Getting ready to reinstall Windows 7

I recently discovered I had some issues on my Windows box, which is currently my most used box. For the most part there are small issues, like a software crash here and there. But I recently got an undefined Windows message (“Preparing security options”) and I tried to research it, and my results were undefined. That, combined with Chrome coming out in 64 bits (meaning I could drop 32 bit Java completely), I decided it was time, after more than 2 years of not reformatting my box at all (which is a personal best for me, I usually end up having to do this once per year).

Roomba is a cure for vacuum phobia

I am extremely lazy when it comes to vacuuming. Usually I go over if I get a visitor or if I am feeling inspired. So the other day I was looking at my apartment and got fed up with it and bit the bullet. I bought a Roomba 780. Since I started it up yesterday, I have vacuumed 4 times, and it has been close to full each time.

First run it actually stopped as it was full, and never completed. Second run got some more and then I thought it had taken it all. However, I scheduled it to run 3 times a week, so when I got home today it had made its run (of course I have it set so it runs while I am at work, so it wont disturb me). Decided to clean the brushes and filters, and when I emptied the dust out I figured it was so much that I would let it run again. This time I started moving stuff around, making sure it gets access behind couches etc. All in all, my apartment have never been this clean.

Dell’s Shipping Options

As per my recent post, I recently got my self some new hardware. The total cost of that hardware was somewhere around expensive and filthy expensive, and the shipping costs were addon on were just above filthy expensive. Also, it took Dell 2 working days to prepare it for shipping, where my only alteration on the laptop was changing it to a SSD over a conventional hard disk. Not a huge change. When it was finally shipped, I got no email notification about it right away, in fact, I only got an email from them 4 days after it had shipped with the invoice and they were even assuming it was already delivered (which it was not).

Why we use linux

I just saw an image the other day, and figured I had to make a quick post about it(Sorry, do not know the credits for it):

So true

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t know about others, but I sure recognize my self in this…

Social Gaming

Yeah, not really an gaming on Linux post, but more a spam my project post. Anyway, I have long been a gamer, though never on a PC (even though my current computer is pretty high spec’d). For the most part I play on consoles, more specifically on Playstation 3. I have also long been a member of a small, but social clan, which is really what I love about this online world.