Vista’s downfall looms

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I’ve been using Windows Vista the past couple days after I received my copy from Microsoft in the mail. My biggest gripe has been driver support for some legacy hardware that is perfectly capable. It seems that driver support on vista is going to be a bear and is going to frustrate a lot of people. I’ve ran into 3 instances so far where I can’t use hardware that I already own.

    1. Logitech USB headset 200 does not work under vista at all
  2. Logitech USB Keyboard Elite does not work fully under Vista
  3. I have not been able to get my Griffin Powermate to work under vista

When people’s hardware doesn’t work, it frustrates them and everyone is going to be crying “I want XP back”, which i’m already starting to do. If these vendors can’t get drivers out, people are going to start saying that vista sucks and telling all their freinds. Some people may say, switch to linux, but that is a whole different issue all together when it comes to hardware support. I love linux and all, but there will always be issues with hardware support as drivers have to be reverse engineered since most hardware manufacturers don’t release drivers for linux. Everyone be fore warned that some of your old hardware may not work as expected if you move to vista, or not work at all.

[tags]windows, windows vista, hardware, vista support, support, compatability[/tags]

Twitter Link

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Ok I signed up with Twitter a while ago. Things that don’t warrant a full blog post will get posted on my twitter link: http://twitter.com/zemote

If you don’t know what twitter is check it out. It’s kinda like a community web based chat/social network. You can only post It’s kinda hard to describe but I this site is starting to become addicting.

Lifedev.net even has a blog post on how to use Twitter as a GTD productivity tool

The computer mouse sucks out your productivity

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A command line and a keyboard is much more efficient. Lately there has been a lot of working going into the command line and their seems to be a resurrection of it. I am a longtime linux/unix user so I have never really seen the death of the command line, but people that started using windows in the last 12 years have not really been introduced to the command line.
My favorite command line launcher program for windows is Launchy. It indexes your start menu and any other folder you want. pulls up a command line launcher, then you just type to name of the program to launch, plus it does automatic filename completetion for you. By typing f it will look for the first program that starts with f, typing fi will almost certainly always find firefox.

If you Windows Users need a more powerful command line, you can use Cygwin. Cygwin gives you a linux like command line under windows.

Even Microsoft has conceded that the gui isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and has released a command line shell and scripting language called Powershell.

So why don’t you learn some keyboard shortcuts and lose the mouse, you will more productive because of it.

[tags]productivity, mouse, command line, linux, windows, cygwin, powershell, shortcuts, gtd, launchy, lifehack[/tags]

This post was inspired by Gina Trapani’s Lifehacker post – Geek to Live: The command line comeback

A 5 step guide to eating healthier

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It is now the new year and everyone is doing their New Year Resolutions.  Many people say they want to lose weight or eat healthier.  Remember there isn’t a magic diet out there, eating healther is a lifestyle change that you must put in the dedication to accomplish.  Here are my 5 tips for getting yourself to eat healthier and working toward that lifestyle change we all aim for.

1.  The first step to eating better is making defining meals you want to eat for the week that are healthy before making a grocery list & going to the store.

2.  Make a grocery list itemizing the items you only need to make those meals.

3.  Go to the grocery store and only purchase the items on that list. (never go to the grocery store hungry)

4.  Go home and prepare the meals ahead of time if possible to reduce the cooking time it takes for those meals.

5.  Actually cook and eat the meals you chose in item 1. (remember to eat normal portion sizes, a portion of meat is 6 ounces)

6.  goto 1. rinse & repeat

I know this is easier said than done, but give it a try for your health’s sake.  Remember if you don’t plan complete items 1 & 2 your going to the grocery store blind and will most certainly over buy & buy items that are not the most healthy.
[tags]eating, health, nutrition, shopping[/tags]

Sony, Wii have a problem…

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I was just at Best Buy a little bit ago and they had released a windfall of 60gb PS3’s this evening.  I could have just walked up and bought as many as I wanted.  There were no lines, no mad rush, no fighting.  I feel sorry for all those people that paid upwards to as much as $3,000 on ebay just a few short weeks ago.  There were a few curious patrons buying the PS3, but you’d think with all the hoopla over the launch there would be a lot more people scrambling for this.  If the ebay prices hadn’t fallen out, i would have bought one and resold it on ebay, but at this time there is no chance of making any money off suckers, because all the suckers have already been taken for a ride and everyone else has realized the PS3 is not all that and a bag of chips.

With all that said, there wasn’t a single Wii or Wii accesory available much to my dismay, i’m still looking to pick up an extra nun-chuck.  I was able to score my component cables which are still hard to come by.  The wii has been such a huge huge hit this season, even my mom and dad want one.  They loved playing mine, and told me if I saw one to snag it for them.  The Wii is truly a revolution in gaming.
[tags]sony, ps3, playstation, playstation 3, Wii, Nintendo, Revolution, console[/tags]