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My Windows 7 Review: Take 2

Friday, July 31st, 2009

So everyone has been coming up to me and asking about how is Windows 7. My answer “horrible, not as horrible as Vista.” And I always joke around “Did you know Windows 7 is really Windows 6.1.” It’s true, the 7 is believed to be the build code, which is 7000 in Beta, now its in 7600.16385.090713-1255. And technically, Windows 7 is still sitting on Windows Vista, such a flawed operating system. I would say that I would prefer 7 because it has more stability than Vista. (more…)

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I Can’t Be A Waitress Anymore?

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

In my post from yesterday, everyone has learned that I have upgraded to the newest version of Mac OS, version 10.5, or can simply be known as Leopard. Last night, all of our machines have been upgraded to the new version. We did ran into a few problems with our PowerBook after the installation. It had to do with the Flash plugin object, Quicktime for some reason, was trying to open up all of the Flash objects in Safari. Although Quicktime can read flash objects, it couldn’t load any of the objects so we had to remove the plugins. If this happened to you during the upgrade, simply from Macintosh HD, go to (or copy the following into the Go To Folder (Shift+G+Command) menu) /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ . Then locate the two plugins that begins with “Quicktime” and drag both files to the Disabled Plug-Ins folder and restart Safari or other web browsers.

However, we ran into another problem:
No Diner Dash

My dream of playing Flo in Diner Dash and gaining my waitress levels are over. Because of that Flash incident, we believe, Diner Dash isn’t supported with Leopard because it runs on Flash so there is a no-access symbol over the Diner Dash icon. However, I was able to browse the contents and I found the main program file and opened up right away and I began playing the game right away! I thought that Jen might find this funny, because she believes that I should be a level 8 waitress when I get older. Eventually, it will never happen.

And my dreams of building a 100-floor tower is over…. for sure, according to the symbol over the SimTower icon. Well, I never played the game on a Mac OS X computer before because I didn’t bother installing the Mac OS 9 environment to run the game. And just like the Mac with the Intels, there is no longer support to run version 9 of Mac OS on X because we have outgrown it, besides those classic games like this one. The only computer that can play this game correctly is my old PowerMac G3 which is running on version 9, the computer is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month.

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We’re Now Running Leopard

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

We began upgrading to the newest Mac version of Mac OS, version 10.5, our known as Leopard. Its being installed on most of our Macs this week and will be installed on our necessary machines by the end of the week.
Leopard Screenshot So why there was a one month delayed of installing the new operating system? At WRAJ Internet Radio, we wait at least a month to install a new operating system that was recently released. We wait for the month for stability reports and to be aware of software that we have that might not work with the new operating system.
Leopard runs pretty good, as of know. We installed Leopard on a 12″ PowerBook G4 and runs very well. With the multitasking of Spaces, the computer still runs well with only 4 spaces running. Thankfully, the transparency of the windows and menu bar is not enabled on our PowerPCs computers, which we believed that could of slowed the computer down dynamically. We did notice some loopholes of the OS installer installing Front Row, which is pretty uncessary of being installed because there is no remote control. There are sometimes that the screen turns off on the 12″ PowerBook G4. We believed that its the low memory of the video card, or its something that the Intel Chips can perform better than the PowerPC processor.

We’ll be installing the new OS on a MacPro, the previous iMacs models, and a Mac Mini.
On the Windows side, we are still using Windows XP. I see no chances of going to Vista for most of our systems for a while, because software that we have don’t run on Vista correctly, including our station’s broadcast software.

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