Emo be gone... techy stuff here we go!

So, I have stumbled upon the emo part of my life and i am sure there will be more shit like that. But I wanna go ahead and move past that and talk about two things. I might however, split this lovely little blog into two things... and those be the things we talks about today.... I love a game called Magic the gathering! and well i eat sleep dream this game... and the only thing that gets in the way is this world or technology that we all have love and use. so this is the first establishment of both.


Alright off into the tech world because its a bit shorter. In about oh say 45 min i am going to install and run a beta copy of the world people have grown to hate and love. Some back in my younger days used to laugh at its inablitly to be nothing more then just a point click go kind of thing. And if you havent cought on yet its called Windows. The great people at microsoft ( i am using this term loosly.) have graced us with a "better" version of windows Vista. I am currently running the bastard child of XP, ME, 2005 and so on a so forth... before i continue into what windows 7 is supposed to bring us i wanna give a litte background on the experience i have had with vista.

Vista.... well its pretty.... I think vista gave the pc users a nicer looking version of XP that sucks up RAM pretty nicely... I am running a duel core pentium with 1.75 clock speed and 2 gigs of ram with x1300 ati GPU. and this laptop is giving me a slight problem... that being.... the battery is not being recognized... its there and shows me a full charge when it take it out. I just havent had the time to troubleshoot it. so i just use it a very convienent desktop.

SO with vista... SLOW SLOW SLOW SLOW... First time running it i realized that it took for ever to shut its self down... well its later dawned on me... there is so much more extra crap being run in the background to make this OS look as though it does with the widgets and the side bar and all that jazz. What is it all for i dont know nore do i care or use them so i took it off. WHATS THIS more speed... well what else could i do to speed it up... well hell i stopped using the Areo setting all together and guess what... it looked like freaking XP all over again... so it worth paying big buck for the latest and greatest flop? no! does it come pre installed... yes.... It really makes me wanna cry... But you know what else is coming preinstalled these days... LINUX... yes that is right people living under a god damn rock... Dell, as of the last time i check, if offering a version of linux preinstalled like windows on the machine. GO GO GADET AWESOMENESS. However i opted to go the easy route and get point click work going. At the time i was an avid World of warcraft player and didnt know much to anything at all about how to make linux run the program.

I however, REGRET making this choice...

Moving on the the next topic. Win 7. do i like the speed at which they are throwing this at us... yes. on two levels. one its gets rid of vista with out haveing to go to ubuntu (vista unix flavored Imo!). Supposedly, they listened to the complaints fo the people and gave us what we want.... DO i belive? nope! can i be hopeful... you damn right i will. Windows 7 is supposed to have some pretty cool shit. like a touch screen feature... okay i said this and i think most of you the populus will as well... WHY!?!? oh why?

well hell it would be cool to just set up a box that is capable of doing this. do i think its nessisary to be packaged in... no... should it be a download from the site of an option you can turn on when installing YES!

and that segways me into my next topic on the OS. what i expect for the install.......

Well, Every install of Windows i have ever run i have had to go back in and shut off some of the USELESS crap given to me by the microsoft people... okay i get it 25% of users need that crap... WOOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!! does everyone at home need to have a touchscreen option turned on just in the off chance the the softwear actually recoginzes and and can start using it right away... well no i dont think so.

So as i said before... Please make it more customize able by asking SIMPLE hardwear questions like.... Do you have a touch sensetive monitor? no, oh you dont need this piece of crap 10k lines of code... oh later on down the road you score your self a touch monitor... great plug and play download from site or CD and there you go 10 min later you can use it!

on the other hand what am i looking forward two.... MY RAM BACK!!! instead of using 80% of the systems ram 7 should use a mighty half or less of that...

A BETA! first time... sad its open and sad that its not a game but hey feed back and make it better is what i like. Being apart of the development.

Easier networking? hmm simple networks with xp is easy... now going from the XP maching on the the Vista maching was a but harder... it just wasnt a good set up of me... Not sure if that was OS faulted but i didnt like it.

what else to add... well nothing really... this is a rant more then information so take it with a grain of salt and tell me your ideas good bad inbetween ok? oh and wish me luck with the install...