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Run D.M.C. said it best…

Originally posted on June 23, 2010 @ 12:30 pm

Over the past few months it seems various people in my world have been feeding on drama or starting needless drama… which is one of the many reasons I didn’t want a journal in the first place… sharing my thoughts, dreams and emotions with people in an open media is a scary thing… then you get the childish people who like to take my thoughts or words and twist them into something totally different then what I intended… at any rate, no one really knows me… except a few people and that’s the way it will stay… my journal is only a small grain of sand into my life and world… and a lot of my posts are friends only… even those posts are only a very small taste of me… anyway, here are the words to Run D.M.C.’s song “You talk to much”… it’s how I felt the past few days:

Shut up! You talk to much…

Hey! You over there, I know about your kind
You’re like the Independent Network News on Channel 9
Everywhere that you go, no matter where you at
I said you talk about this, and you talk about that
When the cat took your tongue, I say you took it right back
Your mouth is so big, one bite would kill a Big Mac

You talk about people, you don’t even know
And you talk about places, you NEVER go
You talk about your girl, from head to toe
I said your mouth’s moving fast, and your brain’s moving slow

You’re the instigator, the orator of the town
You’re the worst when you converse, just a big mouth clown
You talk when you’re awake, I heard you talk when you sleep
Has anyone ever told you, that talk is cheap

Talking is the one thing, that you can do best
You told the cavity creeps, to watch out for Crest
You never have the story, right and exact
And then you always try to bore me, with your yakkity yak

Everyday you are out fighting someone in the street
And you’re always fighting someone you know ya can’t beat
Then you wonder how, you got in this mess
Just think of what you said, then take a guess

You’re always spreading rumors, whether bad or good
You’re the damn Walter Cronkite of the neighborhood
The Barbara Walters, and the Howard Cosell
You always come around, with a story to tell

Said it’s everybody’s business that you love to mind
And talkin to you, is like dropping a dime
You’re spreading the word, like it is your job
You should be a stool pigeon, who works for the mob

A big blabbermouth, that’s what you are
If you were a talk show host, you’d be a star
I said your mouth is big, size extra large
And when you open it, it’s like my garage

You always like to gossip, just like a girl
You talk so damn much, it’s outta this world
When you’re reincarnated, in your second life
You won’t be a man, you’ll be a nagging wife

Twenty-five hours, eight days a week
Thirteen months outta year, is when you speak
I’m tired of listening to the garbage you talk
Why don’t you find a short pier, and take a long walk

Windows 7 Starter Edition will cost more than XP

Originally posted on August 26, 2009 @ 10:00 am

We all know that Windows 7 would be (finally) spell the death of the venerable Windows XP. You see, XP had a pretty good run, but I think it’s time to finally let it rest. Windows 7 is the future, baby!

But this is weird: if they want to phase out Windows XP so badly, why are we seeing Windows 7 Starter Edition prices go higher than XP? It doesn’t make sense at all.

Microsoft still hasn’t officially announced exactly how much it will charge for Windows 7 Starter Edition, and the price could be variable since it will be sold in large volumes to PC makers. Consumers won’t be able to walk into a store and pick up a copy. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did suggest recently that the pricing scheme will go something like this: Windows XP, Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home, and then Windows 7 Professional.

Via Liliputing

The thorny issue of bandwidth metering

Originally posted on May 16, 2008 @ 11:42 pm

Comcast recently announced that they might consider bandwidth metering. One of the reasons being cited for this move is to solve network congestion it has been suffering, which is being blamed on torrent users, video downloaders and file sharers. As a company, I understand that they would see this as an easy solution to their problem. But as a user I am incensed.

Internet availability has transcended initial impressions for it as a fad or an optional service. I think it has now entered the level of a utility. Every home should have a stable internet connection for a variety of reasons that are just too many to mention here. Metering bandwidth defeats the very intrinsic nature of the internet as an always on connection that allows you to access information and whatever else the internet offers whenever you need it and at whatever amounts of data you download. Comcast should realize that the concept of bandwidth metering is something that users loathe. AOL has done it before. Compuserve has, too. And the consensus has been unanimous—bandwidth metering sucks.

I’m sure that Comcast can find other more creative ways of solving whatever problems they have without limiting the amount of data their subscribers get from the internet. If they don’t reconsider this option, they are in for a world of pain as internet users are a very vocal bunch.

New Windows version in a couple of years?

Originally posted on April 7, 2008 @ 11:58 pm

I don’t know how you guys will take this recent news from Microsoft.

In a recent seminar on corporate philantrophy, Bill Gates said that the new version of Windows could be released anytime within the “next year or so”. This statement seems to back up the new corporate strategy of releasing far more regular updates of its dominant operating system. This means that we can expect the next OS upgrade to Vista to come to market far earlier than what was previously thought.

The new strategy seems to be to release a new Windows version within 3 years of the last version. What Gates said, therefore, actually fits into the development cycle that Microsoft has identified. Of course, this could just mean test versions coming out and not the final release product yet. Nevertheless, this development cycle leaves a very bad taste in the mouth. The cost of software upgrades is just too steep and now, the expectation is that every four to five years you have to upgrade again? It would have been a good thing if consumers can decide for themselves when to upgrade but with Microsoft’s policy of stopping support for older OS and bundling important features exclusively to the new OS (like Vista and DirectX 10), we are being forced to upgrade at gunpoint.

This is just unacceptable.

On the hunt for the EEE

Originally posted on February 5, 2008 @ 11:57 pm

I’ve been on the hunt the past few weeks. I’ve been obsessively calling all of the computer stores in my area (and even beyond), trying to track down one unit of the ASUS EEE. I don’t even care if I get the 4gb or 8gb Surf version, I just want my laptop fix and I want it now!

Actually, I really need an ultraportable this week. I’m going out of town for a trip and I really need to bring a spare laptop with me to continue working while I’m away. Unfortunately, every single unit of the EEE has been snapped up faster than the stores can replenish their stocks. I am actually quite surprised by the massive popularity of ASUS’ new money making gadget. I know that the EEE has respectable specs at price point that is insanely cheap but I’ve always thought that it will still remain a niche product because it is too small and it has a Linux OS out of the box. The fact that it’s selling like hotcakes could mean that ultraportables have really established itself as a legitimately viable sector and that this is the magic price point for electronic gadgets — most especially for laptops that have been traditionally seen as very expensive.

Hopefully, I get my EEE this week…