Feeling much better now...

Yes as the title states. I am feeling much better and I trying to get back to the way I was before last week...

I'm going to scale back my experiment and not mess with Mac... at least for now. I will eventually I just don't have the money. So... I guess I should tell my readers that I have changed my mind about Safari... I have to say that Safari for Windows is quite laptop friendly display wise. And they have fixed the rendering issues for the most part... I don't like the built-in rss feeds feature. Or at least the way its implemented... But that is just my opinion. By the way have been using Zenwalk Linux all day today. I feel more calm when I'm using it compared to Windows... I don't know why.

Though I can't wait until they release a new version... the default install of Zenwalk 5.0 doesn't work with my sound correctly. But the wifi works perfectly. Though I broke it after upgrading my kernel (Which afterwards my sound started working... weird eh?)

And now I have four gigs of music on this laptops harddrive now... but its all on the Windows partition... Not a problem for Zenwalk. I just make it mount the Windows NTFS partition during boot and then I go to the music folder and add it to the music program in Linux and bam! All my music is ready for me in Linux.

... I'm going to stop this blog post before I get carried away. Stay tuned... for the next blog post... Until then...

Stay Zen.


-SA (SerenadedAbyss)

Time for an Experiment

I know that I haven't really voiced my opinion about OS (Operating System) usage on this blog... but to be honest that because I really can't decide.

I would rather like to try them all and see if any of them suite me... To be honest... I have tried Linux. Just Ubuntu, Zenwalk Linux, DSL (Damn Small Linux), Puppy Linux, SuSe 10.1, Fedora Core 6, Red Hat Linux... I think that thats all of them so far. And I have to say... its different and I like them for that. But I keep reverting to Windows for some things... and for right now the only thing that is making stick to Windows is mmorpgs because none of the ones I play work in WINE. But anyway.... to get to what I want to write about today....

As with OS choice in my life I have been also has the problem with using just one browser. I first used IE (Internet Explorer) ... but that was in my middle to early high school years. And to be honest I am worried more with rendering accuracy and speed then compatibility with the OS. And so I have used Firefox for years but then I found Opera and it really surprised me and works quite well though... its speed proclaims really depend on your connection so whatever. But then.. about a year ago... I introduced myself to Mac and OS X a little... after a Apple store opened up at a local mall. And I have to say that it fascinates me and I have to say that I don't like Itunes or Safari that well... mostly because Itunes to me is a kludge. And doesn't meet my demands as a user... but I have seriously of late been thinking of buying a mac either a mac mini or a macbook... just because I like to test and experiment... 

Now upon my mention of the word "experiment" I will finally get to the point. I as of today messed with Flyakite OS X since I like generally like the theme that OS X carries. I have decided that if I can use Safari on Windows for entire week without switching back to my old roots of browsing. Then I will stick with it. If I an survive that. I will then progress another step up and use Linux for a week straight. And if I survive that then I will use that more. I will then see if I can try and get a mac sometime soon. And use that for an entire month. Now I do realize that overall my experimentation is expensive and time consuming and I don't have enough money for a macbook let alone a mac mini. But I will probably just split this experiment up into sections to make it easier on me and my current situation.

I think that I have written enough for now so I'm going to wrap this post up and if anyone has any suggestions or questions please leave a comment.

So until the next post...

Stay Zen. 

- SA (SerenadedAbyss)

Wow... I really need to post more frequently

Wow... well the title says it all... my life has been busy with random stuff... from graduating my high school to installing Zenwalk Linux... yes I decided on an distribution... finally... but yeah... anyway...

I am now going to college and so far so good... I am not having to many problems with it... it feels a bit like high school but with better classes... wow...

Anyway I have a problem... Guitar Hero has taken control of my life... some people would say it isn't a problem some would say differently because it is just a game... but the reason I say that is a problem is because I do not have a copy of the game or the controller. I just go to my friend's house down the street and play his copy and I really want a copy of it... so I stuck waiting until my birthday which even though is not that far off I really need to practice on hard... Yeah I finally got to Hard after being on Medium and Easy for months now... I think a about a year now... and there is already people who have been doing Expert since forever... it makes me feel a bit slow... but who knows.. I might get that orange button down faster than I think I will (My estimated guess of when I will master the orange button: 2012)

I need to finish this post I got a to go chill for a bit... and listen to some music on Pandora.com which in case you did not know is an awesome online radio station site.... check it out if you have specific tastes in music that normal radio does not play.

Peace...

~S A