Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Vista!!

So I received my copy of Vista Business the other day from the PowerTogether Campaign by Microsoft. Took me 23 minutes from starting the shutdown process of XP to logging in to Vista after it installed. It looks great, as I expected. VERY stable for all that I have done so far. The only software I had trouble with was Zend Studio. I have ZS 5, and that did not copy the exe over so it wouldn't work. I upgrdaed to 5.5 and everything works fine. The only other thing I found was my sound. Every now and then it needs some inspiration by testing the speakers to get it to play the music. Other than that its been great. Downloads are quite a bit faster than in XP. In my opinion you can never have to big of a download speed.

ROCK ON!

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Yay!

So, Thursday was my last day attending school. YAY!!! So now I just work. Oddly enough that ends me right back at the school only an hour later.

Yesterday I got to train on a FATS system at National Guard. It was.. BADASS!!!! Think of "Duck Hunt" from the Nintendo with the gun. Trade the gun with a M16-A2 Assault Rifle, a big screen and shooting at guys instead of ducks. This system is A LOT more advanced than duck hunt but its very close in the same contents. You shoot things on a screen with a gun. The guns has CO2 hooked up to them so they could function like a normal M16. It was amazing and I want one, or several. This thing is so advanced it even manages your ammo, and when you run out the bolt stays back(like a normal one), you have to pop out the clip put it back in and hit the bolt release and you have a new clip.

Although my back hurts from being in the prone position a lot yesterday it was well worth it.