Well, Vodori Inc, the company that I have co-founded with 3 very close friends is in full swing. We are now about 7 months into our venture and things are really starting to pick up. It is very exciting. We are fortunate to have an awesome client right now who are an absolute pleasure to work with. We will be developing an online catering system for customers to place orders for food over the web. It's really an exciting project.
With all the excitement about our current clients and future prospects, we decided we should all go out for some fun since we've been working hard for the last 7 months and needed a way to celebrate the success we have had thus far. Here are some of the picture highlights from the night out:
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I recently installed the 64-bit edition of Microsoft's latest OS, Vista. I thought I'd share some of my findings thus far. My system spec is as follows: AMD Athlon 4800+ X2, 2 gigs ram, Creative X-FI, Seagate Cheetah X15.3 SCSI drive, Geforce 7800GTX 256MB.
- UAC is annoying as HELL. I turned it off (thank god I can do that). I can’t even copy files from one folder to another with 2 security dialog boxes appearing first. WHAT?!
- No sound. Sucks
- Installed latest nVidia display drivers which helped. I noticed that certain graphic display elements are a little slow (especially when things move in the start bar)
- Search works really well. I feel like I’m using Spotlight for the mac (integrates with office 2007 as well which is sweet)
- The organization of the configuration of the OS seems to be pretty scattered. In other words, I feel like I have to click through quite a few pages, tabs, all over the OS to fine tune it the way I want.. They seem to bury a lot of choices so most people won’t find em. (Is this usability? No.)
- Speed-wise, it seems not too shabby for a beta OS. Definitely little slower than XP.
- I cannot figure out how to restart Vista when connected via remote desktop. The only thing I can seem to do is log out or lock the PC. So if I am in the other room and have to reboot my box, I have to walk to the physical machine, login, and restart it
- The performance monitor in Vista is AWESOME. It shows all the processes broken down into those which use the most CPU/ram/disk.. so I can quickly see which apps have been hitting my disk the most, which are reading/writing from the network the most, etc etc. It’s the best system monitor I’ve seen on any OS yet.
- Why the heck are my desktop icons so freakin big? It’s annoying. I hate big icons
- I’m having trouble getting used to the new explorer and it’s sorting. There is no “list” view anymore. The sorting of files is done in 2 columns and instead of 5 sequential files listed one after another, they alternate between 2 columns in the list. Highly annoying.
- I have Outlook 2007, firefox, AIM, Yahoo, and uTorrent open and I am at 1.8 gigs of ram used. WTF. How am I supposed to even open IntelliJ or run any kind of services like a database or application server on this?
- X-FI doesn't work so tried Audigy 2. Suprise, that doesn’t work either. Creative REALLY sucks.
- I have “My Documents” folder on another drive other than my C drive. I can’t find a way to change the default location to the new one.
- Somehow my speedy OCZ 2 gig USB key doesn’t meet the minimum requirements for using the new “ReadyDrive” feature where it caches things on your USB sticks? This key is one of the fastest out there. Not sure what’s up with that.
- I’ve used 22 gigabytes on my C drive and I’ve only installed Vista/Firefox/Office 2007 Beta 2
Seriously, I just don't understand why the JBOSS folks take everything SOOO personally. If anyone uses a product other than one of the many they offer in their stack, they start going on the offensive…
Latest battle brewing here:
http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/000670.html#comments
It’s funny that the whole thing started by a blog post by an Atlassian employee (Spring user – making of JIRA and Confluence.. Great company)
I just can’t believe how arrogant some of the JBOSS folks are. It really makes me NOT want to use any of their stacks. Even their answers to questions in the hibernate forums tell their users to essentially f-ck off. I just can’t believe it. A link to that particular post is linked in the comments section above.
When you hear of Open Source database companies working together for the greater goodness of the community (Postgres/MySQL sharing vulnerability info), you really respect both companies. JBOSS on the other hand will NEVER ever compliment another team's work.
The NVIDIA GeForce 7950GX2 card launches today which is a 2-GPU single card design…This thing is a beast and will cost an arm and leg!
Check out the review here
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