16 November, 2009
Love From The Other Side Of The World @00:19
:) Received it a couple of days ago and I've never been this excited. This has got to be the best birthday ever. <3
No time for much celebration (although Saturday was fun!) cuz I'm mugging for exams now, which are starting in a week. Strangely I'm not really all that stressed out, and have been following the schedule I drew up pretty closely. Which is good. But I'm still worried about a couple of my subjects, especially one of my core modules. Then again I'm in a pretty comfortable situation now because no matter how well I do I can't bring my GPA high enough to get first class honours, but I don't have to worry about dropping off second uppers either. So I'm safe, unless I do astronomically badly, which I won't. I hope. We'll keep our fingers crossed, shall we?
In other news, I spent yesterday afternoon upgrading Vista to Windows 7 and it's probably the best thing I've done for my computer so far. I was pretty worried at first because my attempts to tweak things on my computer have often backfired. If it ain't broke don't fix it and all that you know? But the upgrade was painless, and Windows 7 is really fast. It makes my 2 year old laptop feel like new! I'm even using the Aero theme with all the bells and whistles and it runs like a dream (most of the time). I mean, things still hang and crash but after being a Windows user you kind of get used to it. (Hey why am I making excuses? Macs have hung on me too...) Had to deal with task manager hanging on me yesterday for example, and Skype crashing several times, but otherwise everything else is good.
I mean it's the little things that keep me happy. Now you can see how good your wireless connectivity is by just looking at the task bar, instead of having to hover your mouse over the icon. Useful for me because the reception in my house isn't very good in certain places, and it's useful to know where I can't get reception. You can also connect/disconnect straight from the little menu that pops out when you click on the connectivity icon, instead of having to open the whole damn thing.
I also like how the Resource Monitor finally shows data transferred in B/sec instead of B/min. Seriously. B/min??? What were they thinking??? Who counts per minute? I kept having to divide by 60 in my head, and that's no mean feat.
I surprised myself by actually liking the new Libraries feature, mainly because it lets you include folders from multiple places and view them from one location, which is nice because I store my videos on an external drive.
The only thing I don't like about upgrading is how my foobar global shortcuts don't work anymore. :( I've come to rely on being able to pause, skip, stop, increase/decrease volume anywhere and anytime I want. I think I can work around it by assigning new shortcut keys (I've been using the windows key for those shortcuts, which conflicts with the new Windows 7 shortcuts, even though I've disabled them).
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