This is a video that MUST be watched even by Vista lovers. The video will present how Windows Vista install screen should look like. To be honest the truth hurts real bad if you like Vista, but if you used if for a while i’m sure you will find out that at least one mentioned problem occurred to you also.

Here’s a transcript of the text from the video:

- Please wait while windows checks your computer’s shitty performace…

This line refers to the reputation that Vista built, that you need to have a 1337(leet) computer in order to run it and actually play games or run programs on it.

- Time is money. More than ever you need a system that is simple, easy, doesn’t take all your resources, doesn’t crash when you least expect it—so you can get things done and focus on what matters most to you in life…which isn’t much

The line above says it all. When the blue screen of death will pop up in front of your eyes you will know what i’m talking about.

- It’s now safe to connect with the people who are trying to spy on you. Whether you choose voice,obscene hand signals, nasty videos & photos, or plain text you’ve got an amazing array of options with Windows Vista.

No comment on this line.

- With simplified tools for downloading illegal software, cropping, cutting, creating photos Windows Vista makes it harder and less enjoyable to share your copy-protected music, software and games.

Yup…the developers of Vista did their best to stop piracy. Thats a big MINUS from many peer2peer users for them.

- With windows Vista good luck quickly finding programs, files, bank statements, your credit card information, your precious wedding pictures and e-mail. It’s not very easy connecting to the internet.

Much has changes in Vista if we compare it to XP. I used it’s search function and i can’t say that i was disappointed, it has same results similiar to the ones at XP which i got used to. One thing is for sure. If you have to setup an advanced internet connection(PPPOE for example) and your a newbie good luck finding the right way.

- You can rely on Windows Vista to keep your important documents less safe. It is now easier for strangers to access your data without you knowing about it. It’s OK because now you can browse and take their files too.

There have been many many many reports on how much Vista security blows. Many usersadvised to stick with XP for a year till the holes are filled in.

Other funny lines:

- Please wait while Windows Vista searches your valuable data and deletes what means the most to you…

- Windows is now installing necessary spyware for you…

- Windows is now deleting all your saved game files…

- Remember you have less than 10 minutes to register Windows Vista.

The end of the video is worth watching the whole video. I taught from the beginning that the author will incorporate the blue screen of death into the video. As said before truth hurts.

Holy cow! One week has passed since i last posted on my blog. Its not that i didn’t want to, its because i couldn’t due to lack of time. I really would have posted but had to keep my mind clear and without nerves because i had a pretty messed up week.

Now i will present you what i went trough this week and what ate up my time:

On monday i had my physics exam. This is my last year in school so it was pretty hard, from 3 tasks i managed to finish one completely and the half of an other one. The thing is that i got 6/10 grade(here the grades vary from 1 to 10, and 5 is passing grade) so i was pretty thrilled when i found out that i got 6.

Tuesday was a pretty easy day for me, because i didn’t have any exams, but i had to work on my degree project from electronics. To get a degree in electronics and automatisations we have to make a project.

My project is to build a infrared receiver which will start a buzzer and light a LED when it gets Infrared signals from any infrared sender, meaning that it isn’t binded to one type of Infrared signal and encoding -> you can start it with any remote.

Wednesday was literary hell for me. I had 2 exams and a test. Having 2 exams was sort of my fault, because i skipped the hungarian exam last week, because the professor pissed me off. To get to the point i had the hungarian exam and the maths exam along with a test from geography. I didn’t learn anything from hungarian just to show the professor that he’s a jackass. He gave us(4 of us skipped it) a very very hard exam, but i’m sure i’ll get a passing grade(5).

Last week i had 4 private maths classes, with a good friend of my parents, 4 classes meaning 8 hours of extensive maths. It seems that the hard work showed useful because i got 7 for my maths exam. When i found out my grade yesterday this was what i said: “holy shit, ima get wasted today”.

On thursday i had electronics classes and worked a lot to improve my infrared receiver so it could be showed off on friday(which didn’t happen due to lack of time).After the electronics class my informatics professor told me to go to a web development competition where the best from my county i web development and programming will be there. I participated at the web development section.

After waiting 3 hours to get in i finished the test in 20 minutes, and went for a walk with my girlfriend. I didn’t wait for the results because i was VERY pissed because i had to stay in line for 3 hours.

On friday on my way to electronics class professors started congratulating me. Later i found out that i’m first at the contest and that between 23-25 may i’m going to the national section of the contest. Of course all expenses are supported by them.

Yesterday marked the end of all the stress, for 4 hours i worked on the file for my project(we have to have a 25 page file which should contain info about it). I managed to finish 12 pages, and now i have 2 weeks to finish the rest 13.

Now i have 2 weeks of “vacation” in which i can prepare for the finals and get it over with once and for all.

In the first part of this post i mentioned that i had to keep my mind clear. By this i meant that i didn’t work at all, i didn’t check my emails, the only thing that i did was approve comments here on my blog. I didn’t learn much here at home, i recapitulated the lessons and that’s it. I spent most of my time with my girlfriend and watching prison break.

Yesterday i finished watching episode 13 from season 3. The next episode will be due in september(just like heroes) so till then bye bye prison break. I have to say, this is the best TV series i ever saw, next to Heroes and The invisible man. I don’t regret spending almost 24 hours totally this week to watch all the episodes, because it was worth it. It was way better than a crap action movie where everyone gets out of trouble and the main character never suffers.

So that was it…now you know why i didn’t post for a whole week. Once again i apologize and i promise i will make it up to you next week.

Google seems to have a really rough time these weeks. First the issue with the adsense payments to some of those who selected payment via western union quick cash, and now the youtube issue again.

Youtube is down for more than a hour now, and yet again no one knows the reason. On 24th february Youtube was down for a few hours worldwide because of Pakistan’s attempt to block access to its population:

Ricardo Reyes(youtube spokesman)

“Many users around the world could not access our site. We have determined that the source of these events was a network in Pakistan. We are investigating and working with others in the Internet community to prevent this from happening again”

I wonder what caused the downtime, and can’t wait for it to be back up again and see a spokesman’s statement regarding today’s downtime.

As usual i used Internetsupervision to check if youtube is down worldwide and that the issue isn’t on my side:

(click to enlarge) - Click here to check youtube

There’s nothing we can do, but wait till its back up, if your bored and want to watch some vids online till youtube is back visit Metacafe.

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You may have noticed that this page loaded very very slow(30 seconds). This slow load time is because the guys at servage messed up something again and the connection to the mysql clusters is slower than a snail. I argued with Scott(servage support) for a while, and got to this conclusion:

i highly doubt that this issue is affecting only my account and that its not fixable

one thing is certain, that the issue is on servage’s side and that i tried what i could to get the issue fixed. From this point the duty to fix the issue is the technical teams @ servage.

cheers,
Tom

Scott offered to move my account to a new cluster, but said that all my websites will be unaccessible for about 24 hours, so i told him what i wrote above. If the issue persists il start getting grumpy and most probably will have a chat with an admin at servage(again).

Here in Romania labor day is held on 1st May(which was yesterday). There’s a tradition over here that almost everyone goes out in the nature(mostly outside the forests) to make a grill with the family and to make mici( mici is a traditional Romanian dish, a kind of grilled minced-meat rolls made from beef (usually mixed with mutton and pork meat).

I wouldn’t want to break the tradition would i? So we decided to go near the zoo(there’s a big spot filled with grass where we usually go every year to grill, and lots and lots of other people also go).

On wednesday me and my girlfriend went to the local hypermarket and bought the necessary food:

- 2x 2 litre Pepsi twist

- 2,5 litre Skoll beer

- 1KG meat for mici

- 4 sausages

- 2,5 kilograms of bread

- mustard

- a big cucumber, 1KG tomatoes

- 250 grams of cheese(how could this miss from camp fire?)

Total price: 21$

in addition to what we bought my girlfriend brought 2kg’s of potatoes and some other condiments and stuff. Norbert brought the grill, the axe and some other tools required to setup the fire. The irony was that neither of us remembered to bring matches to light the fire, so i had to go over to a “neighbour” who setup his grill close to us and ask for some matches.

We had a hard time starting the fire, because all the paper we got was commercial colored paper, and it took a time till it started burning. After we got the fire started everything went pretty smoothly. me and norbert brought some dry branches and wood and made a pretty good fire.

We got there at 11PM and we got the food done at 3 PM. Its a great feeling to do everything by hand and work your ass off to get everything done. Its hard but in the end its worth it, even the food tastes better. I don’t like to go out grilling with a grill that uses coal, and all you need to do is spice up the coal, put some fuel on it and in a matter of 30minutes you got everything ready and your ready to eat. We went there to spend all our day in the nature, not to go there and come home in 2 hours.

The food was great, we were pretty overwhelmed by it, also almost all the beer got drank by me, because both Norbert and my girlfriend preferred to drink pepsi.

Here are some pictures from yesterday:

After we ate we gathered all the trash and threw it away in the nearby trashcan, we arranged the remaining food to be in one place and we laid down, we even used the umbrella because the sun was shining so bright(good thing i brought my sunglasses).

At 5 PM we went to the zoo, which was full so we sort of checked out the animals in an express way. I still can’t believe the 600KG bull stuck his head out so people can cuddle him.

From the zoo on our way home we stopped at a restaurant looking place where we ate some desert, from where we went home. On our way home one side of the sky was filled with clouds, the other was bright blue, somewhere most probably it rained somewhere because a cool rainbow was formed.

We were lucky that it was good weather, because today it rained a lot and it was an ugly weather. The most important thing is that we went, we had fun and didn’t encounter any problems, oh and most importantly we took pictures!

Exactly 2 months ago(on Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 at 8:19 pm ) i blogged about the first PR update that hit my blog . Finally my homepage got the appreciation it deserves and got attributed Pagerank 5(iwebtool predicted PR 6, but who can trust it?)

Remember what i said in the first pr update post:

I really hope that on next pagerank update my main page will also get pagerank 4-5. The only problem is that i will have to work my ass off to get it:).

Now i can start monetizing my blog(i currently make about 120$/month from affiliate programs earnings), don’t worry i won’t fill every inch of your screen with ads. You won’t sense the difference, because there won’t be any, except the banners will change.

Once again i used the Google Pagerank checker tool made by SEO Junkie , and here are the stats:

(click image to see full stats)

In the stats picture i didn’t include the pages which didn’t get any pagerank value attributed, if you wish to see the full stats visit the stats page.

Releasing themes really got me a great value of IBLs(inbound links) which contributed to the high value of the index’s pagerank. Now the only thing that i have to do is to manage to keep it.

Technorati

Over at technorati thaslayer.com has 760 authority value and a rank of 5,251 with 847 blog reactions

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In other news Google still didn’t send the payment to those publishers who had their payments canceled due to a deposit payment technical error, and 10th may is arriving faster than the french TGV.

On many webmaster forums there’s a topic regarding the payment delay for some publishers who selected western union as a payment option. This category includes me also, and it doesn’t quite suite me to wait after google to get the payment, but there isn’t anything that i can do.

If you are facing this problem then you will have an alert message in your adsense account saying::

Your payments are currently on hold. Action is required to release payment. Click here for details.

At first i taught i set my payments on hold, but after following the link from the notification i found out that the problem didn’t occur because of me, but because the mess-up Google made.

Required Action:
Deposit payment technical error - Please contact AdSense Support.

So what the heck, i sent them an email and in matter of one week i got the same reply that many other publishers who mailed them regarding this issue got:

Hello,

We wish to inform you that your April AdSense Western Union
payment has been unexpectedly delayed due to a technical error.

During this time, you may see the following messaging in your
account: “Deposit payment technical error - Please contact AdSense
Support.” Please be assured that there is no need to contact us as
we are working hard to resolve this issue. We’ll be sure to
provide you with more information soon.

We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience
and understanding.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding. WTF? my payments are delayed more than 2 weeks and i have to understand them and stay calm. This is absurd!

DareDevils also got a reply to his mail, but its unprofessional and gives you the feeling that some of the employees at the adsense team have no idea what’s going on.

Hi,

Thank you very much for bringing this issue to our attention. I have
forwarded the information you provided to our engineering team for
further investigation.

For additional questions, I’d encourage you to visit the AdSense Help
Center ( http://www.google.com/adsense_help ) or the official AdSense
blog ( http://adsense.blogspot.com?utm_source=txft ). Alternatively, feel
free to post your question on the AdSense Help Forum (
http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help?utm_source=txft ).

Sincerely,

Soumya
The Google AdSense Team

The bottom line is that there’s nothing we can do but wait and see the outcome. Let’s hope google won’t make a habit out of this.

On first sight you can notice that Clickbooth Advertising Network isn’t a usual affiliate network, you get the feeling that something is out of the ordinary, but what gives you the feeling that you are in a bigger safety than ever(the AES 256BIT high grade encryption also raises the safety value). To get approved as a publisher starting from the sign-up page you will have to verify your phone number, by answering the automated call(yes, a robot will call you regardless of your country and will tell you the PIN number twice) and entering the PIN number in the box. Without the PIN number you can’t continue the registration process.

This is the most strict verification method i have ever seen, you have to verify your phone number before you are approved. This lowers the fraud level substantially!

After you signed up your account will be reviewed within 72 hours after which if your account gets approved you will get a confirmation email along with a welcome email.

Your Publisher account

There are lots and lots of campaigns you can choose from and the extremely advanced campaign search will definitely help you find the appropriate campaign for your niche.

It took me less than a minute to find more than 100 campaigns that fit my blog’s niche. It’s that simple! Once you start using ClickBooth more often things will get even more easier and managing your account will be like childplay.

After you select a campaign you will be able to see all the details related to it. Here are the most important details(to you as a publisher):

Payout: You want to know precisely how much you will get paid.

Campaign description: You have to apply to the advertisers specifications and restrictions, otherwise you won’t be making much money.

Campaign limitation: Some campaigns are limited to specific countries the advertiser is targeting. For example if a campaign is limited to leads from people who live in the US you won’t apply if your website has almost no US traffic.

The stats system is also well developed and it will display in almost real time the most important data you are interested in. Compared to some other affiliate networks this with no doubt smashes the competition.

Looking for help? You’ll get it!

There is a huge help database where you will find detailed answers to the most common account type related questions. If you are looking for a bit more help don’t hesitate contacting the support team or Ashlee via email, phone or even AIM(Aol instant messenger)

Conclusion

If you read carefully what i wrote above you can say with sincerity that ClickBooth is a serious affiliate network who really cares about their advertisers and publishers, and that it’s guaranteed that you will get better performances using ClickBooth than other traditional affiliate networks.

I really like Ice cube, but i got disappointed by this movie. It’s not even half funny as Next friday. The movie’s main storyline is built on a heist that Durell and LeeJohn, more precisely robbing a church.

This is a bit absurd, but that makes it funny. Who would actually rob a church? Even atheists are afraid of God, and they wouldn’t start messing with Him.

I watched it with the desire to see a such great movie like Next friday, but as said above i got pretty disappointed. Give me back the price of the cinema ticket!

Anyway, the movie blows, it’s so predictable whats going to happen, and filled with Clichés, so it’s pretty much a time waster.

Here’s the story line:

Durell and LeeJohn are 2 great friends, who get in trouble mostly because of Leejonhn’s messups(like stealing stuff). Durell is a great electrician but he gets kicked out because Leejohn wanted to steal a TV from the service where they worked. He tries to find a job, but fails. That’s when Leejohn sais that he got them a job.

He takes Durell to Bahka, a local moonshiner, who gives them 10 wheel chairs with chromed wheels and stuff(sort of pimp my wheelchair) for 1,200$ a piece(“1,200$ a piece, you do the maths”). They get arrested once again, and instead of going to prison they have to do 8000hours of community work.

Durell finds out that his X will move to Atlanta and will take his son away from him if he doens’t come up with 17,000$ to pay the rent. This pushes him to get into the heist planned by Leejohn, which won’t go quite as expected.

They will find out that almost every leader from the church’s administration is there along with the quire. He will also find out that someone stole the money before them. In the end it will turn out that the deacon wanted to steal the money.

Their hostages in the end will help them escape, but they get busted by the cops anyway,and put in front of the court again. They will be found not guilty due to lack of witnesses on the other side(deacon gets threatened with testimonial against him for stealing the church’s money).

Last but not least Durell gets a donation from the church’s administrators and he can keep his son next to him, and the movie ends with HAPPY END.

Movie Name: First Sunday

Release Date: 11 January, 2008

IMDB User rating: X X X 2.5/10

My Rating: X X 2/10

Apple launched today the brand new iMac. I am pleased to say that the features are stunning, and this represents a great opportunity to those who ever wanted to buy one.

There are 4 models you can choose from, the cheapest being the 20″ one with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. The price of this model is $1,199.00 and comes with free shipping.

The most expensive model has a 24″ display, a 3.06 GHZ Intel core 2 duo CPU, and a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB memory video card. The only problem is that it costs almost double($2,199.00) than the cheapest model.

All of the 4 models are powered by Intel Core 2 Duo CPU’s and have either ATI or nvidia GPU’s(graphic processing units). If you buy a iMac you won’t have to worry about storing your files, because you can choose from getting a model with 250GB HDD, 320GB HDD or 500GB HDD.

That’s lots and lots of storage place and power, especially if you think of the upgrades you can buy: HDD up to 1TB(1000GB), Memory(RAM) up to 4GB. Heck, the new iMac makes my PC look like a snail compared to it :).

The screen is thinner than ever, Apple already proved us that they can really make slim accessories/PC’s (remember Macbook Air, which is the world’s thinnest notebook), and it also contains a built-in iSight camera so you can directly interact with your friends on the internet.

The bottom line is that its worth to buy a iMac rather than a desktop PC, because it’s thinner, it uses less space, meaning you don’t have to worry about storage, and it also comes with warranty so you can give up your worries! What more can you expect from a “monitor”?

In an older post i expressed my opinion about the new entrecard system and wrote that in my opinion how stupid it is and that they should have stayed at the previous crediting system or to think out a better one, because this just sucks.

Lots of bloggers also removed the entrecard widget mostly because of the poor quality traffic it delivers, the high prices(heck, i saw a blog with an alexa rank above 1mill with an advertising price of 256ec) and because it just uses an extra block in the side bar or in any part of the page.

I removed the widget with sadness, but i have to move on to new things. I really liked entrecard at the beginning, i think that Graham treated the project with more enthusiasm.

I still have 54 credits left on my account, which isn’t much, but still better than 0. I will give it away the credits to one of you guys who comments on this post in the next 24 hours(remember to use your entrecard email when posting the comment).

The bottom line is that entrecard can’t bring your blog quality traffic, meaning that the chance that the visitors who visit your blog from an entrecard advert will comment or become loyal subscribers of your blog.

This was it, no more entrecard for me, well not till they come up with a logical crediting system.