Microsoft messes up, but not Vistas fault?

So yesterday i took my new 320 gb harddrive, and installed Windows XP x64 on it, than partitioned it and installed Vista on half of the harddrive. I only a few problems with Vista, but nothing that windows update didn't fix, or just finding an internet download didn't fix. Update fixed my video card driver problem, and than finding the drivers on the internet for my motherboard fixed the problem of my CD not running for the drivers. So that went well. After i got settled in, i went back to XP. Well i couldn't get my wireless network card to work (which i later found out how to fix) so i decided to reinstall XP. Never ever ever do that when dual booting the two. Basiclly, it messes up the boot loader thingy for Windows when you want to choose between the two. I could only boot XP, and not Vista. I try as i may, I couldn't find an alternative. So finally i just decided to wipe the harddrive and start over again. So here I am waiting for the harddrive to format and windows XP installation. After than I will partition the harddrive using GParted. After than, I will install Vista on the new partition. Speaking of Vista, let me share my thoughts about it. It's very beautiful. I mean the prettyness is just awesome. I can't believe I'm saying something good about a Microsoft product. You have to have a high end machine for it. I do as I discussed in a previous post. So i don't recomend it if you dont have a high end PC. Vista does ask everytime you run a new program, if you want the program to run. So that is kind of a down side, but I haven't really gotten irritated by it. Another thing is that on my friend's Vista laptop, i didn't know how to change the internet card settings. Well on my PC now, I just kinda guessed and found everything. So it's pretty logical i guess. It's deffinitely different. The only other thing i can think of is that sometimes it can't read cd drivers. For example, my motherboard. I found the drivers on the internet though i just downloaded them and installed. Worked like a charm. I was kinda worried about Itunes support. For one I was running Vista, but I was also running an x64 version. On apple's website it says they don't support x64 versions of Windows. Yikes. I tried to install itunes anyways. It worked fine. I guess I didn't try to play any songs, but it did install. The reason i didn't test itunes is because i decided to go to XP and install things, whcih ultimately lead to the 2 windowses (?) deaths together. If you ever get the oppertunity to format a 320 gb. harddrive, don't. It takes about an hour. well im gonna let you guys go bye.

Uber

I decided that I would update. I must say it has been awhile since I've really really looked forward to a CD. Probably John Reuben's Boy Vs. The Cynic was the last CD I really really looked forward to. I would listen to Nuisance on his website a lot. Now Linkin Park is releasing a new CD finally and I've listened to their song What I've Done a lot and boy I am excited for it. So I can't wait until May 15. I also found a pretty sweet program that I think everyone should have. It's called Download Accelerator Plus. Downloads files faster from the internet. I didn't believe it until I saw it myself. What it does it partitions the file into smaller files and downloads them. It makes downloading a lot faster. I'm gonna give you an example. Using Firefox's downloading program, I downloaded Unreal Tournament's Mega Pack, which is a 200 megabyte file, in about 45 minutes. With Accelerator Plus, I downloaded it in about 20 minutes. Yeah. Little less than 20 minutes actually. So i recommend it. I also upgraded my computer BIG time. I bought a new motherboard so i could support all my new stuff. I had a 450 watt power supply, and upgraded to a 680 watt to handle my new stuff. I got a pretty new case to put it in. It's a full sized case, with 2 fans on the side, one big fan in the back and one fan on top. they all have blue lights, except the one in the back. The case looks like a transformer and has a green light where the transformer mouth would be. You know what, here's pictures of it. It's a heavy bugger, but my old computer overheated all the time so i needed a bigger case and more fans. This thing does not overheat, not even while I play oblivion on full specs. Which brings me to the guts. Got a new video card. I had a 128 megabyte ATI video card. Now i have a 768 Megabyte Nivdeo 8800 GTX video card. I needed a full sized case to fit that baby in. It's about the length from my palm to my elbow. It's long. Next was my processor. I didn't skimp on the either. I used to have a 2.2 GHz single core AMD preocesor. Now I have a AMD 6000+ series 3.02 GHz dual core processor. Yeah. It's awesome. Next was my memory. I went from 512 Megabytes of RAM to 2 Gigabytes. It's awesome. I run Oblivion without a hitch. It's a fun game. I also bought STALKER. That's a freaky game. If you give me a gun and tell me there are enemies everywhere, I'm fine in first person shooters. STALKER is different however. You are put inside an area known as the Zone. It's Chernobyl, you know the place where the Nuclear Power Plant blew up. Lots of radiation. Anyways, it's creepy. First off, the weather effects are amazing. The wind is creepy as anything. You wonder around the Zone fearing that you'll get snuck up on by mutants. I looked up the enemies and know there's a mutated dog somewhere, and some crows that are creepy. So when I'm walking around the Zone, by myselft, nothing really but trees, the wind blowing creepily, dogs howling, and crows cawing, but nothing is attacking me... I get freaked out. And this is DAY time. I haven't even gotten to night time I'm so freaked out. If i find some cheats or something to make me invincible, I'll feel a little safer, but I'll still freak out when something jumps out at me. So if you want to be in suspense a lot, I recommend this game... but than again I am a scaredy cat. Ask by brother. I slept with a night light until I was 15. Still can't play Resident Evil games. Nights.

Whaaaat's Happenin'?

So I ordered a new computer... parts. I enjoy building my own computer vs. buying one. It's a lot more customizable. For instance: I bought a 768 mb video card... it's huge. and awesome. It'll keep my video games running at full specs for awhile. I also got an AMD 3.0 ghtz dual core processor. Another thing that'll keep things running. I even bought a new case... good thing too. The video card is HUGE! About twice the length of a "regular" video card. Won't fit in a "normal" sized case. Now I didn't think the video card would be as big as it is when i bought the case. I just new the video card and processor would produce a lot of heat, so i wanted a big case, and one with lots of fans. This case came with 3 "small" fans and one big one. It's nice. It even has lights. I enjoy the look of it. What's with all the quotes? I use size terms lightly. It really depends on what's your definition of "normal" is. Anyways, moving on. So with all of these awesome parts, I have to have something to power this. I thought a 600 watt (a good sized power supply) power supply would handle it. So i ordered one. I get it, and realize that the video card would need two peripheral power plugs... i have 6 to use. I need two for hard drives, two for cd/dvd drives, and I want to use two for the fans and lights. Not enough for the video card too. So i send it back (I lost 15 bucks in the process of returning it and restocking it). I buy a better 680 watt with 8 peripherals. And it has lights. the computer as a whole is nice. I receive the motherboard last. I put it in the case, line it up so that the inputs can be plugged in (keyboard, mouse, etc) and the PCI express ports line up perfectly so the video card inputs (for monitors) are outside the case. This is fantastic. Alright now to screw it in... why don't i see the holes on the case through the holes of the motherboard? Crap. There's probably 25 or so holes pre drilled in the case. two holes actually line up with the motherboard's hole. I call Derek (praying he has a solution) and he told me that I needed to use some special screws, etc. I didn't have these screws, but he said he did and would bring them on Friday. So I'm waiting patiently. The only thing in my case right now is the power supply. Can't do much except connect the fans and lights. I had a little more than a week to wait, but I needed to get ready for a formatting of the hard drive. I needed a few things. Mainly some Microsoft Office action. So i got Office 2007 and installed it (i wanted to check it out) and boy was i surprised. Microsoft simplified it. No more menu bar at top with "File" "Edit" "View" etc. Instead, they have a fairly good size toolbar. It's a tabbed toolbar. meaning you click on the "Home" tab and you find the font options, center, color, etc. Than you click on the "Insert" tab for tables, shapes, pictures, etc etc. I think this is a good idea for people who don't know a lot about computers. I mean it's simple. You can hover over "B" under home and it'll say "Bold - make the selection text bold" etc etc. Good idea, right. I mean i had to relearn where things are, but it was simple to relearn and I probably know everything I could do in 2003 in just a matter of minutes. Probably the only praise Microsoft will get from me. I'm also gonna try Windows Vista. I have to check it out. So I'm gonna. I'm going to try to have Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux running on this computer. It'll be interesting. Anyways I'll keep you updated. Later.

Pocket Lent

You really don't realize how smell affects your appetite until you have fasted. For Lent I decided to fast every Wednesday, so today I fasted. It went well. I've done 30 hour famine before, where you fast for 30 hours and raise money for a growing food in third world countries. But we stayed in the church basement and had no signs of food around. Just juice. So when i fasted today and went to school and what not, it wasn't too bad. I went with friends to Taco Bell, just to hang out with them, and I was like "I really want a cheesy ghordita crunch!" Just because of the smell in there. I held firmly though. Than I went with a friend across the street from the school to the gas station to get some drinks, because I can drink stuff, but not eat stuff, and he decided to get a Waffle cone since it's waffle cone Wednesday. I was looking at it and it made me hungry. Again i held strong. Than at home my dad was making Tacos. I almost lost it. I don't normally like tacos but it smelt sooooooooooooooo good. I held of firmly though. And here i sit typing to you folks. I also bought two CDs today. Amberlin Cities and Toby Mac's Portable Sounds. I had no idea Amberlin released a new CD, until i got to the Rainbow Shop and there it sat. So I picked it up. I spent 36 bucks exactly on them. I get home and surfed the internet and checked out Target's ad, and i find out we have both the CDs and they are on sale for 9.99. So if you plan on picking up either of these CDs, go to Target. I guess I did support the Rainbow Shop, so it wasn't all bad. More good news. My bro and Ashley are coming to town on friday! YAY! he gets to install my amp and get linux working on my computer. Exciting considering it's HIS birthday. hehe. Well I'm gonna head off to bed so later catzzzzz.

Perfect Circle

Hey everyone. I told I'd blog more. I don't work until 5 today so i have some downtime at least. I CD player in my car went out a couple weeks ago and my brother took a look at it and found nothing wrong... except for the obvious fact that it wouldn't turn on. He used a voltage meter to check the wires and it said everything was fine. Well, Steve looked at my CD Player and used a voltage meter and my main power wasn't getting any power. So then we check the Radio Ignition fuse. I even knew what that did. Apparently it was shot to death. So I bought a new one and put it in, and now my CD player works. Yay! How my brother didn't think about checking that is beyond me. Anyways, I also bought a new CD player, just because I want one that I can plug my IPod into. It's nice. I also bought an amp while I was at it. I needed one for my Subs that have been sitting in my car for about a year now and I had no amp for it. You think I waited long enough? I wanted to get new speakers to, but the speakers I wanted were 55 bucks a pop, and times that by four is 220 bucks. Yeah. Plus I thought about when I tried to take off the side panel to my doors, and that wasn't fun. So I opted to not get a set of nice speakers. I bought the new Swichfoot CD on Saturday, Oh, Gravity and I liked it. It's a different sound for them, but it sounds great. I don't have much to elaborate on. It's just awesome. Apparently I've been spelling awesome wrong for the past some-odd years. I never knew it has an e between the w and s. I guess it makes more sense that way. The new blogger has spelling correction in it. I like it. You don't have to put up with as much of my bad spelling. I'm off to play some Wiiage before work. Later cats.

I don't feel so bad

I don't feel bad anymore. I just checked my blog list, and no one has updated for a while. Slackers.

Satan Sick?

I think my wonderful fat cat got hurt by a seven year old. She looks mean in the picture, but if you have met her, then you know that Satan is a fitting term. But she's nice to my brother and me. Anyways, I think the seven year old broke her cause she makes a weezy meow sound every now and then. Which is not normal. She usually has a raspy meow sound, but this sounds more like a moan. So sad. Oh by the way, if you forgot, my name is Roy and this is my blog. I've been very busy with work and school, so I haven't gotten a chance to update. Maybe I'm lying through my teeth and I've been playing my new Wii. It's kind of a combination. I've been working about 35 hours a week, and then I go to school for 35 hours, and on my days off I just don't get the initiative to blog. Now it's getting back to normal, with the new Target store not being so new, and the holidays done. Ah relief. Hopefully my hours will be cut. I will be happy. I've updated my website every now and then, and that'll take care of my Wii explanation of how much I like it. I suggest you buy one too. Speaking of my brother, he told me twice that i should update, so here I am. Happy? Speaking of the holidays, my Christmas was wonderful. I got a week off of work, I went to my grandma's and had Christmas up at my Aunt and Uncle's house. Joyful. I got a new sweatshirt which several people have nagged me to get a new one. Happy? I also received some cash money and a cash money shredder. An automatic shower cleaner, that requires you push a button when you get out of the shower. I didn't clean my shower before so this actually makes me work harder. I'm drawing a blank of what else I got. I got rechargeable batteries from my bro. Those are great for my Wiimotes :). Anyways I enjoyed the time spent with family for the most part. I also went up to my brother's apartment for a few days. That was pretty fun. I think my cat is still in shock from the seven year old. I've never seen her like this. I told you that I was gonna tell you about Bolivia. Whoops. My bad. I'll tell you when I have more time. I have a lot of junk I need to do such as: Work on website, play Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, Play Zelda Windwaker, Play Zelda Twilight Princess, Play Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, beat various other games, read at least 12 books that I've been slowly working on, and the list goes on. I just remember that I need to finish a book that I barrowed from my youth pastor. I got half way through it. I should really finish it. It's good. I don't know why I didn't finish it sooner. It's been like 2 months or so. So i think i should set that to priority one. My cat looks really pitiful. I feel really bad for her. Anyways, that was my update. Happy? Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year. -Roy J

Roy G Biv

I was curious, has anyone ever seen a full rainbow? I mean, like the entire arc. Cause I've only seen one half of the arc. On TV, they have the full arcage going on. I've never seen the full arcage. I've seen two half of arcs by each other... but not a full arcage. You know what I'm saying?

Layover

Hey peeps. Just wanted to know that we got back from Bolivia safely. I shall update at a later time. Consider this a layover... or whatever... NINJA ROOSTER! Hehe... inside jokes.

Libros

I really need to read more. I like to read, it's just that I usually don't, for some reason or another. Let's see how many books I personally own: 25. How many have I read: 10. That's not so bad. Now let's see how many I have bought within the last year: 16. How many have of those have I read: 4 and a half. And that half, I have been working on for about 6 months, maybe a little less. I usually read quite a bit more during the school year, since I get bored during school when I'm done with school work. Summer, i generally don't read books, maybe on a long trip i would, but even then I usually do something else, like watch a DVD. I bought three books today: Pirates of the Caribbean Jack Sparrow: The Coming Storm, PotCJS: The Siren Song, and Starcraft: Queen of Blades. Sure, the Pirate books are for kids, but they intrigued me when i heard they were about a teenage Jack Sparrow. Then I bought Queen of Blades, because I love Starcraft and the other books, and I didn't want to look like a person that just bought kids' books. I just noticed that there isn't an underline in blogger. I could go to edit HTML, but I'm too lazy. I read the first 10 pages of the first pirates book in like 3 minutes. It's a 130 page book, but the pages are really short. Like i said, they're made for kids. Ooh, there's pictures!

So on Sunday I leave for Bolivia. That'll be fun. Last Sunday a couple of friends and I went up to one of my friend's cabin to shoot off fireworks, since there was a burn ban here. We went tubing and swimming on the lake, and then we had a blast shooting off fireworks. Hehe, puns. I burned a hole in my shirt, from holding bottlerockets in an empty roman candle stick. I must have shot off about a hundred of them, and only had sparks that shot down the sleeve of my shirt and burned a whole through my shirt. I also have some burn marks on my arms from the fuses burning off. Ah, fun times. Oh and I didn't get sunburned at all! That's amazing, considering I spent the afternoon with my shirt off on a lake. Me being pale, and red hair. I don't do well in the sun, generally. I have a hint of a tan coming in. That was a fun day, but my friend's aunt had a cold. I didn't get near her at all... but yet when i woke up on Monday, I had a stuffy nose and felt like crap. I've been sick ever since. Been trying to recooperate, before Sunday. Me and Summer colds don't mix, either. They usually last about 3 weeks, at least that's a what the last two years has taught me. One week almost down... two weeks to go... which just happen to be the weeks I'm in Bolivia. Acutally i might be getting better, so hopefully that means I'm getting better fast.

I just got some shots todayTetnus (spelt wrong I'm sure) and Hepititus A (which I suppose that's spelt wrong too). Probably shouldn't have procrastinated (wrong again I suppose) this long... considering that the A shot is suppose to be taken in two doses, with 6 months in between. The doctor said that i have a 90% chance to fend off the virus with just the first dose, and I wasn't too worried about it.

The fireworks stand was a bust this year, obviously with the burn ban is place, so we didn't quite make enough to fund our trip, but we'll be doing fundraisers afterwards to pay off the loan, so that shouldn't be to bad. I had heard somewhere that being active is good for getting rid of a cold. I forgot where I heard that, but if so then last Wed. was good for me. I helped pack up all the fireworks and take down the tent for 4 hours. I think that might have helped. I've been trying to get lots of rest, but sleeping late in the mornings hasn't been that successful. I have been sleeping pretty soundly, but I generally only get 7 horus of sleep, which isn't too bad, but I'm sick. I've kinda been brushing up on my spanish. I've been practicing the line: No digo espanol muy bien, which translates to: I don't speak spanish very well. I've taken three years of spanish. You would think I would be good. I know how to speak it... I just don't know a lot of words. I mean I know quite a few words, but considering how many words I know in english... I don't know a lot. You know what I'm saying? I got a B in spanish last year. Which you would think is good, but I got A's in the rest of my classes, and I was getting a C for a moment in spanish. I magically got a B. Surprising. I'm just kinda rambling in this paragraph. I think I should move on to a new one.

I've been playing warcraft, as you should know from my previous post. I'm really obsesive about things. If I get really interested in something, I'll do tons of research on it. Usually it doesnt last very long, but yeah. I'm really tempted to buy the Warcraft books, just so I have more history on Warcraft. It's very interesting to me. I mean I am reading the warcraft III manual! There's 48 pages of history on all the races, so I've been reading that during comercials when i'm watching TV. I still need to finish warcraft II. I have 4 or 3 stages left. So I should really finish that. Then I'll be playing Warcraft III. If you are wondering why I'm being so Obsesive about it, I'll remind you. I played through Warcraft III, once before without playing any of the other warcrafts or even knowing anything about it except orcs and humans fought against each other. I basically just cheated through the game, and I got nothing out of it. I like storylines in games. It's on thing that makes me play a game, as with most people. So when I don't know the storyline, I lose interest. That's why I'm so obsesive.

Probably will post after I get back from Bolivia, and tell you about my ventures. End Post.