For those of you not in the games know-how, Major Nelson is the Xbox Live gamertag of Larry Hryb. He works at Microsoft under the title of “Xbox Live Director of Programming.”
Meaning, he knows his s#¡t.
Anyhow, Major Nelson has posted a real world comparison between the upcoming Xbox360 and Sony's PS3.
Also, a funny article on how Nintendo's next console product's mock ups were less than what they seemed can be found here.
E3 was full of surprises this year.
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Wow! That PS3 thing is bigger than that guy's head! :O
And they said the xbox was big. You can check out this BBCNews.com article Did you see how the PS3 was bigger than that guy's head? lol
I know what I'm getting for xmas!
I know what I'm getting for xmas!
Thursday, May 19, 2005
My sister is going Linux
Seems my sister's old HP Pavillion has finally decided to start rejecting its WinME install.
For anybody out there looking to buy a solid desktop that is high quality, will last for years and has the need to buy a brand name PC, I'm gonna recommend HP.
Sure, you could say "Dude, you're getting a Dell" way, they have great tech support and all don't get me wrong, for some people it is far more practical to run back to the Best Buy where you got it if anything goes wrong where it will take a while for the Dell guys to come around and odds are you'l have to ship it for repairs in any case.
But anyways, my sister's old Celeron 333 with 192mb memory would probably run just a little slow with the bloatedness that is WinXP on that hardware, so we've talked it over and she's moving to Linux.
Novell Desktop Linux that is.
For those of your living under a rock, Novell recently acquired SUSE and while you'd think Novell would kill of SUSE's linux distro, its's there and they've put a lot of work into it as it seems. I've chosen Novell Desktop Linux for my sister because she's not that computer-saavy and it SUSE had always been the "Friendly" distro of Linux. It packs everything the average person needs and its quite cost effective. It comes with bundled Firefox, Open Office, GAIM for instant messaging and has a rather simple software update interface to make it easy to keep up to date.
Personally I give mad props to the Novell Linux Team, I think they're actually taking steps in the right direction with a distro that is simple and functional and not overwhelmingly intimidating for the entry-level user.
EDIT: From the too little-too late department, Slashdot reports Microsoft making an OS that runs faster on older hardware. Something (
For anybody out there looking to buy a solid desktop that is high quality, will last for years and has the need to buy a brand name PC, I'm gonna recommend HP.
Sure, you could say "Dude, you're getting a Dell" way, they have great tech support and all don't get me wrong, for some people it is far more practical to run back to the Best Buy where you got it if anything goes wrong where it will take a while for the Dell guys to come around and odds are you'l have to ship it for repairs in any case.
But anyways, my sister's old Celeron 333 with 192mb memory would probably run just a little slow with the bloatedness that is WinXP on that hardware, so we've talked it over and she's moving to Linux.
Novell Desktop Linux that is.
For those of your living under a rock, Novell recently acquired SUSE and while you'd think Novell would kill of SUSE's linux distro, its's there and they've put a lot of work into it as it seems. I've chosen Novell Desktop Linux for my sister because she's not that computer-saavy and it SUSE had always been the "Friendly" distro of Linux. It packs everything the average person needs and its quite cost effective. It comes with bundled Firefox, Open Office, GAIM for instant messaging and has a rather simple software update interface to make it easy to keep up to date.
Personally I give mad props to the Novell Linux Team, I think they're actually taking steps in the right direction with a distro that is simple and functional and not overwhelmingly intimidating for the entry-level user.
EDIT: From the too little-too late department, Slashdot reports Microsoft making an OS that runs faster on older hardware. Something (
Virus+Spyware Extravaganza
This past sunday my computer's installation of windows ceased to respond after a restart. Aparently the filesystem (NTFS) had become corrupt so a fresh install was needed.
Do not keep your computer plugged to the internet if you're doing a fresh install of WindowsXP.
After setup had finished my first boot riddled my system with viruses and spyware, and some of my best attempts using AVP, NOD32 and even TrendMicro's Housecall failed to remove all of the infiltrations. So even after patching and the Service Pack 2 install I was stuck with a system that didn't respond to clicks on links in 3 browsers, iExplorer 6, Firefox and Opera.
I used another machine to read what could probably be the cause of my system's instability, and it seems everybody agrees on disagreeing. Some say spyware leaves entries in the Registry even after being deleted, others say Spyware and some Viruses "get pissed off" as ridiculous as that may sound and may actually harm the system permanently when deleted.
The solution as was pointed by a friend who is a systems integrator based on similar and often repeated experience was to download as many drivers as I could as well as patches and the SP2 install, burn that to a cd and wipe the system clean and re-install everything once more without an active internet connection.
3 hours later and I had regained control of my system.
I must have lost 9 hours just trying to figure out what was going on.
As I mentioned on one of my very first few posts, I want to switch to a different platform, that platform will probably be OS X, and install Linux on my AMD machine.
After having lived through this one can only conclude that sticking with windows makes you a target, regardless of how many updates and how current your system is.
Props go to NOD32, seems their antivirus is one of the few out there that is not a resource hog.
Do not keep your computer plugged to the internet if you're doing a fresh install of WindowsXP.
After setup had finished my first boot riddled my system with viruses and spyware, and some of my best attempts using AVP, NOD32 and even TrendMicro's Housecall failed to remove all of the infiltrations. So even after patching and the Service Pack 2 install I was stuck with a system that didn't respond to clicks on links in 3 browsers, iExplorer 6, Firefox and Opera.
I used another machine to read what could probably be the cause of my system's instability, and it seems everybody agrees on disagreeing. Some say spyware leaves entries in the Registry even after being deleted, others say Spyware and some Viruses "get pissed off" as ridiculous as that may sound and may actually harm the system permanently when deleted.
The solution as was pointed by a friend who is a systems integrator based on similar and often repeated experience was to download as many drivers as I could as well as patches and the SP2 install, burn that to a cd and wipe the system clean and re-install everything once more without an active internet connection.
3 hours later and I had regained control of my system.
I must have lost 9 hours just trying to figure out what was going on.
As I mentioned on one of my very first few posts, I want to switch to a different platform, that platform will probably be OS X, and install Linux on my AMD machine.
After having lived through this one can only conclude that sticking with windows makes you a target, regardless of how many updates and how current your system is.
Props go to NOD32, seems their antivirus is one of the few out there that is not a resource hog.
After a hiatus, here's some movie news...
Sorry for the hiatus, I'll post stuff tomorrow for sure, right now I just came back from watching Episode 3 and I'm bushed. 2500 aprox. shots of CGI make up this movie, and for once the story isn't so cheesy either, it is a movie I wholeheartedly recommend, even if you're not much into sci-fi.
Have new info on Apple's Tiger developments as well as some stuff to share on spyware and viruses. Check later today for more info.
Have new info on Apple's Tiger developments as well as some stuff to share on spyware and viruses. Check later today for more info.
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