Towards Mecca

As some of you may already know, Osama had some problems running Steam under Windows Vista.  He was frustrated and gave up on fixing it. I went over to his house a couple of nights ago and decided to take a look at this Steam problem. I use XP myself and haven’t experienced any problems with Steam before. After doing research on Google, a little experimenting and gulping down some tasty macaroons his wife made, I am happy to say I was able to solve his Steam problem. =)

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If you haven’t already done so, pick up the new SPORE Creature Creature now! My wife and I did yesterday and we’ve been having fun making cute cuddly creatures since! Not impressed you say? You don’t know what the big deal is all about? Well you’ve come to the right place! Read on and you’ll see why this Creature Creator is unlike and character creator you’ve ever seen in a game before!

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Haven’t you always wanted to be on the pages of the Guinness Book of World Records? Well here’s your chance! Download the latest version of the Firefox internet browser and you’ll not only get the best internet browser out there (screw IE), but you’ll also possibly make it on the pages of the Guinness Book of World Records! And did I mention it’s free? Sounds like a win-win situation to me!

I know this is a silly reason to make a blog post but I was so happy with the MSN avatar my friend Hugo made for me that I just had to show it off!

Anyway, check out his DeviantArt page! He really is a talented guy!

Apparently, the next firmware update (2.20) is going to see improvements to the PS3 Browser’s page loading times! Also, for all of us who wanted to save certain files onto our console but weren’t able to from the browser, this issue will be resolved too!

As I had stated in a previous post, the PS3’s browser had really let me down. Hopefully this will elevate it to the level of being usable! I would have also liked to see an upgrade to the newest version of flash so that I can watch trailers on gametrailers.com. Who knows, maybe it’ll be part of the next update?

I don’t get it. A console that’s more powerful than most computers out there can’t handle browsing? How is it that the PS3 browser can run out of system memory if I have more than a few webpages open at once? What friggin sense does that make?

Many sites, like digg.com, don’t even work. As soon as I go on the site, it just loads a white page replacing it. No copy/paste feature? That should be unheard of! You can’t even select text! And how come it doesn’t already come with the most recent version of flash. I can watch Youtube videos but I can’t see anything on gametrailers.com.

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Yesterday, a friend of mine gave me an old laptop because I’m too cheap to buy a new one. It’s a Dell Inspiron 2500, a celeron computer that was struggling with the Windows XP OS installed on it. The first thing I did was, of course, format the computer and reinstall XP on it. It gave it a little boost but nothing to write a blog about.

Then, while chatting online with another friend, I explained my predicament to him. He suggested I install Ubuntu on the laptop. Now I’ve heard about Ubuntu before and many a friend and co-worker has tried to convert me to linuxism. Although I love the idea of free open-source software, I wasn’t thrilled that many of my programs won’t even work. Still, with the laptop the way it was running with XP, no programs were working on it so I decided to take the plunge.

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Honestly, if you hire someone for a technical support position, shouldn’t you make sure they know about the product they’re supposed to be supporting? I worked as a technical support agent in the past, so I do know it’s a hard job. I appreciate that most of your clients are old techno-phobic half-blind dumb people who would need instructions to plug in a power cord. I appreciate that, but that is not me.

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