This is an interesting article entitled “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection” by Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz),
It’s really for Windows people to help decide on upgrading to Microsoft’s new OS, Windows Vista.

It’s stupid, how the fact that, you can’t play a protected audio content over S/P DIF output (which for audiophile will be a big no), and cannot play HD video content on an HD-ready monitor (yes you can watch and do everything else that monitor can do, except playback of HD video content, how stupid…).

I mean, just look at the Table of Contents, list of things you lost because of Content (Over) Protection :
Disabling of Functionality
Indirect Disabling of Functionality
Decreased Playback Quality
Elimination of Open-source Hardware Support
Elimination of Unified Drivers
Denial-of-Service via Driver/Device Revocation
Decreased System Reliability
Increased Hardware Costs
Increased Cost due to Requirement to License Unnecessary Third-party IP
Unnecessary CPU Resource Consumption
Unnecessary Device Resource Consumption

How obviously that Content Protection is a big NO.

It’s new year 1428H,
I’ve been struggling hard for Windows to be my number one OS choice.
Sadly enough, they don’t struggle enough to keep me doing that. Cause enough is enough, i’ve had enough of Windows.
Instead, I’ll make Windows my third choice, and my priorities will be Linux Slackware and MacOSX.

And why is that?
I am living in a Network Community that uses Linux as the OS for the Domain Server. And I thought I wanted to trial this OS myself too.
So I did and it has been one year (with about 3 months total usage) since I started the trial, and have enough knowledge to start switching to it as primary OS and start focus on learning more about it.
Read more…

There’s nothing wrong with me, I’m OK
It’s only because recently been kind of Grey that I feel down
I know what I’m aiming for
Don’t think so much about everything and let the day take over
It ain’t that hard to do

It’s a beautiful day outside
But you don’t know how to fly

There’s nothing wrong with you, you’re OK
It’s only because things don’t always go your way that you feel down

Hey what you waiting for ?
Don’t think so much about everything and let the day take over
It ain’t that hard to do