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KammyworldRacerGT4 · Post by **KammyworldRacerGT4** » 14 Nov 2009, 00:43

Aw, crap, I'm late.

Here were some classes I'm considering for SIU Carbondale:
Biological Sciences
Automotive Technology
Asian Studies (Minor)
Japanese (Foreign Language and Int'l trade)
Creative Writing (English)
News-Editorial (Journalism)
Athletic Training

Edit: I forgot East Asian Civilization

baumaxx1 · Post by **baumaxx1** » 14 Nov 2009, 02:32

Mmm... auto tech. I'm confused with how the whole American education system works though, lol.

xHaZxMaTx · Post by **xHaZxMaTx** » 14 Nov 2009, 06:39

KammyworldRacerGT4 wrote:Aw, crap, I'm late.

That's what she said.

Koenigsegg_Rox · Post by **Koenigsegg_Rox** » 14 Nov 2009, 12:11

Zing!

Porsche-AG · Post by **Porsche-AG** » 15 Nov 2009, 01:00

baumaxx1 wrote:Yeah, first year engineering is pretty lame. It's all the theory and basics. What type are you doing? You could always try looking at final year projects and seeing if that work interests you (that's what's keeping me going XD + my friends I'm studying with), but if your program's anything like mine, there's a lot of theory until later years and it's by no means easy. If you choose to continue, and get half way through the semester, you may as well finish it, but if you have no interest in it and was more a choice based on $$ and the job availability it's a bit hard to motivate yourself to get through it.

What other programs are you looking at?

I'm doing general engineering, as all first years are. In second year we get to choose our discipline. And I don't think there's a final year project for year 1.

The problem is I don't really know what I want to do yet for sure, and the rest of the faculties at my university don't interest me at all. I'm definitely not an arts person, and all the majors that science offers are uninteresting. I'd be good at business, but business is probably the most boring thing you can take unless counting numbers interests you.

So pretty much I'm just hoping to get past 1st year and hopefully second year will be a little more interesting.

baumaxx1 · Post by **baumaxx1** » 15 Nov 2009, 01:26

It never hurts to try I guess, but the projects I'm talking about were for 3rd and 4th year.... although we did build trebuchets this year, lol.

KammyworldRacerGT4 · Post by **KammyworldRacerGT4** » 15 Nov 2009, 02:41

baumaxx1 wrote:Mmm... auto tech. I'm confused with how the whole American education system works though, lol.

I don't get it either to be honest. And STFU Haz.

baumaxx1 · Post by **baumaxx1** » 17 Nov 2009, 14:41

I used windows 7 on a friend's laptop today... How's it different to Vista? I saw the superbar, but it just took longer to select windows, and I didn't really like the idea that much. The XP emulation isn't as good as dual booting, and I'll still need to dual boot for what I need it for. Didn't get to see the performance improvement it gave because my PC runs an i7. It just seemed like a Vista update, which refused to network with my XP 32 bit netbook (unlike V64). Am I the only one that thinks it's worse?

Koenigsegg_Rox · Post by **Koenigsegg_Rox** » 17 Nov 2009, 14:50

No you're not. Obviously it's because it's only been released a few weeks but the first update my friend made on his laptop disabled his Acer's touchscreen, wireless internet and built-in touchpad.

If only the Alienware M15x I'm planning on getting within a couple of months had Vista rather than 7 so I could at least dual-boot XP...

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 17 Nov 2009, 23:28

I have to disagree. I'm running it on both my laptop and my computer. My laptop used to take at least five minutes from power on to "no more hard drive thrash hell". Now it takes 30-60 seconds. My PC has sped up considerably. Same with the laptop.

Windows 7 is a godsend. lol

baumaxx1 · Post by **baumaxx1** » 18 Nov 2009, 02:04

@Koenigsegg: You can dual boot with 7. I hear it's good for touch screen PCs though.

@Stereo: Service pack 2 improves the slowdown that happens with all that indexing over time. I haven't really timed it, but I'm up and running in under a minute from login usually. Boot takes a while because of my mobo though. It's on for half a minute before it comes up with the post screen warming up or something, then it posts, then checks the raid, config, then goes to OS selection and then to the vista boot. As long as I keep it clean, it runs fine.

So basically, I'm going to be paying 200 for something that should've just been a service pack. =-S I'll see what else comes up when I'm looking at i9s and a RAID config.

Aaaand... I'm now officially on uni holidays till march =-)

Porsche-AG · Post by **Porsche-AG** » 18 Nov 2009, 02:23

Looks as if Microsoft just released Windows 7 so that users would be more appreciative of Windows Vista, haha.

Leopard ftw.

baumaxx1 · Post by **baumaxx1** » 18 Nov 2009, 07:16

I liked it better before. Works much better than XP. I've only used the 64 bit vista though.

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 19 Nov 2009, 00:07

baumaxx1 wrote:@Koenigsegg: You can dual boot with 7. I hear it's good for touch screen PCs though.

@Stereo: Service pack 2 improves the slowdown that happens with all that indexing over time. I haven't really timed it, but I'm up and running in under a minute from login usually. Boot takes a while because of my mobo though. It's on for half a minute before it comes up with the post screen warming up or something, then it posts, then checks the raid, config, then goes to OS selection and then to the vista boot. As long as I keep it clean, it runs fine.

So basically, I'm going to be paying 200 for something that should've just been a service pack. =-S I'll see what else comes up when I'm looking at i9s and a RAID config.

Aaaand... I'm now officially on uni holidays till march =-)

Service Pack 2 only screwed my computer up more, along with the laptop. A minute from logon is pretty long. Mine is done in 10-25 seconds, PC and laptop. Windows 7 is the looks and features of Vista, plus the performance of XP, maybe even better. My XP PC loads in a minute, actually... >_>

And my 7 PC has Steam, e-mail, and Kaspersky at startup.

baumaxx1 · Post by **baumaxx1** » 19 Nov 2009, 01:28

Yeah, XP is actually slow on mine... V64 is much quicker. But it is 32 bit. And it's not quite a minute from logon, it's a minute till rocket dock comes up, but if you were to go open mozilla via the start bar it'll open and run in about 5 secs. My AV is up instantly. Live takes a while to login because my net is slow though. But yeah, with a minute I was being generous. As in rocketdock is up, mozilla, msn, and media player (having to sort through 10000 tracks), and the hard-drives aren't being thrashed.
I'm sure 7 will be quicker... a bit quicker... but enough to fork out $200 on a new OS that should've been just an update to the old one and has minimal new useful features, and some major features I use not working properly, is a little disgraceful.

Andre_online · Post by **Andre_online** » 19 Nov 2009, 07:59

Porsche-AG wrote:Looks as if Microsoft just released Windows 7 so that users would be more appreciative of Windows Vista, haha.

Leopard ftw.

AMEN brutha!

Zero260 · Post by **Zero260** » 19 Nov 2009, 10:37

I'm finally 21! Yayyy.

xHaZxMaTx · Post by **xHaZxMaTx** » 19 Nov 2009, 10:39

I thought you were, like, 15. :u

baumaxx1 · Post by **baumaxx1** » 19 Nov 2009, 11:24

@Zero: Congrats! So you're finally legal!

How does it feel? I'm lucky, I only have to be 18 to be a legal adult down under =-P

@Andre: When I built my PC... there weren't drivers for all my hardware: i7920 on a GB ex58 UD3R, GTX260 Gold, Asus DX... and a lot of the apps I run don't work on mac, including the engineering ones which are either linux or windows. I actually never had an issue with Vista... it's the best OS I've used. It just works and is pretty simple to use.

Andre_online · Post by **Andre_online** » 19 Nov 2009, 20:22

Well, I'm more of the opposite. All the software I am currently operating in my Windows Vista equipped Acer is supported in Mac. In fact, Vista 32-bit is constantly slowing this 1.82GHz Intel Core2 Duo laptop down and never ending BSOD's, almost to the point where I literally want to blow up this laptop. Haha!

But really, Vista is the worst OS for me so far - it's slow, unreliable, and eats the crap outta your physical memory. In Leopard everything just moves so smoothly. I really can't find any reason not to like Mac... for me, that is.

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 19 Nov 2009, 22:20

I have leopard dual-booted with 7. If anyone is planning on building a hackintosh, the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard is perfect, all of its components are supported.

The only issue I have with it... my mouse becomes incredibly jerky 10 minutes in. I have no clue why, gonna try a different mouse to see if it still occurs.

baumaxx1 · Post by **baumaxx1** » 20 Nov 2009, 02:20

Yeah... I needed grunt for my engineering programs, and you can't build a mac as quick as my PC for the cash. I've only every used 64 bit Vista though and in 6 months I've never seen a blue screen... I can just standby it and it doesn't slow down despite not being re-booted for 3 days. About speed, I don't have another 64 bit OS to compare to on my PC... but I haven't used a faster setup.

I admit, it's most likely that the OS is resource hungry, but my hardware hides that fact from me.

About BSODs... Up to date drivers? Install them properly? Did you get them for the specific laptop model? I've never actually gotten one in Vista.

On another note... who plays guitar? I'm looking at starting to learn and need to know what a good starter pack is?

Zero260 · Post by **Zero260** » 20 Nov 2009, 12:04

xHaZxMaTx wrote:I thought you were, like, 15. :u

Ha ha. Good one?

baumaxx1 wrote:@Zero: Congrats! So you're finally legal! How does it feel? I'm lucky, I only have to be 18 to be a legal adult down under =-P

Feels good, man. 18 is considered a legal adult in the states as well, but 21 is the legal drinking and gambling age.

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 20 Nov 2009, 12:09

21 has already come for me but just recently I finally got my full drivers license! Wheeeeeeeee $\:D/$

And at the start of December I am moving out of my parents' lame house $\:D/$ $\:D/$

but the MR2 is still sick

baumaxx1 · Post by **baumaxx1** » 20 Nov 2009, 15:31

What's wrong with the MR2 D:

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