What's on your mind?

[Kain Nobel]

Taking time off to cool my head, but it's been hard temporarily disassociating myself with projects. Awaiting new computer before I continue doing or even discussing further work. Much needed break.

My computer has been running like crap. It's old. Single core. The additional RAM was taken from an XP machine probably manufactured pre-2000s.

The new one is coming, but I've been nursing the heck out of this one regardless. Running anti-virus and malware scans but only one thing ever popped up, a stupid PUP (potentially unwanted program), it's removed. I've ran HitmanPro, Malwarebytes, Webroot, Avast, McCafee and Trend Micro. Clean! Deleted 12.8 GB of junk files (temps, remnants of old programs, things like that.) Every day, the last two weeks, I've ran Defrag non-stop. Defrag finished? Run it again! Finished again? Run it three more times!

Tonight I stopped with the scanning and defragmenting nonsense and crawled through the registry, John McClane style. So many remnants left behind. It's apparent most software developers either neglect to write a good uninstaller or simply don't know how to. So much history, so many programs, SO MANY browsers; Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Chrome, Seamonkey, Netsurf, Internet Explorer and... I think that's it. I honestly don't even remember running Netsurf, but it's somehow left garbage in my registry. Trash has been taken out!

Currently learning Linux and OSX, quite a culture shock. In the back of my mind, I hate it all, but... that's no different from visiting a foreign country, right? You think in your head for so long "Oh I wanna go to Japan!" Then you go. Then you're like "I hate this place, I can't wait to get back to [home country]!" Not that Japan is bad, it's just overcrowded, the public transportation makes you feel uncomfortable, most of the people look the exactly alike, the drinking water tastes oddly metallic, everything is rice and seafood and... eww. I mean, at least they have McDonalds, right? But it's not the same...

And it'll probably be like that when I get my new Windows 7 machine, too. Not really looking forward to transferring everything over, reinstalling programs, etc. The programs thing is the biggest headache because I've got SO MANY and I use every single one of them. I might not have touched GraphicsGale, Photoshop or GIMP in three months, because I'm working on software, but best believe I use all three for very specific tasks, sometimes all for the same image. Same with everything else. I've listed 78 programs, 52 of them are on the high priority list because I use them. Heck, every time I compose and render music, each track has been edited with up to 6 different tools to ensure the highest quality, looping and playback I can possibly render.

The nice thing though is... OMG is this machine not running like crap anymore? o.o *Ahem*

What was I saying? Eh, it probably wasn't important.

But yeah, I'm a little excited. The old machine has had a bath, a haircut, new clothes and a makeover! Going to take the HDD out of it and probably run it as a slave to the new machine. My wife, the computer and I all enjoy a little BDSM from time to time. I've tried to instigate a three-some but the wife thinks it's a little odd. Maybe one of these days.

On that note, off to play some GTAV! It was fun talking to myselfyou guys.