Ordered Windows 7

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: September 13th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Last night i finally got around to ordering myself a copy of Windows 7. I have used Windows 7 before, i tested it out when the first set of beta tests were offered, since then i have not had the chance to use it as i removed it from my computer because i wanted to wait until the final version became available.

I know i could download the final working version now, but it will expire next year anyway and i would just end up buying a copy of Windows 7. From what i experienced with the beta version, it has definitly become a lot faster in its performance compared to that of Windows Vista.

A while back when you could start to Pre-Order Windows 7 a lot of sites started to offer the Pre-Order, the cheapest of them all had to be Amazon.co.uk, £44.97. By the time i went to pre-order it for that price it had gone up! Not to the full retail price but not as cheap.

now i have decided to just go ahead and pre-order it anyway because i will not get any cheaper and soon enough it will go up in price. I had to pay £64.99 which is still not too bad, £20 more but at least i did not have to pay the full RRP of £149.99! So by pre-ordering it now i got a discount of 57%.

So in total including shipping to Ireland it cost me £74.71 or €85.47. I have never purchased a copy of Windows before, i have installed and re-installed various copy's of Windows for myself and others but this will be my first time actually deciding to buy a copy of it.

Usually i would only have Windows would be because i got it pre-installed on my comuputer when i bought it from Dell. It is a little over a month now to the release of Windows 7 (October 22,2009).

Also to note originally here in the EU Windows was not going to be allowed to be shipped with an internet browser, there had been war over Microsofts Internet Explorer being pre-installed, forcing the majority of customers to use that browser and not getting to experience other Internet Browser's.

Now however all versions being shipped will include Microsofts Internet Explorer, i am not sure how they managed to get away with it. I think it would of being a great idea to have a splash screen come up during the first setup of Windows 7 offering the user the choice of all the different browsers.

To get the 57% discount on windows 7 go to amazon to buy it, i am not sure how long more that amazon are actually offering the discount for, but i know there is no chance of getting windows 7 for any cheaper on amazon now, here is the link to windows 7: Windows 7 from amazon

Linux Assignment

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 22nd, 2009 | 0 Comments

Last friday, my class was given an assignment to do. The focus is for us to learn about the Linux operating system and learn how it works and in the end be able to compile a report and be able to demonstrate something that we have learned from working with linux.

Our project is group work and therefore it will demand much higher quality than if it was to be done by an individual. I am looking foward to learning a bit more about linux. I attempted to use linux before but i had no idea what i was doing.

Over the past few months we have been learning Unix code, unix is basically what linux is all about. Linux is an open source alternative to other operating systems such as Windows or Mac.  Unix runs by a user inputting command lines one at a time, this is a long process but can get quick results. Linux has two methods of usage, first  you can use Command Line Interface (CLI) which is the same as unix and you can also use Graphical User Interface (GUI), most people prefer to use the GUI as they can see what they are doing more clearly. For doing more advanced things with Linux you would tend to use CLI.

Linux is most commonly used on servers. It is also found on a lot of technology such as Mobile Phones, Motorolla and Nokia are to name a few. Also a very popular tv service called Tivo uses a modified version of linux. Linux is provided free of charge to anybody in the world, what makes it so popular is that you can view and change the source code as much as you like, Linux is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Linux can be Downloaded from many places all over the internet, it comes in many different forms, people take the base design or one that someone else has allready made and alter it and add some unique things to it to make it there own and then redistribute it again under the GPL, of course for free!

For people from Ireland why not use the Irish custom version available here. And for more info on the Linux OS  and for applications you can run on Linux check out Linux Online. Sure why not give it a shot you can always remove it if you dont like it and you could always Dual-Boot it or run it on a virtual machine using VMware for MAC or using VirtualBox for Windows.

I am looking foward to testing out this OS and hopefully this time i might be able to understand some more of the code line features a bit more.

Transfer Files From Pc To Playstation 3

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 20th, 2009 | 1 Comments

Over the past few days i have been trying to get my pc to connect to the playstation 3, I couldnt figure out how to do it, it was getting really frustrating. I attempted loads of different methods such as setting my pc as a server and attempting to access it that way, but it was having none of it, no success there for me

Next i tried linking my playstation to my pc using an ethernet cable just to see if it might recognise some type of folder that i had set for public sharing, that too would not work. At this stage i didnt know what to do, but when i start to try to do something i have to keep at it until i get it done, if i dont find out how to do it i feel that it got the better of me, and after all why should technology get the better of a human?, we designed technology therefore we should know how to control it. So of course i continued to try different methods of linking the two together.

I was then messing about with the playstation and i saw that you could search for media devices so i thought why not try to scan for one to see if it finds anything, first try it didnt, so then i realsied that i could use windows media player as a media device and then the playstation should recognise it, i decided to do it wirelessly, so no cables lying around the room, i decided to let the router broadcast the signal,

There is no messing about to do this it just does it by itself, so i went into windows media player and clicked on the drop down arrow in the library section and clicked 'Media Sharing',then up popped a box with an unknown device, this was the playstation so i clicked allow so it would have permission to access my files, then i went back to the playstation and there i could see my pc listed.

Sometimes when you have just set up the connection with the pc the playstation will say that it has not got permisson to access the pc, just restart your playstation and it will work perfectly. Also before doing this you must have Windows Media Player 11 or higher.

By having your Playstation linked to the pc you can also stream music and video across and you will not need to save it to the hard disk, however if you are like me and got one of the limited edition 160gb playstations then you will have no worries about saving videos to the hard drive.

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You might be thinking instead of trying to link the pc to the playstation to transfer files why dont you just use a memory stick or a portable hard drive. I did try this first, when i put my memory stick into my playstation it recognised it straight away i was happy, then i clicked to go into it and it said no data found, i knew there was data on it so there had to be something wrong.

It wasnt until later that i found out that instead of clicking 'X' to open the memory stick, you have to instead press 'Triangle' button and choose display all, then it will open up and show you your files, this is really easy to do and i wish i found out sooner how  to do it, but i still prefer to set it up wirelessly. Also some different types for portable hard drives cannot get recognised by the plastion, for example, the seagate freeagent, this is the one i was using and it didnt work.

I done this using windows xp, i am sure it will not matter if you use xp or vista.