OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[SeattleLionsFan]

Seriously? No doubt it's about time.

[-Deborah-]

Yeah I just got it myself!

That and the Slingbox app make me very happy.

[SeattleLionsFan]

There's a slngbox app? I want thereto be a hulu app real bad!

[Coop]

that's been rumored for a while.....

i want the Ultrasn0w 3G unlock..my bro upgraded to a 3gS and is practically giving me his 3G phone...

[Sweatpants Murphy]

While giving consideration to buying an auto GPS system for a long vacation in July, I ran across this tidbit:

GPS System Could Begin To Fail Within a Year

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...in_a_year.html

This may explain why I've been having a lot of trouble with the GPS i use for work. It has been taking a very long time to find satellites for about a week now.

[-Deborah-]

Mine's been working fine - I've been making a lot of trips to Grand Rapids lately.

Coop, did you get the Sirius app? And pay extra for the premium online subscription? I did, it's pretty slick. I'm curious, though, how Sirius talked Apple/AT&T into allowing streaming via cell phone but Slingbox was restricted to WiFi. Not that it matters much to me since I only have a Touch, but still...

[Sweatpants Murphy]

maybe my gps had it's job outsourced to mexico.

[-Deborah-]

You're obviously not using the right GPS:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDaxjEu-Qck"]YouTube - Dave Matthews GPS spoof[/ame]

[Sweatpants Murphy]

yeah mine speaks jamaican to me and says things like "what kinda idiot does dees? turn around de vehicle!"

[CGVT]

[-Deborah-]

That's a nice red x you got there, CG. Links to email attachments don't work. You have to either save the attachment then upload it here or link to an actual web location.

For my fellow geek friends: Windows 7 is available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

[Greg H]

How is Windows 7 as an OS? I'm running Vista and have not experienced any problems. I have not yet decided if I'm going to upgrade to 7.

[CGVT]

That's a nice red x you got there, CG. Links to email attachments don't work. You have to either save the attachment then upload it here or link to an actual web location.

For my fellow geek friends: Windows 7 is available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

Ah, shit. It wasn't that funny anyway...

[Topweasel]

How is Windows 7 as an OS? I'm running Vista and have not experienced any problems. I have not yet decided if I'm going to upgrade to 7.

Snappier and slightly better interface. The start bar and how it interfaces with Superfetch is awesome. For people who have problems with UAC (which i think is a great idea) they have multiple settings including one of them where it only brings up the UAC box the first time you run a program that would normally bring it up. It isn't worlds better but honestly it didn't need to be in the end Vista compares more to Windows 98 then it does Windows Me and this is really just Windows Vista SE.

The one advantage is this is a new kernal that has been in devlopment for 8 years now where Vista was based on the same one as 2000 and XP with the interface they were building up for this. The world was demanding that Microsoft to come up with a new OS microsoft then started porting Longhorn technology over to XP to come up with Vista to act as a bridge. Then everyone got angry and said but XP was perfect.

[Drew]

I was fine with XP, however, I bought Vista with my new computer. It runs fine as well, but I don't need a lot of computing power. Just like to surf a little...that's about it.