The Design and Implementation of laffer1

Nvidia, ATI (read AMD) and Creative can't seem to ship release drivers for Windows Vista.  While Windows ships to the general public at the end of hte month, it was released in November to businesses!  Its RTM!  That means they are behind by many months.  One could argue that Creative should get some slack since sound blaster audigy's aren't exactly business grade sound cards.  Creative's beta driver actually works for the most part as well.  Nvidia on the other hand, doesn't have working OpenGL support which is used by engineers, cad designers and other fields.  I can get the same performance out of mesa with no hardware acceleration in BSD. 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_97.46.html

Yes, I'm pissed ET doesn't work.  I'm also in shock they can't support the monopoly of computing. 

http://creative.myspace.com/VOD/support/vista.html

Fox can't even support the latest monopoly in the making.

Today really sucks. I feel like crap. I got assigned two programming assignments today. One is due in early march and the other in late march. I'll probably start them early. I don't think I'll have much time later in the semester. Plus it would do me good to get caught up.

On the upside, I got a few more mports commited and a firewall setup on the webserver at work.

"Its gonna suck me dry"

"It takes an hour just to bring up the screen!"

OK. I feel a little better. ET doesn't work.. powered by nvidia. Its BSD time.

Users directories have a hidden folder called AppData which contains all the crap that used to be in C:documents and settingsUsername

Roaming contains the mozilla firefox and other profile directories... I couldn't just dump my firefox backup in there and have it work. I'm still working that out.

Its shitty.

You can use GAG to dual boot vista and MidnightBSD.  The built in dual boot system does not play nice with vista for some reason.  System commander does not support vista x64 yet.

So far I've been installing various applications and drivers.  Here's what i've learned about vista.

1. Intel bios updates for my DP965LT will not install and give me a programming error.  (windows installer version)
2. The network card, chipset inf, and other updates seem to work.  I have not tried the integrated sound as i have an audigy.
3. The audigy beta driver works well so far.
4. I installed the nvidia driver from january 5 and it seems to work although i have not tried opengl apps yet.
5. Star wars KOTOR2 (knights of the old republic 2) does not work.  Lucas arts can't seem to make a game run on more than one OS release.  I'm not surprised.
6. Office 2007 Ultimate works well.
7. Firefox 2 works fine.
8. IE 64bit works better than the 32bit version but lacks some compatibility with certain plugins.
9. steam will install and download games.  I have not run anything yet though.
10. There doesn't appear to be ANY antivirus that will run on this yet.  It includes windows defender for spyware prevention.
11. Putty works but seems a little slow drawing the screen.
12. The just journal amd64 release works fine.
13. Quicktime seems to work.
14. The windows firewall allows traffic to pass for some time before it actually prompts you to block anything.

That program i previously mentioned royally screwed up my system. Someone suggested using GAG on bsdnexus. I'm going to attempt that soon. System Commander 8.21 partially supports vista but its not on their site yet. (just mentioned) 9.0 is supposed to ship soon and that means a rebuy for me unless i find another solution. I just want this damn thing to work. Is that too much to ask?

I attempted to post an ask slashdot piece. Maybe i'll get lucky.

Windows Vista x64 has broken my dual boot setup quite badly.  The FreeBSD/MidnightBSD boot loader screws up vista quite a bit.

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

This program is supposed to allow configuration of the vista bcdedit replacement for boot.ini so you can boot other operating systems.  We shall see what happens.

I've got a level 5 blood elf paly on medivah. Rather interesting area... quite different than the rest of the horde. Not a lot of partying going on.

There are at least 2 patches so far, 159MB + 2.82MB on release day.

$84 to make my wife happy :)

Well Just Journal seems to have some new users over the last few days. 4 users have signe up but at least 2 are trying to exploit the server. :(

Well I've been wondering why I'm booting a PAE kernel. I knew my system fully supported more than 4GB of ram but i have 512MB right now. Come to find out, hardware DEP caused PAE to be enabled.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEdrv.mspx

Hmm.. I've been working on the Just Journal windows client. I decided to drop outlook integration support. Microsoft has removed outlook from most editions of office anyway. It wasn't a lot of code but certainly a limited feature anyway.

I was going through pictures of midnight and i saw this:
http://www.foolishgames.com/luke/pictures/2000/dec23/Midnight/MVC-019S.JPG

I'm actually thinking about using it for midnightbsd.org with the background cut out. I used a filter on the camera with it and i think at low resolution it would look rather artsy.

Where i left off...

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/cvs-src/2006-February/060328.html

I guess happy new year.

Here's a german site I found when I was googling...

http://www.duckula.de/index.php

I found some interesting treasures on YouTube. Count Duckula is out on DVD and a few episodes found their way on You Tue. I also found Hong Kong Phooey.

I finally got my grades.  I've been sweating some of them.  Turns out I ended up with four A's and an E.  I knew the E was coming in math.  I'm rather happy with the other grades and I ended up with a 3.0