Monday, October 29, 2007

Vista is Ready

So I had some driver issues with my XP build that I had been running for about 5 years and had the crazy thought of doing a new Vista Ultimate install to fix everything. And to my surprise it worked out of the box with no issues. Windows Update for Vista even found all of the drivers I needed and updated them with no issues. Previously under XP I would not trust Windows Update for drivers only software updates. The Windows Firewall works as well and I haven't had to install ZoneAlarm. The only major problem is User Access Control which I had to disable. UAC was made famous in the security Apple Ad. To disable it just type msconfig in the Vista search bar and hit enter. Next select the Tools tab and scroll down until you see disable UAC. Launch it and then after it is done reboot.



With the one simple change Vista works like a dream with no Blue Screen of Pause that some of our Apple friends are dealing with.

Friday, October 19, 2007

SkyNet's First Attack

And so it starts Robots going crazy killing people...

Robotic cannon turns Killer!

At least T3 is going to happen before Planet of the Apes.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Nine Great Books About The Future

Nine Great Books About The Future, an excellent article on Forbes. Of the books on the list that I have read I can't help but agree with including them. It just makes me want to read the others as well, perhaps summer. Some missing titles may be Diamond Age, Friday, or Snow Crash? Diamond Age features China and Nanotechnology, Neuromancer (on the list) probably has Snow Crash beat. Friday had terrorism and alternative living arrangements.

I don't know about you, but I really enjoy reading about some aspect of the future and then seeing it in real life year latter. Starship Troopers had cell phones and in Snow Crash the author talked about Zombies people connect to the net that seemed to be having a conversation with people that aren't there, of course we see this all to often with hands free blue tooth phones.

Monday, October 01, 2007

ZenfarXNA

ZenfarXNA is my XNA project in which I hope to capture the essence of role-playing games. What is that essence you may ask?


You find yourself in a 20x20 room with two exits. One exit to the north the other to the west. There is a strange console and one angry Chaos Warrior in the room. What do you do?


Replay that situation twenty times and you have a fun nights entertainment.