Archive for May 20th, 2008

Firefox Experience

Posted by Bloggylife in technology on May 20, 2008

I have switched to firefox for sometime now, especially that I have been facing problems with IE7 and gmail

What I like about firefox as a user’s point of view:

Until now no unexplainable problems, like my web cache is full and it needs to be cleared

I like the dictionary feature, IE should adopt this

I had several login sessions opened when my PC suddenly powered off. When I started again, firefox gave me the choice to restore my sessions, when you think about it, it is a two way approach both security vs convenience

I can select something of a website and only view that part’s source code, this is a huge time saver. I used it, to find a java script that displays time

It would be nice if they add a small tab next to already opened tabs in case you want to open a new tab and don’t want to go through the menu, just like it’s done in IE7

As performance, I haven’t noticed a huge difference and perhaps I can say I cannot seem to notice the difference between firefox and IE. When opening multiple tabs of youtube, firefox consumes the CPU rather generously, but then again maybe this is related to the fact it is running on Vista.

For Microsoft web based, not all the features are supported if you are not running on their platform “IE” yes Microsoft knows how to keep their products running. So when checking my email exchange account for example, I do it over IE.

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Vista .. Really ???

Posted by Bloggylife in technology, thoughts, troubleshooting on May 20, 2008

vista

I think my sister heard enough of this, I can’t stop complaining and I know as an IT I shouldn’t, but who the fuck approved the release of VISTA … boy does it drive me crazy …

Before bitching more, I just want to say the only good thing about the new operating system is the graphic interface and all the 3-D, transparent bullshit … offff yes I had quite enough of it …

Last year, I installed vista on my home PC, but removed it in a week because every application was incompatible with it especially my bro’s games so it had to go

I got a new laptop and instantly requested to be downgraded to XP and they said I have to take it to the workshop and I wanted a legitimate XP copy because as I told them I already paid for vista and I don’t want it, give me XP instead but that created another issue so I decided to take it home and try it out …

Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhh

Let me say my machine has a dedicated 2GB RAM and apparently around 1GB is always being consumed by processes to keep that magnificent interface and I just have the standard home edition!!!

When you have a product line going for the new release do you decided to totally change the way the OS is managed. I feel for the regular user, wAllah, me I find a hard time just to get exactly what I want to do!!!

And the stupid affirmative box I get, every time I need to run a task … and when the OS tries to solve the problem by itself, I wonder if this is related to the home edition …

I am even having problems connecting to my home wireless network, everytime I need to repair it. Upgrade the driver, un-install the upgrade!!!

Then yesterday before I went to bed I needed to do some testing on our email server so I tried to telnet and couldn’t find it in the ‘usual’ system32 folder!!! A bit of searching resulted in that the telnet client isn’t installed by default. Ya3nee shino, security issue or what???

1. Click Start then select Control Panel.

2. Select Programs and Features.

3. Select Turn Windows features on or off.

4. Select the Telnet Client option and click OK.

I have a lot of complains. The constant updates, everyday, how many glitches are in there?? OK you may ask am I not enjoying anything, other than it is the OS from HELL and slow, well I enjoy the games … well this is only about a week’s experience, we’ll see what happens in the future .. that is if I still keep it and don’t go back to XP …

working-daze

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Pleasant Feeling

Posted by Bloggylife in personal, thoughts, work on May 20, 2008

How to best describe the situation

Imagine you are outside, close your eyes if necessary ;P, in your car waiting, and suddenly you need to go to the bathroom, you tell yourself: you can hold it … in less than an hour you’ll be home and you’ll do your business then … time passes so slowly and you get more desperate …

Finally you are heading home, you are so ready to go so desperate you can’t even hear soft music because it is calling you to let go … you hold it … think home home … open your jeans buttons … relax breathe … faster faster … damn those car bumps … eeeeee …. Parked got out of the car … stand still … breathe in … concentrate … and ran up to the bathroom ….

Ahhhhhh … after holding it in for over an hour …. the tingly feeling the runs up and down your spine as you let yourself go … at last … the shivers … the smile … the world becomes colourful again and you can see clearly …. You sit a while longer … think of the future ;P …. The most pleasant feeling … RELAXATION …

All combined … the emotions .. this is the closest thing I can imagine feeling right now .. I finally submitted my network documentation :D

hehehehe, I love to bring misery to myself, why did I start documenting the damn thing, because each company needs to have one!!! Kidding myself. Qedee3a, I never wish that stupid hectic headache for anyone, NO, I think I can ;)

relaxed

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