Being in technical college they try to prepare you for finding jobs in the real world and how to get good jobs with good companies. Seeing that I live in south Georgia there aren’t any computer companies or serious jobs available, but there are a few in Atlanta. To name a few there is HP, Google, and a few Apple Stores(that does count right?) So after college I will probably try to work at one of these companies, but with one?

Well the answer is a tie between Google and the Apple Store.

I would give Google the edge because its not a retail store and there is room for promotions and better pay. Plus it would be hella cool to work for Google, the worlds default home page.

So my question to you is, what would be your favorite company to work for? Microsoft? Apple? The NFL? Google? Disney?

Let us know via comment.

When I decided to buy my MacBook I knew I was going to have to use Boot Camp to run some software for school, and the occasional game or two, I figured this process would be simple and straightforward, like most Mac software, but boy was I wrong. Upon opening the BootCamp partitioner every thing seemed normal, so I decided to partition the hard drive and give just 20 gigs to Windows XP, simple enough, eh? Well after 10 minutes of waiting, I got my first kernel panic - but wait, Macs don’t, crash right? So after rebooting I discovered that I lost 10 gigs on the Macintosh HD partition, so like any sane person I put in my OS X Leopard install disk and did a disk repair. Guess what? My ten gigs are back, but when trying to do BootCamp again I get the same kernel panic.

So how did I fix it?

Well I had to use the OS X Leopard install disk again and format the hard drive myself, which was very simple to do. After that I ran the BootCamp software; it recognized my partition and the install went fine, so I now have XP and Leopard running in perfect harmony.

As I have documented in the past few months I have had interest in moving away from the world of Windows into either Mac or Linux. I gave Ubuntu/Kubuntu/PCLinuxOS a far chance but in the end the experience was less than wonderful. As you can imagine I have driver issues, the applications lacked style and for the most part I ran into random errors that I couldn’t fix, or had the patience to.

Last summer I bought a G4 iMac with Tiger and began to use that almost exclusively for a month, the computer was great but I mostly use my laptop and I prefer it to any desktop, so I upgraded my XP laptop to Vista. I could go through and talk about all of my problems but that could take a little while, so just read my previous post.

Last week I bought a refurbished Macbook for $850 from Apple.com, this Thursday I received the computer. I can honeslty say this is the best computer I have ever used. I appearnce, the speed, the ease of use is making me wonder why I ever used Windows. I have had a great experience so far but I have hit some brick walls,

So here are the 5 things I live and don’t like about Mac so far.

1. SPEED! My computer boots up in about 30 seconds and programs launch almost instantly. When my computer starts there aren’t any annoying programs that start up like with Windows, *cough* MSN messenger.

2.iLife iThank you- I have had so much fun with my pictures, movies and even making crappy music, I lack any talent, with the great iLife suite. GarageBand can keep me busy from school work for hours at a time and iMovie is easy to use and iPhoto is starting to take over Picasa for me.

3. Iwork 08- Great programs but I don’t like the fact that I can’t use my Pages files with Office, seeing as I am a student in a Windows only school. Keynote is awesome and I can’t wait to start making presentations.

*Update, thanks to my readers I now know how to use my Pages files in Word, thanks guys!

4. Weird random issues- Sometimes my Macbooks screen will flicker with movies playing in Quicktime and times the screensaver freaks out and goes from black to my desktop over and over.

5. The cost was amazing- For $850 I got a Macbook 2.0ghz, Apple Remote, and iLife 08, pretty good deal right? Oh wait I get a full 1 year warranty and 90 days of phone support, thanks Apple.

In another great PR move, Microsoft decided to make the video above. It has been known to make some pretty bad videos, like the classic Windows 2000 Tommy Boy knock off and the other video with the guys from the show Friends. I really have no comment on the video other than it makes me want to never get on the Internet again and listen to Bruce Springsteen.

As I mentioned a few days ago I bought a Macbook, my first intel Mac. To my surprise within a few hours of ordering my package was shipped out, awesome, that was on the 11th. The next day, Saturday, on the Fedex tracking site it showed that my Macbook was being shipped to Reno, NV, nice, but heres the down side, according to Fedex.com it has yet to reach Reno! Also on the site it is showing a delivery date of the 17th, this Thursday, but I am skeptical of it getting here on that date, so why does this matter? Well I have to sign for the package but the time the Fedex guy gets here I am usually in class so I will have to skip a class to sign for it, and if the package doesn’t arrive that day then I will have to miss another day. Doesn’t sound like a big problem but I can only miss four days of class before being dropped. I am probably being a little paranoid and impatient waiting for the new computer, but I hope it is here Thursday because,

This is the most excited I have ever been for tech product.

That’s right I just but my first new Mac, kind of. I bought a Macbook from Apple’s web site as a refurbished machine for only $850! This is a great price for any new/refurbished computer with the specs that I will list. The computer comes pre-installed with Leopard and the great iLife 08 suite of software. The computer is a 2.0ghz intel Core 2 Duo with 1 gig of ram, but I already own 2 gigs that will work with the computer, it only comes with a 80gb hard drive so I will be buying a external drive soon. I am so excited to receive this computer because it will be my first real Mac, I own a G4 iMac and its getting a little out of date now.

So if you own a Macbook or have any thoughts on the computer please leave it as a comment!

Also a full review will be coming soon!

The title says it all, heres the list.

5. Playstation 2- I can’t think of any system with as much quality and quantity of great games. I just bought my second PS2 and I have enjoyed some of the more resent games to come out like God Of War and Shadow of the Colossus. Some of my favorite games on the console are ico, Resident Evil 4, and of course GTA3.

4. NES- I was born in 88′ so when I got into games it was the 16bit era. This was the first console I ever had and I all I played was Super Mario Bros, that was it, no other game.

3. Sega Genesis- This is my favorite toy from my childhood. I had so many great games on the Genesis like Streets of Rage, Maximum Carnage, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and all of the great sports games. I had this console for the longest of any and I still play the roms of the games I have on my computer, seeing how my Genesis is MIA.

2. Xbox/Xbox 360- I bought the orginal Xbox with my first few paychecks or of my first job. At the time I didn’t have enough for a game so all I had was a console and a demo disk from Wal Mart. The orginal Xbox was my system of choice because of Shenmue 2 coming to it. I also loved NFL Fever, Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic, Jade Empire, ESPN 2K5, and Halo 1 and 2. Of course I traded that Xbox in for the 360 and the trend of great games followed with Halo 3, Mass Effect, and I hope Fable 2.

1. Of course the greatest console ever is the Sega Dreamcast. With games like Shenmue, NFL 2k, NBA 2k, Crazy Taxi, Soul Caliber, Daytona USA, Sega Bass Fishing, and Sonic Adventure I still have my Dreamcast hooked up to the TV, and yes I still play it. I have had to much fun with games over the years it would be hard for me to throw it away or even put it up in the closet. One of the saddest days for me was the day Sega stopped supporting it.

So whats your favorite video game systems? Whats the worst one you ever had?

I have been trying to use the latest version of Ubuntu, version 8.04, and I have come into a few serious issues. I know it is still in beta form but if these errors are not corrected there is no way I can fully switch over on my laptop. First off there are few new things that I like, for one Wubi integration just makes too much sense not to do and the installation takes under 30min and is a real joy to do. Also on of the things I really like is the new sense of polish I see throughout the system, its still not pretty but it has more of a continuous fell about it.

Ok now to the biggest issue I faced.

My laptop has a Dell 1390 wlan wireless card that up to 7.10 was a hassle to get running but with the integration of the new restricted drivers I was able to get it to run with two clicks and a reboot, but not so much now. Ubuntu still finds the card and installs the drivers, I think, but before it lets me click the “use” checkbox it tells I need to restart, which I did but it keeps telling me to restart, a never ending loop of restarts is never fun to run into. The only I did with Ubuntu was install it via Wubi which may lay my problems because the wireless light was already one during the installation and first run, unlike with 7.10 in which the light didn’t come on until after I installed the drivers. I will be testing this issue later in the day with Kubuntu and will update this post if anything is different.

Hopefully this issue will be fixed before its released this later this month.