The Life Of A LittlBUGer

Yes, Thanksgiving has come and gone and I was terribly ill throughout my 4 days of vacation.  It was kind of a time of hell for me, especially trying to deal with my family as I went through it, but alas, I’m still here, working and OK on Monday.  Luckily, for the first time ever, my wife was nice enough to be kinder than usual while I was sick and decided to give me a little bit more computer time than ever before.  As thus, instead of going the Vista route as that OS is horrible, I decided to wipe my PC and start from scratch with Windows XP Pro x64 Edition (the 64-bit edition, yes).  As I can conveniently use my job and get a valid license and copy of the OS, I went this route to see if there really was any performance benefits of using a 64-bit OS over a 32-bit OS, as well as any programs that ran natively in 64-bit.  As I’ve been finding out, I was correct and things have been working quite nicely.  It took me a couple days to get everything back up and loaded, but it was worth it.  I’ve only had one minor driver issue, which is actually with a device I don’t even use, so I’m quite happy.  Gaming has been great and whatnot else so that’s all I need for the most part.  I’ll have to test it more but for now, I’m good. 

Also, I’m sorry for the lack of posts recently, but work has been very chaotic lately as a program I’ve been working on is coming to a close so I’m trying to get everything ready, including documentation and whatnot, so ‘play’ time at work is down to a minimal amount.  I’ll try to post more later, but for now, please enjoy my rant above.