Published on February 5, 2007
in Computar.
Installed Vista today. The whole process wasn’t too bad, just took time. Had to convert from FAT32 to NTFS, of course :P. Ah well, at least the ntfs-3g drivers in linux are stable now. Took probably about 2 hours for the whole install. The most annoying part was the incessant false-starts due to ‘incompatible programs’—virus scanners, bluetooth drivers, and cd burning software. Oh and the fact that it overwrote my master boot record (killing grub), requiring me to re-run grub-install inside a chroot from a system rescue cd.
I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet, but it seems ok. Starts up quicker than XP, and as I accidentally found out, it hibernates very quickly and successfully. The win-tab window switching is cute I suppose, but rather unclear as to which window you’re on at the moment. Also, the Gadgets are ok, but I’d rather be able to choose to put them in the bottom right than the top right. And yes, it’s totally a rip off of OSX, except without the unixy goodness. All hail our evil overlords.
BTW, for those of you who may wonder why Mr. Linux has Vista, especially so early, it’s because I’m a web developer and have to stay on top of the latest developments in how Microsoft can break the intarweb. Woo.
Trying to organize the Berkshire Linux Expo is really hard when members don’t get off their butts and work. I’m pretty upset about one lug member’s failure to send the notes he took on to the list, like I ensured he knew was important during the meeting. Due to his failure to cooperate, we’ve now lost 2 valuable advertising weeks, and might have to push back the Expo. Moreover, far too much hinges on this one member’s follow through. He controls access to the building, and (as of last week) he is supposed to give one of the two vital presentations.
Certainly he won’t be secretary again. He’s consistently failed to perform his duties as required. I’m going to see how things work out tonight as to whether or not he’ll still do the presentation.
Finally got my server back on line, now with new hardware and a working serial cable connection! Also, powercycling now dosen’t leave the machine in an ‘off’ state, so it should be safe to leave there. Knock on wood though.
Work is going ok, trying to finish this new store by the end of the week, but the longish weekend in MD has thrown me off track. As of now, I need to finish the promotions engine, then do the standard actions to fill in the jsp pages. After that, I’ll get into testing. Hopefully that will go well (more knocking), then I’ll release it to dev. Matt can then test, then (again, assuming things work) we’ll finally publish the damn thing. I’ll be able to move onto more exciting things! woo! and we’ll have a working, maintainable, non-crashing store! yay.
Next (big thing) up on work agenda is learning actionscript. I’m looking forward to this, and I have a pretty neat idea of a project to get up to speed with - there was this game we played last week at game group that I think would be simple enough to implement. Its original title was ‘42′ but we subsequently renamed it ‘mondrian’ and then ‘gerrymander’. You’ll see why if I ever put it together :).
Anyway, enough procrastinating. Better hunker down back to work.
