Windows Vista was launched yesterday, with an ensuing “Vista Launch Party” (the media was invited) held by Microsoft. Telling by this picture, it looks like it was a blast!

All Zanneth SimPacks can now be found at:

simpack.zanneth.com

It’s got a new look too!

Aquatix

Posted 12/2/06
By Buzzert

Reminds me of the parallel two worlds, the bright, beautiful sea world where life thrives and marvelous plants grow, and the dark world, where an aquatic sea creature can easily become another’s prey, and the absence of all light paralysing the possibility of ravishing plant life. Nonetheless, a cool wallpaper indeed!

I just posted the MoidLAN ‘07 pics for public enjoyment. In retrospect, we should have taken more pictures. I had a great time, thanks for coming everybody!

MoidLAN 07

Posted 1/10/07
A collection

w00t! I finally got OSX to run on my Intel based PC.

This was not a very easy task. In order to get OSX to run on a PC you must have JUST the right hardware, otherwise major problems will arise during installation and testing. Luckily, I chose a pretty compatible hardware setup, I just needed to rebuild my kernel extensions directory to get it to work with my hardware! Nothing was working quite well at first, but after correcting plist files, modding my com.apple.Boot.plist, adding new kernel extensions, and finally debugging kernel panics and installing the correct drivers, I have a fully working OSX system, with Rosetta, Quartz Extreme (!), and even Core Image!

So cool!

I just updated the Apple 2007 wallpaper to a widescreen version.

Enjoy!

Apple 2007

Posted 1/3/06
By Buzzert

Some of you may have noticed Apple’s new homepage boasting a new year with new things to come. I thought their graphic was quite cool, and someone on digg said they would love to see a wallpaper version of this. So I made one!

Well, I have had a handful of bad experiences with Microsoft lately. I just recieved a new (pretty darn cool!) motherboard for Christmas; I plan on installing OSX with it, but first I decided to install some flavour of Windows first so I can do some hard drive operations to prepare for OSX. So the first thing I did was try to install Windows XP. No go, it doesn’t recognize the new hardware I have (no EIDE support). Well, I don’t have any floppy disks to install the drivers with, so I figured I’d just go to Vista now and try it out. After I finally found a working torrent, I installed it expecting Microsoft’s new operating system to behave a bit more like OSX and not worry about drivers.

Boy was I wrong!

I booted up and many things didn’t work. I was stuck at 800×600, I had no Aero Glass, I had no sound, and it was painfully slow! Way to go Vista! Looks like we’ll have to wait for the next release of Windows to see pain-free installation. So I started to fish around for drivers, using IE7 which came with Vista. I kept using the built in search feature to look around for a video driver, I couldn’t find a single page about NVidia Vista drivers. I was getting worried, but then I realized, I’M USING WINDOWS LIVE. So I searched Google instead and the 3RD RESULT was exactly what I was looking for. Way to go again, Microsoft. So after I finally fished around for my video card drivers and mysteriously enabled Aero Glass, then downloaded the (beta) sound drivers, I had a working system… kinda. I think it’s my RAM, I’m not sure, but Vista still seems sluggish. I mean, the glass effects are running fine (although making me a bit nauseous after a while), it’s just sluggish. So I thought while I’m waiting for OSX86 to finish, I’ll try to install Steam. It installed alright, and I got all of my games in a jiffy, started up HL2 Episode 1 to play around. It took FIVE MINUTES just to get to the “New Game, Load Game” screen. I was pulling my hair out by now, noticing that obviously something is wrong. After another ten minutes or so, I was finally in the game, except it was lagging horribly, unplayable. There were graphic artifacts all over the place, glitches every frame.

Bah! Well, I’m sure I’ll fix it eventually, but it really irks me that the newest version of Windows (RTM, mind you) still can’t compete with the simplicity and “just works” feeling of Mac OS X, and I’m left with so many more problems.

I am starting a beta test for a blog that I programmed from the ground up in PHP and MySQL! It’s called “BuzzBlog”, it’s a very simple, non-bloat weblog for regular people. I made a setup installer script too!

Go to http://buzzert.zanneth.com/buzzblog to give it a test drive.

Let me know what you think, comment here, or on the BuzzBlog!

Liquid Plasma

Posted 12/2/06
By Buzzert

I was inspired by the PS3’s new background. I was also inspired by Chemistry book I’ve seen around school. It’s not as “watery” as I had hoped but it still looks neat! Let me know what you think in the comments.