<meta name='google-adsense-platform-account' content='ca-host-pub-1556223355139109'/> <meta name='google-adsense-platform-domain' content='blogspot.com'/> <!-- --><style type="text/css">@import url(https://www.blogger.com/static/v1/v-css/navbar/3334278262-classic.css); div.b-mobile {display:none;} </style> </head><body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar.g?targetBlogID\x3d13182107\x26blogName\x3dBeginning+Anew\x26publishMode\x3dPUBLISH_MODE_BLOGSPOT\x26navbarType\x3dBLUE\x26layoutType\x3dCLASSIC\x26searchRoot\x3dhttps://beginning-anew.blogspot.com/search\x26blogLocale\x3den_US\x26v\x3d2\x26homepageUrl\x3dhttp://beginning-anew.blogspot.com/\x26vt\x3d7419004547507347532', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe", messageHandlersFilter: gapi.iframes.CROSS_ORIGIN_IFRAMES_FILTER, messageHandlers: { 'blogger-ping': function() {} } }); } }); </script>

Evaluating Vista and Blog post 100!

1 comments | Friday, March 02, 2007

Well, this will be post number 100 to this blog. Pretty sad really, seeing as how I've had this thing for nearly two years. I'm a bad blogger. I know.

I'm sitting in the office right now waiting on a file to download because once again I've tried the new Windows Vista, and as much as I have tried to make it work it just doesn't. Busted. No-Go.

Ok, first, it does look pretty sharp.. I mean it's got some pretty nice features that around service pack 2 will probably be great. I'll be waiting til at least SP1 to try this again. The problem is that the new "Aero Glass" feature actually runs as a service (read: a separate program). This service crashes every time I highlight text, which if you've ever seen me read a site on the computer you'll know that I highlight the paragraph i'm on in case I get distracted.

Second: Playing media in any player, be it WMP 11; Real; Winamp; Streams in proprietary players; etc STINKS

Let me say that again it STINKS.. You can thank (at least partially) DRM or Digital Rights Management which essentially is MS sticking it's nose where it doesn't belong. This nice little program makes my media players hang, and even with 2gb of RAM it makes processor use go to 100% and just stay there until you open task manager and force the process to end.

Sigh... I had higher hopes for this one... but i'm downloading an ISO of Freespire Linux to try out as a dual-boot when I format and re-install XP later this afternoon.

Labels: , , ,

posted by Heath

at 10:31 AM Permalink

1 Comments:

Blogger iceberg said...

when i read this, this is what i see: gjrodklc, ajdikgto.

haha. glad to see the good news about the baby and i hope all is going well down in bama.

4:39 PM

 

Post a Comment

<< Home