Zac Garrett

Matthew Helmke recently posted and article entitled What is the coolest thing you can do using Linux that you can’t do with Windows or on a Mac? This is chalked full of fallacies that are quite common in the Linux advocacy world. I am going to take a look at each one of these items and explain what I think about them. Continue Reading »

Playing around with Server 2008 beta in the screenshot above. Installing two copies of 2k8, Vista, and XP in Hyper-V as well as downloading Ubuntu and Fedora. Continue Reading »

Nothing really new in this video, but I found the end to be so funny it had to be shared.

If you used to be a fan of TechTV and have not seen Tekzilla then you are missing out. The show is the reincarnation of the ScreenSavers in a podcast format.

After about four days of using Vista for gaming I decided to switch back to XP. The drivers for my graphics card decided to crap out whenever the settings would change. This means that every time I started a game odd stuff would happen.

One thing that I thought would be better in Vista is the performance of higher end games, namely Crysis. This game pushes every computer to the limits today. With directX 10 I was under the assumption that it would perform better, I was wrong. I get better performance with XP than I ever did with Vista. Continue Reading »

Update 12-17-2007: I Switched to XP

It has been over a year since I first reviewed Windows Vista and it is time to look at Vista seriously again. Continue Reading »

While listening to Windows Weekly a while back I heard about a neat web site that tracks what software you use and for how long called Wakoopa. You install a tiny piece of software and it tracks quite a bit of information about your software habits.

The only thing that kind of bugs me about this service is the privacy in it. They have complete control over all of the applications I use. In my opinion the benefits out weigh these concerns. Each person should think about these risks before installing any sort of software of this sort.

The list of my top ten used software is not surprising to me. This list pretty much sums up my daily usage of software. I’ve switched away from iTunes due to it being bloated. Other than that the list is very accurate in my software usage today.