Recently I have taken it upon myself that during those mind numbing exercises of taking some phone calls for work to find ways to try to stimulate my mind in some way. One of the ways in which I have found the way to do this recently is through a game called GemCraft. While I enjoy the game, I must say that the first “boss” battle is kinda tough, and as of yet, I haven’t figured out how to exactly get around it, even though I love tower defense games. Oh well. Its the challenge of a good tower defense game that I enjoy and will continue to enjoy as I work through it.

I had written really briefly about andLinux in my last post on my blog, well today I discovered something really cool about it. For whatever reason, the Konqueror web browser is able to connect to some sites and bring up digital media content that neither firefox or ie is able to bring up at work. I have some theories about this, one being that the two being big players in the web market comply with group policy settings, but its kind of interesting that something like this will just ignore whatever is causing both IE and Firefox to ignore flash media while browsing the web. Of course…konqueror can not always play all of this media…but that is beyond the point…way beyond the point because that can be fixed with a few installs in linux.

Speaking of the powers of Linux. I have begun to use the windows power shell more and more. I am finding that it has some interesting abilities, and one of which is to run an script every once in a while which finds any and all processes which are using more than a specific amount of memory with the option to immediately kill them. It is with this in mind, that I think that windows will eventually start to head the way of linux, with a powerful command line interface in the background that can do everything that the gui version can, and the die hard geeks out there will start to run only in the command line and argue with anyone that uses gui only.

Ah the day when Microsoft Windows can be considered a geeky operating system…..it never has…but given the improvements in how microsoft is handling things as elementary as the command line….it will probably be less than 20 years!

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