Microsoft’s Vista Upgrade Adviser is supposed to tell you what you need to upgrade your clunky old computer to Vista… Too bad it doesn’t work on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or Windows 2000. I guess that means I won’t be upgrading to windows vista.

It’s been a rather long weekend. Quite a number of computer problems cropped up. The first was an ongoing problem with MythTV. I’ve been using it for 3-4 months now and it seems to work well… Except the system seems to be rather glitchy and the TV card would crash every 12 to 72 hours requiring a reboot. Since my mythtv box was also my secondary desktop and irc system it rather hurt my IdleRPG scores.

Sony and Microsoft both tout their systems as the best add-on to the Wii It looks like it may be Nintendo dominating the consoles this generation. Some have predicted this before actually. Their reasoning seemed to be that the WiiRev would be the lowest priced of all the consoles and would fill in the same niche as the Gamecube does now. Most people who have a gamecube also have one of the other consoles, but usually not both.

It’s about the games, and what you can do about it, silly. People are going ‘ohh sony is soooo doomed’ about them charging $600 for the full version of their console that can do everything. Interesting. Now how much have they invested on gaming themselves? I have 2 PS2 systems. One of them has a Linux kit on it. Between those two I have $800 invested in the PS2, in the consoles alone.

I voted for Wayne Allard, and will almost certainly do so again despite certain groups that are trying to derail him. In particular, Time published an article calling him one of the worst senators in the senate… And calling Dick Durban, Arlan Specter, John McCain, and Ted Kennedy among the best.If that’s what they call a GOOD senator, then I’m voting for the bad ones, thanks. Especially when your damning takes the form of “Allard, 62, is well liked among his colleagues.

WB is using Bittorrent as a delivery method for selling their movies. It’s about time some studio thought of this. BitTorrent has always been, in my mind, the best way to share legal data quickly without overburdening one individual connection on the net. Almost all of the linux distributions use it for their install cds, for example. WB uses BittorrentOn the other hand, the way they’re doing it is basically letting anyone get the file itself, but you have to purchase a DRM key to actually play it.

I find I can no longer take some websites seriously. In particular, when doing a search for reviews on last night’s premier of the Glenn Beck program, almost all of the google news articles were from one source: The humorless saps at Media matters. Looking at this article in particular, it’s nothing at all he’s ever tried to hide. He used to be an alcoholic. He was a jerk. He’s since found a new religion and straightened up his act.

China’s bad habits abroad? (Link Dead) Being loud? Being Rude? Hmm. Do they speak chinese really, really, loud so that all those dumb foreigners understand them?China, the new USA! :p

First, the communism. It’s becoming quite prevalent now. Venezuela has been that way for awhile, and now they’ve exported the revolution fully to Bolivia sending troops to claim foreign owned company equipment and assets at gas fields. (Link Dead) Well isn’t that special? It seems that while the former russian protectorates are becoming more Libertarian, our own hemisphere is becoming more and more statist.Now to the fairness doctrine that the democrats are now preaching as the answer to their shrinking voting base problems.

Net neutrality. This is a very thorny issue. I can see both sides of the issue as well as bringing up a third I haven’t heard anyone make yet. I’ll see if I can summarize the issues correctly here. The Telecom businesses are saying that they would like to be able to improve the quality of service for businesses that give them more money. This would mostly be done by flagging packets from certain places as higher priority and multi-queuing them in the routers of their backbones.