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I should be okay now. Finally calming down.
Thankfully, I didn't have to pull loads yesterday since I couldn't get to sleep until 11AM. The inventory was fine. So I got to sleep in... I slept in 'til 7:30PM!
At least today I was able to conk out around 9AM. I still have the shadows of those butterflies and knots, but I should be alright now.
I doubt I could walk up to someone and say: "Hey, do you like anxiety? How about the kind that is triggered by an insignificant event, and when it is resolved, it stays regardless?"
Hmm, let's look at this from a scientific point of view:
When this sort of event occurs, the chemical released into the bloodstream causes an emotional state that encourages one to find a remedy to a problem that can (perceptibly) cause harm. However, it is such a "heavy" chemical that has no internal countermeasure, such as filtering or counter-agents; as to say that when whatever triggered its release is remedied, there is no chemical dispatched to clear the system of the anxiety inducing chemical. [/end smart-assery]
In other words: it takes is sweet ass time clearing out of the head.
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In other news, I'm groggy as hell. Got the computer running right. So long as I don't touch anything sensitive, the system won't get unstable. I just gotta keep in mind that this is a prerelease and that the Release Candidate not intended to fully be a main OS and is not guaranteed to be a stable environment.
There are some things about it that remind me of Vista. One is certainly the System Recovery tool. When it rewinds your computer, it gets to a point and reboots. The boot-up screen in this event is Vista's with the horizontal scrolling green bar at the bottom of the screen.
Windows Media Player 12 will play .mkv, .ogm, and .mp4 with the installation of the Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP). WMP 11 would not, so in Vista and earlier OS applications, Media Player Classic was required. Not any longer, and no more extra redundant programs. Of course, the latest update of CCCP required the DirectX runtime components be updated. It never wanted me to do that before, but it said something about the VoSub or the Haali splitter.... O.o
There's a bunch of neat tools that comes with Seven that didn't appear in Vista. My favorite is the Snipping Tool. Instead of Ctrl+PntScn, upload it to a picture edit program like Paint or Photoshop, crop what you want, then save, it pulls up a screen-wide tool that you can drag a box over what you want. It automatically creates a picture where you can save it as a .jpg, .bmp, .png... and something else.
My artist friend kind of grumbled about it: "This will allow people to steal people's art from places that lock out downloading their pictures." To this, I say, "Yes, yes it will." If you don't want it stolen, 1) Don't upload it to the internet. There are always people who will find a way. See - Microsoft(*) (where we can steal, invade, and modify your shit, but you go to prison if you do it, nyaa). 2) Put a watermark all over it. It may detract a bit from the quality you're trying to produce, but its a public display. If people want the real thing, they'll bug the artist about it. 3) Think of it like this: do you know how many copies, photos, and .jpgs of the Mona Lisa are floating about? Is the ghost of DaVinci pitching a fit in his grave because someone stole his art? Why? Because its not the original. Now, if someone holding a copy, photo, or .jpg claims its theirs, then hang'em by the nuts. The Ghost of DaVinci will take his ear back from them.
Anyways, I found that installing my printer driver myself was a half-assed thing. I used the manufacturer's installer, yes. However, it kept installing one for the Printer, the other for the Scanner, and posting both of these in the Programs & Features section (where it used to be Add & Remove programs for you dinosaurs(*)). I'm not into bloatware. Unfortunately, uninstallers are dirty little bastards leaving crap all over the registry. Sure, its not used and it may have even written its entry keys to zeros. But, it still has to process through boot-up. Having a lot of crap in there slows down the system.
So, on my final retry of installing everything from the ground up, this time I went into the Windows' supplied applications. I started with Paint and Fax & Scan. Turns out, I can scan and print documents and pictures right in there. THEN Update tells me that there's a newer driver for the printer. I tell it to install, and voila! Its identical to the driver I installed manually, but it didn't complain about the ports and potential networking problems. Clean install! It even left the scanner untouched, so no bloatware!
Same thing with OpenOffice 3.1.1. No, I would NOT like to install Java this time. Permeating filth, Java. I can't believe I had that shit on there before. I know there's an issue when I tell it not to show in the toolbar EVER, and it keeps UNCHECKING the option box. By itself. Untouched by no one. Everytime a Java applet appears, the fucking icon appears against my will. Be gone with you! It took uninstalling Firefox, editing the registry, and deleting two file folders of info before it went away. Then the system became unstable after glancing at the "regedit" function, so Windows.old I went.
That's another thing: Vista and Windows 7 will install cleanly on a system that already has an OS without NUKING the hell out of your hard drive. Unlike 3.1, 95, 98/SE, ME, 2000, or XP, it will take everything that's already on there and dump it into a file folder called "windows.old" where you can recover your music, pictures, documents, etc. You will still have to reinstall all your programs. If you got a bunch of free programs off the internet you want to keep, such as WinAmp, Firefox, OpenOffice, or even those sidebar gadgets, go download them and keep the installers in a folder before you install the new OS. This makes things so much easier:
"What did I have before? What was the name of the program? How did I find it last time?"
If you have Vista, you can upgrade. You don't need separate software to do that. If you have XP, you have to do the clean install... meaning "windows.old". This saves so much hassle. Try moving over 12GB onto DVDs. It takes FOREVER. Now, put them back. This feature, you shouldn't have to worry about that.
Depending on your equipment, it only takes the new OS to fully install in around a half-hour.
*-Look up how Microsoft snuck in their .Net Framework 1.1 onto Firefox users and how its supposed to work. Its not necessary. You'll see that "it auto-installs objects from websites to improve" some shit. AKA - "We can allow this door for spyware." Hence why people got away from Internet Exploder in the first place. IE just allowed MS Approved Spyware to just walk right in there.
*-Ahh, the dinosaur reference.... I want to get my Laptop turned into a Win98SE system. I have a few "old" treasures I want to utilize... like MechWarrior 3 and that 5.25" floppy drive. Though I doubt my BIOS would recognize the latter....
Thankfully, I didn't have to pull loads yesterday since I couldn't get to sleep until 11AM. The inventory was fine. So I got to sleep in... I slept in 'til 7:30PM!
At least today I was able to conk out around 9AM. I still have the shadows of those butterflies and knots, but I should be alright now.
I doubt I could walk up to someone and say: "Hey, do you like anxiety? How about the kind that is triggered by an insignificant event, and when it is resolved, it stays regardless?"
Hmm, let's look at this from a scientific point of view:
When this sort of event occurs, the chemical released into the bloodstream causes an emotional state that encourages one to find a remedy to a problem that can (perceptibly) cause harm. However, it is such a "heavy" chemical that has no internal countermeasure, such as filtering or counter-agents; as to say that when whatever triggered its release is remedied, there is no chemical dispatched to clear the system of the anxiety inducing chemical. [/end smart-assery]
In other words: it takes is sweet ass time clearing out of the head.
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In other news, I'm groggy as hell. Got the computer running right. So long as I don't touch anything sensitive, the system won't get unstable. I just gotta keep in mind that this is a prerelease and that the Release Candidate not intended to fully be a main OS and is not guaranteed to be a stable environment.
There are some things about it that remind me of Vista. One is certainly the System Recovery tool. When it rewinds your computer, it gets to a point and reboots. The boot-up screen in this event is Vista's with the horizontal scrolling green bar at the bottom of the screen.
Windows Media Player 12 will play .mkv, .ogm, and .mp4 with the installation of the Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP). WMP 11 would not, so in Vista and earlier OS applications, Media Player Classic was required. Not any longer, and no more extra redundant programs. Of course, the latest update of CCCP required the DirectX runtime components be updated. It never wanted me to do that before, but it said something about the VoSub or the Haali splitter.... O.o
There's a bunch of neat tools that comes with Seven that didn't appear in Vista. My favorite is the Snipping Tool. Instead of Ctrl+PntScn, upload it to a picture edit program like Paint or Photoshop, crop what you want, then save, it pulls up a screen-wide tool that you can drag a box over what you want. It automatically creates a picture where you can save it as a .jpg, .bmp, .png... and something else.
My artist friend kind of grumbled about it: "This will allow people to steal people's art from places that lock out downloading their pictures." To this, I say, "Yes, yes it will." If you don't want it stolen, 1) Don't upload it to the internet. There are always people who will find a way. See - Microsoft(*) (where we can steal, invade, and modify your shit, but you go to prison if you do it, nyaa). 2) Put a watermark all over it. It may detract a bit from the quality you're trying to produce, but its a public display. If people want the real thing, they'll bug the artist about it. 3) Think of it like this: do you know how many copies, photos, and .jpgs of the Mona Lisa are floating about? Is the ghost of DaVinci pitching a fit in his grave because someone stole his art? Why? Because its not the original. Now, if someone holding a copy, photo, or .jpg claims its theirs, then hang'em by the nuts. The Ghost of DaVinci will take his ear back from them.
Anyways, I found that installing my printer driver myself was a half-assed thing. I used the manufacturer's installer, yes. However, it kept installing one for the Printer, the other for the Scanner, and posting both of these in the Programs & Features section (where it used to be Add & Remove programs for you dinosaurs(*)). I'm not into bloatware. Unfortunately, uninstallers are dirty little bastards leaving crap all over the registry. Sure, its not used and it may have even written its entry keys to zeros. But, it still has to process through boot-up. Having a lot of crap in there slows down the system.
So, on my final retry of installing everything from the ground up, this time I went into the Windows' supplied applications. I started with Paint and Fax & Scan. Turns out, I can scan and print documents and pictures right in there. THEN Update tells me that there's a newer driver for the printer. I tell it to install, and voila! Its identical to the driver I installed manually, but it didn't complain about the ports and potential networking problems. Clean install! It even left the scanner untouched, so no bloatware!
Same thing with OpenOffice 3.1.1. No, I would NOT like to install Java this time. Permeating filth, Java. I can't believe I had that shit on there before. I know there's an issue when I tell it not to show in the toolbar EVER, and it keeps UNCHECKING the option box. By itself. Untouched by no one. Everytime a Java applet appears, the fucking icon appears against my will. Be gone with you! It took uninstalling Firefox, editing the registry, and deleting two file folders of info before it went away. Then the system became unstable after glancing at the "regedit" function, so Windows.old I went.
That's another thing: Vista and Windows 7 will install cleanly on a system that already has an OS without NUKING the hell out of your hard drive. Unlike 3.1, 95, 98/SE, ME, 2000, or XP, it will take everything that's already on there and dump it into a file folder called "windows.old" where you can recover your music, pictures, documents, etc. You will still have to reinstall all your programs. If you got a bunch of free programs off the internet you want to keep, such as WinAmp, Firefox, OpenOffice, or even those sidebar gadgets, go download them and keep the installers in a folder before you install the new OS. This makes things so much easier:
"What did I have before? What was the name of the program? How did I find it last time?"
If you have Vista, you can upgrade. You don't need separate software to do that. If you have XP, you have to do the clean install... meaning "windows.old". This saves so much hassle. Try moving over 12GB onto DVDs. It takes FOREVER. Now, put them back. This feature, you shouldn't have to worry about that.
Depending on your equipment, it only takes the new OS to fully install in around a half-hour.
*-Look up how Microsoft snuck in their .Net Framework 1.1 onto Firefox users and how its supposed to work. Its not necessary. You'll see that "it auto-installs objects from websites to improve" some shit. AKA - "We can allow this door for spyware." Hence why people got away from Internet Exploder in the first place. IE just allowed MS Approved Spyware to just walk right in there.
*-Ahh, the dinosaur reference.... I want to get my Laptop turned into a Win98SE system. I have a few "old" treasures I want to utilize... like MechWarrior 3 and that 5.25" floppy drive. Though I doubt my BIOS would recognize the latter....