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<\/p>\nSigh… Its nearly Sunday already.<\/p>\n
Today was a great day, Jim just happened to have an extra EVGA Geforce 7900GT that he gave\/loaned me, since he wasn’t using it.\u00c2\u00a0 I can now play Team Fortress 2 at solid frame rates and a good resolution.<\/p>\n
I may sneak into work on Monday and steal my monitor from my desk, and also swing by the Excess Room and see if I can swipe a small laptop hard drive for free.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t need anything large only 10-20GB, just enough to load XP on this laptop, cause running Linux from my thumb drive is driving me crazy.<\/p>\n
I will tell you why Linux isn’t more pervasive on the desktop… IT SUCKS!\u00c2\u00a0 I was unable to get Flash to work consistently.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to drape a patch cable across the living room floor to be able to access the Internet, since I’m unable to get my wireless card to load properly on a three year old laptop.\u00c2\u00a0 I read an article the other day that blamed Apple and Mac OS X on killing the chances of Linux on the desktop.\u00c2\u00a0 Apple did it right, they wrapped *NIX into an easy to use graphical system that is just easy to use, Linux is all about tinkering, and that is all you will do is tinker.\u00c2\u00a0 I want something that “Just Works” and that includes Windows most of the time.<\/p>\n
I’m getting excited for the upcoming MacWorld.\u00c2\u00a0 So many rumors going around, tablet, ultra-portable, black MacBook Pro etc.<\/p>\n
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I should get a night job to feed my gadget addiction.\u00c2\u00a0 I really shouldn’t get a new laptop though.\u00c2\u00a0 I think i will get a new work laptop in October of this year (hopefully with Blu-Ray) and as long as I can get this laptop in good working order I will be in good shape.<\/p>\n
Kelly and I picked up a few HD-DVDs the other day that I forgot to mention, probably a waste of cash following the announcement by Warner and New Line that they were going exclusively Blu-Ray.\u00c2\u00a0 If Microsoft had been a team player and had integrated an HD-DVD drive into the Xbox360 instead of the external add-on drive, things would be way different.<\/p>\n
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But anyway we picked up the following HD-DVDs from Best Buy on a Buy 3 Get 2 Free deal:<\/p>\n
I was actually surprised at how well Top Gun actually looked in 1080p considering how old the film really is but it looked great.\u00c2\u00a0 Batman Returns was more difficult to see a large difference over the SD version of the movie.\u00c2\u00a0 Jim and I watched clips from Transformers today and that looks really good as well.\u00c2\u00a0 But alas purchasing any more HD-DVDs is probably a bad idea at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sigh… Its nearly Sunday already. Today was a great day, Jim just happened to have an extra EVGA Geforce 7900GT that he gave\/loaned me, since he wasn’t using it.\u00c2\u00a0 I can now play Team Fortress 2 at solid frame rates … Continue reading