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Safari on Windows
May 10th
Running Apple Software Updater (to get the latest version of iTunes), I noticed that Safari is now available for Windows. So, I decided to give it a bash. I mean, why not? I’m bored. :p
It’s cute. It’s got the typical Apple OSX style skin, but I don’t really understand the point. It doesn’t seem like there are any addons for it… like StumbleUpon (which I use quite a lot). Other than that, it seems like a pretty normal browser. Does tabbed browsing… what more do you need? I don’t see any particular compelling reason to use it, quite honestly. Firefox is more than adequate for my needs.
Reload Shmeload
Sep 27th
So I’m reloading XP on my workstation. It goes through it’s usual crap before running that stupid welcome wizard thing where you add usernames etc. All’s fine and well. Anyway, while loading up drivers, I realised that I had failed to install my sound drivers off CD first before installing the updated drivers, so I was missing a lot of the cool applications (I have an SB Audigy 2 ZS). So I thought that, instead of uninstalling the drivers I had just put on and tainting windows by loading off the CD and then reapplying drivers yadda yadda, I would just reload Windows yet again. No biggie, it doesn’t take all that long on my hardware anyway.
So I do exactly what I did before – I wipe the partition during setup, and recreate it, and let Windows install on to it. I follow exactly the same steps as before. This time, when Windows reboots after installation – instead of running that stupid lil welcome wizard, it dumps me at the welcome screen with just the administrator user visible. What the…? Where the heck was the wizard to add users etc?
I don’t get Microsoft, really I don’t.
Anyway, third time lucky.
You’re probably wondering why I’m reloading for a third time? I don’t know. I just can’t handle the idea of trying to use Windows when the installation didn’t go as smoothly as I expected it to. It’s like a psychological block – I’m going to constantly get the feeling that something is not right if I just let it go.
So I reload yet again. :p
I figured out that the welcome wizard didn’t run because when Windows asks to adjust the resolution, I bumped my keyboard and accidentally cancelled the change – which means the wizard does not run. Odd.
Driver design
Mar 26th
One of my 120gb drives failed, so I thought I would finally get around to reorganising my system to the way I want… Linux as primary, and Windows as secondary for gaming etc. It makes sense, since I’m getting ADSL in the next couple of days, and I won’t have the driver issues with my USB isdn adapter under Linux anymore. Now I can finally get rid of this shitty Microsoft platform as my every day OS.
So anyway, I reload, and I realise that I don’t have my LAN drivers handy, so I connect to the website to download them. I eventually find them, a 5mb or so download.
While it’s downloading (yeah yeah, slow ISDN), I’m browsing the site, and I discover this thing called ‘Download Center’. So I check it out. It apparently scans your system, and shows you what drivers you need to download. So I do that, just for the hell of it.
It basically says ‘LAN driver’ – Intel – size: 89Mb. I did a double take. What the fuck? 89Mb for a fucking LAN driver? You’ve got to be shitting me! Jesus, I need a LAN driver, not a frikkin’ operating system. Holy motherfuck, what the hell are these people thinking?!?
And then to add insult to injury, when I closed the window for that ‘Download Center’ software, Internet Explorer crashed. Luverly.
Have I mentioned that I fucking hate Windows?
Can’t wait until the frikkin’ LAN driver is loaded so I can get my faithful firefox running. Sheeee…
Mad Penguin dot org – Reviews : First Look At Solaris 10
Mar 7th
Mad Pengiun dot org :: Reviews : First Look At Solaris 10
So I’m busy perusing the above article, and for some reason I feel that I have to view the page source.
First thing I notice is this META tag: <META content=”MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400″ name=GENERATOR>
Interesting. Why would a *nix site have a tag like that? It would appear to me as if the site was designed on a *ptooie* Microsoft platform.
Ok, I’m not really one to talk, since I use Windows every day, and I hate it more every day too.
The end is nigh…
Dec 29th
… The end of the year, that is.
Wow, what happened to it? Did the whole thing just go by when I blinked? I guess I’d better stop blinking then. I need to slow down and smell the roses a bit. There’s just too much happening (in my life) right now.
My son had his 4th birthday in August. My daughter will be 2 on 1 April… I’ll be hitting the big three-oh in March. Fuck, what happened?
My daughter has been randomly bashing my wife’s computer’s keyboard while I type this. I swear, I have seen Windows do things I’ve never seen in my life before.
For, eg, it has now restarted twice, and both times Windows has returned to the Welcome screen with the same info (2 programs running) on my wife’s login. It’s like a hibernation reset or something. Weird. And this time round, she somehow paused the Windows startup, so that it shows you a message that Windows restoration has been paused, continue, or delete restoration data & return to the system menu. Wtf?
Ahh well. Kids. Gotta love em.