Friday, March 19, 2010

Tweak Tweak

After I got the Netbook I decided to take the desktop I was using and have another uninstallfest and tweak and optimize and then let the wife use it. It's faster than the old XP box she was using and should get her through to Christmas (she wants a Mac for Christmas). This is a cell pic of the box running Defrag for the first time in about a year. Interestingly, just uninstalling my shit and zorching a bunch of dead files TOTALLY sped the system up a bit.

And speaking of the Netbook, I am liking it more and more every day. Nailed a 2 gig memory card and things are speedier. I also downloaded a beta version of the Flash plugin and online video seems slightly less choppy. I was going to install Office 2003 because I started getting into spreadsheets and things at work and I need to play some. Unfortunately, I couldn't find our disk. Open Office, here I am. Maybe it will be enough to get my feet wet.

Watched all of Band Of Brothers recently - HBO was rebroadcasting it, so the DVR has all 10 episodes on it now. Might not delete them. I like... Also started recording The Pacific, and so far, I like. Not as much as BOB, but still a good watch.

Still rolling through BSG - on Season 4.5 and it's getting good. Got the original series of V to go to next. I already had the pilot miniseries and enjoyed it, and found the whole series for $14. Not bad.

Drinking tea, now.