces and soft surfaces, with the AC power and without the AC power while the battery is in. And my findings were that this problem happens in everyone of my scenarios. Since I got no school tomorrow, I'm definately bringing this laptop down to suntec tomorrow to get it changed.
And so ends a tiring day of handling stupid Vista computers yet again. Will it never end? Will I be doomed to have to face this retarded OS and faulty computers for the rest of eternity? Only time will tell but I don't think I'm going to want to find out. I wish everyone a Vistaless life. Alauz Out!
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
So it is proven, my mother's laptop has suffered much under Vista. And there seems to be a new problem that I discovered today. The laptop has started mysteriously going onto standby all by itself when I attempted to use it. And to make matters worse, the laptop came back from standby with no backlight. I somehow figured that by opening the laptop out to the maximum would help and viola, the lights came back on.
I thought that that was the end of it but I am to be proven wrong again. The occurance repeated itself over 10 times in a span of 3 mins soon after. I am seriously considering returning this laptop due to Vista screwing up the hardware. Even if it wasn't Vista's fault, there obviously is a gigantic problem on my hands if I don't return it. What if it start doing this non-stop when someone is attempting to use it? I'm testing the laptop right now, with and without the battery, on hard surfaces and soft surfaces, with the AC power and without the AC power while the battery is in. And my findings were that this problem happens in everyone of my scenarios. Since I got no school tomorrow, I'm definately bringing this laptop down to suntec tomorrow to get it changed.
And so ends a tiring day of handling stupid Vista computers yet again. Will it never end? Will I be doomed to have to face this retarded OS and faulty computers for the rest of eternity? Only time will tell but I don't think I'm going to want to find out. I wish everyone a Vistaless life. Alauz Out!
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Sunday, May 13, 2007
It's official, Vista SUCKS!
I don't have anything to say about Vista that hasn't already been said by others. But at first I didn't want to believe all the downplay Vista has been having. I mean like I thought to myself, "Let's just give Bill a break and pretend that Vista is actually cool." But it seems that Vista is proving itself the number one enemy of simplicity. Perhaps if you guys have encountered Vista, you'd understand what I mean.
Okay, so how did it all happen? How did a sensible guy like me end up with Vista in the first place? Here's a long story short, my mother is a creature of impulses. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but yeah she saw this deal at Suntec today while we were taking her for a walk for an early mother's day and thought that it was a pretty good deal. I looked at the offer and yeah it was a GOOD deal but before I had a chance to ask my mother to reconsider, she was already deep into the haggling process. After about 30 mins, she settled on even more freebies that I thought was extremely impressive.
So after all that, we ended up with a laptop with Dual 1.6 Turion 64 bit processors, 2GB of ram, a lightscribe DVD-RW burner, 160 GB of hdd that came pre-installed with Windows Vista Basic and a 3 year next day on site pickup warranty; all for a mere $1449 dollars. While I was extremely pleased with my mother's persuasion skills, I was also worried about the complications that is bound to come up with a Windows Vista OS working in my house. The fact that I spent nearly 5 hours setting up the basic necessities of this laptop further emphasizes the downfall of the supposedly most user friendly version of Windows ever.
I don't really know if I should go into much details with regards to some of the incessant problems that plagued the Vista. One such irritant was the total unavailability of a simple way to access the command prompt. Coupled with the inability to view my in-built network card's MAC address without accessing the command prompt. This made the simple task of adding my laptop to my wireless router a task take a whopping 15 minutes of pure troubleshooting. I mean, when I spend more than 1 min doing a task that supposed to have taken 15 seconds, I seriously feel that there is a serious design flaw in Vista already.
Other problems include the completely retarded way that Vista maintains network connections. I have a Power Mac G4, 2 Desktop PCs, my mom's older laptop and my brother's Laptop that's currently utilizing my home network. Under XP and Windows 2000, every single one of my computers can access one another's shared folders with no problems whatsoever. Yes, even mac has no problems sharing files with any other computer. The problem with Vista? You cannot even see the other computers on the network because of their new LLTD detection protocol. I mean like what drugs were the people at Microsoft taking to come up with a totally non-backward compatible network detection protocol that completely alienates any other operating system that doesn't possess it?
So with a total inability to even detect my other computers, I was simply flabbergasted for a moment. I honestly don't enjoy the idea of plugging out my printer in my room just to plug it into my mother's new laptop to print a simple document. I searched the net for a suitable solution. Thankfully, I found the solution in about 30 seconds. The solution was relatively retarded as well. For my both XP Desktops to be detected, I had to download a patch for the XP SP2. This patch would install an XP version of the LLTD so that Vista computer could detect them on the private network.
Oh and did I mention that if you had a 1000 computers in your network, you'd have to download and install this patch 1000 times just for 1 SINGLE Vista computer to work with everyone in your network? In computing terms, this monumentally backward step in compatibility only gives me the impression that Microsoft is getting incompetent beyond mortal understanding.
So right now, my Vista computer is supposed to have networking capabilities with both my XP desktops right? Once again Vista has to prove to me that it's retarded capabilities could only get more moronic as I try to attempt simpler and simpler features. I could connect without problems with my XP desktop connected to my printer. (Thank God!) But I couldn't for the love of all that's holy, connect to my other XP desktop. I tried remote logins, turning on the guest account on the desktops, logging in as an administrator and even tried logging in without a user name or password. Nothing works. So right now, my Vista computer can only connect to one computer in my home networks of 2 desktops, 1 Power Mac G4 and 2 other laptops.
I simply cannot understand how Microsoft, who has more money than several small 3rd world countries can come up with such a flawed product design. Have they started resorting to hiring monkeys that only work for peanuts to do their design flow of the work processes in day to day Windows Operations? Or have they decided to screw the world over by forcing everyone to upgrade to Vista or die a horrible death of attempting to solve never ending networking nightmares? My money is on hiring incompetent monkeys who work for peanuts. Alauz Out!
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
I don't have anything to say about Vista that hasn't already been said by others. But at first I didn't want to believe all the downplay Vista has been having. I mean like I thought to myself, "Let's just give Bill a break and pretend that Vista is actually cool." But it seems that Vista is proving itself the number one enemy of simplicity. Perhaps if you guys have encountered Vista, you'd understand what I mean.
Okay, so how did it all happen? How did a sensible guy like me end up with Vista in the first place? Here's a long story short, my mother is a creature of impulses. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but yeah she saw this deal at Suntec today while we were taking her for a walk for an early mother's day and thought that it was a pretty good deal. I looked at the offer and yeah it was a GOOD deal but before I had a chance to ask my mother to reconsider, she was already deep into the haggling process. After about 30 mins, she settled on even more freebies that I thought was extremely impressive.
So after all that, we ended up with a laptop with Dual 1.6 Turion 64 bit processors, 2GB of ram, a lightscribe DVD-RW burner, 160 GB of hdd that came pre-installed with Windows Vista Basic and a 3 year next day on site pickup warranty; all for a mere $1449 dollars. While I was extremely pleased with my mother's persuasion skills, I was also worried about the complications that is bound to come up with a Windows Vista OS working in my house. The fact that I spent nearly 5 hours setting up the basic necessities of this laptop further emphasizes the downfall of the supposedly most user friendly version of Windows ever.
I don't really know if I should go into much details with regards to some of the incessant problems that plagued the Vista. One such irritant was the total unavailability of a simple way to access the command prompt. Coupled with the inability to view my in-built network card's MAC address without accessing the command prompt. This made the simple task of adding my laptop to my wireless router a task take a whopping 15 minutes of pure troubleshooting. I mean, when I spend more than 1 min doing a task that supposed to have taken 15 seconds, I seriously feel that there is a serious design flaw in Vista already.
Other problems include the completely retarded way that Vista maintains network connections. I have a Power Mac G4, 2 Desktop PCs, my mom's older laptop and my brother's Laptop that's currently utilizing my home network. Under XP and Windows 2000, every single one of my computers can access one another's shared folders with no problems whatsoever. Yes, even mac has no problems sharing files with any other computer. The problem with Vista? You cannot even see the other computers on the network because of their new LLTD detection protocol. I mean like what drugs were the people at Microsoft taking to come up with a totally non-backward compatible network detection protocol that completely alienates any other operating system that doesn't possess it?
So with a total inability to even detect my other computers, I was simply flabbergasted for a moment. I honestly don't enjoy the idea of plugging out my printer in my room just to plug it into my mother's new laptop to print a simple document. I searched the net for a suitable solution. Thankfully, I found the solution in about 30 seconds. The solution was relatively retarded as well. For my both XP Desktops to be detected, I had to download a patch for the XP SP2. This patch would install an XP version of the LLTD so that Vista computer could detect them on the private network.
Oh and did I mention that if you had a 1000 computers in your network, you'd have to download and install this patch 1000 times just for 1 SINGLE Vista computer to work with everyone in your network? In computing terms, this monumentally backward step in compatibility only gives me the impression that Microsoft is getting incompetent beyond mortal understanding.
So right now, my Vista computer is supposed to have networking capabilities with both my XP desktops right? Once again Vista has to prove to me that it's retarded capabilities could only get more moronic as I try to attempt simpler and simpler features. I could connect without problems with my XP desktop connected to my printer. (Thank God!) But I couldn't for the love of all that's holy, connect to my other XP desktop. I tried remote logins, turning on the guest account on the desktops, logging in as an administrator and even tried logging in without a user name or password. Nothing works. So right now, my Vista computer can only connect to one computer in my home networks of 2 desktops, 1 Power Mac G4 and 2 other laptops.
I simply cannot understand how Microsoft, who has more money than several small 3rd world countries can come up with such a flawed product design. Have they started resorting to hiring monkeys that only work for peanuts to do their design flow of the work processes in day to day Windows Operations? Or have they decided to screw the world over by forcing everyone to upgrade to Vista or die a horrible death of attempting to solve never ending networking nightmares? My money is on hiring incompetent monkeys who work for peanuts. Alauz Out!
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
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