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Pondering..

The computer I have was a gift from my family, an eMachine that had 512mb of RAM, a 106GB harddrive and a few other cut-rate inside parts.

The sound card on the first one was terrible and didn't work at all, and Best Buy exchanged computers for a working soundcard.

Anyways, it only took about 5 months to totally fill up that hard drive, and that was all from torrenting. So there isn't much on my computer save for music, so I bought a new hard drive. A 650GB external Western Digital drive.

After one day at my boyfriends it was totally filled up with videos of all sorts, and has about 30 gigs for a nightly backup that I do with SyncBack. I only sync the important things, like music and text files, amongst some of my applications like Photoshop (which I need to upgrade).

But now I'm faced with even more difficulty.
After my boyfriends sister bought a new laptop that was more powerful than HIS computer, I'm left wondering if I should invest in a new hard drive, or if I should buy a laptop. The price comparison is obviously about $500. But do I want 1TB of hard drive space, or a laptop that can run Warcraft, Word, Internet and Photoshop on the go?

I'm not sure, because I rarely get out much ANYWAYS, and I already have an Asus EePc. Which I'm selling. Soon. :)

Currently Listening To: Shes Not You - Elvis Presley

A tragic love story: iTunes

I had 100% good intentions buying a first gen iPod touch. It started and ended like a typical high school relationship- full of good intentions, but empties your wallet and breaks your heart.

At least, thats what it did to me. I don't know who was to blame. Was it me for having over 20 gigs of music and iTunes shitting its pants every time I opened it up?
Was it because I wasn't safely ejecting the iPod every time I was done syncing?
Was it because I let the iPod die every time and then binge-charge it?

The Apple store didn't know, and props to them for having such a nice system of repairing and dealing with problems. Just making an appointment online and going into the store so you can be humiliated with their uber-simple ways of fixing common iPod/Mac problems, but it still didn't fix the impending doom that was iTunes when I got home, so thusly, it was all for shit.

Anyways, iTunes rapes my computer if I hint at it being open. If I want to play Warcraft and listen to music, GLHF. Winamp wasn't working too well either, and it has a hard time handling my music collection too, I think.

Then, my father, in all of his fatherly-wisdom *barged* into my room and suggested that I check out a cool new music player called SongBird, which is an open source and fairly lightweight music player.
Awesome is one word to describe it.

My boyfriend apparently had problems with it crashing, and I think its because he has 3x the amount of music I do, spanned over 2 Hard drives. I haven't had any lag problems at all, and when playing WoW the quality never decreases.

Some of the other cool features it includes are:
*Firefox style Addons
*Built in browser
*Last.FM is built into the player itself (no need to download the last.fm program, now)
*Music suggestions

Not-so cool features:
*Dosen't support iPod touch or iPhone

Whoops, say what?
Yeah, its annoying. And I'm hoping their developers come out with THAT add-on, but for now I'
ll just use iTunes when I need to sync, its not too big of an issue, but very out-dated if this program wants to maintain a cool, hip indie status.
Although, those cool, hip indie kids could never be caught with such a conformist device such as the iPod touch.

Listening To: Forgive Me - Infected Mushroom

Facebook, Myspace, Youtube vs. School Security.

To start this out, I was at my boyfriends house today while he was doing a raid in WoW. He was lagging SO badly that I went upstairs to his sister and asked if she could turn her torrents down, because I just showed her how to use BitTorent and now she has an anthology of rap music and videos to rival most of the girls her age. Anyways, I asked her to turn them down, showed her how and then realized her laptop was suffering some major laggage too, and kept crashing randomly while I was attempting to cap her download speed (We QoS'd her after he was done playing). So, I ran NoD32 to see what the problem was:

A trojan from everyones favorite site, Facebook.

How? She searched for something using Facebooks search function, *apparently*, and after that everything started to go down hill because of it. I think she may have clicked on a bad link and DL'd something, but she won't admit/can't remember.

The problem is taken care of now, obviously, but it made me much more cautious to how I advise people to browse websites. I don't use linux anymore, and so I too need to watch my link-clickage. I have a fucking amazing anti-virus, NOD32, but not everyone may have that, and moveover, not all schools have it. Moving on to my next point..

I'm currently attending a Charter school that is in its very first year. Here are the implications:

*No wireless in the school at all except from the church its sharing space with, which isn't secure.

*Said wireless was used by every teacher for the first 2 months, untill the Church complained and then realized that all the information was being viewed by *some* 3rd party.

*Their using the old version of Internet Explorer, which has tons of security flaws. (All the school information is stored on some server, and their using IE to access it.)

*There is NO antivirus running on ANY computer.

*There is no fliter to what content students can see. I went to some pretty flagged sites, like Meat Spin and nope.. Not blocked. (I left it up on the computer screen just to let everyone know it was there, after I had left.)

*Facebook, Myspace, Youtube and other sites of MAJOR procrastination are not blocked.

I've told my director thousands of times that I can fix the problem in less than a day, I could get every computer running linux, a wireless network set up AND amazing anti-virus software done in a 24 hour period on the weekend.
She won't listen, apparently we have some "guy" from the "CIA" doing our networking, except.. Hes not doing anything at all. I've seen him once and he did nothing.

I'm going to try and talk to her again for various reasons, mainly this could be a major break for me if I could do it because of the trial and error factor, plus the experience AND the reference because I'd technically be "working" for them, just not for pay.

Manifesto!

New Years resolutions usually leave people feeling more frustrated and depressed with themselves because they tend to set outrageous standards that they can rarely meet for various reasons; lack of planning, not enough money, too vague, etc etc. Mine have followed a similar suit, and this year as the New Year came and went, I figured it would be a good idea to set one I could achieve through means of my own.

Thus, spawned this blog.

My resolution was to become better versed in the technical world of computers, the internet and the other strings attached to those two; and ultimately to build my own computer when I have enough money and research to create a powerful machine of.. computery-goodness.

First Post, Test Post.

This is a first post and a test post to see how certain fonts look and maybe change the colors of the blog around.