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In september I wrote my A+ exams and am now A+ certified. Yesterday I wrote my MCITP: Windows 7, Enterprise Administrator and am now an MCITP.
I am trying to figure out which certification to write next: Network + or 70-640 MCTS: active directory for windows server 2008.
I have been playing Forza Motorsports 3 since I bought it last August. It is a great game and well worth the $44 I bought it used. The cars are really nice … mostly. The cars I drive in most are the Ferrari. I have the highest level which is level 50. I have 45 out of 50 achievements. The achievements I have left are: Year 5, Year 6, Own at least 1+ cars from every manufacturer, have a lap with 100,000+ drift points, and achieve gold in every race in event list in Seasons Play. All those 5 achievements are worth 235 Gamerscore. The other 45 achievements are worth in total: 765 Gamerscore.
There are some great tracks. Racing in the city streets, rural areas and race tracks. There is a lot of advertisements in the game. a little to much for my liking but I guess that is how Turn10 makes more money.
The different views you can have of the track include: inside the car, behind the car with mirror, behind the car without mirror, and there is one more but I cannot think of the last one.
I really like the game and I hope to beat it soon.
Ryan Orser.
I have been playing Harry Potter and the deathly hallows Part 1. I have been playing the single player mode. I have been stuck at a part of the game but I think I have figured it out. I have started to start playing multiplayer with the kinect.
The game with Kinect is quite different than I thought. I thought you could play the game that is in single player but no. You cannot play the game but you can play missions. When I had my friend over we played the missions in Kinect and we came 11th overall in the leader board in one of the missions.
In the missions you play against time to complete. The faster you win the higher in the standings you get.
It is quite fun. Problem is that the type of clothing that people in my family wear are baggy so it is difficult to play. When you try to swing your arm the sleeve would go over your hand making the kinect lose sight of your hand.
Overall it is a fun game. Well worth playing.
Ryan Orser.
Just for the fun of it I decided to get the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for my sister who likes windows 7. I then decided to create a video of the unboxing.
I have found the pre-beta of Windows 7 on the net. So I downloaded it and installed it in a virtual machine. I have had a few problems:
That is what has happened so far and yes I know it is pre-beta and that it will not always work but for it to find the drivers, and not install them properly is a big big problem and is a big big bug. So I hope that in their beta that they will fix this problem as I have no way to upgrade to the next bug fixes.
If you have any ideas on how to get this working leave a comment and I will happily try it out.
Ryan Orser.
I have had this one trouble with the new IE8 beta with the Google Toolbar. The Google toolbar would crash IE8 which would restart the browser and then would happen again in a continuous loop. The only way to fix this problem is to turn off the Google Toolbar via Tools>Toolbars>Google Toolbar. This gets rather annoying after a while so I decided it would be better to turn it off.
If you have any problems with the IE8 Beta you can leave a comment here about it. (Comments are on moderation so do not post them twice.)
This article says that Internet Explorer 8 will be standards-compliant by default? Is it true? Will Microsoft start to comply with standards? I sure hope so as I am going to be probably be testing it out on my parents computer soon.
Here is the article:
IE8 Will Be Standards-Compliant By Default
Posted by kdawson on Monday March 03, @09:51PM
from the browsers-on-acid dept.
A number of readers wrote in to make sure we know about Microsoft’s change of heart regarding IE8. The new version of the dominant browser will render in full standards mode by default. Developers wishing to use quirks mode for IE6- and IE7-compatible rendering will have to opt in explicitly. We’ve previously discussed IE8′s render mode a few times. Perhaps Opera’s complaint to the EU or the EU’s record antitrust fine had something to do with Redmond’s about-face.
I hope Microsoft was freaked out by Opera’s complaint to the EU or that the EU’s record anti-trust fine, though it could be both or none. Who knows other then the software giant itself.
The source of the article is from http://slashdot.org/articles/08/03/04/0114203.shtml
The European Union is at it again by fining Microsoft $1.3 Billion Dollars for bundling their Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer and other applications together with their newest operating system, Windows Vista. It is said that Microsoft is the first ever company in the EU to ever get fined for non-compliance after an anti-trust lawsuit against them. The 1.3 billion dollar fines amount from June 21st 2006 to October 21st 2007.
Overall this does not look so good for Microsoft. Sometime they will run out of money while this lawsuit goes on. Personally I think that Microsoft should just do what the EU says to be sure that they can still sell their products in that market, though I do not see them choosing that option anyways.
is is a step by step guide. As always I take no responsibility for anything that goes wrong.Step 1: download the ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5.
Step 2: burn iso file to cd as an image.
Step 3: put cd back into tray and run umenu.exe.
Step 4: click on the button install in windows
Step 5: Put in your credentials to be used in your Ubuntu installation, as well as the hard drive space, hard drive and language.
Step 6: Click next
Step 7: The ubuntu installation will create an image, and start copying files.
Step 8: reboot.
Step : Yep it is that easy!
I have read a lot about Windows Vista Compatibility issues, but when I installed Civilization IV on Windows Vista, a pop up box came up saying that “this game has some known compatibility issues.” I said what ever thats okay since I can probably run it anyways. So far it works fine with Vista, there has been no slow downs, nothing wrong with it at all. When you install it on Linux, it may be harder to install but in the end its worth it, as you can play it for less of a payload on your computer, when running on Ubuntu then on Windows Vista, so that you can enjoy it a lot more. Believe me I like Vista and all, but its been a year and a bit since Vista came out for household users and they cannot get a patch out to make it Vista compatible? There are lots of other games out there like others after it, most likely beyond the sword so that people have a better experience on Civilizations IV.
Overall Civilizations IV on Vista works quite well. If you have any problems just leave a comment.