I like it.
Addictive yet stylish.
I might do something crazy with my web server with this account, so you might see some down time.
Not that it’s important to you though; just 24~48 downtime.
See you soon! (hopefully!)
I’ve tested Windows 7 in various environment. As gaming machine, office use, digital audio workstation and home theater PC. They all require different attention for their usage.
To make it short, Windows 7 is a winner.
Looks like Microsoft learned their lesson when Vista failed so hard.
Vista failed? Really?
In my opinion, yes.
It took many, MANY updates to reach the current stable state, and back in the days, hardware wasn’t really ready for their new crazy “Aero” UI. Many people complained how it was unstable. Accurate security checks annoyed many people who were used to Windows XP which basically had no security/permission checks on every executable files/services. Many analysts and IT experts hoped that Vista would give a boost to the market, but it never took off. Many people forcefully use Vista because usually it just came with the new machine that they bought and they don’t know how to get rid of Vista and reinstall Windows XP. I had many people asking me to install Windows XP on their new machines and I got so sick of it, I actually didn’t even touched Vista so I can honestly tell them that I don’t know how to operate the OS.
One other very important thing to point out is that Vista was abandoned from PC gamers. PC gamers are the one who spends thousands each year, trying to squeeze out every frames-per-second by doing whatever they can. But Vista performance didn’t meet the gamers’ expectations. Again, it took many updates for Vista to finally catch up to Windows XP. Vista just wasn’t ready for the market, by under-performing to its predecessor.
Windows 7 is a different story though.
For gamers, the benchmarks look promising because Windows 7 stands up to Vista in many cases, sometimes faster than Vista, and even catches up to Windows XP. And all the graphic, sound and chipset drivers are not even official at this point. There are still some spots for improvement, but if you compare with Windows Vista pre-launch performance vs Windows 7 pre-launch performance data, you can easily say that Windows 7 is ready for the world. And if you catch gamers’ attention, then the OS is already one step forward to its success.
Let’s picture a common example. PC gamers in the family are usually the IT engineer for his/her family. And many household in America have more than one PC on their home. Usually all the computers on that household is IT engineer’s responsibility. So the guy start learning Windows 7 and he finds that it actually stands up to the Windows XP, which was the ultimate gaming OS until now. He compares, do some benchmarks, read some reviews and decides that if he can get the same performance, or enough of ‘em to justify the upgrade, he’llupgrade to Windows 7 for his gaming rig. Why not? He bought the really fast video card that can do DX10, but he never had a chance to use them because XP doesn’t support DX10. So as he uses Windows 7, he’ll find more useful and upgraded features compared to Windows XP. And once the IT engineer of the house is comfortable with Windows 7, there’s good chance that he/she will upgrade every OS in the house to Windows 7 because they see benefits of upgraded features.
I am actually that IT guy in our family, and I’m convinced. If you look deep into it, Windows 7 is like Vista but with latest features and stability, which is good enough for me. Just give us a good deal Microsoft, so we can afford to dump Vista.
So many arguments over SEO and permalink.
What’s really funny is that people are just following someone else’s tip, or blog settings. Some of them just conclude it with no solutions, telling them to “do whatever you want.”
Running various websites, I learned that there isn’t just a good answer.
You just have to plan out how you your permalink to be set.
Many people suggested using the domain/postname
But only because some popular websites use it.
I think that only does well to the certain type of website that you would cover different subject almost everyday. Like a personal blog. Or a blog giving out different tips everyday.
If your blog posts stories almost everyday, and if it is dedicated to certain subject like politic news or games or something, I say adding the date to the permalink would be a good choice. There are just so many similar titles overlapping each other by covering one or two things for your blog. If you’re running a politic news, you’ll have so many similar words in titles that include “Obama” and “Health Care” in weeks of interval if not days. domain/some-kind-of-date-indication/postname would be a great indicator for the people who just found your blog through search engine. This method would works very well with the busy blogs where updates so many news and stories to cover with same topics over and over. Example – http://gamersroute.com , http://wouldntyou.com
If your blog has many different categories and those would never overlap (totally different things like animals, veggies and flowers) then consider adding category in the permalink. domain/category/postname would do good. But if you already have menu setup by categories, this might not be a good solution because you might have duplicate results from your blog.
But no matter how good your SEO is, if your blog/website doesn’t have the good content, it’ll only go so far. I’ve seen websites without any permalink optimization but makes top of the Google or Bing results. Eventually, the content will be the key for people to stick to your website once they find yours. I would rather have a website with 1,000 loyal readers than 100,000 visitors with 80% bounce rate.
Just my 2 cents.
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