For symmetry and completeness, I’ll talk a little bit about Ubuntu given that I recently wrote about Windows 7. Ubuntu is very nice! I’m very excited for the next version, 9.10, to come out. Three days from today!

I’m currently running the 64 bit version of Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop (simultaneously with Windows XP and Windows 7). Here’s a screenshot:

One great thing about Ubuntu is that it makes multiple desktops very easy. Windows 7 has quite a few handy tools to navigate around given your single desktop, more so than Ubuntu. Ubuntu, however, gives you multiple desktops:

‘Tis all for now!

Hey all, I’ve been taking some pictures over the course of the semester so far. They’re mainly random pictures of Boston and MIT, from just walking around and such.

Around the beginning of the year, I randomly decided one day to walk the bridge-loop (a path connecting MIT to BU and going around the Charles River). If I recall I was just getting over being sick, which is why I decided not to run the bridge loop. Here are a few nice pics of Boston I took:

Last week was the Head of the Charles crew race. Strangely enough, it was also snowing… pretty early, even for Boston! I took some pictures of the bizarre scene of lots of crew boats on the Charles, with snow simultaneously falling:

Cheers all!

Cheers all,

As you may have heard, Microsoft released Windows 7 yesterday. Because MIT is awesome, IST (Information Services and Technology) had it ready for students to download for free and install the same day. So, taking advantage of this, I upgraded my Windows 7 RC partition to the full-on version, Windows 7 Enterprise. And I have to say, it seems pretty nice so far! Here’s a screenshot of my desktop:

Since I never had Vista, I can’t compare speeds. It does seem to be pretty quick though, it looks as though the OS might be pre-loading or caching certain commonly used programs.

The only hiccup I’ve found was that, immediately after installing, Windows 7 didn’t recognize my graphics card, so I didn’t have Windows Aero and my screen resolution was small. Windows later redirected me to download a graphics driver from nVidia’s website, which worked quite well.

Coming from Windows XP and Ubuntu, one feature I think that’s really cool is the Media Center. You can play music and have a pretty, moving display of your albums in full screen mode. I think it’s pretty knarley:

Although it’s a bit early to say for sure, I think Windows 7 is going to be a success.

See you later!

I realized just now that I have a lot to blog about it, and I haven’t written anything in a while. But I don’t have a lot of time right now though! I have a 6-10 page, single-spaced LaTeX project proposal due tomorrow for 6.142 tomorrow, as well as a 6.041 pset due tomorrow, of which I have done very little so far. Such is MIT!

Here are some blog entries I’ll write  soon:

• Computer adventures – first steps in putting my server, electron-monkey, on my wall (and having it still work!)
• Computer adventures – getting a free laptop, and trying (unsuccessfully) to fix the keyboard
• Walking around Boston (the bridge loop) – took some neat pictures
• Pictures of Head of the Charles, during the snow…!
• Doing fun stuff, like going to Next Formal

Cheers!

Some random thoughts:

• A lot can change in a week
• Catching the flu sucks
• Cheerios are tasty, and so is coconut cake