Bullshit and Chips

Chips: Randomness

This is the funniest thing ive ever done, just randomly shout out words with my freinds, as pointless as it may be, its a good laugh.

I came out with exhillerated seismology, something which sounds fun lol.

Mike wasnt very good at it.

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06:42 - Friday, March 21, 2008 - comments {0} - post comment

This should have been done long ago and on a video but i cant be bothered so bollox to it.

Vista is M$'s newest operating system, judging by the fact that XP was a great OS and almost everybody with a PC had XP or MAC i had my standards held high for Vista. I'm not a power user of XP or Vista although i have tweaked my XP into submission with new looks, registry tweaks and a few downloads. Including a Vista skin. This brings me nicely onto round one: Looks:

Ill be comparing XP with Vista and maybe a surprise at the end. Read on to find that out. Anyway, round 1:
Since i have a Vista skin, it is by no means a bad looking OS, Aero theme is nice. Although there are many many insults saying it is the same as the Aqua theme from MAC, Aero is nice, it can be coloured any colour you wish, as transparent as you wish and for Vista, well it is about time we had some MAC similarities. Vista icons all look great, they are crisp, clean and precise. They can be changed easily even if you are "technoslow" and arent great with computers. Unfortunately without some knowledge or a program like TuneUp utilities the shortcut arrow will stick in the way and make Vista look bad. The new start button looks nice, the Vista logo which changes when highlighted and again when clicked. It looks glossy and somehow well thought. The taskbar buttons also looks much nicer than in XP, they indent properly, change to blue when highlighted and glow yellow when the window changes and wants to grab your attention with all the subtlety of a tank in a library. The new start menu looks... new. instead of columns expanding over your whole desktop, it stays in the quick access panel of recently used programs. The text is far too small on 1440X900 pixels and is very hard to read and the expansion of something makes the whole menu very confusing. Round one to Vista because its much better looking in the most part over XP.

Round 2: Features. As you may well expect Vista goes into this round with a shotgun and a case of bullets. Vista has many new features, some of which are useful, some of which are craptacular. First off is the speach reconition. This is not new but it is actually quite clever. Usually you would have to speak in an american accent to get the correct words to go on screen and this is true with a stock version of Vista. However there is a handy feature which allows you to calibrate the voice recognition to meet your microphone and accent. Very good feature that is, and it works... Another nice feature is the side bar, it has a good clock which can be changed, calculator, resource monitor and a few other bits n pieces. Unfortunately it takes up quite a lot of resources itself. It offers enough features to keep this resource need not much of a problem. If you use the features, go nuts, if u dont then turn them off. performance boost for free basically. enough useful features, heres a bad feature or 10: Biggest feature of this category would be compatibility. Everything was incompatible with Vista when it was new, requiring more money to be spent to either get XP or a new software kit. More users went to MAC aswell. This causes many problems, more so by the fact its doesnnt run anything properly after UAC is enabled. The stupid "Cancel or Allow" box that takes a terrabyte of ram and a terrahertz 16-core processor to make smooth. it just gets in the way all the time and doesnt stop viruses at all. pointless really. This round goes to XP for now since everything you need is there and everything works with it. Must be shotgun-proof.

Round 3: Performance. Short round, Vista requires 4Gb of ram to run completely smooth in balls to the walls mode. At full boar Vista can eat 2Gb of RAM and run slowly, everything assaults the processor with nuclear weapons and no second thought. Idle, Vista Home Premium with Aero and sidebar eats 50%+ of 2Gb ram, this is terrible. XP ran on 128Mb smoothly, 98 ran smooth on 32Mb of ram! Vista's minimum is 512Mb, while most PC's have this today, it will only run Home Basic. Essentially no better than XP with a Vista skin. I hate the way Vista takes up this much RAM, it means games that run fine on XP will alg like hell on Vista, considering Vista was designed to be a step forward and it took 5 years to reach us, i expected more features, more stuff, more everything and taking less maybe the same RAM, i know MAC OSX needs 512Mb to run, but thats smooth and collected. Plus it has no RAM cap. Vista has 4Gb cap and XP i believe was 3 at first. If Vista had no RAM cap, took up less RAM idle, needed less HDD space and was more compatible then it would just be great, better than MAC. But it doesnt. Vista was close to being a massive operating system. Something Bill Gates would be proud of. Sadly it isnt. I wanted to like Vista, i wanted it to be better than XP with none of the drawbacks. If M$ tried that bit harder, reduced the RAM and HDD consumption then Vista would be amazing, something to rule out MAC. This round goes again to XP

Put short: XP is a hard OS to beat. It has tons of features and needs very few resources. Its modifiable, user friendly and pretty well equipped in terms of protection from viruses. Many programs exist which can be bought and ull be prettymuch sorted from viruses as long as you're careful. Poeple take Vista for granted that its safer, it just isnt. Theres hundreds of viruses for it. Vista is so close to being THE next OS, maybe Windows 7/Vienna will do it for Vista, we shall find out

12:48 - Thursday, February 28, 2008 - comments {0} - post comment

Chips with bonuses!: Winzy!

Winzy for the win! zy. This website rocks, it rewards you for searching stuff on their site, its as easy as google and a lot more fun!

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04:24 - Friday, February 22, 2008 - comments {0} - post comment

Chips: Nokia 6680

I suppose this is a frewell message to my beloved black brick. It died not long ago and i think its about time i did a little write up to say how good this phne has been to me. I got this phone at christmas along with a 2Gb memory card. When i got the phone it worked perfectly, screen was fine, camera slide worked and it was eager to eat my contacts and begin being abused by me lol. Nokia has only done 2 smart phones before this: 6600 and 6630. Both of these in my opinion looked horrible but despite the size of the 6680 i found it strangely attractive. It was set: hi tech phone, big memory card, nimble thumbs and a pc to make it work.

Some problems arose when i had worked in the phone to my lifestyle. First the screen became very dusty and scratched and the case gained scratches and chips faster than Gordon Ramsay can swear. I didnt mind, it was an old phone and didnt really need to look fantasic but i ended up replacing the dull grey case with a smart new black one which within a matter of minutes had a scratch on it and the silver buttons all wore off to reveal a red, blue green and 2 white blobs under them to make the symbol appear the right colour. I was peeved to say the least but the new case only cost £3 so i didnt expect a lot really.

Speed wise the phone was slower than an average phone but it uses a Symbian OS so i wanst expecting lightning fast speeds. It worked at an acceptable rate constantly until the images folder was opened. Along came a 15 second wait with whichever folder i opened within images. I blame this on the horrible Orange firmware which my phone was burdened with. A friend of mine has the same phone flashed back to the Nokia firmware and it opened the folder with 225 pictures in in about 2 seconds. I had 250 images in 3 folders and it took 15 seconds to open the images folder then another 15 seconds to open each subfolder.

The speaker on the phone was very good, not quite loud enough but for the uses i put it through it was sufficient. Unfortunately the phone has Nokia headphones instead of a 3.5mm headphone jack. This means i had to use Nokia's own headphones which can be as hard as hens teeth to find if you want a good pair. There are convertors available but i fail to see much point in these because its is about as expensive as a new pair of headphones which would double the cost thus making it pointless. I dont need to carry headphones around with me if im using my phone as an MP3 player.

Video calling was possible on the 6680 with a 1.3Mp and VGA camera on the front. I never used the feature but am lead to believe it is a good camera in the daylight and not too bad in low light conditions. It was very smooth and didnt lag at all. The cameras were both very good i found. It was very high quality in the daylight and decent at night with the night mode enabled. Many pictures taken in the day come out in almost perfect quality. The VGA front camera was also very good in low light conditions although limited to 640x480 resolution. The pictures come out with a lot of noise in them but for a VGA camera its rather good quality. Soft zoom was used on the main camera with stepped zoom on the VGA. Both zooms were digital.

The battery lasted about 5 days without a lot of use and would last an hour or so in a call. This sounds quite bad but for a worn battery that is 2 years old i dont think its too bad. The battery was mainly consumed by the gallery and MP3, bluetooth and call functions. Since i dont listen to a lot of music it didnt make too much difference to me and i customized the active standby links to make bluetooth readily available. I always kept it turned off and when i went to send something it asked me if i wanted to turn it on which was a very handy feature, keeping my hidden setting to what i set it to. Speaking of navigation, the phone is very very easy to navigate, everything is where you would expect and if any difficulties arise then the pictures are more than enough to let you know which menu contains what.

The Nokia 6680 is a very good phone which can hold its own in this day and age. Its robust, quite stylish for a brick, durable and packed with features. I can highly recommend this phone. A good buy for anybody who needs a cheap media phone with many many features at quick disposable. Congrats Nokia.

11:05 - Friday, February 15, 2008 - comments {1} - post comment

Golden, glistening, deep fried chips: Sony PlayStation 3

It might be a bit late for one right now but frankly i dong give a toss. Enjoy and dont tell me about the mistakes, i know the first hundred or so!

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http://s158.photobucket.com/albums/t114/Predator_722/?action=view&current=PS3_0001.flv

02:51 - Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - comments {0} - post comment

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