Recently in personal Category
As I'm sitting here waiting for my laptop to boot up, it's gotten me thinking. When did operating systems not become operating systems anymore?
Windows Vista has been a frustrating experience for me. I purchased a brand new laptop from Best Buy last July that came with Windows Vista Home Premium pre-loaded. I wasn't thrilled at the time knowing it was coming with Vista but I decided to try it out. What a horrible experience. After suffering through it for a few weeks, I couldn't take it any more and put Windows XP Professional on it. It worked great after that.
That whole experience opened my eyes a little. I remember a few years ago when games like FarCry were coming out and everyone was so impressed with what the game demanded out of a computer. Many people couldn't run FarCry at the time because it demanded more than what a typical PC had at the time. Once people upgraded, things were better and they could enjoy the game as it was originally intended.
When did we start treating Windows, a computer operating system, like a game? What's different between Windows Vista and FarCry is that people wanted that better, visual experience with FarCry and so they went for it. With Vista, it's basically forced on you which creates an instant negative reaction.
Brand new AMD Athlon64 X2 dual-core TK-53 1.7Ghz laptop with 1GB of RAM and it has trouble running an operating system. An operating system shouldn't be pushing the limits of what my computer can handle. An operating system shouldn't be having trouble doing the basic things that computer users use a PC for. If you can do those things well AND have a good visual experience doing it then great, but be an operating, working system first.
Windows Vista has been a frustrating experience for me. I purchased a brand new laptop from Best Buy last July that came with Windows Vista Home Premium pre-loaded. I wasn't thrilled at the time knowing it was coming with Vista but I decided to try it out. What a horrible experience. After suffering through it for a few weeks, I couldn't take it any more and put Windows XP Professional on it. It worked great after that.
That whole experience opened my eyes a little. I remember a few years ago when games like FarCry were coming out and everyone was so impressed with what the game demanded out of a computer. Many people couldn't run FarCry at the time because it demanded more than what a typical PC had at the time. Once people upgraded, things were better and they could enjoy the game as it was originally intended.
When did we start treating Windows, a computer operating system, like a game? What's different between Windows Vista and FarCry is that people wanted that better, visual experience with FarCry and so they went for it. With Vista, it's basically forced on you which creates an instant negative reaction.
Brand new AMD Athlon64 X2 dual-core TK-53 1.7Ghz laptop with 1GB of RAM and it has trouble running an operating system. An operating system shouldn't be pushing the limits of what my computer can handle. An operating system shouldn't be having trouble doing the basic things that computer users use a PC for. If you can do those things well AND have a good visual experience doing it then great, but be an operating, working system first.
I'm just finishing up with my yearly move (or what seems like anyway). Going from a decent size place with 2 roommates to a bigger place by myself. Kind of quiet. Kind of weird. Very empty. Gives me lots of time to think so I'll be posting more in recent days and weeks.
I've found myself keeping a Google Maps tab open in Firefox quite a bit recently. A few days ago, I was checking on the location of a hotel in Chicago and, during my map navigation on Google Maps, ended up with a hand twitch or something and my viewpoint was on the other side of the world. Instead of going back where I originally was, I thought it would be neat to look around at cities in other places.
3 spots of interest I've found so far:
- Venice, Italy: Very cool
- Madrid, Spain: Gooooooooal!
- A few miles north of the stadium shown in the above link is the construction site (just west of the train station) for the Torre del Espacio, a building featured on Discovery Channel's "Build It Bigger".
3 spots of interest I've found so far:
- Venice, Italy: Very cool
- Madrid, Spain: Gooooooooal!
- A few miles north of the stadium shown in the above link is the construction site (just west of the train station) for the Torre del Espacio, a building featured on Discovery Channel's "Build It Bigger".
Here's a little about the guy behind this blog:
My name is Troy Davisson and I currently live in Indianapolis, Indiana. I'm 22 years old and can almost always be found in front of a computer monitor somewhere. Everyone that knows me knows that I'm very rarely not doing something work-related which makes me late to just about everything not work-related. I truly enjoy the work that I find myself doing (most of the time) so it's easy to spend a ton of hours on things.
As far as work goes, I'm the owner of an IDX services company. My company has been around for about 5 years now. I've been a professional web developer and programmer for about 10 years. My first exposure to programming in general was with Delrina FormFlow many, many years ago. At the time, I was too young to connect the dots in my head of where I might be able to go with that interest but once I was exposed to programming on the Internet, I was hooked. Those adventures have lead me to learn almost all aspects of computer and network technology from operating system support (Windows and Linux) to networking (protocols, wiring, installation, etc.) to server technology (IIS, Apache, DNS, load balancing, high availability solutions, backup services, etc.) to web site creation (design, graphics, Perl, PHP, Javascript, CSS, MySQL, etc.).
I got started in the IDX services industry (it has to do with real estate and property data for those that don't know) when we (my business partner at the time and I) won the bid on a random elance.com project we bid on. Once we were exposed to IDX, we continued to build out our service around what we thought would be good features to have and created a business out of it. Shortly after that, my business partner decided to continue down the career path that most of his family was already involved in and became involved full-time with real estate as an agent. Since then, I've been doing what I can to keep everything afloat which has proven to be very difficult at times. Recently, I (personally) have been focusing less on offering IDX services and trying to get involved more with general consulting and development work for people that might find my skill set useful. With that, I've had various opportunities to explore unknown waters dealing with technology and even business in general so this blog will probably be mostly about that.
Anyway, my email address is troy.davisson@gmail.com if you're dying to know more about me.
My name is Troy Davisson and I currently live in Indianapolis, Indiana. I'm 22 years old and can almost always be found in front of a computer monitor somewhere. Everyone that knows me knows that I'm very rarely not doing something work-related which makes me late to just about everything not work-related. I truly enjoy the work that I find myself doing (most of the time) so it's easy to spend a ton of hours on things.
As far as work goes, I'm the owner of an IDX services company. My company has been around for about 5 years now. I've been a professional web developer and programmer for about 10 years. My first exposure to programming in general was with Delrina FormFlow many, many years ago. At the time, I was too young to connect the dots in my head of where I might be able to go with that interest but once I was exposed to programming on the Internet, I was hooked. Those adventures have lead me to learn almost all aspects of computer and network technology from operating system support (Windows and Linux) to networking (protocols, wiring, installation, etc.) to server technology (IIS, Apache, DNS, load balancing, high availability solutions, backup services, etc.) to web site creation (design, graphics, Perl, PHP, Javascript, CSS, MySQL, etc.).
I got started in the IDX services industry (it has to do with real estate and property data for those that don't know) when we (my business partner at the time and I) won the bid on a random elance.com project we bid on. Once we were exposed to IDX, we continued to build out our service around what we thought would be good features to have and created a business out of it. Shortly after that, my business partner decided to continue down the career path that most of his family was already involved in and became involved full-time with real estate as an agent. Since then, I've been doing what I can to keep everything afloat which has proven to be very difficult at times. Recently, I (personally) have been focusing less on offering IDX services and trying to get involved more with general consulting and development work for people that might find my skill set useful. With that, I've had various opportunities to explore unknown waters dealing with technology and even business in general so this blog will probably be mostly about that.
Anyway, my email address is troy.davisson@gmail.com if you're dying to know more about me.
