Santa Gamer PenguinMicrosoft doesn't want me to know the correct time apparently, now that I'm using Ubuntu a lot more. Every time I use Ubuntu for an extended period of time, and then I boot up Windows, the clock is off by quite a bit. The minutes are right, but the hours are a tad off... just now it was saying it was just past Midnight. The date was right though.

Anyways, I just formated my Vista/XP harddrive and reinstalled just Vista on it. I hardley used XP anymore, so I'm like, let's just get rid of that and get more harddrive space. I was running low on my Vista partition and was actually storing files on the XP partition because of it.

Anyways, reinstalled Vista, and got most of my applications installed. Haven't installed my games yet, because I was thinking that they were the ones hogging up my harddrive. Right now I'm using 82 GBs of space, with no games installed... something is defintely hogging my harddrive space. So I checked it out. I do have a few programs that hog HD space, like Adobe CS3, but not too many so I was curious. I do have my music, folders, and documents copied over too, but that's under ten GBs together.

Anyways, here's my results folders from greatest to least:

  1. Windows folder at 22.5 GBs. Good job Microsoft.
  2. Users folder at 18.2 GBs. I have a few other things in there too like my websites are actually over 5 GBs.
  3. Files not in any folders: stuff like the page file and hybernation file. This comes to 10.1 GBs.
  4. My two Program Files folders (i have a 64bit version of Vista so I get two folders :P) comes up to 8 GBs. Then the rest isnt' important.

Under my users folder, there is a hidden folder named AppData that is over a GB. Has a bunch of Temporary files. Maybe if I cleared my Temporary files it would be cleaner.

Yes Vista is a hog, but I still like it because I didn't have to download one driver from the manufactuers website, or use a CD. Moving on to my Linux adventure!

I've been using Ubuntu now for awhile and loving it. I installed VirtualBox in it, and put XP inside of that, along with some other Linux distributions. VirtualBox is just a virtual machine, that allows you to install different operating systems within an operating system.

Had some fun with DreamLinux, but then relized that I hated it. PCBSD was fun, but X kept crashing on me. That's linux mambo jumbo for graphical interface, kinda sorta. So quickly dismissed that. PCLinuxOS is a pretty good distibution. I'm going to play with it some more.

But I wanted XP in there for a few reasons. I got Starcraft installed in there, and it runs nice. The only thing is that my sound is a little scratchy in Virtualbox.

Hey, a seamless transition into games for linux! Not anymore I guess. I've been testing out some free games for linux. All I have to say is this: I've been spoiled by playing commercial games. I don't know. Why I play a First Person Shooter, I expect decent graphics. But hey, the games are free. So can't really complain.

I just wanted to let you know that I'm spoiled because I've played games like Unreal Tournament 2004 and 3, Resistance and Resistance 2, and other games of the like. So I'm used to great graphics, and at least a scenerio to play through on single player. Basically what you'll find on Linux are Doom 3 mods basically.

Speaking of Unreal Tournament 2004, I got that installed on Ubuntu. That was interesting to do. I have the Unreal Anthology, which doesn't have a Linux installer on it. So I had to go online and find a guide on how to install it. Found one, and followed it. Basically you had get all the .cab files, and have them installed by a little program called unshield. So I followed the guide, and tried to run the game, and it didn't work. A guy had posted a shell script that does all the steps that the guide did. So I deleted all my work, and downloaded the script and ran it. Worked like a charm (actually better). One thing is I do not have sound for some odd reason.

So guess what I learned? I'll probably have a windows partition forever for my precious video games... and Adobe CS3. But I do use Ubuntu quite often. I'll continue to experiment with games on it though. I'll let you know how that turns out.

I haven't talked about my Television viewing habits with you lately. I have very strange habits for a college student. For instance, I like a lot of cartoons. I generally watch Cartoon Network, or nickelodeon on the weekends for the lack of anyting good on. The Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy is a great show, and I can't believe that it's on Cartoon Network. It's borderline Adult Swim. But a funny show none-the-less. I was watching a Christmas episode of it where they go to the North Pole to prove that Santa does exist to Mandy... and find that he was turned into a vampire. Good times.

Then there's Total Drama Island. I didn't want to watch it because of the name. But my friend, who has similar viewing habits when it comes to cartoons, told me that it was pretty funny. So I started watching and actually got hooked. They had a marathon on one weekend and I just watched all the episodes. It's one of two shows that Cartoon Network has to put a "Warning Teen rating" screen up for. Really funny stuff. It makes fun of reality TV shows, so I'm in on that. Hate reality TV.

Then there's Fairly Odd Parents. I don't know. I just like it. It's mindless ten year old humor. Good times.

Time to put on my grown up pants. Let me tell you what's on my DVR and what will be on my DVR. For this fall, I've been recording Supernatural every Thursday. Season 4 is awsome so far. I mean angels have entered the demon infested world. Good times. And Bobby has a panic room! This December they are taking a break from airing new episodes, but they'll be back in January.

Then I DVRed Dexter every Sunday night. Season 3 just finished actually so my Sundays are clear. I love that show. A serial killer who kills serial killers. Then the writing and the acting are just spectacular. The show has so many twists and turns and it all just comes together at the end of the season. I can't wait until next season already.

I started watching a little show called Leverage. If you liked any of the Ocean's movies, then you'll like this. It's about a good guy, who leads a team of theifs to con evil companies, for a good reason. It's interesting. It has a very Ocean feeling to it. I can't explain it very well, but it's good. I'll continue recording this.

Then there is a show called Dollhouse. Don't know if you heard of this one. All i know is that it has the writer/director from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog. It should be good. I used to know what it will be about. It's about these people who are called Actives, or Dolls who have their memory and personalities wiped and have their minds reformated to whatever they need to be at a certain time, for instance if they get hired for a crime. When their minds are in the wiped state, they are in a child like state, and live in the secret Dollhouse. The story follows on of these Dolls named Echo, who becomes selfaware. It sounds interesting so I'm going to give it a chance this February.

Then there's shows I didn't DVR, but will see when on DVD, or will watch on TV if I see it. There's Frank TV. Great sketch comedy show, because Frank Caliendo is really good at doing impressions of celebrities, including George Bush, Sean Connery, and the list goes on. I try to watch it if I see it's on TV.

Then there's House. I haven't been watching it this season, but I've seen two episodes and they were good so far. I will buy this one on DVD.

I kept forgetting to record Heroes. I recorded the first episode of season 3, and it was good, but I keep forgetting to record it. So I'll have to buy on DVD.

I'm thinking I'm going to be getting Burn Notice on DVD this Christmas so I'm looking forward to that.

That basically sums it up for this fall. I'm pretty boring. Anything is better than MTV. In high school I tried to watch MTV, and then I shot myself in the foot... not really but MTV sucks. It's basically crappyly made crap if you haven't watched MTV in awhile. They literally don't have any music on the channel anymore. I remember I used to watch music videos in the morning before school, and then my Junior year there wasn't anymore music videos. So I don't know why they keep the name. They should just call it Crap. Not even CrapTV. That would be false advertising because it's not TV. It's just crap. Shows like Next and Parental Advisory are just crappy reality shows that are crapily scripted and crapily acted. Watch a show once. You can tell that it's being acted out by crappy actors. You will not see these people hit the big times.

Now you look what you made me do. You made me rant about MTV, and that's just not healthy. I'm going to make a new paragraph because this one has been tainted too.

Anyways, I probably won't post before the end of the year again.

So I'm going to wish a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.