Brian Ortiz

Well since everyone and their mother is blogging about how horrible it is…

It’s a commercial about nothing. Like Seinfeld. Why doesn’t anyone get that?

Well technically it was a poorly written driver, but anyway…

I got my computer in the mail finally on Friday. I got it all put together, which was uneventful except for my discovery of the ATX2 PSU. It’s the kind where the big plug leaves four pins of the socket open for a separate connector. At first, my heart sank because I thought I got the wrong PSU. Luckily my dad was there to embarrass/impress me by plugging it in.

After it was together, to my dismay, Windows refused to boot. Even to safe mode. All I got was a microsecond BSOD and a reboot. This was followed by about 12 hours straight of fiddling with different things, trying to avoid having to do a clean install, in addition to 6 hours the following day.

Nothing about the whole stressful ordeal is worth noting, so long story short, I reinstalled Windows to find that my computer would boot, but I got a BSOD within minutes of logging in. My friend Mr. Google helped my discover that a driver was disagreeing with Windows’ Data Execution Prevention. So I just disabled it and Windows ran fine.

So yeah, dual-core is pretty awesome. I can do stuff so much faster now. For example, I can Alt-Tab from games nearly instantly instead of waiting forever for Windows to wake up.

Yay me!

Every now and then you come across an app that totally blows you away and you wonder how you got by without it. This is one of those apps.

Basically, it lets you rearrange the programs on the Windows taskbar. Since I like to keep my programs in the same order on the taskbar for productivity reasons, I don’t have to curse every time a program crashes and the order gets messed up.