Good day to you all!

I have Windows 7 on my machine as you seen from my last post. Some of the features in it are amazing like Windows Media Centre (yes I know this was in XP Media Centre and Vista) but it fits sooo nicely into this, have a look at the picture above, that's what it looks like on a 50inch plasma and it looks amazing, it performs excellently (with some lag for loading the folders which is not a big deal), and it is an excellent tool for presenting your media whatever it may be. Me and Jossie were sitting down playing around with it and found it amazing, it's also great for watching movies and slideshows for pictures. Jossie thought it would be a good idea to take some pics of it, hence the picture above.

Incase anybody was wondering, Windows 7 is an excellent operating system, it's based on Vista, without the flaws, it's awesome :D

PS. The white cross at the side of the song title is my flash from my camera :)

Rossie & Jossie

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Salutations!

First off, the flu sucks. And to the post...

I'm a bit of a techy when it comes to tech, and I lately had a bit of a brush with somebody high up in my school. It's all been resolved now but the fact is that it was a bit of a pain in the ass. I had been accused of my Windows Media Player 12 (the one that comes with Windows 7) had been trying to access files within the school, and this particular person that was high up did not have the right education in computers (I'll be blogging about the lack of computer education later) to be commenting on this problem especially since she was saying that it was "acting" like Limewire within the school (if somebody can get WMP to "act" like Limewire then please inform me cause I've never heard of that in my life). What was actually happening is that within Windows 7 (and Vista actually) it was sending out a signal within the schools network to all the computers that had their computers to allow media to be received through their computers). So everytime I would boot up my computer they would get a message saying "Ross would like to share his media library with you". This was only people accepting these invites would get them. You can draw your own conclusion on whether I was in the wrong or she was for having her settings set to allow invites like that, within a school that just went through an attack crashing the entire network.

But what I was annoyed me most was when I asked somebody to take a screenshot of the problem so I could actually fix it, they just gave me a blank look as to say "Screenshot, what's that?" so I gave up and one of my teachers who gave me some advice on what to do with my computer and also spoke with the one high up so that's how it was resolved.

I had also noted something else to do with network security, while reading BBC News Technology I came across this post, it's a report about something to do with Twitter being used in US courts "preventing the course of justice". What caught my eye when I opened up the link was the picture on the right:



That browser that it's showing is Internet Explorer (IE) 6 which is the one that came with Windows XP. Now the latest version out is IE 8 which came out of beta earlier this week. Now you would think that such a big news corporation would use an image that showed the latest, safest browser out there, instead it shows the oldest IE browser available for Windows XP. BBC News Technology really isn't a good site to keep up to date with technology, use something like Engadget, Gizmodo or Gadgeteer for reviews on technology. BBC News Technology gives a dulled down version of the stories, and most of the stories are 3-4 days old.

Anyways, just felt I thought I'd share my tech annoyances :)

Rossie & Jossie

PS. The reason I haven't being blogging lately is cause I have the flu, and when I'm coming home from school, I'm falling to sleep instead of blogging :p.

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Yo! Sup ma Homies!

I haven't flipped, not yet. But I was stuck at school on Friday while waiting for my mum to pick me up and Jeanie told me about this breakdancing club thing that was going on and decided to go watch. And it's some pretty cool stuff. Jossie was there as well, but he was complaining cause the lighting was bad so he couldn't see them breakdance very well. Ah wells, I'm sure he'll live. So I just thought I'd share some of these pics :)

Rossie & Jossie

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Hey

Well this is a pretty serious post sadly. About 350km off the coast of Newfoundland at 9am on Thursday morning, a Cougar owned Sikorsky S-92 helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after a technical problem rumored to be an oil leak. Only one of the 18 on board the flight survived. The chopper had been doing a routine flight between rigs out on the White Rose field when it announced a mayday turned around and then 60km later crashed into the ocean.

The Transportation Safety Board were searching for the bodies for more than 40 hours, when their survival suits were expected to keep them alive 30 hours. They sent a couple of ROV's down to the helicopter yesterday and have confirmed that they have found the rest of the bodies still in the fuselage. They will be lifting the chopper up at later date after they found out that it hadn't sunk in one piece but had been badly damaged with the impact of hitting the water. The following list is the list released by the RCMP of the bodies confirmed to have have been on that flight and perished:

Tim Lanouette, 48, Comox, B.C., the first officer on the helicopter.
Peter Breen, 55, St. John's.
Gary Corbett, 46, Conception Bay South.
Wade Drake, 42, Fortune.
Wade Duggan, 32, Witless Bay.
Colin Henley, 38, St. John's.
Ken MacRae, 47, Greenwood, N.S.
Derrick Mullowney, 51, Bay Bulls.
Burch Nash, 44, Fortune.
Paul Pike, 49, Spaniard's Bay.
Allison Maher, 26, Mount Pearl, formerly of Aquaforte.
Thomas Anwyll, 46, Langley, B.C.

I decided to blog about this as my entire family is in the oil industry so it was the talk amongst us since it happened and still is.

My thoughts go out to all the families affected by the tragedy.

Rossie & Jossie

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Sup!

Well, I'm studying biology, hence the lack of Blogging. But thanks for checking back anyways :). So the point of this post is that I've changed my RSS feed so if you didn't get this through your RSS feed, just subscribe again and delete the old one :) To Subscribe, there's a button up top called "RSS" click that and add it to wherever :). Or I'm sure you know of other ways, like in Firefox, there's an RSS button on the Address Bar, does the same thing as my button on this page :P.

Here's the link to add it straight from here: RSS

Laters

Rossie & Jossie

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Heyo

My schoolbus came up the hill last week, and we came into a patch of fog just at my stop, so I got out, and the fog was patchy but it seemed to only be around the estate I lived in. Kept walking down none the wiser, and seen the building just across the road to the right where their building a new house. They had lit a fire on the ground, so I thought "hm.. probably shouldn't be at that" but anyways, I left it and went into the house. It's what was causing the 'fog'. I thought of showing Jossie at that point but didn't think it was of importance to show him.

About 3-4 hours later, when they were all gone from the building site, they had left the fire burning just as it was from when I got home, keep in mind that Canada is covered in trees and all the houses on the estate (probably about 95% of them in Newfoundland) are made of wood. So we called the fire brigade and put out the fire as well, and luckily my dad knows the owner of the house. So he informed them, and showed them the above pictures. The careless contractor should of got a harsh word if the owners did the right thing. I had also showed Jossie the fire when we called the fire brigade, and he was fair intrigued by it and watched the fire until the fire crews had gone and put the fire out.

The next morning the pillar in the corner of the house was scorched black, that's what they get for leaving an open fire with plenty of fuel around, unattended. As much as I love some people being laid back while working, that's a little too laid back for my liking.

Rossie & Jossie

PS. Even though there is an acre between each house, there's still a fair amount of trees.

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That's what it said on front of the shirt that I won at yesterdays Geography trip to the INCO Innovation Center at Memorial University. So it was vaguely interesting but we were pretty much going over how to use Google Earth and how to use some poorly created mapping program, where the data is from 1996 and every time you made a movement accross this 'colourful' map, it would refresh. The program is called 'ArcExplorer - Java Edition for Education'.

I think what they were trying to get onto us about was that it was something called 'GIS day' (Geographical Information System) and they took some people from each geography class and took us to the INCO Innovation Center to learn about these GIS programs, including ArcExplorer and Google Earth. There was a few guys there teaching us, and one of them asked some of us to go outside with him to check out how GPS works, so the only thing that was interesting was I found out that there 32 satellites in the sky, but there's 24 working at any given time.

Laters

Rossie & Jossie

PS. The question I had to answer was, "what is a GPS used for?" so don't start thinking I said some techy answer (which I thought I would), about it calculating your latitude and longitude using numerous satellites, but I simply said "it tells you where you are", and got the shirt that I later gave to a friend as it didn't fit me :)

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Yelloo!

Ok, so I had planned on blogging more often, but I have a lot of tests and homework until next Tuesday, so I decided to squeeze this in while doing a physics assignment.

Anyways, so I was looking around YouTube for some footage for a project I'm doing on Oedipus the play. And I stumbled across this little beauty, I'm trying so hard to fit it into my project, but my topic I chose was about the theaters themselves. Oh well, I'm sharing it with you now :)



Ah wells, I'm going on a Geography school trip tomorrow and only some people get to go, and luckily Jossie got picked to go as well :D, so I'll be blogging about it tomorrow :)

Laters

Rossie & Jossie

PS. I'm still heavily updating my blog/learning HTML so bare with me, it'll look better soon, I promise :)

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