The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I installed Windows Vista SP2 Today. It's not too bad so far. It went much smoother than the service pack 1 installation. I have issues with vista, but part of me likes it. It's a love hate thing I guess. I often find myself more relaxed using MidnightBSD or Mac OS. Since I got git and some of the cygwin tools installed, vista is much more tolerable. I just love having a unix like shell with unix style commands. Sometimes I wonder if I could just deal with windows if they'd add them as part of the OS.... nah.

I also installed the direct x sdk today. THe C# support is not as nice as I expected. I'm starting to understand why some people write C++ code still for games. If you want to do any clever transformations, it sucks. (directx 9 at least)

You might wonder why i installed the directx sdk. I want to write a very simple game. Caryn's going to work on the logic/backend and I'm going to write the graphical "engine" to render it.

Wondering why visual stuidio keeps crashing on me. Every time i drag a control in vs2008 after a few saves, it seems to crash. Wonder if it's a vista sp2 bug.