i.justrealized

This is kinda sad:

(Free downgrade to Windows XP Professional Singapore.)

Honestly, I prefer Vista but many people are apparently thinking otherwise. Where’s Mojave Experiment? One, two, three, everyone pronounce - “Mo-har-vay”. Oh, so it’s not “mojo”.

Mojo Jojo.

There was this guy who was skeptical that Windows Mojave is Windows Vista. When told, he calmly (and skeptically) remarked, “then why is it faster?” Windows Vista is not slower, but it is not faster either. It feels faster as much of research on perception is apparently being applied into Vista. Plus, it’s a fast HP computer anyway.

I like the Mojave Experiment, it proves how quickly people accept things without trying first. Mojave is a good marketing move. The rest of Vista marketing is largely a failure.

Microsoft fails to identify the need for people to switch over.

Third day straight in Ubuntu. The lack of oxygen and the familiar ALT-Tab interface made breathing hard. Half the population has already been wiped out and an enemy space ship appeared out of no where to hold some of us hostage, I had to sacrifice my brother to escape being a hostage.

Anyway, Ubuntu turned out okay. Most of my annoyance is due to familiarity with Windows.

• Double clicking on the top-left hand icon did not close my window
• Yeah, I am still pressing the Windows button 7 times in the day and 12 times when I’m blur at night. Each time I do that I feel stupid, it’s like attempting to push open a door that says ‘Pull’. Intelligence minus 10.
• Can’t undo a deletion of file easily through Nautilius
• Whoever told me using Ubuntu is just like Windows hasn’t used either or both of the operating systems.
• Still pressing F6 in Firefox to highlight the awesome location bar
• Pidgin doesn’t yet support custom emoticons. I’m sure Uzyn would call this a feature.
• The default font gives me a headache, I had to change it to Lucida to feel a little better.
• GIMP… Okay, nevermind that already. It already received enough bashing.
• I like the most recently used programs to be display on the start menu. Sure I can always put them on my desktop manually but when you’re talking about a better overall experience, the OS ideally should be able to discover the user preference and suit the user without him or her knowing about it.

Windows does almost everything Ubuntu can do. User-interface-wise Ubuntu is still poorer. I hand Ubuntu to my father to use and he prefers Windows. My father touched neither of them. He like the Windows Teletubby land wallpaper and more attractive icons and also says he likes Windows’ Firefox. He somehow didn’t like the Ubuntu one. It’s the colors somehow and I just let him have Windows XP in the end.

TheUnixGeek compiled a list of salaries of programmers. It’s of course not reflective in Singapore but it’s interesting to do some comparison as always. All salaries are in United States currency.

Programming Languages

• Objective-C: $82,000
• C++: $80,000
• TCL: $80,000
• C#: $79,000
• Java: $79,000
• Python: $78,000
• Perl: $77,000
• Ruby: $74,000
• JavaScript: $72,000
• Delphi: $64,000
• PHP: $64,000
• Visual Basic: $64,000
• C: $60,000

Objective C? Erm… Okay, don’t think we use that a lot in Singapore. And well, I search some additional languages just for fun. COBOL programmers are said to be paid $72,000. ActionScript, an average of $73,000. Lisp people get $77,000. And of course, I can’t help it but to search for FORTRAN, apparently those people are still in demand - $75,000. I used to do FORTRAN for 4 months. I cried every day.

No for loops. (more…)

• @uzyn: Seems like the Macs are taking over. I probably still be sticking with Windows a while longer. A while meaning 3 years. #
• So many people migrated to Plurk? Twitter seems quiet these days… #
• It’s not that Twitter can’t scale, it’s because people like http://twitter.com/dealsgalore are adding everyone in the world… #
• I don’t really log in to Twitter these days and each time I do so I tweet 3 times. Okay, maybe 4. #

I’m using Windows Vista and Windows XP. Enabling cURL (Client URL Library) of PHP is really easy and is a matter of uncommenting something only.

Open your php.ini. I use XAMPP for development, XAMPP’s php.ini can be found in C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini. You can probably find your copy lurking around there if you use XAMPP.

Do a search of ‘curl’ in the php.ini, there’s probably only one.

Uncomment it.

My computer’s a little cranky these days. I can’t pin point to any device that might have been the cause of such faults. I turn on my computer and had this waiting waiting circular mouse cursor telling me to wait. I can’t do a thing even the legendary control-alternate-delete didn’t work.

It went okay after that with everything coming up at the same time. Just two minutes ago, I clicked on Eclipse PHP and it just launch. I thought these things supposed to be instantaneous. Okay, at least near.

But the worst thing is perhaps with random Windows Explorer crashes and Safari crashes. I understand why Safari crashes, the animals probably ran wild but why Explorer. I am beginning to suspect TortoiseSVN or some shell integration software.

I’m thinking of reinstalling my computer now. And I just reinstall it 3 weeks ago. Yes I’m using Windows Vista. Yes I know I know. Get a Mac right? Yeah yeah…

I was testing things out on MOBTV recently and my computer is apparently not compatible. It claims that I have an older version of Windows Media Player.

We have detected an older version of Windows Media Player on your computer which might not be compatible with MOBTV services.

Please click on the link to upgrade it to the latest version of Windows Media Player.

Please click next to proceed to the next check after you have completed the upgrade.

I’m pretty sure I have the latest version - Windows Media Player 11. It came pre-installed with Windows Vista. These are the things that turn people away.

And I hate to see that uppercase the word MOBTV.