Hmm, let’s see here. I arrived home around 6am, slept until noon, enjoyed my favourite Japanese restuarant for lunch, tortured my brother with Mario Galaxy and Olympics while he played his guitar, and had dinner with my family at a nice Greek restaurant. Oh, and I got to mess around with a new tablet with Vista (Lenovo X61, Vista Business) and I now have a 2GB iriver clix to replace my two tiny RCA ones*. I also feel just about ready to pass out and that’s actually a good thing since I flipped my hours these past weeks with studying and then random adventures. Now it looks like I’ll be able to get back on track and sleep at night for a change.
So far I haven’t done much with the tablet except for remove Norton and update to SP1 as well as clean up the zillion odd icons that ruin the taskbar. Tomorrow I’ll start moving over stuff from my X41 and see whether I like Vista or will end up sticking with XP for a while longer. My tower will definitely stay XP for a good solid while but I can experiment more with my tablet seeing as I don’t do anything critical on it aside from school work and light gaming. I kinda want to start it all now but I know that’s a recipe for disaster since I’m barely conscious.
*I have one 512 USB stick that I use for walking around campus but it drove me nuts on long runs because it would generally die at the worst times and there was nothing I could do about it. So I picked up a cheap 1GB one specifically because it uses AAA batteries. Now if it dies on a run I just swap in the spare and the beat goes on. Hopefully this iriver will survive for 20k+ runs!
one more thing: What do you use to organize and play thousands of songs? I used to alternate between iTunes on my tower and WinAmp on my tablet but I’m willing to try out alternatives.
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A new music system i have been playing with is nothing but a big folder structure that looks like this..
Artist/Album/Disc#
The whole thing is packed onto a WD My Book HD and can be moved and played on any system. I normally use VLC or Portable VLC as my player on any given system. This would be nice for you with the iRiver since i believe it supports drag and drop meaning you can do away with the big media software in favor of music and player. I snagged this concept from Lan gamers and the infamous Warez drives :).
I won’t mention the other half of my setup which is a small linux based computer project called Jiggly Puff which is more or less a bookcase MP3 stereo built with stuff i had around with the added feature of a 1 Watt radio transmitter that will let me listen to music wireless anywhere in the house with a simple FM radio even the one in the iRiver and other portable players 250GB streaming MP3 player anyone :)….ooops i mentioned it :D.
Hi again,
I have Vista and xp dual booted on my tower so I can have the best of both worlds, yeah right:) Anyway it worked out very well. I used a partitioning program called g-parted, made a 20 gig partition for vista and installed on there. Vista installed very quickly and is running very well so far. The only issue I’m having is with some sound problems…
Merry Christmas
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