Monthly Archive for November, 2009

The future.

Published on November 25, 2009 in in real life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Who knows what the future will be like? I dont’t. And neither do you. In fact, no one does, because the future isn’t yet. No one can know what doesn’t exist.

…Yet, do you ever have this feeling, this feeling that we’re meant for something else? Destined for something bigger? Do you ever lay in bed, wishing you could reach for the stars and actually touch them? Do you ever walk the street, watching other people go about their daily lifes, pondering what your mission in all of this is? Do you ever wake up early in the morning, before the sun has risen, and think to yourself – today I can take on the world? Do you ever have the feeling that our purpose is to change the world?

If you do – you are like us. We call ourselves the BrookfieldLodge society. Would you like to join us?

7 thoughts on 7

Published on November 4, 2009 in computers. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , .

So, I have switched to the long awaited Windows 7 on my laptop. (HP Pavilion tx2020 now running Windows 7 Ultimate.) And what are my first thoughts on this new os?

  1. It seems inherently more stable thant Vista was, at lest when multitasking and running more than 2 programs at once.
  2. However, I have lost fingertip-touch functionality. My touchscreen still works with the sylus, but not with my fingers. My guess is that there is an updated driver from HP releasing soon that will fix this.
  3. My graphics driver is having issues with 7. This was mercilesly fixed by switching to custom Omega drivers. Mind you, they are not made for Windows 7, but they seem to work better than the vendor supplied ones.
  4. The upgrade process from Vista Business to 7 Ultimate took forever. No, really. Forever!
  5. It has some clever new things of organizing, virtual folders and tags for example. Perfect for controlfreaks like me.
  6. It comes with a shiny new taskbar that actually has some real improvements to it: when docking a program icon to the taskbar, it doesn’t require more space when you launchthe program, it simply let’s you know by highlighting the icon that it’s being used. Also, autogrouping and onmouseover previews are handy things.
  7. It gives you more detailed control of the securtiy settings than Vista. Which used to be a pain.

All in all. I like it. Will install this on my girlfriends laptop as well, and when I get a new machine, this shall also be with 7. However, if you have an older pc, like my old laptop, then don’t bother. Stick with XP. If you’re stuck in Vista mode however, it’s worth a switch. Although the switch itself will take forever.