Krewz71’s Consolidated Info Blog

As an update to my previous post on installing the Windows 7 Beta on the old laptop. I have to say that using as a simple web browser and other simple tasks is just fine.

The only difference between the old laptop and a newer machine is the graphics as far as I can tell. In this case I lose the glass effects and the preview pop up on task bar items. This is no big deal if you have more than one web page open rather than a preview of the page popping up you just get the text description.

I have had a few crashes but that seemed to be with the wifi card driver. That was uninstalled and then reinstalled. This looks to be resolved now.

The new RC 1 version has some other nice features. More to post.

So I now had this old Satellite Toshiba laptop, P4 mobile with 40GB hard drive and 750MB RAM.  Now the drive needed to be wiped out anyway so I decided to install Windows 7 Beta 32 bit edition.  I have to say that the install was smooth, and took about 35 minutes from start to finish.  There appear to be a couple of driver issues but nothing that is affecting the performance of the system.

In fact I am very impressed in how fast the machine is working with a standard install, but no other real software installed .

I have needed to switch the IE8 compatibility mode on to enable WordPress to appear.

Overall impressed with performance.

Just saw the news today in regards to the Windows 7 Beta RC. Microsoft is either pushing for a Vista upgrade or a clean install. Of course both arebest suited for testing in the real world environment. Upgrading from the current official beta to the RC may have it’s own problems. However, I am not sure that I want to go throughand re-install everything again and setup networks and especially iTunes with an iPhone. Will need to think about this. I did see that there is an edit you can do to the installation files to get around this. I may take that option. I love Windows 7 so that is my primary operating system at present so I do not want to give it up.

If it was not for the fact that my iPhone will then have a fit being synchronized to a new computer I would not be worried. I need to look around the net and find a solution for this problem so do not lose music, apps, playlists etc.

Started playing the game. First impressions is fantastic. Great firefights and intense action. Looking forward to playing a lot more on the game.

I know that I am late to the party on this one but as soon as I have some more game time under my belt I’ll hit the I online action.

I would normally have bought this one but it came out with so many other games I had to pick and choose. This was on my rent list of games and I may just keep it.

The following link is a product that I have been working on and was recently launched.

http://www.globewireless.com/globemobile.php

Also the full press release can be read here

http://www.globewireless.com/pr_2009_03_gw_launches_globemobile_3.php

There was also a fronr page article in www.TheDigitalShip.com in the April edition of the new GlobeMobile solution. 

I was very excited to see this and is being received well in the market place.

After much deliberation I have started to expand on the Linkedin network.  Not usually one for social networking, but this looks like it could be useful for business contacts.  We’ll see how it goes.

Who knows I may even start blogging again about stuff.