Thursday, 24 July 2008

Eee pc

okay, whne the EEE PC was annonced i was pretty intruiged, here was a chance to have a semi decent cheap laptop, maybe to take into lectures ot tkae nots on etc.
here we are nearly a yearon, with many more Netttops now on the market, and i ahve to say the Eee pc is prabbyl the worse of them, it has about 20+ varitions, with changes in scren sixe hdd size, cpu type, os, etc. and now there Eee Montior, Eee TV , Eee Box, and possible Eee HDD, Bluetooth adapter etc,
how the hell if i wanted oen of these am i menat to knwo what want, im pretty pc savvy, but the range confuses evne me, personally im eyeing up eihtehte HP mininote, or Acer aspire one, as there at leaset still in singel version type, however none on the netbooks have manged to fulfill hte promise of a decent £100 laptop.
I wouldnt mind a Linux based 512mb ram, Atom cpu and 4gb ssd ( would prefer a full hdd though) ( i have a external HDD so space isint too much of a bother) netbook, thats it, i dotn want wi-fi ( thgough i suppsoe it might be useful in lecture halls), Blu-tooth, wi-max, 10" screen, XP etc. as long as i cna browse FF and use Open office im fine, Amarok wouldnt be too bad either.

Sunday, 13 July 2008

Windows 7 Feature Ideas

ddunno if folks have read the leaked list of feature requests, but i thought id do my own, maybe some one from microsft might see it and go, hmm that'd be a good idea!!!

1. scrollable taskbar - if you have more than 5 windows open at a time they get really small till its jsut icons, this is really naf, so i suggest a scrollabel task bar, like the tab bar on firefox, where the progrmas stay same size just you have to drag the bar along.
2.Adminastrative progrmas folder, to actually contain useful app's like msconfig and the like, that are semi-reguallry used but need the run toolbar to use.
3. more refined GUI, as seen on istartedsomething, theres about 18 diffrnet GUI's in vista, i like ribbon, n the little forward backward thing in medi palyer, so i think they should be standard, the layour of control panel sub sections neeeds alot of improbvment too, n defender, thats jsut confusing as hell, with loads of dead space.
4. switch monitor option built into the right click on the taskbar programs when usign dual monitors. i usea dual setup my my secodn monitor is a tv, if a switch over then i cna't see what behind, but i cnat put it onto the main monitor wihtout turnign back to pc then movign it across again, wiht all the maximizing minumizing stuff.
5. ability to change colour of the task bar, black is the new black, but its boring after a year or two.
6.make things mroe user freindly, i came across config.msc ,n its techy stuff but in a nice explained way, why cnat this be built into task manager or summit so i know what wpscnfg is.
7.include an icon pack for possible colder you might make such as work,school,random etc, n or atleast maek it easieer to find icons on the pc, especially the 256 icons
8. include smethign better than paint, it doesnt have to be firefox but geeze, paint is ancient.
9 oh yeah on ancient, drop the legacy code, at least anything before XP, its buggy, mlaware inducing crap, i dont need any software that's over 5 years odl much less 10, evne wiht compatibilty a large amoutn of apps don't work, jsut relese the old OS's in a vizualitionf firnedly form for free or osmethign, then if peopel wanna use apps on them then they can run a viz, most pcs will run them in that way anyway. in fact dropping legacy alltogether n having a vizulaition program to run xp (maybe evne vista) n below may be a really good idea, if hte new kernal is slim then it should enact much of a performance hit on the Vizzed OS.

thats my ideas done for now

Sunday, 6 July 2008

predestinationgooglewhackparadox

had this thought/theory on Google whacking, basically this blog will be about the gogoelwahck with the above name, the paradox bit being there will be no gogoelwahck until this blog has been made ( theory is being a Google owned blog it should eventually filter in to the search results.
so get busy searching for this article kid's!!
oh I'm currently engrossed in yahoo answers, trying to work up my level so i can answer more question, mainly concentrating on the tech side. i hate people that spam, go "it can't be done at all" (though they get there comeuppance when i show how it can be done), n xbox fan boys ( but that's cos i have PS3), oh n unfounded speculation, n people who ask question like "help me?" what kind of question is that with out nay context? "help me? I'm stuck in a ravine" "help me? i cant finish questions properly" well what do you want help with?!
gonna head to maplins n get n CPU fan, cos this one is bloody noisy ( though it was new fan i bought a few weeks back, but apparently not. though i want an Arctic cool freezer 7 pro cos they have rave review, but dunno if ,maplins sell em.
also john comes down today fora week, so get to hang out with people!!