I sarque at mixing :(

I'm sitting here devestated after trying to mix up at one fresh DJ set. As it stands now, i sarque cos i been out of the game for a while. Tried mixing both sets and i realised i've lost my touch :(

I was really hoping this would be the weekend i drop a trance mix and a house mix, but i guess not.

However....i refuse to give up on my first love. I shall be back! And when i return, two new mixes from Gigitsu (formerly D-Livid). Its by time i resurrected the aSyLuM!. Still, my old mixes are good. Just a little stale.

One last thing. Is there NOBODY out there who wants to go collab on a couple trance and house traxx? I'm overworked and underpaid (as one is) and i really want to work on something in my free time i do have. Ideas are sorta there but like i said, im totally out of it at the moment. Help?!

Windows 7, mmmmm. (I'm not a traitor, i swear!)

I'm not a traitor. I bashed Vista at every opportunity. It was like that geeky kid at school that tries too hard to be "one of the group" and ends up embarassing himself. Getting picked on constantly because he thinks he's "cool", but really, you're a dumbfuck. Thats how i felt about Vista. I've had more than my fair share of insults and rantings about Vista. Yet, i've always refused to touch the OS. After my XP SP2 went sour, i got onto Linux which turned out to be great, but lacked a couple of things i needed. But thats another story, and the bottom line is i came crawling back to the hate/love relationship with XP (now on my SP3). Vista had turned out to be worse, so i avoided it like the plague. I have used it though (i can count on one hand the amount of times) but only to help out a n00b getting a network set up or something.

But i think i might change my mind about Windows now that i've managed to get 7 up and running. My experience so far has been suprisingly easy and smooth. Although MS said you need a minimum of 1GB RAM, i made a virtual machine with 700MB RAM, 32MB Video, and a 17GB virtual hard drive. Amazingly, the OS installed flawlessly on the first run and i havent had a problem since then. Although i only use it now and again, im still not confident enough to install on my actual laptop. But i am contemplating......I have a "lab rat" on the sofa with about 512MB RAM (apparently enough to get the OS working. *shock*) and everything else i need to get 7 up and running. Its tempting. The only thing holding me back is the shoddy DVD drive which might deny me access.

First thing i noticed was the KDE like taskbar. When i got into using it, i actually relized its more of a cross between the KDE taskbar and the dock in OS X. Funny, but a nice touch. Windows did need something a little different in that area i think. Mac and Linux have docks and Windows was still playing with the tabbed sorta taskbar? But so far the OS seems to run smoothly, even on a virtual machine. If my lab rat decides to behave so i can install the OS as a host, we'll see what its really all about. I think i can see the beginning of a new friendship :)

Screenshots so far (only 2 for now sorry. more soon when i got time)

Microsoft.....smart smart smart (i'm not a traitor!)

Windows 7. That's all i can say. Ever since i heard about this about a year ago, I've been curious to find out what it would be like. And now, i have. Thanks to microsoft releasing a Beta version last week, i decided it was time i went and got a copy for myself so i can get a first hand look at what its all about. Originally limited to 2.5 million downloads by Microsoft, i tried to be one of the first to get it by staying on the Microsoft site on the release date. I got bored and gave up, but i was lucky, and somewhat pleased when i found out the limit had been removed, due to the amount of downloads and people wanting to try it.

Honestly, i find this very cunning on Microsofts part. As far as i know, this is the first time Microsoft has released a Beta version of Windows to the general public. But i see what's going on here. Oh yeah. Windows Vista, terrible. I'm sure they recieved many many complaints about Vista. And why not? The OS did suck (poor english, sorry). In some circles, people are even comparing Vista and 7 to the Me and 2000/XP. Why? Windows Me was a huge flop. I bet half of you never even heard of it, right? I almost got it but i stuck with 98 (back in the day). Some say, Me was a test. Wherever Me failed, Microsoft would make a not and fix it. I reckon thats the reason XP is still going strong. In the same sense, i have heard of Vista being referred to as another "test". It was to prepare for Windows 7, but this brings me to my next point.

Lets take Linux for example. There's so many free distros out there and the plus side is that the support for them is excellent. Maybe they do lack in terms of hardware support, but Ubuntu has built a community to aid anyone having problems with the system. Join a tech support chatroom, or post a topic in the forums stating your issue, and someone will reply with a solution (not always the case but i have always fixed my system this way). There are also Beta versions of Linux, and these help with the final product. Any glitches are reported by the users, and the developers make sure they are ironed out and fixed by the time the final version is released. Do you see the plot coming together now?

Release a free Beta, let the people try it, they can complain (because its a beta), make note of their issues, fix them, release the final retail version and it should do fine with most of the problems fixed, right?

Smart!