Lately, I haven’t been blogging much, I suppose it’s because I’ve been spending a lot of time just “fixing” my computers. Fixing not in the sense that it’s broken but fixing in the sense of customizing. In February, I got my new HP Desktop which came with Vista. I ordered an OEM copy of XP the first day I got the computer. I’ve played with Vista a lot and it’s an okay OS however I really really don’t care for the fact that it was designed to annoy you and I, aka the end user. Microsoft shouldn’t put it’s users in the middle to try and force developers to develop properly. Plus Vista is a memory hog, I don’t like waiting 30+ seconds to log on to my machine when I have a pretty “beefy” system and nothing running at startup other than AV.
On Monday I got fed up with XP because I made some changes and boinked the kernel so I formatted and installed Vista along with Ubuntu.
On Tuesday I wrote that I was disappointed with Acer, I still am but found a work around and got a fresh install of Vista on my laptop. If I could get XP on the laptop, I’d fork over the dough for another OEM copy but XP doesn’t even see the hard drive, I’ve read a few guides XP needs a driver, I suppose I’ll see what I can do
On Wednesday vBulletin released yet another version in the 3.6 series, 3.6.10, which wasn’t support to be, it’s a security patch but required a full updgrade. I ripped my hair out trying to get the custom theme on my DJ forum to work properly with the new requirements for the quick search drop down. Since my search isn’t coded into the navbar template, vB couldn’t auto-update the template. I wound up just linking the word search to the full search page instead of mucking with the new access key schema. I’ll fix it once and for all when I update to the 3.7 which was supposed to be final this week but because of the security issue it won’t be. I was a very unhappy vBulletin customer, apparently the issue has been in the 3.6 code branch for a while, why an update right in the middle of a release cycle when 3.7 is just about to go Gold?
Today, Thursday I formatted my desktop again and this time installed XP. I got all the updates installed and my favorite programs. Roboform, one of my favorite applications gave me trouble with activating again so I had to email their support which gave me an extra activation. Windows doesn’t even complain about all these activations why is Roboform? I just spent $40 on two licenses that in addition to the 3 other licenses I’ve purchased in that past that I forgot my login information for and thus cannot use any more. None the less XP is installed my computer boots much faster and the time from entering my password to a useable desktop is less than 10 seconds, I’m happy with that. 
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 went Gold today, so it’s a final release. I’ve been running it since the betas, I downloaded the final release today and installed it alongside XP on my Desktop. For now, XP remains my default operating system. Once Ubuntu’s servers get a break and I can actually download some software, I’ll probably make Ubuntu my default yet again.
Other than that, I started my diet and exercise program this week, I really wanted to post a full post about that earlier this week but by the time I get down mucking around with my computers, fixing technical issues on my forums and the forums I manage, then get out for my walk I’m popped and go stright to bed when I get home. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have sometime to write about my new diet and exercise plan, which has been working out pretty good for me except for tonight, I cut my walk a little short as my back was killing me. 
So that’s what’s up! I hope to be blogging more in the near future.
[...] 1.5 miles in the morning and 1.5 miles in the afternoon. It didn’t work out too well with my computer issues on Monday & Tuesday, I couldn’t get out of the house. However Tuesday I did do two walks [...]