We finally bought that projector we were talking about all this time

Sony VPL-EX4!
I watched Ghost In The Shell 2: Solid State Society on it today & its swell. Cant believe I watched movies on anything smaller that that! I’ll buy some ceiling mounts tomorrow & put the whole system up.. The beamer & the speakers I got from home a while ago. Be ready to be Blown Away by the whole experience

Cant wait till its done & I can enjoy some movies & .. Wii We ll probably order that Digibox now.. To be able to easilly watch TV on our new setup.. & then its Exit Conventional TV & then all we need is a new dvd player & a set top box for divX pleasure & we re all set.. Soon .. SOOOOON

I’m doing the GMail, babey!!

I decided I need Imap for my mails. Since its been about a month (!!)  since I last checked them!

My serv is too old for decent Imap, so there we are. Untill I can buy a new server, it ll be GMail for me. & I have to admit, Im quit impressed!

& I had some amazing sex earlier today!!

I’m not too happy with my current cellphone’s battery life. So i’ll be keeping track of it right here! (im even calling it a project) Lets keep a perspective though.. my last cellphone lasted for 5 days easily!With normal use & since we dont have a landline; thats A LOT!

The bastard just died on me! I feel like I recharged it only yesterday. Or maybe the day before. We ll see in a week!

The first thing I thought about when hearing about the balance board .. Was of course A Snowboard Game I might even have mentioned that Burton take on them this immense task (though more Ssx would ‘ve been swell too )

And here it is

Shaun White Snowboarding

Check out The Video!!

Drooooooool

We went out for ribs a volonte. It had been a while & I REALLY felt like them. I ate a lot With some dear friends; a nice evening. Those who felt other stuff was more important than being there .. Missed Out!

& I bought Magnums for the peeps at work today too!

Most Interesting Unofficial Wii release So Far: The Homebrew Channel Amazingly interesting piece o software!!! I’ll be installing it soon, cant wait to try sam n max on the Wii

Luckilly, there is also a lot of other interesting Wii stuff this month Mario Cart, Wii Fit, Wii Ware channel & the Much anticipated Download Channel with demos n all. Cant wait to try them DS demos they re serving They launch the 30th!

Mini is sweeeeet

& I tried facebook today.
so all join my vast army of friends.. My account probably wont go inactive (you know, when I dont ever check it again, except when I Really dont have anything better to do) for another 5 to 10 days!

& even a GMail account. Havent done anything with it yet though..

Microsoft’s Windows 7 development chief, Steven Sinofsky, reveals that Windows 7 will be a further evolution of Vista, and will lose the rumored MinWin kernel.
“We’re very clear that drivers and software that work on Windows Vista are going to work really well on Windows 7; in fact, they’ll work the same. We’re going to not introduce additional compatibilities, particularly in the driver model. Windows Vista was about improving those things. We are going to build on the success and the strength of the Windows Server 2008 kernel, and that has all of this work that you’ve been talking about. The key there is that the kernel in Windows Server 08 is an evolution of the kernel in Windows Vista, and then Windows 7 will be a further evolution of that kernel as well.”

Sigh! Just when I thought they d have learnt their lesson. Just when I was anticipating the new Windows version again.. They scratch the one thing that made it potentially good. They scratched the modular kernel plans & are keeping the existing Monolithical kernel! In laymans terms. Instead of having a small and customisable piece of code at the base of the system, requiring a minimum of memory to run .. they re going to keep using the huge, memory hogging piece of garbage they started writing all those years ago. And this contrary to all modern programming principles, where everything is modular for maintainability and optimisation! Most of the Windows software written today has better code than the OS it runs on! The sad state of ..

Will they NEVER learn? Or even TRY?? Another open goal for linux, I guess :/

Sometimes, we just have to use Windows, for all sorts of reasons & thank god for virtualisation & even more so for virtualbox! Seamless mode is plain impressive!

Now, in doing so, I experienced – once again – WHY I stopped using the Windows! I was preparing a script on Ubuntu to run trough the XP machine, when suddenly – the bitch rebooted. Windows had Updated & although I had forbidden it several times earlier.. it decided my opinion didnt matter enough and .. Rebooted! The sodden bastards! Several open connections to remote servers, all lost. This could have cost me a lot of work! Luckilly I didnt trust windows as far as I could throw it & .. not without reason apparently! *sigh*

It took the time to write this post to finish the updating. (I did have the screenshot ready since yesterday) Another X minutes of my life, waiting for windows to allow me to continue working.. Bastards! Thank Linux Virtual XP starts as quick as it does!

Edit: He s doing it AGAIN! if I dont watch out, he ll reboot AGAIN!!! Updates ready, reboot required, rebooting in 2 minutes .. angst – ANGST 

Originally posted on Gert, Making X-Tend a safer place