Damn Vista

Lately my computers hard drive, all 220GB of it has been filling up. I thought 'hmmm, must be my games' deleted all of them and voila 70GB of free space. I go to sleep happy and wake up the next morning, go on my computer and lo and behold 55 MB of free space. So I was getting really angry at my computer at this point. I deleted my downloads, 1GB, deleted my old work, deleted everything I could find. And yet my space kept on filling up for some reason. So finally I went through EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY FOLDERS looking for what was doing this.... And eventually I found it. This one file was taking up over 110GB of space somehow. My first instinct was to just delete it, but that might have been a bad idea, who knew what it did. So I looked online, and do you know what it was? It was damn Vista's error reports..... Apparently it keeps every single one and stores them somewhere. Apparently nobody thought of putting a max file size so my space was just constantly getting smaller and smaller. I deleted the file and suddenly I am barely using half of the space I have. This was really frustrating as I had just deleted a to of stuff. Well hooray to windows 7.

The Red Ring of Death

If you own an Xbox you know about the infamous 'red ring of death' as it is called. It means that your Xbox is basically screwed up depending on which rings are red. Now I think that is pretty cool, it tells you what is wrong with your Xbox. If the top left ring is red, its one problem, the top left another. Now although this is something you never want to see, I think it is pretty cool that Microsoft managed to fit this into their Xbox. I mean, your computer does not tell you what is wrong, it just says an unexpected error occurred, not even a mac will tell you definitively what he exact error is. In most cases with electronics you call up and try to describe for an hour what exactly is wrong with your computer, and then the tech people come over and tell you it is something else and they have to come over again. With the red ring system all you have to tell the repair men is one easy line, the top left quadrant is flashing.

Gadgets

So there are all of these new gadgets coming out that make life easier in any way you can imagine. However a large portion of these seem to be redundant or useless. But I think people are missing the point. Sure a lot of these new gadgets might not be needed, but that is not the point. Gadgets are there to make life that little bit easier, faster or better. Whether that is your own personal Internet in your pocket or showing your friends where you are with your oyster card.

Doomsday Machine or Doomed Machine?

"Fire the anti-matter guns" goes the cry in many science fiction movies. Are we humans coming close to making this a reality? The Hadron Collider is destined to throw atoms at each other at nearly the speed of light and see what happens. People worry a black hole could open up and destroy the world, in fact a woman killed herself over that worry. This is obviously a doomsday device from an old Bond movie right? Wrong. This machine is the largest and most expensive disaster in human history. It has been plagued by hundreds of errors which set in back years. The latest in a string of disasters was a bird dropping a piece of baguette on the machine. This caused the machine to short out..... A bird... Dropping a baguette. This machine is less likely to be finished before doomsday comes around. Of course another consideration is that it may indeed make black holes. The only problem is they would be too small to suck anything in and stay around for a short amount of time. This is machine is one of the least likely things to cause a doomsday. The stick which led to weapons is a much more likely to cause the end of the world than black holes the size of a thimble.

The Mail system

A lot of people think that the mail system is becoming largely obsolete. I mean what is the point of sending a letter which is expensive and takes a while when you can send a free instant email? The postal service is slow and unreliable, the postman are always on strike for one thing or another so why bother. Movies are available online so why order them? Yet the postal service is still necessary. Everyone always feels excited when you get a letter or a package, much more so than when receiving an email. Also think of a site like an Amazon, they can hardly email you a book or a computer. The postal service is one of the most important parts of society and yet it is always forgotten under a wave of technology.

Modern Warfare 2

This game had the largest of hype of any game since Halo 3 came out. I only got it a couple of days ago but it is definitely worth it. The campaign I have barely started and seemed not too fun. Especially the third level in the airport which sparked huge controversy. You are supposed to slaughter hundreds of innocent people. However the campaign is not what it is known for. The multi player. This is what the real hype is about. The multi player is a far cry better from any previous Call of Duty game, with many new weapons and advantages to be gained. The best 'perk' as it is called is one that allows two attachments on a gun. But I digress. The graphics are fantastic and the physics are perfect. The reactions the enemies have are perfect and they no longer run at you as if they are invincible. Even the grenade will roll back down if you throw them up a hill. Of course there are the annoying factors such as when you are stuck in the middle of a town and 20 enemies are shooting at you and you have to leave cover. But these bad spots are few and far between adding up to a truly superior game worthy for the hype.

Vista

Finally. Windows 7 is coming out on the 22nd of October. I am a vista owner and although there are several problems with it, it is overall, for me at least is fine. It is annoying having to give administrative access to everything sometimes and sometimes you have to do things completely differently on Vista as opposed to other operating systems. It is however, in my opinion, quite easy to use on a day to day basis. So overall although vista is fine I cannot wait to switch to windows 7 as I have read that it is much better.