Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Windows 7 Pre-Beta!

0 comments Posted by Wesley Casey at 7:58 AM

As promised I am staying up to date on the window 7 news. In fact I have managed to get my hands on the pre-beta release that was leaked from the Professional developers confrence. So far I have installed it as easily as Vista. I also downloaded the unlock feature to unlock the spiffy new taskbar.


I will admit it looks a lot like vista with a few tweaks here and there. All of the security and backup features are all in the new window solution center.  Many of the complicated Vista settings have been simplified. There are some really simple and nice Aero features. Also there are no more icons cluttering the system tray. They all run in the background.

After using Windows 7 for a few hours I noticed it runs just as fast as Vista on my laptop. Now I have 4GB of ram and a dual core proseccor in my laptop so this could be why they run the same. I will say this much Windows 7 boots faster than Vista.

I will be doing some Virtual PC tests soon and I will see how far I can push this pre-beta.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Ubuntu, Vista, and Windows 7

0 comments Posted by Wesley Casey at 11:08 AM

Well if anyone is wondering, I did get Ubuntu 8.10 installed. It ran very well after the download. It was simple to install. The only issue I had was i had to completely reformat my hard drive. I tried to resize my partition and Vista just did not want me to do that.


So I ran Ubuntu only for about three days and then gave up and installed Vista back on my laptop. Now this was not because Ubuntu ran poorly, but more because of the programs I ran would not run properly on it. I could get around every program except World of Warcraft. I worked on it all night for about six to eight hours. I finally gave up after i was able to get WOW to run but very poorly.

Now I am back to dual booting Vista and Ubuntu. Vista isn't a bad OS. I actually enjoy it on a system built to run it. Its sleek and stylish and with SP1 it work just as good as XP did in my opinion.

Finally for this post I have been hearing a lot of good things from Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. Windows 7 may very well be the best OS they have ever came out with. Basically Vista scalable for net books to power PCs. I am trying not to get too excited just yet. I am sure I will have more to say about windows 7, so I will end with that.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Delayed

0 comments Posted by Wesley Casey at 1:50 PM

Well my network connection died about half way through my Ubuntu download. I will have to wait untill tonight, when I go over to a friends house with reliable internet. I will be updating as this happens.

Ubuntu 8.10

0 comments Posted by Wesley Casey at 8:11 AM

I just wanted everyone to know that I am waiting patiantly for Ubuntu 8.10 to download. At this point it looks like it may be about three to five hours for my download and then I will update the blog.  

Friday, October 24, 2008

Iphone, Blackberry, and Android Oh my!

1 comments Posted by Wesley Casey at 11:56 AM

By far right now one of the biggest things in tech is the Android phone. Google developed this mobile phone operating system which is completely open source, meaning free to use and change. Now the first phone to use this OS, the G1, was released this month through T-Mobile. The handset was developed by HTC a company known for their smartphones. 

Well to make a long story short, with Android's openness and Apple's closed platform most will prefer the G1. On top of the G1, Apple's IPhone 3G has had bad reviews. In some places AT&T's 3G network is even reported to be slower than in it non-3G covered area. Add in the IPhone apps that seem to be crashing IPhones left and right and the king of phones may be dethroned very soon.
RIM is still in the running as well. With their new Blackberry Storm, a touch screen "IPhone-like"Blackberry and the new Bold(pictured below) with its higher resolution screen both will be very popular. Add in the new Pearl Flip and RIM's new line of next gen smartphones is very exciting. 
In closing, even with the low economy I think this holiday season is going to be a big one for phone companies and for us TechDrifters.

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