My OperaHello 2010!
Friday, January 1, 2010 8:20:00 PM
Hello everyone and welcome to 2010!
It's been a while since my last update, so I thought I would post an update.
The past six months have been fairly busy. I was let go from my job in September, but was asked to come back to help the room catch up on behind tickets. Seems that while I was gone, the cue jumped from 600 tickets to around the 800 ticket range. We've been struggling to catch back up ever since.
On the positive side, I was extended twice now to the end of January. They will re-evaluate then for another extension. Since I've been back, and they brought in 2 more techs for new PC builds, we have dropped to around 680 calls. If we keep this up, they won't need me after April (if they keep extending me).
Also, during the last post, I performed round 1 of going through and disposing of known faulty, useless electronic and computer parts. I'm currently contemplating just throwing all the old stuff away as I haven't touched them in a long time and some of the units (notebly my VCR from the USAF)are broken and only being kept for sentimental reasons.
I have also evaluted Linux. Although it's come a long, long way since I last tested it (earlier in the decade). It has a ways to go to grab and hold me. Performance is part. Polishness is another. Currently, on the same hardware, XP still performs better than Linux Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Second, I still can't walk into a Best Buy, or other computer store, and buy software, take it home and install and it just work. XP still wins here too. For the free/opensource games and software that are on both platforms XP still seems to have more options and a little better performance. Example of this? Tux Paint. On XP I can just lauch the configurator, set it to full screen and go. There's a configuration program for Linux, but I can find now way to save the configuration for full screen so I am just limited to a windowed version. Also, without Wine, XP has a few games that aren't available on both platforms whereas it's not the same with Linux going the other way. Again, examples would be: Starport GE, any boxed software, etc. So for the time being, I will keep an eye on Linux and maybe someday it will be polished enough. I can say that if I were just surfing the net, reading mail or listening/watching media, it's ready now. Oh and before I forget, one of my main gripes is the lag time in Adobe Flash and games like Farmville. Fix that 1 problem and 50% of my complaints evaporate.
I don't know when my next post will be, but I hope it's quicker than this last one. I have a lot of cleanup and declutter I'm currently working on and hope to report back that it's all done. I have even been thinking about posting at the conclusion of each section instead of waiting until it's all done.
Here's hoping you have a blessed 2010 and may all your goals be fullfilled.
-T
It's been a while since my last update, so I thought I would post an update.
The past six months have been fairly busy. I was let go from my job in September, but was asked to come back to help the room catch up on behind tickets. Seems that while I was gone, the cue jumped from 600 tickets to around the 800 ticket range. We've been struggling to catch back up ever since.
On the positive side, I was extended twice now to the end of January. They will re-evaluate then for another extension. Since I've been back, and they brought in 2 more techs for new PC builds, we have dropped to around 680 calls. If we keep this up, they won't need me after April (if they keep extending me).
Also, during the last post, I performed round 1 of going through and disposing of known faulty, useless electronic and computer parts. I'm currently contemplating just throwing all the old stuff away as I haven't touched them in a long time and some of the units (notebly my VCR from the USAF)are broken and only being kept for sentimental reasons.
I have also evaluted Linux. Although it's come a long, long way since I last tested it (earlier in the decade). It has a ways to go to grab and hold me. Performance is part. Polishness is another. Currently, on the same hardware, XP still performs better than Linux Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Second, I still can't walk into a Best Buy, or other computer store, and buy software, take it home and install and it just work. XP still wins here too. For the free/opensource games and software that are on both platforms XP still seems to have more options and a little better performance. Example of this? Tux Paint. On XP I can just lauch the configurator, set it to full screen and go. There's a configuration program for Linux, but I can find now way to save the configuration for full screen so I am just limited to a windowed version. Also, without Wine, XP has a few games that aren't available on both platforms whereas it's not the same with Linux going the other way. Again, examples would be: Starport GE, any boxed software, etc. So for the time being, I will keep an eye on Linux and maybe someday it will be polished enough. I can say that if I were just surfing the net, reading mail or listening/watching media, it's ready now. Oh and before I forget, one of my main gripes is the lag time in Adobe Flash and games like Farmville. Fix that 1 problem and 50% of my complaints evaporate.
I don't know when my next post will be, but I hope it's quicker than this last one. I have a lot of cleanup and declutter I'm currently working on and hope to report back that it's all done. I have even been thinking about posting at the conclusion of each section instead of waiting until it's all done.
Here's hoping you have a blessed 2010 and may all your goals be fullfilled.
-T
